The hunters of meaning had found no meaning. The wanters of dreams were dreamless. Many now drifted toward Hark Morner. This is, like, the back story.
Th...
I know I’m late to the party on this one. Ever since Ling Ma’s Severance was published last August, it’s popped up on any number of year-end lists, or best-of l...
Marie Mockett takes umbrage, in her excellent Lit Hub essay “Our Fairy Tales, Ourselves”, with critics and philosophers whose pursuit of universal laws of narra...
Caliban has a good claim to Patagonian ancestry...
There’s a strange connotation attached to ghost towns: folks seem to assume that (aside from the tum...
I doubt I’m the only one here who struggles with collections of short stories. My friend Anne insists that it’s a problem of investment and fatigue: once you’ve...
On June 23rd, Donald Hall—U.S. poet laureate and rural New England made flesh—passed away at the age of 89. Like the erosion of the Old Man of the Mountain, tha...
The newest collection from Bottlecap Press is Andrew Duncan Worthington’s A Very Small Forest Fire. The twelve short stories he has brought together are funny, ...
“We writers are the raw nerve of the universe. Our job is to go out and feel things for people, then to come back and tell them how it feels to be alive. Beca...
Death is another kind of absence, one that leaves a sudden, big (enormous) wound that gradually heals, or so it seems to me. Disappearance, on the other hand, m...
A woman grieving the death of her child goes to the Buddha.
She had come to beg the famous teacher to perform a miracle and to bring the infant back to life. “...
Recommendation: Read it in one sitting. Give it to a friend. Stay in touch with that friend. Travel to see them, and be gentle to the other travelers along the ...
Recommendation: Like the moon in daylight: familiar, but entirely new. Any reader who has ever wondered how spring could come on so stubbornly (figuratively, li...
Recommendation: the perfect choice for reigniting your rage: shake whatever numbness from your hands, there is work to do. Read aloud with friends; declaim bois...
Recommendation: Bring it with you to the beach. Dip your toes in the water. Close your eyes.
Let us join hands now and sing the full hymnal for that most cur...
Recommendation: Not for the faint of heart.
I did not like this book. It scuttled through my life with all the uncanny agility of a centipede, darting first...
Recommendation:
To be savored; to be re-read. Keep a copy within reach anywhere that promises a flicker of solitude and a view of the changing seasons.
Bef...
Wilson Josephson is a young sapling spreading his roots in southern Minnesota. He's a founding member of Literary Starbucks (2016) and a recovering poetry editor with a chronic crush on nouns that get used as adjectives.