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” 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, by Dave Housley
Dave Housley’s Commercial Fiction is exactly what the title suggests, in two senses of the term. First, it’s literally short … More