The Inner City
Karen Heuler, 224 pgs, ChiZine Publications, chizinepub.com, $18.95 The 15 stories in Karen Heuler’s latest collection of surrealist and strange […]
Issue #61
Here Be Monsters 7
ed. Duane Burry, Vincent Mackay & Alexander Newcombe, 148 pgs, hbm-anthology.com, $15 print/$4.99 eBook Collecting work by authors with conventionally-published […]
Dirty Bird
Keir Lowther, 214 pgs, Tightrope Books,tightropebooks.com, $21.95 Miles and Travis are chatting in the living room: two cousins who’ve been […]
Chris Eaton, a biography
Chris Eaton, 354 pgs, BookThug,bookthug.com, $25 We’ve all done it — Googled ourselves to find out what the Internet has […]
The Book of Thomas Volume One: Heaven
Robert Boyczuk, 242 pgs, Chizine Publications, chizinepub.com, $18.95 Impossibly mature, recently orphaned 10-year-old Thomas spends much of Robert Boyczuk’s dark […]
All We Want is Everything
All We Want Is Everything Andrew Sullivan, 179 pgs, Arbeiter Ring Publishing, arpbooks.org, $16.95 There’s a beautiful black-and-white picture of […]
International Press Watch: Bazillion Points
The cover of What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal. Reading loud: Brooklyn, […]
“Art” by Aleksandra McHugh
No one is around when Kris arrives – except Leslie, who has shuttered the office. “I’m kind of avoiding Sherry,” […]
“How to Write a Love Letter” by Megan Drysdale
Your lover reads his old love letters. He keeps them where he hopes you will not find them: in an […]
“Just the Reds” by Luke Wiget
I jog in place when I wait at red lights but don’t generally run the stretches in between. It’s my […]
Zine Review: Gross and Disappointing
Perzine, Zo Watt, issues 1 and 2, [email protected], $2 each plus postage The rambling, but relatable anecdotes of Zo Watt make […]
Educating With Zines
photo courtesy of Kelly McElroy by Lindsay Gibb I discovered zines in high school. In Grade 10, I was hanging […]