Does it take a village to end one girl? – from “Who Should I Say Is Calling?” Emily O’Neill’s collection You Can’t Pick Your Genre (Jellyfish Highway, 2016)… Read more “A Review of You Can’t Pick Your Genre: Poems by Emily O’Neill”
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A Review of sadly defunct film zine The Popcorn Farm
The Popcorn Farm is…well, was…a really fun little movie zine edited by the team of Jacob Cross, Kimberly Stout, Kara Hecker, and Tish Cunningham. Sadly, the zine’s… Read more “A Review of sadly defunct film zine The Popcorn Farm”
A Review of Muchacha Zine Issue #5: Brown Queen
I’ve been reading the Muchacha zine by Daisy Salinas for almost five years, but I just recently got around to reading issue #5 titled Brown Queen: Latina Voices of… Read more “A Review of Muchacha Zine Issue #5: Brown Queen”
A Review of Lisa Birnbaum’s Worthy
Lisa Birnbaum’s Worthy (Dzanc Books, 2016) tells the story of Ludmila, an eastern European woman managing a run-down strip joint in Tampa, Florida. The novel is narrated in Ludmila’s… Read more “A Review of Lisa Birnbaum’s Worthy”
A Review of the zine Laid
Sarah Rose’s mini-zine Laid: Stuff I Wish I’d Known about Sex Before I Started Having It is a brief document that summarizes concepts of sex positivity, self-love, consent, and… Read more “A Review of the zine Laid”
A Review of Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Even my name knelt down inside me, asking to be spared. Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016) is a collection of quiet urgency,… Read more “A Review of Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong”
The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay’s new poetry collection The Black Maria (BOA Editions, 2016) is a perpetually shifting document, one that skirts from one corner of her mind to another, from… Read more “The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay”
Some Like It Hot (1959)
While classic comedy films had to tick a few important boxes in order to be considered screwballs, the movies that qualified were far from formulaic. There were… Read more “Some Like It Hot (1959)”
A Review of Divorce Procedures for the Hairdressers of a Metallic and Inconstant Goddess by Justin Isis
Divorce Procedures for the Hairdressers of a Metallic and Inconstant Goddess by Justin Isis, if you can’t tell from the title, is a self-consciously strange little book,… Read more “A Review of Divorce Procedures for the Hairdressers of a Metallic and Inconstant Goddess by Justin Isis”
A Review of Herman Wouk’s Sailor and Fiddler
I arrived at a connection with Herman Wouk’s writing from an oblique angle, and the connection has remained tenuous. Reader, I’ll be honest, I’ve read none of… Read more “A Review of Herman Wouk’s Sailor and Fiddler”
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