Author: Heavy Feather

“If I Were to Write a Book About Tibet”: An Interview with Dinty W. Moore by Nathan Floom

Dinty W. Moore is a professor and director of creative writing at Ohio University and is regularly invited to speak and teach in the U.S. and Europe. In addition to publishing fiction and nonfiction, he has published two books on the art and craft of writing. He has been published in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, Arts…
“The Internet Is Where It’s At”: An Interview with Carson Mell by Joe Martin

Carson Mell is a writer/filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. His work embraces many mediums, from music videos to Sundance-screened short films, to his two novels Saguaro and The Blue Bourbon Orchestra. With an original voice oozing both cool and humorous, Mell’s work has brought to life unique characters such as a contemplative inter-dimensional traveler, an introspective writer with hotel…
Cheap Beer and Tacos and Women with Thick Hips: An Interview with Barry Graham

Barry Graham received his MFA from Rutgers University. He is the author of The National Virginity Pledge and Nothing or Next to Nothing. Graham is the editor for DOGZPLOT and publisher of Paper Hero Press. Look for him online barrygfunk.blogspot.com. HFR: Which came first: DOGZPLOT, Paper Hero Press, or the writing? Barry Graham: The writing came first, but I think all three of them were…
Review: Jason Carnahan on God’s Autobio, stories by Rolli

If God’s Autobio, by Rolli, is to be described as any singular thing, it is easily a thesis on voice. A tremendous list of characters inhabits the stories, from the pompous banal to the British Almighty, each an immediate identity which is less introduced and more splashed upon the page in a gleeful display of certainty. Characters…
“Curating,” an essay about the love poem by J. Bradley

Curating Inevitably, love fails, through break ups, divorce, or death. For most, this is incredibly hard to swallow, except for the poet who continues to write love poems. The concern from some potential partners is that they will become fodder, research, like instead of fucking them behind the stacks in some unused part of the…
Review: Matthew C. Mackey on Hotel Utopia, prose poetry by Robert Miltner

I started the trip early in the morning. I was on my way to Chicago to see an old friend of mine. I hadn’t seen her since she left last August. I’m accustomed to travel and the solitude, but not quite the emptiness of time that rests between activities. So, when the Megabus lurched forward,…
Alissa Nutting Looks Back on 2011

Looking back on 2011, here are some things I particularly enjoyed during the year: Poetry Heart First Into the Forest, Stacy Gnall (Alice James Books) Wrenching yet beautiful, at times even sweet in the most glorious, painful sense. Imagine watching, in hi-def slow motion, a future race of twelve foot tall albino supermodels engaged in…
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.…