Oh Baby I Like It Raw (Just Not That Raw)
Jim Ruland01.05.15
The Dirty Version explores the conundrums of the Wu-Tang Clan’s most notorious member, Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Jim Ruland reviews.
The Brain That You Want In The Moment That You Want It: A Review of Steven Zultanski’s Bribery
Ed Steck12.30.14
Bribery bears witness as an unrelenting cavalcade of American grotesquery. Ed Steck reviews.
One Prism of History: On Desire and Secrecy in Wendy Ortiz’s Excavation: A Memoir
Lucy Tiven12.22.14
Identity, fallibility, and self-discovery weave a provocative intuitive fabric for Wendy Ortiz’s memoir centered around a relationship with her teacher. Lucy Tiven reviews.
John Dermot Woods’s Love/Hate Letter to Baltimore
Amber Sparks12.09.14
Amber Sparks tackles the psychosis of a city unraveling in John Dermot Woods’s self-illustrated new novel, The Baltimore Atrocities.
The New Set of Teeth You Don’t Know How to Grow
Nicholas Grider12.08.14
Lamb’s latest album, Backspace Unwind, provides emotional clarity and foundation for Nicholas Grider during trying times.
Sexual Discovery & Disorientation in Chloe Caldwell’s Women
Courtney Maum12.04.14
Courtney Maum tackles the destructive love affair at the center of Chloe Caldwell’s Women.
“WE ARE DETERMINED OUR AUTHORITY SHALL BE FULLY RESPECTED”: Fiddle Tunes and Primitive Selfies in the Techie Heart of Darkness
Jacob Sunderlin12.01.14
Jacob Sunderlin wrestles with the utopian techie promises of the bay area and the stranger, more patience-demanding work released by Dust to Digital.
That Kind of Trash: A Review of Ugly Girls
Jaime Fountaine11.25.14
Jaime Fountaine tackles the memories of youth, the suburbs, and trash sparked by Lindsay Hunter’s Ugly Girls.
Language Game or Echo Chamber? A Review of Emily Skillings’s Backchannel
Lucy Tiven11.24.14
Can a bird still be powerful in a poem? Emily Skillings’s chapbook Backchannel provides positive evidence. Lucy Tiven reviews.
A Review of Mallory Whitten’s Collected Poems & Stories
Zach Schwartz11.18.14
Mallory Whitten’s debut collection gathers a wide range of styles into a coherent, surprising whole. Zach Schwartz reviews.
