This week marks the launch of Contrivances, a debut collection of short stories from writer and art critic David Balzer. The e-book, published by Brian Joseph Davis and Emily Schultz’s ECW imprint Joyland Books, relays the tragic comedy of women wrestling with muses and musings, from a blonde nudist retiring in the woods in “The Poncho” to the mannered …
Joshua Clover is a respected American poet and writer based in California, where he teaches at UC Davis. His first collection, Madonna Anno Domini, won the Walt Whitman award for American poetry; Judith Butler called his most recent collection, The Totality for Kids, “a stunning collection” with “an enormous clarity of language in the service of a poetics that brilliantly …
Todd Zuniga after a Literary Death Match in Beijing. Photo courtesy of Todd Zuniga.
The future of American literature has decamped for Los Angeles. Todd Zuniga, the founder of Literary Death Match, a touring event that pits writers against each other in mock battles, says he wishes he’d made the move earlier. After leaving New York, “I’d avoid …
Anita Lahey’s second collection of poems, Spinning Side Kick, was released by Véhicule Press in 2011. Her first book, Out to Dry in Cape Breton, was nominated for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the Ottawa Book Award, and she is a past winner of the Great Blue Heron Poetry Prize and the Ralph Gustafson Prize for …
David Godkin (formerly David Kosub) has written poetry and fiction reviews for literary journals across Canada, including the Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, Arc, the Fiddlehead, Quill and Quire, Books in Canada, and What! He has a masters degree in English Literature from York University, is a prolific singer-songwriter and writes the weekly poetry blog Speaking of Poems.
Mathew Henderson is …
Jonah Campbell, logophile and eater, writes in a shifting register that bridges whatever gap there is between the OED and Doritos All Nighter Cheeseburger Chips. Campbell claims that the appeal of his writing lies in “the fumbling charm of the amateur”—but the wit of his recent book Food & Trembling (Invisible Publishing) isn’t so reduced. The essay collection isn …