Review: Bully Love by Patricia Colleen Murphy (reviewed by Toti O’Brien)
The past, made remote by distance, isn’t ready yet to be forgotten. And the present is floating, suspended, if disjointed from its roots.
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REVIEW: SHELF LIFE OF HAPPINESS BY VIRGINIA PYE (reviewed by Shelley Harp)
Pye’s characters are unique and complex, and readers will think about them long after they finish the book.
Good People: An Interview with David Jauss (by Curtis Smith)
I’m with Grace Paley, who said “Write from what you know into what you don’t know.”
Becoming the Blue Heron: An Interview with Terri Kirby Erickson (by Curtis Smith)
Writing poetry in general is one way to make sense of it all, to break up what is vast and essentially unknowable, into smaller, more digestible pieces.
Filling in the Blanks: An Interview with C.D. Albin (by Morgan Drish)
C. D. Albin was born and reared in West Plains, Missouri. He earned a Doctor of Arts in English from the University of Mississippi and has taught for many […]
Review: The Universal Physics of Escape by Elizabeth Gonzalez (reviewed by Amanda Kelley)
The Universal Physics of Escape by Elizabeth Gonzalez 168 Pages Press 53 (2015) 978-1941209318 The Universal Physics of Escape was the winner of the 2015 Press 53 Award for short […]
The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories by Wendy Fox (reviewed by Ashley Begley)
It is very rare that I want to savor a book, that I purposely slow my turning of pages so that I can revel in the world that has been created for me. But that is exactly what I did with Wendy J. Fox’s collection entitled The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories,
“Being a Writer isn’t About Having a Book”: An Interview with Kevin Watson of Press 53
Just as there are no shortcuts for writers, there are no shortcuts for publishers.
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