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- All Introspection
  
  Creative Nonfiction / Essay
  
  Variations: Not Your Mundane Music
  
  April 22, 2019
  
  Creative Nonfiction / Essay
  
  Shit Town
  
  April 19, 2019
  
  Creative Nonfiction / Essay
  
  Literacy Narrative: You are Learning a New Language
  
  April 18, 2019
  
  Creative Nonfiction / Essay
  
  A People’s History of Chicago
  
  April 18, 2019
  
  Introspection
  
  Variations on a Theme: Windows Down
  
  April 15, 2019
  
  Introspection
  
  The Birds: Taking Flight
  
  March 26, 2019
  
  Introspection
  
  A Review of My New Yorker Subscription
  
  October 10, 2018
  
  Introspection
  
  Mausoleum
  
  July 24, 2018
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- Fiction
  
  BLACKCACKLE: Cross Words
  
  April 19, 2019
  
  Fiction
  
  Wait. Sit.
  
  April 17, 2019
  
  Fiction
  
  BLACKCACKLE: Preliminary Report of the Mount Sinai Focus Group
  
  April 12, 2019
  
  Fiction
  
  BLACKCACKLE: Basket of Puppies
  
  March 22, 2019
  
  Fiction
  
  Dunwoodie
  
  March 20, 2019
Reviews
- All Collaborative Review Video Review
  
  Review
  
  Review: Fearn by Linda Dove
  
  April 22, 2019
  
  Review
  
  Review: Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
  
  April 18, 2019
  
  Creative Nonfiction / Essay
  
  A People’s History of Chicago
  
  April 18, 2019
  
  Film
  
  Us
  
  April 16, 2019
  
  Collaborative Review
  
  A Street Car Named Whatever
  
  February 22, 2016
  
  Collaborative Review
  
  Black Gum: A Conversational Review
  
  August 7, 2015
  
  Collaborative Review
  
  Lords of Waterdeep in Conversation
  
  February 25, 2015
  
  Collaborative Review
  
  MOUTH: EATS COLOR and the Devoration of Languages
  
  January 12, 2015
  
  Video Review
  
  Entropy’s Super Mario Level
  
  September 15, 2015
  
  Video Review
  
  Flash Portraits of Link: Part 7 – In Weakness, Find Strength
  
  January 2, 2015
  
  Video Review
  
  Basal Ganglia by Matthew Revert
  
  March 31, 2014
  
  Video Review
  
  The Desert Places by Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss, Illustrated by Matt Kish
  
  March 21, 2014
Small Press
- Small Press
  
  Baobab Press
  
  March 19, 2019
  
  Small Press
  
  Gaudy Boy
  
  February 26, 2019
  
  Small Press
  
  Stubborn Mule Press
  
  February 12, 2019
  
  Small Press
  
  Thirty West Publishing House
  
  January 29, 2019
  
  Small Press
  
  Arte Público Press
  
  January 15, 2019
Where to Submit
More
- Poetry
- Interviews
- Games
  - All Board Games Video Games
    
    Featured
    
    Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the Spirit of Generosity
    
    December 31, 2018
    
    Games
    
    Best of 2018: Video Games
    
    December 17, 2018
    
    Board Games
    
    Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 12 (Once in a Lifetime)
    
    November 10, 2018
    
    Board Games
    
    Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 11 (Karma Police)
    
    November 3, 2018
    
    Board Games
    
    Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 12 (Once in a Lifetime)
    
    November 10, 2018
    
    Board Games
    
    Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 11 (Karma Police)
    
    November 3, 2018
    
    Board Games
    
    Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 10 (Pretty Vacant)
    
    October 27, 2018
    
    Board Games
    
    Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 9 (Savoy Truffle)
    
    October 20, 2018
    
    Video Games
    
    Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the Spirit of Generosity
    
    December 31, 2018
    
    Video Games
    
    Best of 2018: Video Games
    
    December 17, 2018
    
    Video Games
    
    Silent Hill Shattered Memories: Biography of a Place
    
    September 3, 2018
    
    Video Games
    
    Silent Hill Downpour: Biography of a Place
    
    August 3, 2018
- Food
- Small Press Releases
- Film
- Music
- Paranormal
- Travel
- Art
- Graphic Novels
- Comics
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Literature Review
It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful by Lia Purpura

by John Yohe February 23, 2016

It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful by Lia Purpura Penguin Books, 2015 112 pages – Penguin / Amazon What is the ‘it’ in Lia Purpura’s It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful? I don’t…

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beccarisa Wow, this article is beautiful. It’s like you wrote my life. Thursday has been the constant soundtrack from my teenager years on nights spend on message boards and AIM, to my college years of...
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Bill Great list, thank you. I'd add a few more recent titles to the fiction list: California and Woman No. 17, both by Edan Lepucki, Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda, Graffiti Palace by A.G. Lombardo. Also,...
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