Author: Heavy Feather

Fiction: “Hunting,” by Meg Pokrass

The doctor told Dad he had a sub-zero temperature. He was almost always home now. My little sister laughed. Tarla laughed at most of what Dad said—but not at what he did. “That is not possible,” I said to Dad. His doctor’s appointments were twice a week. “Well, the doctor slapped my bottom and that…
Review: Cruelty, by Jonathan Podoga

Cruelty, by Jonathan Podoga, is no exception to the Splitleaves Press‘ aesthetic of making beautiful books. It’s a twenty-four page chapbook, printed on heavy paper. The cover and back are flecked and a pleasure to rub. It’s bound by thin string that reminds me of fishing wire. The cover contains a minimalist black and white photograph of a bed.…
Postmail with Chloe Caldwell

Chloe Caldwell lives in upstate New York. Her first book of essays, Legs Get Led Astray, was released by Future Tense Books in April 2012. Excerpts can be found on The Rumpus, SmallDoggies, and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. She works at a music store and writes a column called “Love & Music” for The Faster Times. She hosts the…
“Marco’s Poem”: An Interview with James Valvis by Jason Teal

James Valvis is the author of How to Say Goodbye (Aortic Books, 2011). His writing can be found in Anderbo, Arts & Letters, LA Review, Nimrod, Rattle, River Styx, and is forthcoming in Hanging Loose, Midwest Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Poetry East, storySouth, and others. His poetry has been featured at Verse Daily and the Best American Poetry website. His fiction has twice…
“I Imagined Myself Punching a Zebra in the Face as Hard as I Could”: An Interview with Sam Pink by Jason Teal

Sam Pink is twenty-eight. He lives in Chicago. He wrote the novel Person and other books. HFR: A recent blog post of yours mentioned that two books are due in August from Lazy Fascist Press, a novel, The No Hellos Diet, and a short story collection, Hurt Others. What can you tell us about them? Did you work on…
“I Was a Burning Studio Apartment”: An Interview with J. Bradley by Jason Teal

J. Bradley is the author of Dodging Traffic (Ampersand Books, 2009), The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You Is a Robot (Safety Third Enterprises, 2010), My Hands Are As Thick As Dreams (Patasola Press, 2011), and the upcoming e-chapbooks A Patchwork of Rooms Furnished by Mistakes (Deckfight Press, 2011) and Our Hearts Are Power Ballads (Artistically Declined Press, 2011). He is the interviews editor of PANK magazine and lives at iheartfailure.net.…