Toxicon and Arachne by Joyelle McSweeney / Nightboat Books / 9781643620183 / 112 pages / April 7, 2020 From the author of The Necropastoral (University of Michigan Press 2015) and Percussion … [Read more...]
Investigating Digital Zones: Reading Ed Steck’s An Interface for a Fractal Landscape
An Interface for a Fractal Landscape by Ed Steck / Ugly Duckling Presse / 2019 / 978-1-946433-01-5 / 192 pages The corporeal and the digital are not mutually exclusive zones. Often they overlap. … [Read more...]
Transmissions from the Abyss: Sublunary Editions’ Monthly Mailings
Sublunary Editions is a publisher focused on highlighting shorter texts. Each month, they mail out an envelope with a set of two written works to their subscribers. Being a relatively new press, they … [Read more...]
Language Cells: Laura Hyunjhee Kim’s Entering the Blobosphere
Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs by Laura Hyunjhee Kim / Civil Coping Mechanisms / Paperback / 100 pages / 978-1948700184 / June 17, 2019 Laura Hyunjhee Kim’s Entering the Blobosphere: A … [Read more...]
Explorations in Form: New Small Press Releases
It’s the goal of small presses such as Inside the Castle, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Schism, and others like them to publish unconventional forms of literature, those in the expanded field --- whatever that … [Read more...]
Apocalyptic Language: Reading Brooks Rexroat’s Thrift Store Coats
Thrift Store Coats by Brooks Rexroat / Orson's Publishing / 978-0991446391 Brooks Rexroat’s debut short story collection, Thrift Store Coats explores the harsh and often unforgiving landscape of … [Read more...]
Experiments in the Function of Language: Reading Laura Riding’s Experts Are Puzzled
Experts Are Puzzled by Laura Riding / Ugly Duckling Presse / 978-1937027865 / May 1, 2018 / 144 pages Laura Riding’s Experts Are Puzzled is a difficult book to classify. At times it looks like a … [Read more...]
Douglass by Day / Douglass by Night: Reading F. Douglas Brown’s ICON
ICON by F. Douglas Brown / Civil Coping Mechanisms / 2018 / 978-1948700009 Icon is an ekphrasis of the place where personal and global histories coalesce. F. Douglas Brown examines the prominent … [Read more...]