In the vein of Aimee Bender, Kevin Brockmeier, and Amelia Gray, Elizabeth Frankie Rollin’s debut collection The Sin Eater & Other Stories (Queen’s Ferry Press 2013) tight-ropes the line between domesticity and apocalypse. A wife allows the plague to infect her household, an adulterer hires a Sin Eater to absolve his guilt, a photographer captures… Read More

The first choice to be made about Eric LeMay’s new book, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments (Emergency Press, 2014), is how to read it. This is perhaps a self-evident enough process but also something we could pay more attention to. LeMay knows this and calls attention to it; he trains his sense… Read More Review of In Praise of Nothing by Eric LeMay

by  Nina Boutsikaris I’m a fan of the tight, the gritty, the visceral. I fall to my knees for the kinds of juicy shocks to the heart that work quickly and quietly and leave me breathless. The winter issue of Puerto Del Sol had me on my knees.  Jennifer Buxton, Myronn Hardy, Steven Ramirez (on… Read More Puerto Del Sol 48.1: A Display of “Lyric Muscle”