by The Editors | Apr 23, 2015
After the fox, see the chase. Feel the theatre....
by The Editors | Apr 7, 2015
Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter. Farrar, Straus Giroux. 2014. 240 pages. Ugly Girls opens with two wanna-be thug-girls cruising around in a stolen red Mazda, blasting gangster rap. This is the perfect scene to set the tone of a sweaty, dirty, linguistic joyride —...
by Marcus Pactor | Mar 31, 2015
Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours by Luke B. Goebel Fiction Collective Two. 2014. 184 pages. My first couple years of college, I studied with the late Harry Crews. I read all his books and took his word as the gospel on fiction. When he was writing...
by The Editors | Mar 20, 2015
The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson Tin House Books, 2014. 228 pp. “Even what the mind forgets, the body remembers.” –Lacy Johnson As Lacy Johnson writes in the notes following her memoir The Other Side, the word memory takes its root from origins one might...
by The Editors | Mar 10, 2015
The Dead Wrester Elegies by W. Todd Kaneko Curbside Splendor Press, 2014, 202 pp. The word kayfabe is a pro wrestling term that means “The suspension of disbelief used to manufacture feuds, angles and gimmicks surrounding a professional wrestling match” or “The...
by The Editors | Feb 25, 2015
Shape of the Sky, Shelagh Connor Shapiro Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, 2014 As an unapologetic reader of everything, I find myself categorizing new things I read with other things I have read, as if placing books and stories and poems in folders in my mind will help me...
