Here are some compelling August 2021 small press books that captured my attention, including Big Other contributor Brian Evenson‘s The Glassy,…
A Trickster’s Re-Enchantment of Sandra Dorn: A Review of Elisabeth Sheffield’s Ire Land (A Faery Tale)
By Chuck Richardson Elisabeth Sheffield’s Ire Land (A Faery Tale)’s energy and strangeness, which grow with every page, begins…
Most Anticipated Small Press Releases: July 2021
Today, so-called Independence Day, I’m thinking about how the United States—representing about four percent of the world’s population—confines over twenty…
(Eco)consciousness and the Work of Poetry: A Review of Poetics for the More-than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary
By Aaron M. Moe In this age of the Anthropocene, we are bombarded, every day, by new knowledge pointing…
Most Anticipated Small Press Releases: June 2021
Happy Bloomsday! And how fitting it is to post a feature on small press books on a day commemorating and…
Choi Seungja’s Visionary Alternatives to Capital’s Alienations
A Review of Choi Seungja’s Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me (Action Books) By Tom DeBeauchamp Sorrow, like a…
Happy Short Story Month!
May is Short Story Month! Every month is Short Story Month! Happy Short Story Month! Here’s a list of…
Chrostowska’s Chrestomathy
By Jeff Bursey I am a bad animal, a black, broken, and lousy animal. I pull my driver behind…
Most Anticipated Small Press Releases: May 2021
Happy May Day, that is, International Workers Day! Hope you had a chance to dance around a tree today, dance…
Four Big Other Fictions Are Best Small Fictions 2021 Picks!
Good news! Tim Horvath’s “Chop,” Hillary Leftwich’s “Past Hertz,” Robert Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,”…