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“A Hallucinatory Clarity”: Marcus Pactor in Conversation with Angela Woodward
Angela Woodward works both unlikely and widely known history into her slim fictions. In her new novel, Ink, she weaves … More
“Cheers to the Weirdos!”: Jesi Bender Presents a Heavy Feather Review Favorites List for 2022
I’m a sucker for a year-end list. I love seeing what people enjoyed, adding to my TBR, and discovering new … More
“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
“Risking Chaos”: Marcus Pactor Chats with David Leo Rice, Author of The New House
David Leo Rice writes singularly weird fiction about the experiences of artists and drifters wandering hallucinatory landscapes. His latest novel, … More
“There Was Always Something More I Had to Know”: Marcus Pactor Interviews Gabriel Blackwell
Gabriel Blackwell never repeats himself. Each of his seven books offers a distinct approach to fiction, bending forms and genres … More
Begat Who Begat Who Begat, short stories by Marcus Pactor, reviewed by Maxwell Malone
Marcus Pactor’s sophomore short story collection, Begat Who Begat Who Begat, explores the deceptively complex topics of mundanity and domesticity … More
“Back Alleys and Hidden Corners”: Marcus Pactor Interviews Brian Evenson, Author of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
Brian Evenson has for many years been one of America’s chief practitioners of innovative dark fiction. His work regularly adopts … More
“A Restless Sensibility”: Marcus Pactor Talks to John Domini, Author of The Archaeology of a Good Ragù
John Domini’s latest book, The Archeology of a Good Ragù: Discovering Naples, My Father, and Myself, marks his first venture … More
“The Threatening Clarities That a Sentence Can Occasion”: Marcus Pactor Interviews Garielle Lutz, Author of Worsted
Before I conducted the following interview with Garielle Lutz, I knew what all of her readers have long known: she … More
“Accidental and Inevitable”: Marcus Pactor Talks to Christian TeBordo about His Short Story Collection Ghost Engine
Christian TeBordo’s Ghost Engine has everything I always want from a short story collection. These pieces are darkly humorous, formally … More
Little Hollywood, a collection of scripts and paper doll actors by Jinnwoo, reviewed by Marcus Pactor
Jinnwoo’s Little Hollywood is an inventive, fun, and depressing collection of stories. Each short piece—none is longer than four pages—is … More
Essays One, the first nonfiction essay collection by fiction writer and translator Lydia Davis, reviewed by Marcus Pactor
Lydia Davis requires little introduction. She is well known for her innovative short fiction, her lone novel, and her many … More
Marcus Pactor on Brandi Homan’s New Novel Burn Fortune
Holden Caulfield still irritates me, though I have not read The Catcher in the Rye since before the century’s turn. … More
“More Fish Than Man,” a short story by Marcus Pactor
More Fish Than Man My cousin and I once fished under an interstate where a bent leg of swamp lay … More
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