Tag: Andrew Farkas
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The Great Indoorsman, essays by Andrew Farkas, reviewed by Vincent James Perrone
There are too few champions of the indoors. The word itself has been sullied by incels and agoraphobes—malcontents and the discontented—connoting loneliness and isolation, despite its unassuming etymology. The indoors have languished in the cultural backwaters of nonfiction, pushed aside for the literally (literarily?) greener pastures of the travelogue, the naturalistic essay, and texts concerning…
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“Et In Suburbia Ego”: Andrew Farkas Reviews Aimee Parkison’s short fiction collection Suburban Death Project
The suburbs are supposed to be safety incarnate. Originally, they were more closely associated with urban areas, though removed from the inner city where everyone lives so close together, where anything can happen. As the suburbs pushed out farther and farther, as their design plans rejected grids for labyrinths ending in cul-de-sacs, they became their…
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Kinderkrankenhaus, a play by Jesi Bender, reviewed by Andrew Farkas
Children’s literature, television, entertainment (in general) used to be weird. We could go all the way back to William Blake, Lewis Carroll, and Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” sure. But then, when I was in graduate school, I was sent reeling one day when some of my peers were angered and even confused by metafiction because,…
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Andrew Farkas Reviews Adam Tipps Weinstein’s The Airship: Incantations (FC2)
In Thomas Pynchon’s V., some of the characters, Benny Profane in particular, engage in “yo-yoing,” an activity that involves going back and forth between two places for no real reason. A casual contest starts up wherein the competitors see who can yo-yo the farthest, normally won by those who fall asleep on the subway. In…
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“Gravity and Other Theories”: A Collaborative Interview with authors Andrew Farkas & David Leo Rice
Andrew Farkas is the author of a novel, The Big Red Herring, and two fiction collections, Sunsphere and Self-Titled Debut. He is an Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Washburn University and the fiction editor for The Rupture. He lives in Lawrence, KS. David Leo Rice is a writer and animator from Northampton, MA, currently based in NYC. His first novel, A Room in…
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Andrew Farkas on L.M. Rainer’s Pelekinesis essay collection How to Behave
There’s an exchange at the end of Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” that encapsulates L.M. Rainer’s style in her collection of essays, How to Behave: Mrs. Hopewell: He was so simple, but I guess the world would be better off if we were all that simple. Mrs. Freeman: Some can’t be that simple. I know…
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“Don’t Think About the Elephant”: An Interview with Andrew Farkas, Author of The Big Red Herring
Andrew Farkas is the author of a novel: The Big Red Herring (KERNPUNKT Press), and two short fiction collections: Sunsphere (BlazeVOX [books]) and Self-Titled Debut (Subito Press). His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, North American Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Florida Review, Western Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He has been thrice…
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“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 everything must connect (podcast and TV show episodes, movie series, etc.) so it all can be binged more easily, in a time when all narratives must be doggedly followed to their conclusions (leaving the reader or…
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Sunsphere, a new story collection by Andrew Farkas, reviewed by Paul Albano
Sunsphere, Andrew Farkas’ second collection of experimental short stories (after his brilliant, and brilliantly named, Self-Titled Debut) is set in, around, and underneath Knoxville, TN. But not the Knoxville that exists in the collective hunch we recognize as reality. Instead, this is a surrealist rendering of the city—the Knoxville of our dreams and nightmares and…
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Serialized Essay: “The Great Indoorsman, Part the Last” by Andrew Farkas
The Great Indoorsman PART THE LAST From A Philosophy of the Indoors—The Out-of-Doors vs. Outside: In Lawrence, Kansas, a Lyft driver asks me where my accent’s from, says she’s lived lots of places, says she has a good ear for accents, says that I do a good job of covering it up, but that I…
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