How to Become the Voice of Your Generation
by David Joseph When you’ve been out of college for longer than you’d been in college, apply to colleges for an MFA. To your in-laws, MFA stands for Might Fly Away. To your Lyft driver, it stands for...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: The Surge, Adam Kovac
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors shed light on their recently released books by comparing them to weird things. This week Adam Kovac writes about...
View ArticleFour Inches
After Charles Bukowski Chelsea Graham I was deep inside a dream about Zakk Wylde and Jason Mamoa when Dan woke me with his wailing. I pulled open the dresser drawer. There he was, nestled among my...
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Dream House Dorothy Bendel @dorothybendel I choose a shiny gold mini-skirt and hot pink tank top and Sarah asks if Barbie will be cold but I say it’s always warm in Malibu, the sun shines all day,...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: Lowdown by Anthony Schneider
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors shed light on their recently released books by comparing them to weird things. This week Anthony Schneider...
View ArticleThe Next Life You’ll Make
Ellen Rhudy She was a dead man’s child, she would have been half-ghost, half-human, she never had a chance. I told Tom he couldn’t come to the appointments, so I sat alone while the nurses gelled my...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: For Other Ghosts, Donald Quist
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors shed light on their recently released books by comparing them to weird things. This week Donald Quist writes...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: Girl Zoo, Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors shed light on their recently released books by comparing them to weird things. This week Aimee Parkison and...
View ArticleAn Imaginary Number
Siân Griffiths for Gwendolyn That night, she danced with aliens. They spoke to her in math. In school, she was learning multiplication tables and isolation; she understood whispers as sound waves...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: The Blood Trail by Jan Stinchcomb
Jan Stinchcomb Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors shed light on their recently released books by comparing them to weird things. This week Jan...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: Ways of Looking at a Woman, Caroline Hagood
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature where authors shed light on their recently released books by comparing them to weird things. This week Caroline Hagood writes...
View ArticleFamous Men Who Never Lived by K Chess
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors shed light on their recently released books by comparing them to weird things. This week K Chess writes about...
View ArticleIdiomatic
Michelle Bailat-Jones In America people say, easy come easy go. In America people say, don’t waste your breath. Here, though. Sofia closes the door to her apartment at the end of the day and the...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: This One Will Hurt You by Paul Crenshaw
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors shed light on their recently released books by comparing them to weird things. This week Paul Crenshaw writes...
View ArticleThe History of Silk
Gary Fincke During the summer after seventh grade, when we were alone for an afternoon, no chance of being caught, silk was what we sought in Ted Needham’s older sister’s room. We held her silk and...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: Not Everyone is Special, Josh Denslow
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors shed light on their recently released books by comparing them to weird things. This week Josh Denslow writes...
View ArticleSmall Explosions
Dana Cann A dream lingers. Death marches. The world sleeps. Except middle-aged men with enlarged prostates. He turns the knob on the stovetop. The starter clicks—once, twice—and the flame bursts,...
View ArticleIF MY BOOK: Claiming a Body, Amanda Marbais
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors shed light on their recently released books by comparing them to weird things. This week Amanda Marbais writes...
View ArticleAdaptation
Alyssa Claire Greene In the dark of the premiere, you’ll watch credits roll over a high school prettier than the one you went to. You’ll read the names of actors ten years older than you were when it...
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