Tag: Black Balloon Publishing
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We Were Flying to Chicago, by Kevin Clouther
We Were Flying to Chicago explores the weariness of life when you don’t become who you expected to be, and the loneliness of trying to connect to others in that existence. This collection has two very different types of stories. The titular story, “Open House,” and “I Know Who You Are” are propelled by their…
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Nick Kocz on Nine Rabbits, a novel by Virginia Zaharieva (trans. Angela Rodel)
Manda, Virginia Zaharieva’s fictional alter-ego in her intensely autobiographical first novel, Nine Rabbits, leads the kind of wild, globe-trotting life that would make most people envious. A successful poet, magazine publisher, television and radio personality, mother, and psychoanalyst, she’s dogged throughout her life by the abuse she suffered as a young girl at the hands…
Heavy Feather Review 