Jen Edwards – Circus
Jen Edwards Circus I remember where I came from: my parents blind from the dust, bowl shaped scars carved in their skin. The earth sieved through the roof when [...]
Christine Fadden – The Geometry of Changing Course
Christine Fadden The Geography of Changing Course Driving to work one day in 2009, I heard Kalas’ voice on the radio. I heard people talking about his voice. It [...]
Richard Burgin, Interviewed by Ann McCutchan
An Interview with Richard Burgin Interview conducted by Ann McCutchan Prior to the publication of Richard Burgin’s eighth collection of short stories, Hide Island, ALR Editor-in-Chief Ann McCutchan interviewed the [...]
Richard Burgin – Hide Island (Reviewed by Charlie Riccardelli)
Texas Review Press. 2013. 248 pages. Reviewed by Charlie Riccardelli “The Memory Center,” the novella and end-piece in Richard Burgin’s new collection Hide Island, opens with its main character Foster sitting [...]
David Keplinger – The Most Natural Thing (Reviewed by Jenny Molberg)
New Issues Poetry and Prose. 2013. 90 pages. Reviewed by Jenny Molberg We remember well what Auden wrote in his elegy to Yeats: that “poetry makes nothing happen.” What many [...]
Christa Parravani – Her: A Memoir (Reviewed by Kristen Keckler)
Picador. 2014. 320 pages. Reviewed by Kristen Keckler Add the twin mystique to a drug-fueled reality drama and you’ve got the recipe for double the intoxicating read in Christa Parravani’s [...]
Robert Sibley – The Way of the 88 Temples: Journeys on the Shikoku Pilgrimage (Reviewed by Clint Peters)
University of Virginia Press. 2013. 208 pages. Reviewed by Clint Peters Robert Sibley’s The Way of the 88 Temples is the author’s narrative of a trek along the 1,400-kilometer temple [...]
Spring 2014
SPRING 2014 FICTION Christine Fadden, The Geometry of Changing Course Lauren Markham, Just A Cupful ESSAYS Gabriel Houck, A Hurricane on My [...]