In a Memorial Day post at Fiction Writers Review, Propeller Books author Matthew Robinson discusses (with Propeller contributing editor Thea Prieto) the challenge of writing about war.
All tagged Spring 2019
Essentially Prisoners
By Sarah DeYoreo
On the morning of May 28, Sarah DeYoreo sent the following email to the 500-plus employees of Morrison Child & Family Services, where DeYoreo worked as a “milieu counselor” with unaccompanied immigrant children in Portland, Oregon.
Does a priest like God?
By Daneen Bergland & Wendy Bourgeois
A conversation about poetry, philosophy, the role of autobiography in criticism, and Wendy Bourgeois’s essay collection, The Devil Says Maybe I Like It.
How to Shoe a Horse
By Jeanette Rawlins
This process is easiest if you keep your hoof knife razor sharp. But use caution. It’s easy to accidentally slip and cut yourself while working.
Beyond Fixed Boundaries
By Catherine Johnson
Inheritance is less about what we inherit genetically and more about how stories of family lineage not only shape notions of identity and what it means to know oneself, but the stability of that identity and knowledge.
Album Bracketology, Part Five: Winners
By Matthew Kauffman Smith
The double elimination album tournament published without editorial oversight names a champion.
Album Bracketology, Part Four: The Final Four
By Matthew Kauffman Smith
The double elimination album tournament resumes, with little to no editorial oversight.
Lookbook: Battle, Judgment, Goodbye
By Tevis Eurythmic
Renaissance painting and Damian Lillard.
Sophie Sees Through
By Sue Preneta
Sophie had seen through three men in the past year. First and most importantly she’d seen through Joe, her husband of twenty-six years. But she was tired of thinking about that.
Damian Lillard’s DEEP THREES! Make a Mockery of the 1925 YMCA Gym I Play Basketball In
By Pete Tothero
For the casual player, however, the deep three begs a question: if Mike Breen felt Lillard’s first shot was from “way outside,” well…just how way outside was it? The next time I decide to start chucking shots from wherever I want in my local game, where do I need to shoot from while shouting, “DAME TIME!”
Album Bracketology, Part Three: Descent into Madness
By Matthew Kauffman Smith
The double elimination album tournament continues, though the intern assigned to design the articles has become increasingly upset by the content and is now attempting a kind of interventionist design.
To Sucker
By John Carr Walker
My father took the whole family suckering the spring I was eleven, my sister six. It's the only time I remember all of us working in the vineyards together. Dad was trying to teach us a lesson about work ethic—Dad always said he was teaching work ethic, though I can say now the only thing I learned from him about work was do things his way, or else.
After Several Years of Living
Evan P. Schneider chats with Melissa Reeser Poulin about her new poetry collection, Rupture, Light (Finishing Line Press).
A Symphony of Voices
By Catherine Johnson
“The stories we tell about our own lives, to others but especially to ourselves, we tell in order to make our lives livable,” writes Maria Popova in her new book, Figuring. At its core this book is precisely that: a beautifully woven collage of stories about how we tell stories. How we construct the narratives of individuals and humanity at large in order to make our relative millisecond of existence worthwhile.
Album Bracketology, Part Two: Let's Call Him Fred Toppel
By Matthew Kauffman Smith
The double elimination album tournament nobody asked for continues with a vague anecdote about cleaning microwaves at ABC News and impenetrable references to virtual tournaments in parallel universes. Well-designed, though.
Album Bracketology 2019 (An Exercise in Design)
By Matthew Kauffman Smith
The double elimination album tournament nobody asked for returns while the editorial staff is away on spring break.