The vampire and the ex-rocker make a mournful pair: he with his ruined hands, she with her sad nocturnal life. He needs heroin; she needs blood. He has nothing left to live for; she hasn’t truly lived in centuries.
Because we are so close to Marta and her guilt, we see her holding onto anchors that are causing her to sink.
I Do Know Some Things – Richard Siken
The story of I DO KNOW SOME THINGS is palpable, welling at every edge with urgency
Apotheosis of Music – Witold Wirpsza
For Wirpsza, a fugue can be a person, notes can be nails that stick in one’s head, and God himself can play the piano of humankind
The High Heaven – Joshua Wheeler
The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers – Keetje Kuipers
For Kuipers, the body is the departure point for exploration
Battalion Shaped Girl – Temperance Aghamohammadi
For Aghamohammadi, sensory input is more than data; it is life’s performance of a song by way of you
How does one write a novel about things that are not there? About the missing, the lost, the absent? Or is this the only kind of writing there is?
[Whitmore] wrote a classic queer book that has fortunately been given a new life and retains all its powerful weirdness
Realistic Fiction – Anton Solomonik
Realistic Fiction offers a playful interrogation of genre and storytelling, and provides knowing insight into the trap of normative gender.