It’s Time to Stop Saving Yourself: A Call for Contributors
Frankly, I don’t understand why people don’t read about books all the time. Some of the most important texts in my literary education have been written about books.
Fate and the Lake: Seven Ideas about “The Lighthouse Road”
In Peter Geye’s latest novel, an orphan shapes his own destiny on the menacing North Shore of the early twentieth century. He must choose the lesser of two threats: man or nature.
Storytelling Outside the Lines
Will Dinski’s Ablatio Penis follows the governor’s race in some unnamed state seemingly known for its conservative bent, focusing chiefly on the Republican contender, the womanizing Representative Andre St. Louis.
The Unfamiliar Family
Are we who we are ipso facto, or do relationships with others and with institutions define our contours? Do we love our work inherently or just enjoy doing something? What if we don’t love it at all? Does it matter?
Gangster Fairytale of a Grim Future
Barry’s vision of a dying city, its strangely costumed and violent people, and an era we hope isn’t our future, is at its most extraordinary in its inventive use of language.
The Rise of “un Autre”
In Sierra DeMulder’s New Shoes on a Dead Horse, we see the juxtaposition of person and persona, and what it takes to negotiate survival.
A New Publisher’s Debut
John Jodzio’s work hinges on the juxtaposition of societal norms and deviant extremes. What the three headed octopus of Paper Darts has brought to the collection is its own special signature.
Fostering Community: Three Things to Love about Two Gals
It is with no small degree of reticence that MCB quotes Tom Wolfe. That’s the kind of thing writers always want to know: What are other writers doing? It’s a solitary act, writing….
Whatever Happened to Masculinity?
The opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hell, similarly, is not tragic, but static. The terror of a book like Scott Wrobel’s Cul de Sac is that nothing outwardly changes.