Tag: Joseph Scapellato
-
Three Fictions from First Presidents: Joseph Scapellato
James Madison James Madison stood on a log shaped like the limb of a great man. He was as short as the tallest American mushroom, yet more withered. For several days he had ridden from camp to town to camp in the woods outside Washington City, to assess the state of the British invasion. Every…
-
Big Lonesome, short stories by Joseph Scapellato, reviewed by Nick Sweeney
Joseph Scapellato’s collection is a lot of things: risky, honest, and romantic. Big Lonesome will turn your idea of the Western genre on its head, creating new thoughts, before turning again, and again. Cowboys and Indians and horses and the dust of the Old West and the New. And the weird. Especially the weird. I…
-
“Because Every Day Brings a New Jumble of Knives”: An Interview with Douglas Watson by Joseph Scapellato
When I read Douglas Watson’s debut story collection, The Era of Not Quite, I was awash with a rare and nourishing feeling: that what I was reading was exactly what I needed to be reading at that time exactly. Each of his stories deals a dark and witty blow. The collection is alive with a…
Heavy Feather Review 