The World Without You, by Joshua Henkin encouraged me to pick up E.M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel, a book…
Brian Allen Carr’s Short Bus and Flannery O’Connor’s “Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”
Brian Allen Carr’s collection of stories, Short Bus (Texas Review Press), is dedicated to the memory of William Patrick Carr…
Nick Antosca’s THE OBESE (Lazy Fascist Press)
Nick Antosca has been writing some of the most innovative yet accessible fiction in the small press world for years.…
Scott Wrobel’s CUL DE SAC
Click here to pre-order Cul de Sac by Scott Wrobel! Read the collection that Donald Ray Pollock calls “one of the truest and saddest collections I’ve…
Edward Mullany’s If I Falter At The Gallows
I had the great pleasure to read Mullany’s book of poems published by Publishing Genius Press, as well as discuss…
Is Anyone Else SHOCKED by Ben Marcus’s Traditional Short Story in The New Yorker???
I always think of him as the King of experimental form—and from some interviews in the past, thought he had…
Travels with My Aunt: A Look at Satire and Outsiderness
I’m in the Dominican Republic, sitting on the porch of the cabin we’ve owned for six years now. We dream…
An Alternate Reading of “Pride,” by Alice Munro
I am one of the many who think that Alice Munro deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature, so I am…
Touching on Grief: On the Story “Dreaming Before Sleep,” by Kathryn Chetkovich, and Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
Due to a violent death in my family, I found myself unable to read or write for about five months.…
On Reading Dan Chaon’s “Falling Backwards” and Mary Gaitskill’s “The Arms and Legs of the Lake”: An Essay on Compassion
I’ve read about Dan Chaon and possibly have read other stories by him (because I’ve read many journals over many…