Author: Post Road

CRITICISM:

Selling Out: Consumer Culture and Commodification of the Male Body, by Eric Tyrone McLeod

POETRY:

Notebook + Bones, by Aaron Baker
The Stray + Pulling into Morning Sophie, by Cabot Black
Estimated Drift + Its Owners Became a Dim, by Margaret Funkhouser
Gleaners + Scarification, by James Hoch
In My Dream I’ve Become a Great Trumpeter + The Fish Hawk at Sanderling, by Sebastian Matthews
The Simple Machines + Happily Ever After, by Laurel Snyder

THEATRE:

The Empirical Society, by John Moran

ART:

Michael Ayala: Photographs Introduction by Tim Malzhan

FICTION:

Animal Hater, by Samuel Ligon
What Our Father Is Here To Tell Us, by Peter Markus
The Artist and His Sister Gerti, by Christine Schutt
The Business of Leaving, by Felicia C. Sullivan
Well-To-Do-Person, by Diane Williams
What God Sees, by Scott D. Pomfret
Desembre, by D.E. Steward

NONFICTION:

Waiting Room Stacia J. N. Decker
Divers Weights and Divers Measures Patrick Madden

RECOMMENDATIONS:

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke. Translated by Ralph Mannheim — Richard McCann
The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski — Steve Almond
The Rose of Tibet by Lionel Davidson — Barry Gifford
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell — Joanna Hershon
P.G.Wodehouse — A.E. Hotchner
Sacred and Vulgar: The Influences of Flannery O’Connor on the Illustrations for the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible — Barry Moser
All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom (and other books that yearn) — Ben Schrank
Revisiting Old Flames of Literature — Mako Yoshikawa
Recommendations — Alex Beam
Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison — Lise Haines

ETCETERA:

Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses — Mark Twain
Journal: Berlin, July 18 – August 11, 2002 — Josip Novakovich

CONTRIBUTORS

CRITICISM:

Hip Hop High: Mainstream Black Culture in the White Suburbs, by Lauren Sandler

POETRY:

Twin Cities, No Sign + Before, by Jenny Browne
It’s Late Here How Light Is Late Once You’ve Fallen + Elegy to the Last Breath, by Katie Ford
Shadow of the Valley + How To Get The Love You Want, by Sarah Fox
Graffiti + The Chain, by Brian Komei Dempster
Marginalia + Divination, by Claire Hero
Closing Time + Quarry, by Elizabeth Scanlon

THEATRE:

Beyond Recognition: A Monologue in 12 Sections, by Norman Lock

FICTION:

The Ciné, by Barry Gifford
Scar, by Robert Lopez
Hot Waters, by Paul Eberly
Easter Weekend, by Kenneth Cook
Sugar, by Nelly Reifler
Bargain Donuts, by Chloe Bland

NONFICTION
Apology to Henry Aaron, by Steven Church
A Letter to the Bionic Man, by Ashley Shelby

ART:

Takahiro Kimura: Destruction and Construction of the Human Face
Introduction by Chris Elam

RECOMMENDATIONS:

John Griesemer on Ernest Hebert
Julia Alvarez’s Recommended Reading
Julianna Baggot on Mary Morrissey, Olena Kalytiak Davis, and Marisa de los Santos
Janet Fitch on The Memory Room, by Mary Rakow
Elizabeth Graver on A Good House, by Bonnie Burnard and Blindness, by José Saramango
Edward Hoagland on The Circus of Dr. Lao, by Charles G. Finney
Tim Parrish on Head, by William Tester
Michael Moon’s The Memoir Bank
Stewart O’Nan on The True Detective, by Theodore Weesner
Tom Perrotta on Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Holy Bible: King James Version — Mary Sullivan

ETCETERA:

Interview: Jonathan Lethem
Digression: Listerine: The Life and Opinions of Laurence Sterne, by John Wesley Harding

CRITICISM

Collateral Damages: Contexts for Thinking of the Liberation of Jamil Abul Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), by Jeremy Matthew Glick

POETRY:

Cathedral Parkway Subway Grate + Our Summer Jobs, by Stephen Burt
Room + Extend, by Saskia Hamilton
Traducendo Brecht Fortini, Franco. “Traducendo Brecht.” Una volta per sempre. Poesie 1938-1973. Torino: Einaudi, 1978. Trans. John P. Welle
The Difference between the Need for Consistency & the State of Expectation + Definition of Weather, by Matthea Harvey
Sonnet + Our Will. by Eric Lorberer
35 What They Talked About and What They Said + De Chirico Shaving, by John Ruff

THEATRE:

Two Monologues, by Will Eno

ART:

Josh Dorman Drawings — Introduction by William Corbett

NONFICTION:

Small World, by Jan Hodgman
The Shack of Art and Healing, by Oona Hyla Patrick

FICTION:

Gentility, by June Unjoo Yang
A Huge, Old Radio, by Ander Monson
Paternity Within the Limits of Reason, by Diana George
Why, by Toby Leah Bochan
Last Last Last, by Nicholas Montemarano

RECOMMENDATIONS:

A Selection — Mary Jo Bang
Jane Hamilton — Melanie Braverman
Cool For You by Eileen Myles — Hillary Chute
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean — Nicholas Dawidoff
Bell Canto by Ann Patchett — Mary-Beth Hughes
Secret Life by Michael Ryan — Alden Jones
Blood by Patricia Traxler — Margot Livesey
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber — Fiona Maazel
No Wedding, No Cake: Moseley and Mutis — Askold Melnyczuk
Oklahoma on my Mind — Alison Moore
The Bone People by Keri Hulme — Margot Schilpp
Black Tickets, Then and Now — Elizabeth Searle
Sheepshead Bay by Ed Barrett — William Corbett

ETCETERA:

Translation: Rhapsody for the Mule , by José Lezama Lima, Tr. G. J. Racz
Dance: A Poetics of Risk, by Ann Darby
Journal: Teaching Korea, by Lavinia Spalding
Document: Last Will and Testament of Samuel Johnson

FICTION:

The Sweater, The Pair of Shoes, and the Jacket, by Rebecca Curtis
Vegetable on the Hoof, by Chris Offutt
White Square, by Brian Evenson
The Museum of Speed, by Len Jenkinson

POETRY:

A History of Kansas + Scenic Overlook, by Jennifer Kronovet
From The Lichtenberg Figures, by Ben Lerner
Why Sleep + Ocean is a Word in This Poem Cate Marvin 44 Rabid Dog + Looking at Satan, by Sarah Messer
In A Certain Place, At A Certain Time + The Prince, by Kate Moos

THEATRE:

Responsibility, Justice, and Honesty: Rehearsing Edward Bond’s Saved Ken, by Rus Schmoll

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Karoo by Steve Tesich, by Thomas Beller
Bruno Schultz and Bohumil Hrabal, by Myla Goldberg
The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adelia Prado Translated from the Portuguese by Ellen Watson, by Steve Orlen
O.Henry, by Michael Snediker
James McMichael, by Robert Pinsky
Five Essential Modern Short Stories, by Jaime Clarke
Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady, by Caroline Blackwood,
by Nancy Schoenberger, by Liam Rector
Winton, Munro, Berger, by Frederick Reiken
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, by Anne McCarty

CRITICISM:

Why Baltimore House Music Is The New Dylan, by Scott Seward

ART:

Wildwood: Nelson Bakerman

NONFICTION:

My Word: Memoir’s Necessary Betrayal, by Lee Martin
Moving Water, by Kevin Holdsworth
Shouting Obscenities at George Bush the Younger, by Olisa Corcoran

ETCETERA:

Letters: Letters Home from the Pacific, 1944-46, Francis Arthur Flynn: Compiled and Edited by Rick Moody
Travelogue: What is the Color of Hope in Haiti? by Jason Wilson
Biography: Extending Harry Crosby’s “Brief Transit”, by Edward Brunner

CRITICISM:

“Old Man Your Kung Fu is Useless”: African American Spectatorship and Hong Kong Action Cinema By Tzarina T. Prater

ETCETERA:

THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY, by Ambrose Bierce
The Strange, Entertaining, and Sometimes Behind-the-Scenes Story of Cleo Birdwell and Don DeLillo, by Alan Smithee (Chuck Bock

From Daughters & Sons to Fathers: What I’ve Never Said, Compiled and Edited by Constance Warloe
Excerpts from Letters to My Father (4 different letters), by Pablo Medina, by Naomi Shihab Nye, by Dawn Raffel, by David Shields

FICTION:

Becky, by Courtney Eldridge
V. F. Grocery, by Ben Miller
Homestay, by Rachel Sherman

NONFICTION:

It’s Like Being Raised in the Wild, but with More Style, by Peter Bird
How To Reach Me: A Manual, by Jeremy Simon
The Aperture Between Two Points, by Kathleen Veslany

POETRY:

For you, a poem + I see my grandmother again, by Annie Kantar
River In Dusk + Shooting Star, by Joanna Klink:
Mamma Didn’t Raise No Fools + A good idea, but not well-executed, by Rebecca Wolffe
Birth Mark + Cock Robin, by Miranda Field
Indian Song + Urban Renewal ix. To Afaa Michael S. Weaver, by Major Jackson
Adjacent + Glancing At, by Frances Richard

RECOMMENDATION:

A Boy’s Guide To Drinking And Dreaming — Jonathan Ames
Who I was Supposed to Be: Short Stories by Susan Perabo — Rebecca Boyd
Blaise Cendrars — Martha Cooley
Books For Readers and Other Dying People — Will Eno
Mendel’s Dwarf, by Simon Mawer — Tara Ison
Italo Svevo’s “Confessions of Zeno,” — Ken Kalfus
Irena Obermannova — Ivan Klíma
Little Boys Come From the Stars by Emmanuel Dongala — Tom Paine
William Bronk — Victoria Redel
Great Books — Jim Shepard
Maurice Blanchot’s L’entretien infini (The Infinite Conversation) — Mark C. Taylor
W.G. Sebald — Charles Wright
Aaron Fogel — David Lehman

FICTION:

Eminence by Gary Lutz
A Love Transaction by Maile Chapman
Austin by Kelcey Nichols

NONFICTION:

Yamba by Joyce Lombardi
Plan of a Story That Could Have Been Written If Only I Had Known It Was Happening by Gail Hosking Gilberg
The Man Who Wasn’t There by David Manning

CRITICISM:

“I said I’m not yr oilwell”: Consumption, Feminisms, and Radical Community in Bikini Kill And “Riot Girl” by Hillary Chute

POETRY:

Hiatus by Mark Bibbins
Amber + Statuary by Nick Flynn
Black Lemons by Kathy Nilsson
Barcarole by Larissa Szporluk
Untitled + Untitled by Karen Volkman
The Effects of Sunset by C. Dale Young

ART:

Catherine Anthenien: Photographs

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Douglas Bauer on Keith Scribner
Sven Birkerts on Various
Susan Breen on Robert Creeley’s Collaborations
Austin Flint on Eeva-Liisa Manner
Amy Hempel on Pearson Marx
Pete Hausler on From Hell
Kristina Lucenko on Jane Bowles
Rick Moody on Michael de Montaigne
Julia Slavin on Maile Chapman
Charles Smith on Dan Shea
A Postcard from E. Annie Proulx
Mike Rosovsky on Tom Franklin
David Ryan on Luis Buñuel
Charles Smith on Dan Shea

ETCETERA:

Translation: Angel Station, by Jachym Topol – Translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker
Profile: Desperately Seeking Pacino, by Jaime Clarke
Document: The Great Gatsby Contract

THEATRE:

Technical Drawing I + II by Rocco van Loenen
Directing Grand Guignol by Dawn and Marty Fluger
Composing for Grand Guignol by Marty Fluger

COVER ART: Detail of “Car – Cuba 1998” by Catherine Anthenien (image courtesy of the artist)