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Tag: Two Dollar Radio
“Embodying Language”: Fani Avramopoulou on Desire and Damnation in Yelena Moskovich’s A Door Behind a Door
Composed of hundreds of loosely arranged narrative fragments, Yelena Moskovich’s A Door Behind a Door tells the story of Soviet … More
“Heavy Feeling”: A Review of Gina Nutt’s Night Rooms by Ben Lewellyn-Taylor
“Sometimes the unseen is more terrifying than what’s in view,” writes Gina Nutt. In a horror film, the camera passes … More
A HISTORY OF MY BRIEF BODY, essays by Billy-Ray Belcourt, reviewed by Christina Ghent
History has traditionally been written by those who have the privilege to write it. Archives are created and maintained by … More
“Emotional Resonances”: Jesi Buell Chats with Tariq Shah about His Debut Novel Whiteout Conditions (Two Dollar Radio)
Tariq Shah’s Whiteout Conditions is a slim book that, by centering on death, allows its protagonist to explore life. Ant, the … More
Yelena Moskovich’s Two Dollar Radio novel Virtuoso, reviewed by Hayley Neiling
Yelena Moskovich’s Virtuoso weaves together the stories of several women. Zorka and Jana grow up together in Prague under the … More
Review: Nick Sweeney on Found Audio by N.J. Campbell
N.J. Campbell’s Found Audio is the new Pandora’s Box of weird contemporary fiction. It forces the reader to grapple the … More
The Gloaming, a novel by Melanie Finn, reviewed by Nick Sweeney
Good writers conjure characters from the dust and ink. Great writers can resurrect them. Melanie Finn can certainly drag a … More
Ricardo Cavolo & Scott McClanahan’s THE INCANTATIONS OF DANIEL JOHNSTON
In Daniel Johnston’s early years in Texas, when he was just beginning to find an audience, in order to give … More
“Sometimes Grief Can Be Its Own Police”: A Conversation on I’m Not Patrick, a Two Dollar Radio Moving Pictures Film
Starting Heavy Feather as a publishing outfit in the Midwest, there have always been more successful, tenured venues I looked … More
The Glacier, a cinematic novel by Jeff Wood, reviewed by Nick Sweeney
The blend between novels and other mediums is not new. Prose poems, poetic novels, fictional histories … there is constant … More
To the West of Western: Colin Winnette’s HAINTS STAY
Louis L’Amour once said that if a story takes place in a long-ago time west of the Mississippi River, then … More
Made to Break, by D. Foy
Foy’s Made to Break follows a group of friends on vacation. They are staying at a cabin in the woods. … More
Mira Corpora, a novel by Jeff Jackson, reviewed by Kyle Coma-Thompson
“These days I’m on a need-to-know basis with myself.” Two-thirds of the way into Jeff Jackson’s Mira Corpora, the novel’s … More
Crystal Eaters, by Shane Jones
A few personal notes before I dive full-tilt into this review of Shane Jones’ new novel, Crystal Eaters, that will, … More