interview

  The Doctor Who that author Justin Richards fell in love with in 1963 was, as many emerging fans had intuited, profoundly empathetic. Though his personality initially may have sometimes…

This past spring I came across Megan Kruse’s novel, Call Me Home (published last year by Hawthorne Books). I read its description online and thought it might be something I’d…

Back in 2011, Jordan Rennert and Patrick Meaney pitched the idea of making a documentary on the writer Neil Gaiman. Their production company Respect Films had done documentaries on cult…

* * * Ciriza is a multi disciplinary artist who cares a great deal about unearthing dark matter for transformation. She works in a variety of mediums- music, performance, drawing,…

Early in 2016, I heard the creators of Book Fight!, Tom McAllister and Mike Ingram speak on a panel about producing podcasts. I knew Mike’s name from the excellent journal…

Broken Sleep by Bruce Bauman Other Press, 2015 656 pages – Other / Amazon   Bruce Bauman’s Broken Sleep is a titanic, post-punk mosaic of history, art, philosophy, myth, family, politics, war, peace,…

To call Fogged Clarity an “arts review” would be like calling Entropy a “lit mag”; sure it’s true, but it’s also a bit reductive given the scope of the org.…

Paul Ebenkamp’s first book, The Louder the Room the Darker the Screen (from Timeless, Infinite Light), is a buoyantly jagged mix of lavish verse and full-color, noised-out, handwritten visual poems. Paul Ebenkamp’s…

Todd Robinson is known in the crime fiction world for two things. He’s the author of The Hard Bounce (Tyrus Books), a gritty and often hilarious novel involving two bouncers…

Recently Wiesiek Powaga, the translator of Polish author Andrzej Bursa’s powerhouse of a novel, Killing Auntie, spoke with me about the life of the young writer, the rumors surrounding his…

With the recent publication of his novels New Yorked and City of Rose (Polis Books), Rob Hart has emerged as an incredibly talented crime writer (which is saying a lot,…

About Nathan Hansen Nathan Douglas Hansen began his writing career in the Southwest penning a weekly column in a regional entertainment rag, before moving on to larger newspapers and magazines…

  Norman Klein’s & Margo Bistis’ recently released media novel The Imaginary 20th Century comically exposes what stands between our present and the ever-occluded future. Described on a recent LA…

Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s poetry is searing. In an earlier review about her new collection, Solar Maximum, I wrote: “The poetry drips in the twilight of loss, a decimating emotional scourge…