“The Obama Years: An Annotated Bibliography” by Stacie Williams
The day after Barack Hussein Obama’s historic 2008 election as The First black president of the United States,…
Review of Allison Green’s “The Ghosts Who Travel With Me”
Reviewed by Fred Pelzer Allison Green’s The Ghosts Who Travel with Me is a subtle work. The book…
Review of Troy James Weaver’s “Wichita Stories”
Reviewed by Fred Pelzer Troy James Weaver begins his collection of flash fiction/memoirs Witchita Stories with the dedication…
Review of Patrick Trotti’s “Come Tomorrow You’ll Regret Today”
Reviewed by Fred Pelzer The last year has been exceptionally busy for author Patrick Trotti. Since June…
“The Body and The Blood” by Kristen Arnett
I’m seven years old and there’s fake plastic grass trapped in my tights. At the church egg hunt,…
Meditations on a brunch in Brooklyn
There is a missing chunk of time, an unpublished, but quite documented (in detail) story, involving me, my…
Ultraviolence
I’m standing near the edge of the subway platform. I’m behind the bold yellow swatch separating me from…
Notes on Flying Lotus’ You’re Dead!
“I knew when I set out to make this record,” Flying Lotus tweeted on October 7, 2014—release day…
Véra & Vladimir: On Love Letters
“…all lovers live on partial language” — Teju Cole, Open City I wonder, when I’m writing you, if…
Magic Realism: On “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
No new sightings of ghosts on the subway trains today. Only the typical crumbs of music dribbling from…