“To Not Get Crystallized into Habits and Things”: Jacob Smullyan in Conversation with Paolo Pergola

Paolo Pergola is the author of Passaggi—avventure di un autostoppista (Rides: The Adventures of a Hitchhiker) (Exorma, 2013) and Attraverso la finestra di … More

Book Review: Adam Camiolo on Boundless as the Sky by Dawn Raffel

“You need humans to do what humans can’t do.” Dawn Raffel’s newest work of compact prose and deep imagination, titled … More

Don’t Look at Me, a new novel by Charles Holdefer, reviewed by Jonathan Harrington

Charles Holdefer has lived in Europe for over forty years, mostly in France and Belgium, yet his fiction most often … More

Review: Jacob M. Appel on Tyler C. Gore’s My Life of Crime: Essays and Other Entertainments

Digression has been recognized as a distinct talent since at least the twilight of the Roman Republic when Cicero served … More

CAVANAUGH, a new novel by Joshua Kornreich, reviewed by Pedro Ponce

Is it too soon to revisit the Brett Kavanaugh story? I wondered this as I became immersed in the world … More

CONDEMNED TO CYMRU, a novel by M.J. Nicholls, reviewed by Eric Williams

M.J. Nicholls’ new novel Condemned to Cymru is Rabelaisian in every sense of the word: it’s gross, it’s droll, there’s … More

HENRY’S CHAPEL, a novel by Graham Guest, reviewed by Christopher Lura

If we are to take Graham Guest’s new book Henry’s Chapel as a novel—and it is a novel, let’s be clear—it might … More

Kinderkrankenhaus, a play by Jesi Bender, reviewed by Andrew Farkas

Children’s literature, television, entertainment (in general) used to be weird. We could go all the way back to William Blake, … More

Trimming England, a satirical almanac of terror by M.J. Nicholls, reviewed by Nora E. Webb

Trimming England, M.J. Nicholls’ latest work of satire, is a brilliant piece of character work. Not so much plot-based, the … More

“THE PRISON FORECAST”: Excerpted from AGITPROP FOR BEDTIME: POLEMIC, STORY PROBLEMS, KULTURPORN AND HUMDINGERS by Charles Holdefer (Sagging Meniscus Press)

A portable collection of polemical bedtime stories for adults, addressing such timely topics as: erectile dysfunction during the national anthem, … More

Tyler Dempsey Fishes LAKE OF URINE, the debut novel by Guillermo Stitch

Two beginner tricks of competitive memory are 1) create a memory palace and 2) occupy it. The more absurd, obscene, … More

Micah Zevin Review of Jack Foley’s When Sleep Comes: Shillelagh Songs (Sagging Meniscus Press)

Narrative lyric traditions like the Irish ballads and folksongs traverse all cultures and languages and peoples, often engaging subjects like … More