Sometimes Humiliation Feels Good: A Conversation with Elle Nash
Nicholas Rys03.27.18
Elle Nash in conversation with Nicholas Rys about her debut novel Animals Eat Each Other, out next week from Dzanc Books.
THEN I BUST OUT: Review of Animals Wearing Human Clothing (4 out of 10)
Amy Lawless & Jeff Alessandrelli03.23.18
“Look at these leather boots I am considering on Pinterest. And at the blood. Look at the feathers in the Queen’s hat.” Lawless and Alessandrelli’s THEN I BUST OUT rolls hard into a sprawling review of the idea of animals wearing human clothing.
Stepchild
Felicity Fenton03.21.18
Felicity Fenton with a memoir-essay about adolescence, socialization, drugs, family pressure, and so much more. “Everywhere is better than here we say. And in these dreams we’re always stoned, or ready to be stoned. We live together and love in the way we think we want to be loved.”
rek-rek-kek-kek-kek
Bud Smith03.20.18
“And the rain came down and the blue Datsun sunk in the mud, rek-rek-kek-kek-kek.” New fiction by Bud Smith.
A Song About Overthrowing Capitalism: On Ryan Eckes’ General Motors
Gina Myers03.19.18
Gina Myers takes a look at Ryan Eckes’ latest, General Motors, which examines Philadelphia, capitalism, and pigeons shitting on bosses.
THEN I BUST OUT: Review of the Squirrel (~3 out of 10)
Amy Lawless & Jeff Alessandrelli03.16.18
This week’s THEN I BUST OUT investigates the survival and sexual psyche of the squirrel.
“my body is a horror” & “bloodsisters”
Jayme Russell03.14.18
“silver poured into an empty cavity / braced bright pain straightens you out” Two poems by Jayme Russell.
A House Built of Whetstone: A Review of Prairie M. Faul’s In the House We Built
Paul Cunningham03.13.18
“Prairie M. Faul’s poems are multifaceted and the whetstone—the stone used for sharpening—is the skin of this stunning house of a book.” Paul Cunningham reviews In the House We Built.
Words as Deeds, or Why a Letter from Prison Helps Me to Believe that Words Matter (No Matter What)
Peter Markus03.12.18
Can poetry still save a life? Peter Markus, a writing teacher of 23 years in Detroit Public Schools, believes it can.
THEN I BUST OUT: Review of Alf (____ out of 10)
Amy Lawless & Jeff Alessandrelli03.09.18
Lawless and Alessandrelli’s WHEN I BUST OUT returns with a swift, strange conjecture regarding the cultural oddity known as ALF. “Maroon sprawls abounding, there was so much blood in his memory.”
