How to Detonate the Novel: A Rough Guide to the Later Fiction of Louis Armand
Form follows destruction. Continue reading How to Detonate the Novel: A Rough Guide to the Later Fiction of Louis Armand
Form follows destruction. Continue reading How to Detonate the Novel: A Rough Guide to the Later Fiction of Louis Armand
Living Things is a socioeconomic critique of industrial agriculture, but can also be read as Cronenberg-style body horror. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Living Things, by Munir Hachemi
Indian Winter is an exploration of the writing process, the varieties of love, and the appreciation for a place rife with beauty and sensuality. Continue reading Espress Shots: Indian Winter, by Kazim Ali
“Bekono captures Salomé’s narrative voice. It is a voice at once tender, crass, intellectual, and rebellious, every bit as compelling as Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas.” Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Confrontations by Simone Atangana Bekono @ NYJB
Bird Life, by Anna Smaill, explores the porous boundaries between genius and madness, trauma and genius. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Bird Life, by Anna Smaill
Numbers is a beautifully rendered poetic artifact, a rollicking admixture of visuals and text Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: Numbers, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Beware of pity. Continue reading Commonplace Book: Balzac on Pity
In four interrelated stories, Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri explores the torturous relations between men and women. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Birth Canal, by Dias Novita Wuri
The short novel shifts between comedy and horror, commentary and meta-commentary, wetware and meatspace. Continue reading Espresso Shots: 404 Error: memoir of a nobody, by RG Vasicek & Zak Ferguson
Where Marshland Comes to Flower by Peter Anderson is highly recommended for those who love the art of the short story and the continuing literary legacy of Chicago. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Where Marshland Came to Flower, by Peter Anderson