Lance Olsen is one of America’s most formally inventive and intellectually stimulating novelists. Few writers have been as consistently excellent … More
Tag: FC2
“The Posthuman Realist”: An Interview with Steve Tomasula by Marcus Pactor
Steve Tomasula is a literary pioneer of both prose and page design. Those designs transform the vast depth of his … More
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 … More
“Serious Play”: Dana Diehl Interviews Carol Guess & Aimee Parkison, co-authors of the story collection Girl Zoo
I was first introduced to Carol Guess’s collaborative work while I was editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review and we published … More
“Flightpath to Eternity”: William Lessard Reviews Pamela Ryder’s Paradise Field
Pamela Ryder uses the instruments of fiction to dismantle received notions of grief and aging. With the death of her … More
Excerpt: Pamela Ryder’s PARADISE FIELD
Mitzvah Down at the desk, they can always see you coming. They can see the visitors and the patients and … More
Natural Wonders, a novel by Angela Woodward, reviewed by Katie M. Flynn
Benjy, first slide, please. So begins Angela Woodward’s innovative and allegorical novel about, well, everything. We find ourselves in a … More
It Was Getting Dark Outside but I Didn’t Want to Stop Reading to Turn the Light On: A Short Interview with Story Prize Judge Joanna Ruocco
I found Joanna Ruocco’s work indirectly—or rather, because contributor and friend Matt Weinkam had interviewed her for the site. And, … More
Exile: A Fictionalized Account of Reading The Fixed Stars, by Brian Conn
I was not allowed a lamp. This was to keep me from writing at night. But marking words on a … More
Alissa Nutting Looks Back on 2011
Looking back on 2011, here are some things I particularly enjoyed during the year: Poetry Heart First Into the Forest, … More