Time Presents Itself: A Review of Bennett Sims’ Other Minds and Other Stories

Mallory SmartNovember 2, 2023

Bennett Sims, celebrated for his acclaimed works like "White Dialogues," skillfully crafts a captivating tapestry of surreal and absurdist narratives that will ...

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Unveiling the Supernatural: Nora Fussner’s ‘The Invisible World’ Conjures Eerie Excellence

Mallory SmartSeptember 23, 2023

Nora Fussner's debut novel, "The Invisible World," offers a captivating and atmospheric narrative reminiscent of the eerie charm found i...

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Random Occurrences

Mallory SmartJanuary 21, 2023

A Review of Jaded by Wilson Koewing   Think nothing of mind or spirit whilst reading Jaded. It is neither the time or place to do so. Instead, focus on...

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I Am Disappeared

Mallory SmartJanuary 20, 2023

A Review of The Craigslist Incident by Jason Fisk   “Women Seeking Men: I’m an 18-year-old female and I want to take a hit out on myself.” This is the ...

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A Review of The Distortions by Christopher Linforth

Alana M. KelleyJune 9, 2022

In The Distortions, Christopher Linforth explores the mundanities of life that continue to exist after war, where generational grief continues to linger. In the...

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Not Tonight: A Review of Kelly McClure’s Something Is Always Happening Somewhere

Alana M. KelleyMarch 12, 2022

Kelly McClure doesn’t do subtle very well and with her newest novel, Something Is Always Happening Somewhere, she has no intention to. The blows throughout this...

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There’s Something Beautiful Here: A Review of C.E. Hoffman’s Sluts and Whores

Alana M. KelleyMarch 4, 2022

As Sex and the City meets an episode of Black Mirror, we follow a myriad of eerie narratives throughout C.E. Hoffman’s text Sluts and Whores. Though seemingly o...

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Reliable Forms of Thirst: A Review of Paul Cunnigham’s FALL GARMENT

Ben DreithFebruary 22, 2022

How many metaphors are made between writing and the creation of clothing?  Social fabric, spinning a yarn, the weave of the text, stitching poetics—they seem as...

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Nothing In Life Matters: a review of This Is What Happens When You Leave Me Alone by D.T. Robbins

Mallory SmartSeptember 7, 2021

I’m getting beat up over here trying to decide if everything is lame and pointless or if that's just a condition of my being a millennial. And if something is p...

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To Remove Devastation From Our Minds: A Review of Emory Easton’s Mother Can You Hear Me Now?

Alana M. KelleyAugust 28, 2021

Emory Easton’s Mother Can You Hear Me Now? is a chronological celebration of life. Bittersweet and tender moments, unfathomable love, and traumatic loss; Easton...

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​​​​I FELT SMALL INSIDE MYSELF: A REVIEW OF ELLE NASH’S NUDES

Keegan SwensonAugust 6, 2021

I saw Elle Nash read at KGB on a Friday night. The East Village bar was packed with the usual suspects: friends of the author, aspiring writers, literary social...

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Real and Raw and Mutual: A Review of Emilly Prado’s Funeral for Flaca

Alana M. KelleyJuly 31, 2021

Bittersweet and erupting, Funeral for Flaca is a nostalgic memoir must-read for the aging millennial; A nodding anthem for everyone who grew up in the early 200...

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Each Analytic Entitled Pestilential Essayist Choke: a Review of Neo-Decadence: 12 Manifestos, edited by Justin Isis

Ben DreithJuly 17, 2021

“The wasteland of the 20th century is nothing less than a reliquary. Those that came before us have left in their wake an empire of exquisite jewels.”       ...

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We Are So Alone In the World: A review of The Handsome Man by Brad Casey

Mallory SmartJanuary 10, 2021

Recommended for: manic oddballs and lonely hipsters everywhere    When the world is upended, where will you go? Will your mind linger and wonder what’s next...

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Odd and Lonesome and Fascinating: A Review of Hosho McCreesh’s Chinese Gucci

Alana M. KelleyDecember 15, 2020

FOMO, lost-love, and the desire to be both liked and not give a fuck what anyone thinks about you are just some of the themes within McCreesh’s debut novel, Chi...

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“A “Collected Works” Comprised of All the Times Your Life Fell Apart” / A Review of Brian Alan Ellis’ Sad Laughter

Alana M. KelleyNovember 30, 2020

I’ve never wanted to both go to waffle house more often and never go to waffle house ever again.   Brian Alan Ellis asks us “...isn’t this a fucking ...

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WHAT PERMITS OUR IMAGINATION: A Review Of The Internet Is For Real by Chris Campanioni

Mallory SmartNovember 25, 2020

Here we stand at the “nowness” of this thing we call the Internet. A digital refuge. An oasis of calm. A school of art. A profound and elemental place of being ...

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Grief; Love; Nostalgia: A Review of Rachelle Toarmino’s ‘That Ex’

Alana M. KelleyNovember 2, 2020

If opening with an epigraph from Carmela Soprano doesn’t perfectly envelop the mood of this book of poetry, then nothing ever will. It’s hard to not want to quo...

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Face to Face: A Review of “The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached” by Mark Doyle

Mallory SmartJuly 13, 2020

The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached by Mark Doyle is a book and a class apart. That is honestly the best way I can describe it and anything else would be a di...

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Condemned to the shadows of Joy: a Review of Comaville by Kevin Bigley

Mallory SmartMay 4, 2020

I’ve been bouncing around from book to book these last few months, that seem to have lasted a lifetime. And during this era that we are both sardonically and lo...

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“We Swim Out Forever”: Jack C Bucks’ Gathering View

Mallory SmartAugust 1, 2018

  This first collection by Jack C Buck is uncompromising and hopeful. Split into three sections, the poems come together to form a narrative that ta...

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Scars of Cheerfulness: Hansjörg Schertenlieb’s “A Happy Man”

Wilson JosephsonNovember 12, 2017

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...

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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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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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Some Further Corrections: A Review of Jack Buck’s Deer Michigan

Max HeidelbergerFebruary 19, 2017

In his 2001 novel The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen, himself a child of Midwest, crafts a Midwest that is culturally repressive, a space in which one happens to...

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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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Of Fathers and Sons: Devin Kelly’s Blood on Blood

Max HeidelbergerJanuary 22, 2017

There’s much that’s been said and written about the rust belt and blue-collar America in the aftermath of the 2016 election. As a cultural group which—very broa...

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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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