We’re getting a poor excuse for winter here in western Ohio. We’ve had only a couple measurable snow falls, and nothing more than an inch or two.… Read more “You forget she is a god”
Author: David Nilsen
A Review of How To Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
We’re just running down a fucking slope carrying these little flags, and one by one we get shot and we slump and our little flags are in… Read more “A Review of How To Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball”
Every Book I Read in 2016
Below is every single book and zine I read in 2016. An * denotes a book read during a previous year and reread in 2016. Nonfiction Bookmobiles… Read more “Every Book I Read in 2016”
A review of the zine Cuspian, Issue #1
Cuspian is a 2015 zine by Jami Sailor, young woman who had recently moved to Cincinnati from Chicago, though she is originally from Detroit. The zine chronicles… Read more “A review of the zine Cuspian, Issue #1”
you live your life as if it’s real
After spending the weekend in Chicago for Christmas, my wife and I had a quiet New Year’s weekend. Our kid was with my ex, and we honestly… Read more “you live your life as if it’s real”
A Review of A Kitchen Witch’s Guide to Rosemary
I actually got this zine for a dear friend of mine currently stuck in the high desert of Nevada, where, until recently, it had not rained since… Read more “A Review of A Kitchen Witch’s Guide to Rosemary”
Actors in Classic Films Perfectly Reacting to 2016
It’s been a hell of a year. Here are some classic film screenshots that perfectly express how we’ve felt about 2016. Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde… Read more “Actors in Classic Films Perfectly Reacting to 2016”
A Review of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
When she wanted to forget the Castle, she thought of these things, but she did not expect joy. Hell was a place of remembering, each beautiful moment… Read more “A Review of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi”
A Review of Fuchsia by Mahtem Shiferraw
Ethiopian American poet Mahtem Shiferraw won the 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her collection Fuchsia, and the book has been published from University of… Read more “A Review of Fuchsia by Mahtem Shiferraw”
A Review of Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels is about werewolves. Except it isn’t. Not really. It’s about being poor, being outcast, being hungry, being scared, being desperate for identity, being broken, being… Read more “A Review of Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones”
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