I’ll always remember that winter, not because of Mama’s accident with her colostomy bag, or the wad of chewed up leaves and puke I found in the corner of the dope shed, or the bitter
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Year: 2014
Obit: Declan Shufflebottom III
Name: Declan Shufflebottom III
o Age: 27
o DOD: 4/6/14
o Obituary: Declan Shufflebottom III died painfully and abruptly when he drove his vintage Huffy ten-speed bicycle head first into the driver of a parked Hummer for swiping the last bag of gummy worms at Baxter, Minnesota’s Walgreens.
Interview: Gabriel Blackwell
Gabriel Blackwell is the author of The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men: The Last Letter of H. P. Lovecraft (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2013), Critique of Pure Reason (Noemi, 2013), and Shadow Man: A Biography of
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Podcast Episode 012: Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour’s new novel, The Last Illusion, has been called a book full of hard fought wonders, harsh, and yet
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Book Review: Friday Was the Bomb by Nathan Deuel
“What’s the point of being safe if you don’t feel fully alive?”
I stood in Tahrir Square this past January and eyed the graffiti, what was left of it: FREEDOM, it says in English.
Continue readingIn the Viognier, Dying
The dog is dying, of course. I’ve no idea how she came to be here, so far from the road and so far from town. She has a studded collar but no tags. She doesn’t whimper,
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Give a Junta to the People
I squeeze my eyes shut and swear I’ll die. It’s another Sunday, we just got back from Nigeria, Mom is making her biftekia, cars are screeching to a stop outside the blue building. I try to hold my breath
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Be Zen
Last week I texted my colleague, “Stan,” to follow up on our projects. Instead of texting me back, he called, and the first words he uttered were, “Be Zen.” I thought, sure thing.
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Book Review: The Guts by Roddy Doyle
I didn’t particularly like Roddy Doyle’s new novel, The Guts, about a man recently diagnosed with colon cancer. The book isn’t consistently funny enough and is too sentimental; and not that I am a
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