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The Fearful Beauty of 'Anything': Review of Lee Martin's "The Mutual UFO Network"

November 29, 2018 | blog, book reviews

By Emma Stough The Mutual UFO NetworkBy Lee Martin300 pp. Dzanc Books. $26.95 The legion of characters populating Lee Martin’s forthcoming collection The Mutual UFO Network cause a reader to question humanity’s place among the stars and planets. Martin favors the wanderers—those navigating the untidy shambles of lost love, of families cracked and broken apart, of past and...

Venita Blackburn: Writing the Story that Scares You

November 27, 2018 | blog, news

By Grace Timko (Fiction ’20) and Rosie Mary Jane Kopman (Fiction ’20) On Thursday, November 15th, Venita Blackburn read from her newly published short story collection, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, for the last of the 2018 Crazyhorse readings. First year fiction student in the College of Charleston MFA program, Rosie Mary Jane Kopman, introduced Blackburn by speaking...

Mary Biddinger: Adapting Experience

November 7, 2018 | blog, news

By Dakota Reed and Katelin McLaren (Poetry ’20) On Thursday, October 25th, poet Mary Biddinger gave the first Crazyhorse reading of the academic year. The timing felt fitting. Only days before Halloween, Biddinger joked about being a witch and described the “witchy-ness” and magical elements that contribute to compiling a book of poetry. Second year...

Unguided Girlhood: A Review of "The Blurry Years" by Eleanor Kriseman

October 23, 2018 | blog, book reviews

By Christine McSwain The Blurry YearsBy Eleanor Kriseman160 pp. Two Dollar Radio, $15.99 In The Blurry Years, Eleanor Kriseman depicts the particularly tumultuous but ultimately universal growing pains of Callie, a bright young girl living in Florida with her flighty, alcoholic mother. Against a rotating backdrop of run-down motel rooms, the homes of short-term boyfriends,...