Ordinary Misfortunes, by Emily Jungmin Yoon. North Adams, Massachusetts: Tupelo Press, July 2017. 40 pages. $11.95, paper. Chosen by Maggie…
“Literary Shrapnel”: NEW MICRO, a fiction anthology edited by James Thomas & Robert Scotellaro, reviewed by Bryan Jansing
New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, edited by James Thomas & Robert Scotellaro. New York, New York: WW Norton & Company,…
“A History of Hosts and Vectors,” poetry by Kristin Abraham
(This will not end well, they said when it began. But momentum appreciates only one way, so any onus they…
UNLANGUAGE, an undead workbook novel by Michael Cisco, reviewed by Paul Dee Fecteau
Unlanguage, by Michael Cisco. Portland, Oregon: Eraserhead Press, April 2018. 278 pages. $15.95, paper. I am not going to assume…
Poetry: Gene Goldfarb’s “they beat the last fish”
senseless for his pride when he stood up to them on his iridescent fins and called their bible dirt in…
Elizabeth Johnston: “Trump Tweets @ Fairy Tales”
*** Elizabeth Johnston‘s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Satirist, New Verse News, and…
“Portrait of Desperation”: Paige M. Ferro on Rachel Lyon’s Novel SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY
Self-Portrait with Boy, by Rachel Lyon. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, February 2018. 384 pages. $26.00, hardcover. David…
“WITH EDGES THAT MOVE. A river. A crisis.”: Carrie Lorig Talks about THE PULP VS. THE THRONE
In spring 2016 I interviewed Carrie Lorig about her book The Pulp vs. the Throne (Artifice Press), and her now-published…
“Playing Catch-Up”: A Conversation with Allison M. Charette on Translating Fiction from Madagascar
Allison M. Charette translates literary work from the French, with a growing interest in the literature of Madagascar. Her translation…
“Samson,” a poem comic by Corey Oglesby
*** Corey Oglesby is a poet, musician, and illustrator from the Washington, D.C., area. His work has recently…
Four Poems by W. Todd Kaneko
Oh, Say Can You See I can’t see anything without my glasses, except the world’s blurred words, the moon’s glow…
Three Poems by Millissa Kingbird
CW: sexual assault
