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TJ Fuller earned an M.F.A. in fiction from Eastern Washington University, and has been accepted to both Tin House and Sewanee summer workshops. Currently, he teaches composition and creative writing at Mt. Hood Community College and is the faculty advisor for Perceptions Magazine, the school’s magazine of the arts.
His first book, Some Stupid Glow, was published in 2026 & is available online and in bookstores. Here are some reviews & praise for TJ Fuller…
Juliana Hyrri is a painter, illustrator and experimenter. Her work has been exhibited in Finland and internationally, and includes public artworks such as murals and spatial comics.
Her first work of book, The Nightingale That Never Sang, was published in 2022 & is available online and in bookstores. Here are some reviews & praise for Hyrri…
After decades of being a contributor at NBC News, William M. Arkin famously wrote a farewell note upon leaving the organization in January 2019.
His first work of fiction, History in One Act: A Novel of 9/11, will be out in 2021 & is available for pre-ordering now. Here are some reviews & praise for Arkin…
“From this collection emerges a wholly original voice, along with a sense of wonder toward the world at large that remains long after the last page.”
— Huffington Post
After decades of being a contributor at NBC News, William M. Arkin famously wrote a farewell note upon leaving the organization in January 2019.
His first work of fiction, History in One Act: A Novel of 9/11, will be out in 2021 & is available for pre-ordering now. Here are some reviews & praise for Arkin…
Read the rave reviews for Luc Dardenne’s On the Back of Our Images, vol. I: 1991–2005 …
Read an interview conducted via email with Tim Kinsella about his book, Sunshine On an Open Tomb…
In early 2015, Tim was reading a book of critical analyses of the films of the Dardenne brothers, and it referred to two volumes of Luc Dardenne’s journals. He immediately searched online to buy them and was disappointed to learn that they were never translated into English.
Now, four years and three translators later, with help from the French Cultural Ministry’s prestigious CNL grant, Luc Dardenne’s On the Back of Our Images, Vol. 1 is now available for pre-order!
American commuter-readers and citizens of everywhere else than America, take note: Devendra Banhart’s e-book is now available for sale on our site.
Check out this interview with Brielle Brilliant, author of our fall 2018 release,The Spud. Brielle stopped by WHPK’s The Chicago Word to discuss prank phone calls, network theory, and gun politics.
“Through the infinite layers of experience, Brilliant grabs the reader by our shoulders.”
Read an interview with Brielle Brilliant in Hooligan Mag
“The writing zips between inner memory and outer world with such speed that the boundary between the two begins to melt away … To read The Spud is to find yourself at the center of a constellation of possibilities rather facing down a single hard, cool reality … Brilliant is masterful at conjuring this experience, playing and tinkering with the point at which narrative breaks down into naked, exposed words without ever letting them dissolve into chaos.”
Read a review of The Spud in Cleveland Review of Books
“Startling and haunting, an unforgettable debut.”
Check out Brielle Brilliant’s notes & music playlist for The Spud on Largehearted Boy
“Their handling of athletes’ words is careful and respectful, and the results are surprising: profound, funny, poignant and occasionally beautiful."
—review & excerpt at Flavorwire
“It's poetry that takes the very best of what is said in the heat of battle, and reforms those erratic sentences into a passionate profile of the player. "
—review & excerpt at The Commish
"The interactions between media and players have become increasingly standardized—mindless cliches and then reporters trying to squeeze blood from those stones…the best way to create meaning is to chisel those stones down and then pile them up with a bunch of others into an interesting shape."
"Hilarious and sometimes inspiring…"
"Best of 2015" selection
— CBC Books & Orlando Weekly & The Globe and Mail & Connected
"A substantial thread of Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion is that of the power and nature of human experience. If there is sublimity and humor, there is also the moral repugnance of Don Imus’ 2007 remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team alongside Fuzzy Zoeller’s offensive “joke” about Tiger Woods…"
— review at The Found Poetry Review
"Language trickery peaks a few times when several voices merge and Malla and Parker present a poem with a group of indistinguishable narrators … It’s just one of many notes that these skilled poetic DJs hit in this unique and surprising book. Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion sets out to find the poetry in sports talk. Through clever sampling and an attention to sound and form, Pasha Malla and Jeff Parker succeed."
— review at The Los Angeles Review
“… an interesting look into the lives of athletes while being evocative, substantial poetry.”
