Author: Post Road

FICTION:

Divinatory Experiment, a selection from Installation #9: Revenge of the Nerds: Ideal Suggestion (Love), by Selah Saterstrom
The Eater, by Vivian Lawry
Confessions, by Trinie Dalton
Red Owl, by Brandon Hobson
Beach Town + Liberty, by Paul Lisicky
Da Capo, by Kerry Lanigan
Trees in the City, by Bonnie Nadzam
The Child Shaman, by Eric J. Wallace

NONFICTION:

An Inherited Condition, by Suzanne Koven
The Stages of Civility, by Teri Carter
Missing, by Jacob Melvin
The Pearl, by Suzanne Farrell Smith

CRITICISM:

Is Psychoanalysis Too Serious? by Ezra Feinberg

POETRY:

The Leshan Giant Buddha + A Sickle, by Tan ChaoChun — trans. by Zhong Jie
How On Earth + Wah Wah, by Tyrone Williams
Death and the Four-Year-Old + Last Meeting + Christmas, by Holly Karapetkova

ART:

About Angels — Carl E. Hazlewood

THEATRE:

The Winner, by Don Cummings

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Pippi and Mr. Hyde — Audrey Schulman
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen Megan — Mayhew Bergman
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, by Lucinda Rosenfeld
Brazilian Adventure, by Peter Fleming — Michael Lowenthal
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner — Nichole Bernier
The Lost World — Urban Waite
The Wine Went down in the Bottle: The Passive Beauty of John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat — Pete Hausler
I Have Heard You Calling in the Night by Thomas Healy — Jay Baron Nicorvo
You Can’t Tell a Book by its Title — Samuel Reifler
The Three Marias: Whatever Happened to Portugal’s Pussy Riot? — Oona Patrick
Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll by Joe Oestreich — Will Allison
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt — James Scott
Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres — Tova Mirvis
The Strange Question of Alberto de Lacerda — Scott Laughlin
Dorothy L. Sayers — Kelly Braffet
The Islands of George Mackay Brown — Steve Himmer
Preston Falls by David Gates — Jonathan Dixon

GUEST FOLIO (edited by Elizabeth Graver):

Introduction Elizabeth Graver
The Last I Saw Mitsou, by Karin C. Davidson
A Local Myth, by Joseph Fazio
Apology Number 21, or What You Should Know About the Library, by Edward Hardy
Rooted, by Lesley Mahoney
Through the Closed Door, by Lee Martin
Dedications, by Katie Moulton
Novitiate, by Meaghan Mulholland
Only Softly, by Buki Papillon
Biography of the Artist, by John Parras
Passages, by C.R. Resetarits

CONTRIBUTORS:

Cover Art: Jan Reymond “Passage de la Tour”

Post Road Magazine – Issue #36 | Spring/Summer 2019

FICTION:

You and Me Could Really Exist — Marianne Leone
Here  — Jason Namey
Drought — Jensen Beach
Blood Loss — Philip Probasco
Forgetting Everything I Know — Marston Hefner
Single — Genevieve Plunkett
The Day Diana Died — Emily Lackey

NONFICTION:

Kaw-liga — Amber Wheeler Bacon
Moments of Clarity — Eddie P. Gomez
Fun with Peter — George Choundas
Obituary — J. David Stevens

POETRY:

Periphery  — Bradley Clompus

ART:

Karl Heine: No Permission
Mel Rolleri

THEATRE:

Spring Break at the DMV  — Dalton Day

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker — Emily Carr
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed — Brandi Wells
Virginia Woolf and Nicholson Baker — Lewis Robinson
No Country for Old Men — Stephen Markley
Ludwig Bemelmans — Janet Pocorobba

GUEST FOLIO: “Place as Palimpsest”

Edited by Suzanne Matson
Introduction
Beijing — David Huntington
True Abandon — Gretchen Steele Pratt
Six 100-word Memoirs — Paul Doherty
Ilya — Ashley Keyser
Five Ways to Read a Village — Sam Kemp
If In New York Near Torok’s Grave — Cal Freeman
Commute — E. Shaskan Bumas
A Brief History of Ice — Alexandra Teague
In the Shadow of the El (excerpt) — Paul Mariani
City Kingfisher — Marina Richie
I Came Here for Some Answers — Lois Roma-Deeley

FICTION:

That Time He Felt the World Turn + The Splitting Image, by Ethel Rohan
Flutter Flake, by Ross Barkan
Night Class, by Jessica Francis Kane
Sunset Judas, by Steven Tweddell
Balloons, by Michael Graves
Readers and Writers, by Ryan Boudinot
The Revenge of Umslopogaas, by Tony Eprile

NONFICTION:

A Woman in Brine, by Kate Crane
The ABCs of Parting, by Gail Hosking
A Tremendous (Experience of) Fish
Haystacks Lauren Fath Craig Reinbold

CRITICISM

#GentlemanlyPursuits in Paul Kahan’s Chicago, by A-J Aronstein

POETRY:

A Rocket to Venus + Walk Through, by Greg Nicholl
The County Fair Building for Animal Husbandry + We Are Fewer than Before, by Adam Houle
Jap + ’Nam, by Brian Komei Dempster
Dark Daisy + The Lingering, by Adam Giannelli
Mazatlan + Learning the Fastball, by Gary Dop
Older Sister + Earl Grey, by Brenna W. Lemieux
When we left medicine behind + Quantum Physics and You, by E. Kristin Anderson

ART:

Valerie Brennan: Peanut Gallery, by Dünny Josafat Potter
Molly Herman: Silverpoint Series, by Molly Herman
Lucy Mink: Strangely Familiar Places, by Cary Smith

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Peacock Spring by Rumer Godden — Sarah Gardner Borden
A Love Letter for Love, an Index (McSweeney’s Poetry Series) — Traci Brimhall
Years Are Bearing Us to Heaven: Donald Barthelme’s The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, or the Hithering Thithering Djinn — Paul La Farge
How to Live Safely in a Science —
Fictional Universe by Charles Yu — Ethan Gilsdorf
Seven Books in Seven Days — Jo Ann Beard
The Work of Stanley Elkin — Seth Fried

GUEST FOLIO:

Introduction: Writing the Body: Creative Nonfiction, by Amy Boesky
O Is for Old, by Priscilla Long
No Good Way, by Caitlin Moran
At Sea, by Christie Rogers
Elliptical Journey, by Floyd Skloot
Body Without Organs, by Martha Stoddard Holmes
The Start Grace Talusan, by Amy Boesky

FICTION:

We Shared a Duplex, by Jenn Hollmeyer
Seeds Like Teeth, by Delaney Nolan
Sliding Door, by Nora Cameron
Wisteria, by Catherine Parnell
Your Translator, My Brunette, by Amy Boutell
Charcoal for Locust, by D. Gatling Price
Big Ray, or Some Things Concerning My Childhood, with an Emphasis on My Father, by Michael Kimball

NONFICTION:

How to Remember the Dead, by Curtis Smith
The Place Called Mother, by Melanie Unruh
The Bare Minimum of Him, by Alissa Tsukakoshi
Open Late Hours, by Zachary Watterson
Prologue, a Letter: the Twin & Her Lover, Lacan & the Other, by Addie Tsai

CRITICISM:

Writers and Critics at the Dinner Table: Tristram Shandy as Conversational Model, by Cynthia Northcutt Malone

POETRY:

Cauliflower Soup + Storm Damage, by Peter Schireson
Flight Perils + Sonnets for Kudryavka, by Sally Wen Mao
Exact Science + Hollow + Scale, by Joshua Ruffin
So Many Ways I’ve Tried to Hold You + Mashallah, by Jennifer Tonge
The Turns They Have Taken from Bye-Bye Land, by Christian Barter

ART:

Jim Hett: They’re All The Same Except They’re Different

THEATRE:

Notebook of Answers, by Kaveh Bassiri

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Pike by Benjamin, by Whitmer — Owen Hill
Sanctuary by William Faulkner — James Boice
Easy — Jim Lewis
Travels In Moominvalley — Caitlin Horrocks
Naked with Innocence — Holly Le Craw
Lights, Camera, Lesson — Stephan Merrill Block
East of Eden by John Steinbeck — Jane Roper
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut — Dave King
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies — Lisa Abend
Recommending King Driftwood — Rimas Uzgiris
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde — Amanda Stern

GUEST FOLIO:

Google Moon, by Anna Leahy
Two Cameos, by Rhina P. Espaillat
Ch Arter + Floundering, by Adam Vines
Mediterranean + Galilee, by Maggie Dietz
Winter Exercises, by Len Krisak
Daughters of a Boardinghouse Keeper, by Skye Shirley
In Escher’s Rooms + Quissett + “And Now Nothing Will Be Restrained From Them”, by Daniel Tobin
The Passover Weddings, by Atar Hadari
Dinner and a Movie, Green Canyon, Utah, by Michael Sowder
The Accidental Stage, by Sean Keck

FICTION:

The Zulo, by Julian Zabalbeascoa
Man’s Best Friend, by Ann Hood
Sailor Man, by Jason Ockert
Little Marvels, by Julie Innis

NONFICTION:

The Memory Pavilion, by Elizabeth Kadetsky
The Coffin Handles Were Stalks of Wheat, by C. Ronald Edwards
Once In Cuba, by Eliezra Schaffzin

CRITICISM:

A Literary Manifesto after the End of Literature and Manifestos, or Nude in Your Hot Tub with a Good View of the Abyss, by Lars Iyer

POETRY:

Portrait of Crippled Poet as Woman + Art Lesson, by Erin Lynn Marsh
Harmonica + Harmonica II, by Amorak Huey
Aandaal: The Autobiography of a Goddess, by Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Ravi Shankar
The Bridges Are on the Ground + Chord & Hem, by Alessandra Simmons

ART:

Yolanda Petrocelli, by Elizabeth Ferrer

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Jennifer Egan Is Better than Jonathan Franzen, by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
“A Loud, Lonely Cry for Happiness”: The Late George Apley, by John P. Marquand — Sarah Braunstein
Six Memos for the Next Millennium, by Italo Calvino — Stacy Carlson
Mark Slouka’s Essays from the Nick of Time,, by Valerie Duff-Strautmann
“Are You Making Fun of Me?”, by Alethea Black
Trash and Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison — Devon Sprague

GUEST FOLIO: Edited by Lad Tobin

The Dreariest Art, or Why I Write Book Reviews, by Leah Hager Cohen
Why I Write for Children by Carolyn Coman with Rob Shepperson
Poet, Heal Thyself, by Camille T. Dungy
When the Farmer Clutches the Rake: Writing the Real, by Cheryl Strayed

CONTRIBUTORS

Cover Art: “young yellow” (detail) by Jennifer Reeves

FICTION:

Meet Me at the Hedge, My Love — Caren Beilin
How We Looked — James Scott
Chili 4-Way — Michael Martone

NONFICTION:

The Mouth of the Volga — Trent Hergenrader
Touch — Eson Kim
We Smoked in Silence Peter Stenson
Rondo Elizabeth Bales Frank
Dirt — D. Foy

CRITICISM:

For the Love of New York — Asad Raza

POETRY:

Excerpt + Decision — Norman Finkelstein
Rallying in Rhode Island + Duologue in Delaware — Martin Ott and John F. Buckley

12. District Courthouse, Divorce Court, White Plains, New York + 1. Apocalyptic Wife — Elizabeth Powell
Saint Rust + Saint Say It (Over and Over Again) — Weston Cutter

ART:

Knox Martin – Woman: Black and White Paintings by Kristine Woodward

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Stories of John Cheever — Micah Nathan
John Edgar Wideman: The Last Great Radical — Michelle Hoover
Recommending “First Love” by Samuel Beckett — William Walsh
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz — Janice Shapiro
In Youth Is Pleasure, by Denton Welch — Koren Zailckas
One Good Book Leads to Another — Caroline Leavitt
Winter Reading: Jane Brox’s Brilliant — Belle Boggs
Cynthia Morrison Phoel’s Cold Snap — Tracy Winn
The Possibilities of Fiction — Michael Kimball

GUEST FOLIO

Worship — Matthew Di Paoli
The Golden Brain — Donald MacLeod Harrison
Silver Jingle Bobs, The Importance of — Meredith Steinbach
Winter Sky — Barry K. Wade

CONTRIBUTORS