Michael Kasper Reviews Lift Your Right Arm by Peter Cherches
Peter Cherches has been writing short-prose since before cute phrases like “Flash Fiction” or “Short Shorts” were coined to characterize the genre. His first books came out in the early 1980’s, from notable downtown New York presses like Red Dust and Benzene. Back then, in addition to publishing his pieces widely in both mainstream and [...]
The Whack-Job Girls Book Launch Party
Come help us celebrate--all you whack-job girls and short-fuse dudes--the release of The Whack-Job Girls, a collection of flash fiction, very short stories, at a party given by Judy Reeves and Shayna Roberts for Bonnie ZoBell. This chapbook is now available as an e-book or in print at Monkey Puzzle Press and at Amazon. The [...]
AWP HEAT Flash Contest
Guidelines The AWP HEAT Flash Contest is run in conjunction with AWP HEAT, a reading on Friday, March 8, at Dillon's Restaurant & Bar, Boston, 955 Boylston Street, one block from Hynes Convention Center. Free. 2:30 – 6:30 p.m. Winners of contest announced at 4:00 p.m. at AWP HEAT. Respond to this prompt: “Fire” Anyone may [...]
Rusty Barnes’ Momentous MOSTLY REDNECK
By Bonnie ZoBell Why isn't "Rusty Barnes" a household name? Is it because he doesn't schmooze the right people or because he isn't semi-nude in his author's photo? Or maybe it's because he doesn't write about the beautiful people. The characters in Rusty Barnes' outrageously good story collection Mostly Redneck (Sunnyoutside Press) wouldn't be caught dead [...]
James Bond Interviews Tara Laskowski for The Next Big Thing!
By Bonnie ZoBell Tara Laskowski is interviewed by, ahem, James Bond for The Next Big Thing about her brilliant new book Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons. See interview here. See what James Bond is looking like these days here.
Vanessa Gebbie’s Soulful Saga
Vanessa Gebbie has created a deep and passionate not to mention humorous story in her stunning debut novel, The Coward's Tale. Families and generations and individual tragedies are intermingled and come masterfully to life with her literary prowess. So beautiful and tender is her use of language that the name Dickens comes to mind. Gebbie [...]
DAMN SURE RIGHT by Meg Pokrass
Review by Bonnie ZoBell Our Lady of Flash Fiction, Meg Pokrass, around since the beginning of flash time, possesses a tremendously unique voice. Her beautiful language rounds out her magical stories. Damn Sure Right, her short-story collection with Press 53, brims with gems. In the title story, a woman is accosted by a man, [...]
Heather Fowler: SUSPENDED HEART
Heather Fowler: Suspended Heart Review by Bonnie ZoBell Heather Fowler is Kafka in drag, an American Marquez. If you are looking for a safe little book, one that lines up neatly with other short story collections being published today, then Heather Fowler's SUSPENDED HEART is not the collection for you. It is a book about [...]