Author: Post Road

CRITICISM:

Hearing the Text — Ran Keren

FICTION:

CHARISMA! — Becky Tuch
All Americans — Ryan Ridge
No Diving Allowed — Louise Marburg
The Last Date — Hillary Fifield
Five Steps — Suzanne Reeder
The First Time — Jason Villemez
The Painted Lady — Harris Lahti

NONFICTION:

Voo Hunting — Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
Night Crawlers — Michael Gracey
Ruby — Bethany Marcel
Saudade — Gail Hosking
Hunger — Fabia Oliveira

POETRY:

I am Become a Blunt Instrument — Kerri Webster
Artist’s Son + Columbus, Ohio — Robert Mercil
Thinking Mark I Write Mary + Self Realization + The Hidden — Allan Peterson
Specific + Magpie — Pádraig Ó Tuama
Kill Class + On the 4th of July + Creation Myth (How Role-Players Came to Speak) — Nomi Stone
Not on my Résumé + Don’t Tell the Flies — Carolyne Wright

ART:

Michelle Muldrow: Relic of Landscape and Cathedrals of Desire

THEATRE:

Stripped — Rachel Joseph

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Doll’s Alphabetby Camilla Grudova — KL Pereira
“When I Expect to Achieve Nothing, Ideas Come” — Édouard Levé, Autoportrait — Laurie Stone
Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard — Jeff Jackson
The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster — Alysia Abbott
Emily Wilson’s Translation of The Odyssey — Kelly J. Ford

GUEST FOLIO: Edited by Chris Boucher

It Is Illegal to Enter the Graveyard — Ben Loory
At Brooklyn Pickle + My Strategy — Christopher Kennedy
America is Having a Revolution + Solitary + Double Bluff — Ru Freeman
Other Suns + The Planet Earth + Seasons — Osama Alomar, translated by Christian Collins

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Kellie Talbot, “SPUTNIKS”

CRITICISM:

Literary Godparenting and the Hemingway Bundle: Stein and Hemingway in the Little Review — Justin Reed

FICTION:

Blood Moon — Donna Gordon
The Market — Meghan Houlihan
Public Space — Peter Joseph Koch
The Hawk Mercury — Ashley Mayne
Vacation — Molly Quinn
What We Gained in the Winter — Laura Steadham Smith
What Can a Ship Do for an Island? — Alison Wisdom

NONFICTION:

Death by Preservation — Andrew Blackman
Journey to the Center of the Earth — Beth Peterson
Body Language — Jody Keisner
IIII — Cris Harris

POETRY:

Screaming Jay Hawkins Esperanto — Jim Daniels
Solo a Metà — Anna Saroldi
Yard Work + Jewelry On — John Harn
Brynn Downing — This Land + Whale Fall

ART:

Polly Shindler

THEATRE:

Bondservant — William Orem

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Woven Dreams—On Robert Lamont — Stefan Bolz
Mink River by Brian Doyle — Devin Murphy
Edith Wharton — Lauren Hilger
Baho! by Roland Rugero— Jenny D. Williams
Love & Trouble by Claire Dederer (Knopf, 2017)— Kevin Sampsell
For the Time Being, by Annie Dillard — Rachel Pollack

GUEST FOLIO

Unfold — Alan Ackerman
Field Notes — Bill Coyle
Way Back — Tracy Gratch
Nothing — Atar Hadari
Now That Our Children Are Grown — Lowell Jaeger
At the Neighborhood Cookout — Daniel Lassell
Virgil Visits the Shore — Becka Mara McKay
It Broke the Surface — McKinley Murphy
Yearling — Melissa Oliveira
The Mottoes + Knockaconny — Aidan Roony
That June Morning — Michael Sowder

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: John Lurie, “Famous errors in hieroglyphics”

CRITICISM:

Literary Godparenting and the Hemingway Bundle: Stein and Hemingway in the Little Review — Justin Reed

FICTION:

Duct Tape — Michael Brelsford
What Ray Had — Robert Chibka
The Professor’s Chair + My Slinky Ex — Jacqueline Doyle
Haunting Those Same Old Place — B. P. Herrington
The Pond — Anthony Inverso
I’m Your Strangler — John William McConnell
The Closer the End — Shelly Oria
Adjust — Glen Pourciau
Lessons from the Masters — JT Price
Witness — Kate Simonian
The Dog — Mahreen Sohail

NONFICTION:

In the Middle of the Middle of Everywhere — Nicholas Patrick Martin
Chances Are — David Raney
Afterbirth — Nicola Waldron
Becoming Invisible — Amelia Zahm

POETRY:

Curator — Amy Lemmon

ART:

Hiro Ichikawa

THEATRE:

The Bakery Off Flatbush — Steve Monroe

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Scream, a Memoir of Glamour and Dysfunction, by Tama Janowitz — Jennifer Belle
Magical Realism Story Collections for the Trump Era — Annie Hartnett
How the 1% Stole America: Days of Destruction Days of Revolt, by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco — Pete Hausler
refusing a word: The Work of Carrie Lorig — Roberto Montes
Marie-Louise von Franz — Robin Richardson
Uwe Johnson — Theodore Wheeler

GUEST FOLIO:

Featuring the Winners of Our Flash Fiction Contest, judged by Suzanne Matson and Elizabeth Graver—

First Place Winner: Bishop Street — Sophia Veltfort
Second Place Winner: Lower Houghton, 1977 — Kara Moskowitz
Third Place Winner: The Raspberry King — Suzanne Warren

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Jody Morlock, “Common Descent”

CRITICISM:

An Element of Blank: Figuring Pain in Graphic Narrative — Thomas Dolinger

FICTION:

Dummies — Greg Ames
Hang It On the Limb — Colin Fleming
What Guy Says No? — Jennifer Genest
Mr. Gates Goes To Washington — Stephen Hitchcock
Water, Water Everywhere — Matt Jones
Tell the Children — Rebecca McGill
Libidonomics — Ross McMeekin
Isn’t That Nice — Halley Parry
Herrenvolk — Timothy Scott
Yellow Snow — Tom Treanor
Going Sailing — Jaclyn Van Lieu Vorenkamp

NONFICTION:

James Dean Posters on the Wall — Michael Hess
Remember Us Now, Wandering — Jess E. Jelsma
Suicide and Marrowfat Peas — Jason Stoneking

POETRY:

Gravel Road + The Gymnastics Teacher — Adam J. Gellings
Sacramento + Big Meteor Storm Heading Our Way — Elizabeth Gold
In Elixir + Rewind — Tanya Grae
Honest Mistake + A Short Talk on the Afterlife — Edward Mayes

ART:

Charles McGill
The Elusive Eagle: Charles McGill and the Anti-Trope, by Joe Lewis

THEATRE:

The Bakery Off Flatbush — Steve Monroe

RECOMMENDATIONS:

A Visit to the Antipodes — Carolyn Ferrell
Calamity and Other Stories by Daphne Kalotay — Nicole Haroutunian
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock — Dylan Hicks
J.R. Ackerley’s My Father and Myself — Dave Madden
The Confessions of Noa Weber, by Gail Hareven — Lisa A. Phillips
On Sweet Lamb of Heaven — Jessica Lee Richardson
The Vegetarian by Han Kang — Matthew Salesses
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell — Robert Burke Warren

GUEST FOLIO: Suzanne Matson, Guest Editor

The Size of It + Jehova + Rabbit Hole + Bootstraps + Pebble + Chair — Andrea Cohen
Invitation — Lia Purpura
Eft + February Morning — Jeffrey Harrison
Newly Met — April Ossmann
Camel In The Room — Tara Skurtu
Port of Miami, from the MacArthur — Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Return to Atomic City — Nancy Dickeman
Handyman Imagines The Battle Of Pueblo + Self Portrait Of Handyman Sanding Floors — Juan Morales
from The Pocket Oracle — Sharon Dolin
Iphigenia, Ascending — Bailey Spencer
Clench + Peony — Michele Glazer
Late Summer — Gail Mazur
How To Avoid A Crash — Major Jackson

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Henry Samelson, “Streaming”

CRITICISM:

Lydia Davis’s “Happiest Moment” and the
Convoluted Temporalities of Very Short Fiction — Ezra Dan Feldman

FICTION:

Circumstance — Theodore Dawes
Les Abandonnées — Kirby Gann
The Woman in the Barn — Jaclyn Gilbert
Perishables — Becky Hagenston
Children Left to be Raised by Wolves — Carrie Messenger
Doctor Tukes, Off the Clock | Marie to Eleanor, Resenting Her Elasticness — Andrew Morgan
The Room Where Elizabeth Bishop Slept — Paola Peroni
Bells — Remy Smidt

NONFICTION:

Elegy for a Cousin — Brad Geer
Color Palette Blue #3 — Sarah Kennedy
Lift Off — Lania Knight
Eleanor — Joyce Underwood
Heart Attack — Sarah Vallance

POETRY:

Ode to Trains Departing Billings Railyard | River Country — Jeffrey Alfier
Blessed Holy Fuck — Alan Hanson
Mafiosa | Elegy for the Quiet House — Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Talking Faith with a Friend | Regarding His Alzheimer’s — Jennifer Wheelock

ART:

The Shape of Things: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Bakery Off Flatbush — Steve Monroe

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Ann Patchett — Kim Ablon Whitney
Paul Beatty’s The Sellout — Wendy Rawlings
Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation — Angela Palm
The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake — Jason Ockert
Amo, Amas, Amat and More, by Eugene Erlich, paperback edition, 1987 — Jana Martin
New Dark Ages by Donald Revell — Josh Kalscheur
Kent Haruf’s Plainsong — David Huddle
Woody Guthrie: A Life — Holly George-Warren
The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard — Suzanne Cope
A Town of Accreted Myth”: Lauren Groff’s The Monsters of Templeton — W.B. Belcher
Marly Youmans’s Catherwood — Emily Barton

GUEST FOLIO: Edited by Chris Boucher

Letter to a Young Man in the Ground — Lincoln Michel
Selections from The Week — Joanna Ruocco
The Baby — Ethan Rutherford
Carnality — Angela Woodward

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Rosaire Appel, “bearings”

FICTION:

The Fields — Katrina Carrasco
The Small Perfectly Lidded Copper-Bottomed Cooking Pot — Ruth Danon
Limbs — Jennifer Murvin
To Kneel Somewhere in Iowa — Ryan Parker
The Tapping in 1L — Alicia Schaeffer
The Goldfish — Julia Strayer
Delivery — Olivia Worden

NONFICTION:

Rear View — Rhiannon Catherwood
In the Bed — Elisabeth Dahl
So Big Like That — Glenn Deutsch
Clutter — Caitlin Garvey
The Spring Line — Linda I. Meyers
Muscle Memory — Ellen O’Connell

POETRY:

Riding in the Back + Pin Oak — Beth Gylys
Deafheaven Fried Chicken + Poem for Robert Bly — Matt Hart
God’s Child + Sunday Solstice — Jeffrey Schneider

ART:

Menagerie: Various Artists

THEATRE:

The Antique Paradigm — Lindsey Drager
Here (or Having Found Godot) — Kyle York

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov — Gabriel Blackwell
Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys — Adrienne Celt
The Tale of Despereaux — Matthew Dicks
The True Thought Seems to Have No Author: On Clarice Lispector — Natalie Eilbert
On Immunity by Eula Biss — Julia Fierro
Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels — Brian Morton
César Aira’s An Episode in the Life of A Landscape Painter — Alena Graedon
Mario Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim — Marianne Leone
Vilém Flusser’s Vampyroteuthis infernalis — Dolan Morgan
Fourth of July Creek — Ivy Pochoda
Eugenia Leigh’s Blood, Sparrows, and Sparrows — Patrick Rosal
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman — Douglas Trevor

GUEST FOLIO: Lad Tobin

The Cheating Gene — Elizabeth Flock
Hunger — Debra Gwartney
A Vine Of Roses — Mimi Schwartz
The Himalayas Are Not Flat — Jennifer Sinor

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Kelsey Stevens, “Norwegian Hitchhiker”— photograph