I’m Tired of Men Telling Me They’re Afraid I’m Going to Write about Them It isn’t a dream when you…
“Glorious Fragments”: Andrew Farkas Interviews Ron MacLean, Author of WE MIGHT AS WELL LIGHT SOMETHING ON FIRE
We Might As Well Light Something on Fire, Ron MacLean’s collection, immediately interested me because, in a time when…
Amy Long’s debut essay collection CODEPENDENCE, reviewed by Sonya Lara
Codependence, by Amy Long. Cleveland, Ohio: CSU Poetry Center, September 2019. 208 pages. $16.00, paper. Compelling and scathingly introspective, Codependence…
Alexis David’s Review of SUN CYCLE, a poetry collection by Anne Lesley Selcer
Sun Cycle, by Anne Lesley Selcer. Cleveland, Ohio: CSU Poetry Center, September 2019. 90 pages. $16.00, paper. In Anne Lesley…
“After the Animals,” a short comic by Nick Francis Potter
Nick Francis Potter is the author of New Animals (Subito Press). His work has recently been published in…
New Fiction: “The Woodcutter” by Mike Itaya
In the medieval woods of 1307, a gentle woodcutter and a spinsterly-type lived in a pristine cottage and shared…
What We’re Reading: August 2019
We editors love reading at HFR—and talking books, writing, and publishing around the clock—so we decided to catalog our selections…
“The Ghosts at the Carwash Are Always Looking for Company”: Flash Fiction by Cathy Ulrich
There is a universe where all the carwashes are haunted. Where there are creaks and groans and disembodied hands…
LUNCH QUEST, Chris Kuzma’s epic fantasy graphic novel, reviewed by Trey Brown
Lunch Quest, by Chris Kuzma. Toronto, Ontario: Koyama Press, June 2019. 80 pages. $15.00, paper. Lunch Quest by Chris Kuzma…
Matthew Thorburn & J.G. McClure: A Collaborative Interview between Poets
Matthew Thorburn’s new book of poems, The Grace of Distance, was published by LSU Press in August 2019. He’s also the author…
“This New Dark”: Short Fiction by Chase Dearinger
The very last thing: the roof rose up seamlessly from the house, sat perfectly still a hundred feet above…
“Ghosts”: Five Poems by Conor Scruton
Pareidolia In summer we make stories for the ungrowing seasons, the sweatspeckled back of the blue sky made real…
