REVIEW: One Surviving Story by Howard Firkin
byAnthology. 204 pgs. In Case of Emergency Press. August 2019. ISBN: 978-0-994352-57-6. The newly-released One Surviving Story might prove to be a real aid for the survival of one’s state of mind…
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REVIEW: Mamiaith by Ness Owen
byPoetry. 48 pgs. Arachne Press. August 2019. ISBN: 978-1-909208-77-3. “Mamiaith” (pronounced máh-mee-aith) is Welsh for “mother-tongue,” a title that previews the complexity and fecundity of the origins of Ness Owen’s poems…
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
byLong Distance Book Club was created out of a desire to analyze works we admire with people we don’t often see in person. Using a google document, we invited a…
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
byLong Distance Book Club was created out of a desire to analyze works we admire with people we don’t often see in person. Using a google document, we invited a…
Julie E. Bloemeke
byHow Technology is Altering Our Perceived Boundaries of Intimacy Julie E. Bloemeke’s poetry manuscript, Slide to Unlock, was recently chosen by Stephen Dunn as a 2016 finalist for the May Swenson…
Eric Boyd
byWords with Pittsburgh-based fiction writer. Eric Boyd is a fiction writer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He won the 2012 PEN Prison Writing award and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His…