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#64 | FEATURING Sam Asher, Marie-Andree Auclair, Gaylord Brewer, Jeremy Caldwell, Lynnette Curtis, Kerry James Evans, Adam Gnuse, Meredith Davies Hadaway, Andrew Hamm, Paul Haney, Claire Hero, J. M. Jones, Holly Karapetkova, Cindy King, Charlene Langfur, April Lindner, George Looney, Chloe Martinez, Derek Mong, David Morse, Kevin Phan, A. R. Robins, Erin Saxon, Andrew Stallings, Laura Sweeney, Devon Tomasulo, Read Trammel, and Karen J. Weyant.
What’s New
One Hundred Years of Self-Help: Two Book Reviews
As the title of Marian Crotty’s award-winning short story collection, What Counts as Love, suggests,…
Democracy Dies in Darkness: Two Book Reviews
The Eastern Shore by Ward Just The Great American Political Novel, from Henry Adam’s Democracy,…
“Transforming Thoughts Into Words:” A Conversation with Sylvia Liu
The former environmental lawyer turned children’s writer, illustrator, poet, novelist, and memoirist, Sylvia Liu is…
Remembering to Pretend: A Conversation with Sue Hyon Bae
Poet, Sue Hyon Bae, is the former International Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. Her work…
Imagination is a Muscle: A Conversation With Ben Rosenthal
Ben Rosenthal is a writer living in New York. He has had residencies at The MacDowell…
Don’t Be Evil: A Review of Blume Lempel’s “Oedipus in Brooklyn”
“Abandon Yiddish.” The masters of the Enlightenment might as well have said abandon hope, for…
“The Surreal and the Actual:” A Conversation with Ashley Farmer
Ashley Farmer is the author of The Women (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), The Famacist (Jellyfish Highway Press, 2015), Beside…
Taking Chances: A Conversation With Orman Day
Orman Day’s prose and poetry have been published by such journals as Creative Nonfiction, ZYZZYVA, Third Coast, SLAB, William and Mary…
What We Can Learn From Acting and Miscommunication: A Conversation with Nora Bonner
Nora Bonner is a fiction writer and writing instructor from Detroit, Michigan. Currently, she lives…
Fled Is That Music
The Truman Commission, which determined that everyday Americans deserved access to the same kind of…
Busy Father Leads Five Lives: A Conversation with Chad Schuster
Chad Schuster lives near Seattle with his wife and two children. He earned a journalism…
With Pencil and Piano, She Crafts a Novel: A Conversation with Kris Faatz
Kris Faatz (rhymes with skates) is a fiction writer and musician. Her first novel, To…
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