Review: IT HAD BEEN PLANNED AND THERE WERE GUIDES by Jessica Lee Richardson
Jessica Richardson FC2 By MEGHAN TEAR PLUMMER Jessica Richardson’s first collection is as dexterously crafted as its content is deviant and feral. The collection gains its title from a line in the last story “Shush,” in which an unidentified group plunges…
41.2 Feature: Bess Winter Reads “You Play with Dolls”
Bess Winter’s fiction and non-fiction has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and appears in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International, American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, A Strange Object’s Covered With Fur, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in Toronto and is currently a PhD student at University of Cincinnati.
Review: THIS BORING APOCALYPSE by Brandi Wells
Brandi Wells 124 Pages Civil Coping Mechanisms Review by JOE LUCIDO “[Domesticity] is a thing that has not existed for decades. Domesticity is dangerous, like the science or religion. Domesticity has long been eradicated,” the narrator of This Boring Apocalypse, Wells’ third book, says, after a cat she forms of puss to keep her company crosses the street to live in another house…
2015 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Alissa Nutting
By JOE LUCIDO Black Warrior Review: What’s life after Tampa like? Alissa Nutting: Well, I get interesting fan mail from people in prison? All in all it has been a wild ride, but one sane-making thing for me about being a writer is that no matter what is going on externally in my professional or private lives…
2015 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Judge Mary Roach
Interview by SHAELYN SMITH
2015 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Judge Heather Christle
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41.2 Feature: An Interview with Caroline Crew
Caroline Crew is the author of several chapbooks, including the forthcoming Caroline, Who Will You Pray to Now That You Are Dead (Coconut Books). Her work appears in Conjunctions, Salt Hill Journal, and The Sonora Review, among others. Her full-length...
41.2 Feature: An Interview with Emily Goodman Means
Emily Goodman Means is currently completing her MFA at Brown University. She is a co-editor of A Perimeter and her poems are forthcoming from Lana Turner Journal. Interview by BETHANY STARTIN Listen to Emily Goodman Means read section 1 of "Dulia" from 41.2. Listen...
2014 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Winner Landon Houle
Born in Brown County, TX, Landon Houle currently lives in South Carolina and works as an editor at In Fact Books. She is a winner of Permafrost's Midnight Sun fiction contest and Crab Creek Review's fiction contest, and her essay "The Plains We Cross" was listed as a...
2014 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Winner Curtis Rogers
Curtis Rogers received his MFA in poetry from NYU's creative writing program. His writing has appeared in The Literary Review, Coconut, cream city review, DIAGRAM, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. Currently, he works and lives in Washington, D.C. Interview...