by Joseph Scapellato | Jan 23, 2014
Last semester I used Brian Shawver’s The Language of Fiction as the craft book backbone for the fiction unit of an introductory multi-genre creative writing course. Selecting it was a bit of a gamble (I’ll be honest: I’d only read a few chapters), though I had...
by Lauren Hilger | Jan 16, 2014
Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations. If I wrote that story now— radioactive to the end of time— people, I swear, your eyes would fall out, you couldn’t peel the gloves...
by Marcus Pactor | Jan 8, 2014
The Desert Places offers a beautiful history of evil. It is as dark and violent as you expect, but roughly ten thousand books published in the last year were dark and violent. This work is distinguished by its construction. First, the collaborators (authors Robert...
by Ross McMeekin | Dec 31, 2013
In my mid twenties I lived in Los Angeles for a few years, long enough to grow accustomed to the sprawl that reached in all directions, inhibited only by mountain ranges and the ocean. The human mind has an incessant need to categorize, not excepting people,...
by Gina Keicher | Dec 23, 2013
If the world were to end right now, there is a great likelihood each of us may feel like the poems in Edward Mullany’s newest collection, Figures for an Apocalypse (Publishing Genius, 2013). We would become more concerned with the world around us to ensure...
by Caitlin Maling | Dec 14, 2013
Imagine thus the pond: There is a tongue under the water. (Dan Beachy-Quick, “This Nest, Swift Passerine”) The anthology The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, edited by Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep, takes on an ambitious task. Its aim...
