Authors: Z. Smith
Review: Proportion and Ornament
One suspects from the onset that Proportion and Ornament is to be understood in terms of its aesthetic value and experience. … read more
Review: The Staked Plains
The Staked Plains is functioning (successfully) as a modern apocalyptic text, filling in the gaps of Revelations and beyond. A glad addition to my library. … read more
Review: The Wolves That Live In Skin And Space: A...
In his most recent foray into the literary world, The Wolves that Live in Skin and Space: A Novel, Zeischegg attempts to create a devastating vision of the modern porn era by exposing (or at least explaining) the ever-diminishing fourth wall between performer and audience, the growing threat of HIV, and the severely crippled lives of those in the industry. … read more
Review: Back to the Wild: A Practical Manual for Uncivilized...
Syntactically and semantically, Back to the Wild presents something of a challenge. … read more
Review: 88 Maps
In Rob Carney’s fourth full-length poetry collection, 88 Maps, we find the two-time Utah Book Award Winner for Poetry tackling the juxtaposition of the naturalist and the consumerist with some certain amount of skill and some lesser amount of tact. … read more
Localized: DJ Nix Beat
Nick Kuzmack—DJ Nix Beat—has a presence that commands (and in equal parts demands) attention. … read more
Localized: DJ Feral Cat
Sam Stinson, aka DJ Feral Cat, is a no-nonsense audiophile with a flair for soul, funk, R&B, blues and underground disco. … read more
Review: Dithering Doodles 19
There is a place where inner and outer worlds combine like Voltron; where tsunamis are humanity’s greatest enemy; where Lucy (you know, Miss 5¢ psychiatrist from Peanuts) finally gets what she deserves; and Cracker Barrel is a toilet-plunger swashbuckling hellhole. … read more
Review: Sugar House Review #11
Sugar House Review’s Spring/Summer 2015 installment is a literary pleasure from beginning to end. … read more
North @ Metro Bar 09.06 with Dark Lord
On the night of the blessed first Sabbath of September, in the year of our Lord 2015, the very fires of the Deceiver’s inferno spewed forth a great and mighty torrent—a storm of witches, unearthly moans and fog. … read more
Frnkiero AndThe Cellabration @ The Loading Dock 07.22 with Homeless...
It’s 8:03 p.m. on a Wednesday night, I am standing in an alley outside of Frank Iero’s tour bus waiting for a brief interview with the man himself—a man who I first saw play with My Chemical Romance back when I was in 8th grade, a man who would shortly take the stage of The
