Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…
Kellie Wells’s Fat Girl, Terrestrial
“Chronology commits you to a straight line, I said. This story’s ovoid.” But no, not ovoid either. Vertical. Kellie Wells’s…
Noy Holland’s Swim for the Little One First
Noy Holland’s new collection of short fiction, Swim for the Little One First, came out in September. I would…
The North American Innovation Crash of 1993
The Ombudsman of the Washington Post has this to say about “innovation”: “I’m wondering, and readers are too, whether…
#AuthorFail 4: Jeffrey DeShell
It’s Monday morning. The yawning gulf of your workweek stretches before you like a festering baby mouth. How long until…
An Interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky, Part 2
Part 1 Let’s back up a bit. When did you move to the US? I came to this country in…
An Interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky, Part 1
I first encountered Yuriy Tarnawsky‘s writing in 1998, when I stumbled across a copy of Three Blondes and Death (FC2,…
This Wednesday: FC2 in NYC: Margo Berdeschevsky, Brian Conn, Lance Olsen, & Rob Stephenson
Just wanted to help spread the word for those not on Facebook: An Unnameable Reading: Fiction Collective Two in Brooklyn…
A Paragraph about a Paragraph I Love (Yuriy Tarnawsky’s Three Blondes and Death)
[Update 30 April 11: If you like this passage, check out my interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky: Part 1 | Part…
On Lance Olsen–4 years later
I’ve been thinking a lot about Lance Olsen lately—not only because he tied up and duct taped my mouth during…