42.1 Feature: An Interview with Patty Yumi Cottrell
Patty Yumi Cottrell’s work appears or is forthcoming in BOMB, Gulf Coast, and LIT, among other places. She lives and works in Los Angeles. Interview by JOE LUCIDO Black Warrior Review: The protagonist in “In the Room of Fathers” finds herself in a windowless and...
Review: THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson
The Argonauts Maggie Nelson 2015 Graywolf Press 143 pages Review by SHAELYN SMITH At this year’s NYC PRIDE a group of people were handing out self-published, large format, pink and black newspapers that pronounced in 212-point font “I HATE THE GAYS.” Rather than the...
42.1 Feature: Jessica Alexander Reads “Things We Have Had to Overcome”
Jessica Alexander is a candidate for the PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Her fiction has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Fence, DIAGRAM, and PANK among other places. She is currently a fiction editor for Quarterly West. Things We Have Had to Overcome...