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Poetry: INVENTION OF THE LOVELORN
By Allan Graubard‘‘…from one temple to the other, the ebony blood of my virtual suicide drains in virulent silence…the bullets crisscross my brain day and night…dispersing inside the skull an odor of detonated gun powder, of clotted blood, of chaos.”
THE UNBEARABLE BADNESS OF WRITING
By Tim W. BrownA couple of years ago author and provocateur Ron Kolm began soliciting from his Unbearables crew contributions to an anthology containing essays about the worst books they had ever read. The result, aptly, is The Worst Book I Ever Read, recently out from the radical Brooklyn publisher Autonomedia.
INTERDISCIPLINARY: PREDICTION’S PRETEXT
By Anna Elena EyrePoet Cara Benson curates astute thinkers who claim impossibility’s possible in Predictions, the fourth work in the subversive ChainLinks series.
Fiction: STAIRS AND FLOURISHES
By John MaderaJoanna Howard’s lapidary debut On the Winding Stair is an escalier spiraling with brocaded lyricism, alternately swathed in darkness and bathed in phosphorescence.
Poetry: DIS/ADVANTAGED
By Scott HightowerPassion Maps is a generous new book of poems that charts ancient and complex subjects.
Fiction: JEHOVAH JERK
By Christopher VolaGrowing up sucks. From the appearance of zits and getting grounded to disastrous encounters and embarrassing put-downs by an unattainable crush, being a teenager can be rough. But what if it was worse?
PAUL AUSTER: INVISIBLE
By Raina LipsitzInvisible, the latest novel from Brooklyn’s prolific Paul Auster, is deftly plotted and compulsively readable.
RAPID TRANSIT
By Jeffrey Cyphers WrightLike cowgirls? Like flyboys? Like reading? Then you’ll really like Rebecca Brown. If you’re lucky, you already know about her.
TOKENS
By Dawn Raffel, Suzanne Reisman, Dawn Raffel, Vanessa Neumann, Peter Morris, and Tatiaana L. LaineBlake Butler is part of a generation of authors who publish both in print and online as a means of entering a literary dialogue, paying respect to old ways by doing tremendous things with the new.
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