by Josh Brandon | Aug 2, 2021 | Archive, Feature, Fiction Print
In Which Ms. Swan Suffers Clarity by Elaine Hsieh Chou BWR 47.2 Flash Contest winner Ms. Swan ends up in situations without knowing how she got in them. She is at a Starbucks, she is at an ATM, the DMV, a candy store. Each time, she materializes from...
by Jackson Saul | Jan 7, 2021 | Archive, News
Welcome to BWR 47.1 Dear reader, Who knows when or how this issue has made its way to you, but we hope that you are doing okay and welcome you to BWR 47.1. Let us begin with what comes last in the issue: a first-ever for BWR, in a guest-edited section by one of our...
by Josh Brandon | Oct 21, 2020 | Archive, Feature, Fiction Print
Midnight Saturn Bass Note Afterword to A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen from BWR 47.1 A reading by the author https://bwr.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Midnight-Saturn-Bass-Note-by-Hoa-Nguyen.m4a I set out to write A Thousand Times You Lose...
by Jackson Saul | Jul 23, 2020 | Archive, Feature
“Corrective vision surgery takes on a whole new meaning in ‘Chinatownland.’ The result is a cartography that includes our blindspots. In ‘Chinatownland,’ juxtaposition, one of disruption’s favorite tools, simultaneously blurs and focuses...
by Jackson Saul | May 27, 2020 | Archive, Feature, Fiction Print
The Coffin, the Ship by Mel Kassel from BWR 46.1 At dawn, I look out the porthole and wait for my vampire. Here’s what will happen: he’ll knock gently on the ship’s hull. I’ll push the circle of glass outward, and he’ll slip inside as a rush of Spanish moss. He’ll...
by Jackson Saul | May 14, 2020 | Archive, Feature, Nonfiction Print
The Empty by Panpan Song from BWR 46.1 I. Prayer for the Feeding of the Hungry Ghosts In the fall of 2013, I had recently moved to New York, when I ran into an acquaintance from some years ago in Shanghai. He was working for an investment bank in Midtown and said, if...
