Tag: Publishing Genius
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Graphic Novel Review: Ryan Werner Reads The Well-Dressed Bear Will (Never) Be Found by J. Roselló
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. The titular Well-Dressed Bear of J. Roselló’s The Well-Dressed Bear Will (Never) Be Found doesn’t seem to ever finish reading his copy of Italo Calvino’s if on a winter’s night a traveler. I myself read it almost a decade ago and remember almost nothing of it: ten…
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“None of Them Are Interested in Leaving a Cloud Unnamed”: An Interview with Mike Young of Magic Helicopter Press by Jane Wong
This past AWP, Magic Helicopter Press released its newest collection, Jordan Stempleman’s Wallop, on “a dirty Southwestern blanket that a spider fell out of.” MHP is a small press full of exploding spider energy that focuses on print books, eBooks, chapbooks, multimedia poetry, and reading tours (also check out NOO Journal). I had the pleasure of talking…
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How to Catch a Coyote, a novel by Christy Crutchfield, reviewed by Gabino Iglesias
The strange thing about Christy Crutchfield’s debut novel, How to Catch a Coyote, is not that it’s beautiful, but that it manages to be beautiful despite coming from a cesspool of weird encounters, profoundly uncomfortable moments, familial turmoil, unspeakable secrets too dirty to forget, pain, loss, and the down-and-out atmosphere that permeates the underbelly of…
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“Sprezzatura Is as Sprezzatura Doesn’t”: Daniel Scott Parker on Mike Young’s New Poetry Collection
“Years, that’s what years do / Yours, that’s what yours do.” This is the kind of tautological ticket stub we get upon entry. Where is is the same as does. But sprezzatura is not what Sprezzatura does, I can promise you that. The blurb from BOMB on the back of the book is a clever…
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“Gabe Durham’s Fun Camp”: Interview and Thoughts by Joseph Riippi
So I did a little research on real-life fun camps. The Parks and Recreation in Webster, New York, offers a couple fun camps in the summertime, one for second and third graders, another for fourth and fifth graders. Camps are offered for older kids, too, but those are no longer deemed “fun.” For the youngsters,…
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“Strange Bravery I Pay the Gods For,” a poem by Sarah Bartlett
We close our eyesso we don’t have to seeeach other. I drive my carthis way and die three timesa week. I keep coming back—life is relentless in its lesson.I drive my car past your housewith my eyes closed and arrive inAtlantic City. I play the penny slotsand stare at Cleopatra.I drop coins in her asp’smouth…
Heavy Feather Review 