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Carolyn DeCarlo

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    • ISBN 9781877655845
    • 122 Pages •5 x 8”
    • $12

    Double Feature Fanfic Heaven

    03/07/2016

    The Arctic deserves more consideration from us. We ask so much of it. We expect it to take on so many of our failed experiments, our alien discoveries – our monsters – without noticing the toll it takes on the polar region’s ice cover and permafrost. Two of our most important abandoned Arctic legacies are,…

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    David Bowie Changes

    01/27/2016

    I have always been very affected by pop culture. My eighth grade English teacher predicted I would become the editor of a women’s magazine. Despite not living up to her wishes (yet), when asked to name influences for my own creative practices, music and film are as likely to show up on the list as…

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    • ISBN 9780988384637
    • 36 Pages

    We Are All July

    11/10/2015

    Sometimes, books have hemispheres. Sometimes, books embody a hemisphere so completely that they become a season, a point on a map, a specific place and a specific time. Kyle Harvey’s July is its own month. I have this image in my head of a camper van – the tiny kind you’d hitch onto the back…

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    • ISBN 9781892061706
    • 242 Pages •6 x 9
    • $11.95

    Out of the Depths

    07/06/2015

    When I first read Wendy C. Ortiz’s Excavation: A Memoir, I was living in a house at the top of a hill overlooking the harbor. I sat on a couch in the lounge, reading in the sun while my friends watched My Girl. I had only just returned to New Zealand from a trip to…

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    • ISBN 978-0983562597
    • 122 Pages •4 x 5
    • $10.00

    We Are Conditioned, We Are Conditional

    11/22/2014

    ‘If we’d only stop flailing we’d realize we float.’ I first read Blacken Me Blacken Me Growled in pdf form while at my desk at work under the glare of one thousand fluorescent lights, Cassandra’s words fantastically magnified on the computer monitor. I felt odd and more than a little disoriented. Where did the poems…

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    • ISBN 9780983562580
    • 132 Pages •4 x 5
    • $10.00

    I Am Beside Myself

    11/06/2014

    Recommender’s Note: I haven’t read a whole lot of microfiction in printed, collected form. For the most part, what I’ve read in this genre — or in short shorts, flash fiction, whatever you’re calling it today — has come through digital media, through an online lit mag or journal’s website. Ideal in the digital space,…

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    • ISBN 9780989598514
    • 205 Pages •4.5 x 8
    • $16.00

    Kate chooses our focus, and her lens is sharp.

    10/28/2014

    I work as a transcript typist. Every weekday I go to work, look at the queue, load up audio or video files, and type them, one after the next. Mostly, I’m typing dialogue from New Zealand and Australian radio and televised news programs. But imagine for a second that I came in and typed from…

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    • ISBN 9780989092678
    • 100+ Pages •4 x 6.5
    • $10

    Being more alarming feels good.

    theNewerYork is more than just a literary magazine, it’s an aesthetic. Chuck Young, Joshua S. Raab, and the other editors are focused on exploring “new and forgotten literary forms”, and from Raab’s erasure-style letter from the editor onward, this aim is truly the focus of the magazine in full. The theme of Book III is time,…

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    • ISBN 9781936919000
    • 128 Pages •7.5 x 9"
    • $16.00

    Don’t tell Gregory Sherl not to reference pop culture, please. You’ll see what happens if you do.

    12/16/2011

    On my way home to write my recommendation for Gregory Sherl’s Heavy Petting, I ate it. I was walking along the sidewalk, trying to ignore the ‘crazy man’ walking behind me singing Kreayshawn’s “Gucci Gucci” at the top of his lungs. At the light, I decided to make a sharp turn away from this man,…