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Nine Gallons #2: True Stories by Susie Cagle
Reviewed by Laura Roberts When I saw the 15th panel of Susie Cagle’s Nine Gallons #2, I just had to read it aloud in solidarity: “Aw yeah, Food Not Bombs!” Having first found out about Food Not Bombs
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Of Collocated Rhythms by Felino Soriano
(Originally published at Clockwise Cat) If MC Escher’s drawings were dismantled and versified, they would perhaps look something like the organic, engimatic poesie of Felino
SCAM: The First Four Issues by Erick Lyle
Reviewed by Laura Roberts If you’ve ever wanted to live a more rebellious life, chances are pretty good that you turned to punk rock for your inspiration. And if you’ve ever been punk in America, you may have heard of a little zine called SCAM, originally written by Erick Lyle under the pseudonym
The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart
Bruce Machart’s debut novel The Wake of Forgiveness is as dark and gritty as any book I’ve read this year. The storyline is classic Texas epic, the writing is razor sharp and fans of gore and blood
Krakow Melt by Daniel Allen Cox
Reviewed by Laura Roberts “Eagerly anticipating” doesn’t even begin to describe how very impatiently I’ve been waiting to read Krakow Melt, the latest by my up-and-coming literary hero Daniel Allen Cox. And now that I’ve torn my way through its svelte 151 pages, I feel simultaneously
The Bomb by Howard Zinn
Reviewed by Laura Roberts As someone who has cultivated an anti-authoritarian reading list since the end of high school (or beginning of college, depending upon your viewpoint), I was eager to read Howard Zinn’s final contribution to the annals of modern history, The
Henry and Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado
henry & glenn forever is a cute little comic book about the very over-the-top homosexual relations between one henry rollins and a certain glenn danzig, written by a strange and big-balled portland los angeles
D*U*C*K by Poppy Z. Brite
An easily devoured read, D*U*C*K by cult author Poppy Z. Brite leaves readers wanting more. First things first, while this is just one book in a series Brite dubs her “Liquorverse,” dealing with characters Rickey and G-man throughout novels from The
No Hope for Gomez! by Graham Parke
Graham Parke’s novel, No Hope For Gomez!, is an unusual read, and we’d expect nothing less from the 2008 winner of Broken Pencil’s Indie Deathmatch writing competition (his short story, “Amsterdam at Midnight”
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
If I ever take it upon myself to do something insane like spending another 30 grand to get an MFA in Creative Writing, I’d want Lorrie Moore to be my thesis advisor and writing mentor. Ever since I first read her short story “How
