Tag: Alex McElroy

  • The Lucky Body, stories by Kyle Coma-Thompson, reviewed by Alex McElroy

    The Lucky Body, stories by Kyle Coma-Thompson, reviewed by Alex McElroy

    To create, an author must abolish her body. As the author writes the body dissolves, ages, atrophies in its chair, and the resulting text, though cognitively enhancing, cannot replenish the cells lost during the act of writing. Perhaps this is why authors call what they make a body of work, a corpus, that—if we are…

  • Nevers, fictions by Megan Martin, reviewed by Alex McElroy

    Nevers, fictions by Megan Martin, reviewed by Alex McElroy

    In his first letter to Franz Kappus, Rainer Marie Rilke advises the young poet to decide, first and foremost, “Must I write?” Necessity is one of the simplest and most overlooked requirements for the writer; it is often taken for granted when the activity, writing, precedes its necessity. Megan Martin’s second collection, Nevers, a slim…