Monthly Archives: February 2012
REVIEW: Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake by Heidi Lynn Staples (reviewed by Patrick Trotti)
Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake by Heidi Lynn Staples Caketrain Press www.caketrain.org Caketrain’s newest offering, Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake by Heidi Lynn Staples, is a mouthful—a fantastic experiment merging fiction with art. Designed as more of a … Continue reading
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REVIEW: Anatomy Courses by Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick (reviewed by Patrick Trotti)
Anatomy Courses by Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick Lazy Fascist Press ISBN: 9781621050186 Anatomy Courses, a combo effort by gifted young writers Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick, is unlike anything I’ve read. Published by one of the best publishing houses … Continue reading
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REVIEW: The Obese by Nick Antosca (reviewed by Patrick Trotti)
The Obese by Nick Antosca Lazy Fascist Press ISBN: 9781621050179 Lazy Fascist isn’t lazy, quite the opposite actually, releasing their second offering on the same day with Nick Antosca’s The Obese. The opening line should be read as a warning … Continue reading
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In Case You Missed It..
jmwww fiction editor Linda Wastila-Simoni has an editorial in the New York Times re. the debate to curb prescription drug abuse: You can go here or paste this link into your browser: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/02/15/how-to-curb-prescription-drug-abuse/we-need-a-national-prescription-drug-monitoring-program
REVIEW: 10 Word Problems by Jen Besemer (reviewed by Patrick Trotti)
10 word problems by Jen Besemer Published as an ebook by White Knuckle press 2012 https://sites.google.com/site/whiteknucklechaps/jenbesemer/wkp In Jen Besemer’s slight online book, 10 word problems, published by the wildly inventive Knuckle Press, word problems are given new life, allowed space … Continue reading
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REVIEW: US by Michael Kimball (reviewed by Patrick Trotti)
Us by Michael Kimball Tyrant Books ISBN: 9780615430461 Seven months. That’s how long it took for me to fully digest Michael Kimball’s latest book, Us. Released from Tyrant Books, an emerging indie publishing house located in New York, Kimball’s newest … Continue reading
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When You Wish Upon a Writer
jmww contributor Laura Ellen Scott is interviewed by jmww editor Jen Michalski at The Nervous Breakdown about her debut novel, Death Wishing: I was worried that touring meant I’d be twiddling my thumbs behind stacks of books while browsers tried … Continue reading
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Flash Fiction Fridays in print!
jmww editor Robert Vaughan has published his first book, Flash Fiction Fridays, an anthology of flash from writers who have read on the WUWM’s monthly “Lake Effect” radio program in Milwaukee, WI, which Vaughan cohosts with Stephanie Lecci. Writers include … Continue reading
