I did not try to cut out the artwork in John Reed’s The Family Dolls, released in book form in … More
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“Notes on Ann Lewinson’s Still Life with Meredith,” a book review by Peter Valente
Ann Lewinson’s novella Still Life with Meredith is fantastically perverse, erudite, essayistic, and precise as a laser as it navigates … More
NOTHING SHORT OF: SELECTED TALES FROM 100 WORD STORY, an anthology of mirco fiction, reviewed by Amity Hoffman
A crossdressing meth-addicted Pee-wee Herman impersonator, a mail-order minister, religious bees, an inflatable girlfriend, missed connections in Antarctica, and the … More
ROOTED, the best new arboreal nonfiction edited by Josh MacIvor-Andersen, reviewed by Miranda Schmidt
Recently, Portland, my home, was covered in a layer of ash and smoke from nearby wildfires in the forested Columbia … More
Gisele Firmino’s THE MARBLE ARMY
Brazil and America might appear to have many differences—language, development, and location. However, at one time, America and Brazil were … More
LIKE A SONG, by Michelle Herman
Reading Michelle Herman’s essays is like sitting down with a friend over coffee and discussing life, love, TV, and parenting. … More
Understudies, by Ravi Mangla
In Ravi Mangla’s Understudies the unnamed, first-person narrator, a high school teacher, helps his mother overcome her fear of flying, … More
Because Every Day Brings a New Jumble of Knives: An Interview with Douglas Watson
When I read Douglas Watson’s debut story collection, The Era of Not Quite, I was awash with a rare and … More
Commercial Fiction, stories by Dave Housley, reviewed by Nicholas Grider
Dave Housley’s Commercial Fiction is exactly what the title suggests, in two senses of the term. First, it’s literally short … More