Sportin’ Jack: A Guarded, Laconic Jigsaw Puzzle of Memory
By Alex Zwerdling A hundred hundred-worders? I was expecting something less ambitious in such a tightly restricted form.
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By Paul Strohm For those who didn't know his primary work, this volume's accompanying illustrations reveal Lou Beach as a collage-maker and graphic surrealist, an accomplished maestro of dream-like...
View ArticleBook Review: Anthropology’s 101 True Love Stories
By Andrea Daniels If this is a cultural study of a tribe, it’s a tribe with one cuckolded male and 101 beautiful women, virtually all of whom treat his heart with the sentimentality of an ashtray.
View ArticleReview: For Girls Forged by Lightning
By Beret Olsen Molly Fuller's new book, For Girls Forged by Lightning, is as ferocious as it is lyrical. This collection of 51 short pieces of "prose and other poems" is beautiful and brutal. Remember...
View ArticleBook Review: The Inexplicable Grey Space Called Love
By Beret Olsen Chuck Augello's new book, The Inexplicable Grey Space Called Love, enthralled by the magic of words, potent even when I couldn’t fully understand them. Perhaps meaning cannot ever be...
View ArticleBook Review: The Bitter Kind
By Beret Olsen The Bitter Kind is sixty-eight pages of legend, lemons, ghosts, and begonias, shifting deftly between genre and perspective.
View ArticleFlash Exercise: Cut It In Half
Writers aren’t always sure what is and isn’t necessary in their work, especially since they’ve lovingly crafted every word. Each story will ultimately tell you what it needs, but a great exercise to...
View ArticleBook Review: Snowdog
By Beret OlsenIn Snowdog, Kim Chinquee’s latest collection of flash fiction, the writing is clean and concise, the language unornamented. “[T]he best time to make fake snow is when it’s actually...
View ArticleBook Review: The House of Grana Padano
By Celia Bland In The House of Grana Padano, the collaboration between Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman blends rhythms and styles seamlessly. These two masters of the microfiction form generate a...
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