Interview: Comedian Katie Rose Leon
“I can talk to people, in like, human sentences, and not just like, throw up all over myself.”
Interview: Writer Donald Ray Pollock
“Because the threat of violence was always nearby, I paid a lot of attention to it.”
Behind the Men Who Make the Champions: Super Bowl XLVII by Brian S. Ellis
The lights are out for an impossible thirty-four minutes. For Reed-Strauss it’s a creative risk
Frozen (заморожены) by Anonymous
“to call him our son. He was one of over 600,000 orphans living in Russia”
We Are All Steubenville by Jessica Lawless
I think “where were the adults?” is the wrong question to ask…
The Gift Horse of War by Julie Thi Underhill
“war was never something “left behind” in another land and in another time”
Book Review: Threats by Amelia Gray
“an experience in which all phenomena and every character is questionable”
Blunt Force Trauma by Nina Rockwell
Writer Nina Rockwell gets real about the trauma of abuse and its many colors.
The Legacy of Breece D'J Pancake
When is a book review not exactly a book review? Revisiting an important collection of fiction.
Black Boy Fly: An Essay About Kendrick Lamar
The possibility of a review of "good kid, m.A.A.d. city," by Kendrick Lamar.
Dead Humans by Andrew Borgstrom
“He said he was going to do terrible things to my children and make me watch”
Tenth-Station Jesus by Brian Allen Carr
Lust, anyone? Never mind the Jesus finger. It’s holy too (well, mostly). Weighing in on the 7 Deadly Sins.
Interview: Painter Flora Moscovici
In painting, emotions expressed by color and gesture can be linked to architectural spaces.