Dmitry Samarov

A Review of Will We All Still See Each Other Afterward

Dmitry SamarovFebruary 16, 2024

Charles Bukowski called love a dog from hell but Tyler Dempsey shows it to be an animal resilient enough to withstand arctic freezes and the weeks-long days and...

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A Review of I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Dmitry SamarovFebruary 1, 2024

On February 16th, 2021, a writer downloaded FaceApp and fed it some childhood photos. The program alters race, age, and—most crucially, in this case—gender, to ...

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Tour Guide

Dmitry SamarovSeptember 10, 2022

An Excerpt from paint-by-numbers An email from the Museum of Only Art Now asking if I’d be interested in giving their artist-in-residence a tou...

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A Perpetual Almost: A Review Of Ex-Members by Tobias Carroll

Dmitry SamarovMay 9, 2022

Set in a small and haunted New Jersey town, Tobias Carroll’s fourth book (and second novel) is a patchwork portrait that illuminates as much by what it leaves i...

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Fakeboi

Dmitry SamarovSeptember 7, 2021

Sean Conroe got me to read Sam Pink’s books and for that, I’m deeply grateful. He talked him up endlessly on his podcast, even had the man himself on as a guest...

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The “It” in It Follows is You

Dmitry SamarovAugust 8, 2021

Many people have many theories about the unseen and unnamed malevolent force that terrorizes the young people of suburban Detroit in David Robert Mitchell’s 201...

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A Pool Table is Bad News

Dmitry SamarovMarch 4, 2021

An Excerpt from Old Style by Dmitry Samorav Matt and Laura come to the Blue Light every week. They order a pitcher of Old Style and play pool. The table is at ...

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Fiction

Collections

The Ill-Advised Trip of an Italian Plumber

Airplane Mode

Poetry

Fuck Marry Kill

So It Goes in the Summer of 1993

Get Off My Lawn & While You’re Doing So Don’t Judge Me

Flash Fiction

Third Date Is When You Tell ‘Em

My Skeleton Wants Out

Ted’s funeral is held at McDonald’s

Reviews

A Review of Will We All Still See Each Other Afterward

Hanging in an Alien Sky: a review of “Death Egg” by Nathaniel Duggan

A Review of I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Interviews

An Interview With Abigail Rivera Ramirez

ALL MY GENERATION WANTS: an interview with Austin Davis

Find the Shard of Beauty: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer

Columns

The 21 Best Small Press Books From 2021

Writer of the Week: Tanner Ballengee

Writer of the Week: Jeff Schneider

A Review of Will We All Still See Each Other Afterward

A Review of I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Tour Guide

A Perpetual Almost: A Review Of Ex-Members by Tobias Carroll

Fakeboi

The “It” in It Follows is You

A Pool Table is Bad News

Dmitry Samarov