Swetha Amit: Take us back to the beginning of your book How to Get There from Here. Where did the first spark come from, and how did the project evolve from that initial idea? Beth Sherman: I was going to write about a fractured family and had 32 stories written....
Flashfiction
Surprised by the Deliciousness of Air: A Second Person Review of Réka Nyitrai’s Conjoined Works Split Split and Game of Little Deaths by Jonathan Cardew
You think there’s something almost kinky about Nyitrai’s two works in one, a book you have to physically flip if you want to read the other. Two works lying in bed together, toe to nose. The middle of the book, a sort of portal, contains the following...
Review of Kristina Ten’s Tell Me Yours I’ll Tell You Mine by Francois Bereaud
A few years ago, I went to the Pinball Museum in Asheville, North Carolina. The price of admission got me unlimited play on over 100 machines with themes across the years of my youth. The 3D aspect of pinball, the flashing lights, the sound of the silver balls...
Review of Brendan Gillen’s Hang Time by Francois Bereaud
As it turns out, there is a wrong way to fire a machine gun. We watch sports for lots of reasons. One of them is to find out what happens next. In any game or event, there’s always the possibility of seeing, hearing, or sensing something for the first time, whether...
Review of Kristin Tenor’s This is How They Mourn by Jonathan Cardew
On Loss and Losing: A Review of Kristin Tenor’s This is How They Mourn (Thirty West Press) When I received Kristin Tenor’s book for review, I was headed to England to take care of my dad. He was dying of cancer, and I was there to help him along. I didn’t get to the...
Swetha Amit interviews Beth Sherman about her new flash novella, How to Get There From Here
Swetha Amit: Take us back to the beginning of your book How to Get There from Here. Where did the first spark come from, and how did the project evolve from that initial idea? Beth Sherman: I was going to write about a fractured family and had 32 stories written....
Surprised by the Deliciousness of Air: A Second Person Review of Réka Nyitrai’s Conjoined Works Split Split and Game of Little Deaths by Jonathan Cardew
You think there’s something almost kinky about Nyitrai’s two works in one, a book you have to physically flip if you want to read the other. Two works lying in bed together, toe to nose. The middle of the book, a sort of portal, contains the following...
Review of Kristina Ten’s Tell Me Yours I’ll Tell You Mine by Francois Bereaud
A few years ago, I went to the Pinball Museum in Asheville, North Carolina. The price of admission got me unlimited play on over 100 machines with themes across the years of my youth. The 3D aspect of pinball, the flashing lights, the sound of the silver balls...
Review of Brendan Gillen’s Hang Time by Francois Bereaud
As it turns out, there is a wrong way to fire a machine gun. We watch sports for lots of reasons. One of them is to find out what happens next. In any game or event, there’s always the possibility of seeing, hearing, or sensing something for the first time, whether...
Review of Kristin Tenor’s This is How They Mourn by Jonathan Cardew
On Loss and Losing: A Review of Kristin Tenor’s This is How They Mourn (Thirty West Press) When I received Kristin Tenor’s book for review, I was headed to England to take care of my dad. He was dying of cancer, and I was there to help him along. I didn’t get to the...