I wanted to sit outside and sneak a smoke. I was sneaking smokes again, which is pretty silly, since you smoke like a fiend…
Cow Love (L’amour vache) by Dale Roche
Category: Issues
Wakefield by Doug Thiele
It was my yearly escape; absentminded travel, hunting old books and indelible images of Virginiana.
A Love Letter to Sarah by Ryan Rydzewski
I was slick and sandy and sweating a rotten tropical sweat, trying to put sharks and jellyfish out of my mind as we waded in the piss-warm water.
A Beagle on My Knee by Jenny Clover
Miss Ellie never met a bowl of red beans or a skillet of cornbread she didn’t love; neither did her beagle, Penny.
What I Learned Instead by Debbie Bradford
Houses, trees, telephone poles blur. I close my eyes, but they open. To see how I’m going to die.
Closing Remarks by Philip Brock
…the melody carried me and my thoughts of Sara to some dim, smoky wood-paneled saloon deep in my spirit…
The Deep End by Alex Sobel
He could effortlessly glide through the water as if it was moving out of the way for him and not the other way around. I could only slap at the water…
Review: Writing Beat and Other Occasions of Literary Mayhem by John Tytell
The book reads as a collage of Tytell’s impressive stories of interviewing and writing about the Beats and writers such as Ezra Pound, Norman Mailer, and Henry Miller…
Review: Same Time Next Week — True Stories of Working Through Mental Illness, edited by Lee Gutkind
OCD constitutes more than a tendency to organize meticulously your email folders, or always put the remote in the same place on the table.
Interview: Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
Tasked with answering Salinger’s fan mail, [Rakoff] took it upon herself to humanize him through the responses she wrote to his admirers…
