Laura Knicklebine

Ethos, Pathos, Clowns: On 49 Venezuelan Novels

Laura KnicklebineAugust 20, 2017

In this arbitrary assemblage of micro fiction, the importance of place is indirectly questioned. Can a person be anchored by what’s most familiar? Can roots fro...

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Mostly Flesh: Thoughts on Claudia Cortese’s “Wasp Queen”

Laura KnicklebineJuly 10, 2017

Look here: this is Lucy’s life. It’s covered in rust, because Lucy prefers it that way. It’s a flesh ball of dirt, blood and memory that Lucy holds in her own h...

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Squids in Love, and other Absurdisms: Thoughts on Michael Sikkema’s Chapbook

Laura KnicklebineMay 29, 2017

It’s hard to pin this little book up against proper scenery. Sikkema throws it around too quickly, like a noxious ball of fire. Poems tumble in the depths of ou...

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To Oslo, With Love: Thoughts on Julia Johanne Toho’s New Chapbook

Laura KnicklebineApril 23, 2017

August, and the Snow has Just Melted is like a collection of postcards transcribed from a melancholy language. It’s mixed with English, Norwegian and some heavy...

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The Indecency of Killing Ants: Thoughts on Vivek Shanbhag’s Novella

Laura KnicklebineApril 16, 2017

Shanbhag’s novella begins on an exhale. A nameless narrator sits in refuge at a coffee house. He pins his gaze to the exchanges at other tables in attempt to di...

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In a Studio, In Chicago, I Write a Review: Thoughts on Shy Watson’s New Chapbook

Laura KnicklebineFebruary 26, 2017

Shy Watson’s candid chapbook leaves something to be desired-something specific. It narrates a suffocating crush. A hopeless attraction, detrimental to a young p...

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The Ontology of Hauntings: Cameron Awkward-Rich’s Sympathetic Little Monster

Laura KnicklebineFebruary 5, 2017

Picture a little girl kneeling in a glass field. Remember her knees are nerveless and her blood is a myth. If it’s difficult to picture a little girl kneel...

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Review of Elysia Smith’s “Unruly”

Laura KnicklebineJanuary 30, 2017

This is a confessional collection of prose. Elysia Smith sits her younger self beneath a ghost light and pulls the most arcane questions out from her ...

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Review of Boris By The Sea by Matvei Yankelevich

Laura KnicklebineJanuary 15, 2017

Boris is alone. He finds company with his dark house, his chair, and the sea. But he can’t tell us if anyone else inhabits the world. He isn’t able to let us ...

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Review of Dragons by Melissa Dickey

Laura KnicklebineDecember 18, 2016

During birth, mother and daughter become strangers. Motherhood is a foreign concept, not as instinctive as expected and a daughter remains a strange, inanimat...

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Review of ‘Killer’ by Kimmy Walters

Laura KnicklebineDecember 4, 2016

Killer is a sparkling, classified experiment full of impossible questions. The first time I travelled through the book, I pulled poems out of the thick air and ...

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Fiction

The Ill-Advised Trip of an Italian Plumber

Airplane Mode

Random Motivational Stop

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

My Skeleton Wants Out

Ted’s funeral is held at McDonald’s

Stuff

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

Ethos, Pathos, Clowns: On 49 Venezuelan Novels

Mostly Flesh: Thoughts on Claudia Cortese’s “Wasp Queen”

Squids in Love, and other Absurdisms: Thoughts on Michael Sikkema’s Chapbook

To Oslo, With Love: Thoughts on Julia Johanne Toho’s New Chapbook

The Indecency of Killing Ants: Thoughts on Vivek Shanbhag’s Novella

In a Studio, In Chicago, I Write a Review: Thoughts on Shy Watson’s New Chapbook

The Ontology of Hauntings: Cameron Awkward-Rich’s Sympathetic Little Monster

Review of Elysia Smith’s “Unruly”

Review of Boris By The Sea by Matvei Yankelevich

Review of Dragons by Melissa Dickey

Review of ‘Killer’ by Kimmy Walters

Laura Knicklebine