Category Archives: Blog

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In Conversation with D. Foy

Interviewed by Scott Cheshire

“I wanted to create autobiography as fiction. I wanted to engage social analysis as self-ethnography. And I wanted to write fiction as cultural criticism. ‘Gutter opera’ gave me these freedoms.”

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In Conversation with D. Foy

Interviewed by Scott Cheshire

“I wanted to create autobiography as fiction. I wanted to engage social analysis as self-ethnography. And I wanted to write fiction as cultural criticism. ‘Gutter opera’ gave me these freedoms.”

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'Good Indian Girls' by Ranbir Singh Sidhu

Reviewed by Valerie Stivers

These stories are beautiful, complex, unpleasant, dark, tough-minded and often quite funny in their evocation of the absurdity of our global cultural salad.

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'Good Indian Girls' by Ranbir Singh Sidhu

Reviewed by Valerie Stivers

These stories are beautiful, complex, unpleasant, dark, tough-minded and often quite funny in their evocation of the absurdity of our global cultural salad.

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'Demon Camp' by Jennifer Percy

Reviewed by J.T. Price

Jennifer Percy’s ambitious debut ‘Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism’ begins with a mission gone disastrously wrong and a survivor’s struggle with the memories that plague him.

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'Demon Camp' by Jennifer Percy

Reviewed by J.T. Price

Jennifer Percy’s ambitious debut ‘Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism’ begins with a mission gone disastrously wrong and a survivor’s struggle with the memories that plague him.

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Tim Horvath's 'Understories'

Reviewed by Nicole Casamento

While using wit to poke fun at the tension between conceptual planning and actual living, Horvath’s ‘Case Studies’ also ask us to seriously question the shifting definition of cities themselves and the ideologies underpinning the ever-growing debates over how they should be structured and governed.

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Tim Horvath's 'Understories'

Reviewed by Nicole Casamento

While using wit to poke fun at the tension between conceptual planning and actual living, Horvath’s ‘Case Studies’ also ask us to seriously question the shifting definition of cities themselves and the ideologies underpinning the ever-growing debates over how they should be structured and governed.

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'Why Are You So Sad?' by Jason Porter

Reviewed by J.T. Price

The opening paragraph of Why Are You So Sad? posits the existence of one Raymond Champs who wakes in bed on an average morning in his average Bay Area life and declares a bad case of the blues: “We are all symptoms of a grieving planet.”

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'Why Are You So Sad?' by Jason Porter

Reviewed by J.T. Price

The opening paragraph of Why Are You So Sad? posits the existence of one Raymond Champs who wakes in bed on an average morning in his average Bay Area life and declares a bad case of the blues: “We are all symptoms of a grieving planet.”