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Once Upon a Time in the East Village

Once Upon a Time in the East Village, a short story by Jim Feast, about downtown NY in the 90s

Clarissa felt as if she had gone from starving on a diet of bread and water to gorging on a bountiful smorgasbord. In Oblong, where she grew up, any glimmerings of culture were hard to discern. Her one friend in school, a faun-like boy nicknamed Else, would lend her punk and thrasher records, which she could keep for only one afternoon. There was no way she could play them except for the one hour…

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Jim Feast's Collection is a Tour de Force of Love Poetry

Jim Feast’s Collection is a Tour de Force of Love Poetry

Jim Feast’s collection, Time Extends Life to Those Who Survive, is a tour de force of love poetry and quiet possibly the best collection of “new” poetry that I have read in years. It is an assassin of a collection that sneaks up on the reader whom is not really meant feel this much love on the page and kills them with some of the most tender lyrics no one is reading. Feast is the ringmaster of…

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Anarchy for a Rainy Day - Review by Jim Feast

Anarchy for a Rainy Day - #poems by Valery Oisteanu, Review by Jim Feast

Reading the new book of poetry by Valery Oisteanu, Anarchy for a Rainy Day, which is written in Surrealist style, the author himself an avowed member of this school, makes me think of an earlier, critically powerful critique of this literary and artistic movement. In T.A.Z., Hakim Bey levels a ferocious attack, saying that for one thing — and I will get to his second complaint below — no matter…

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Duke and Jill - A Review

Duke and Jill Ron Kolm's short stories reviewed by Jim Feast

Ron Kolm’s new collection of short stories, Duke and Jill, recounts the adventures of two woebegone, half countercultural, half drugstore-cowboy lowlifes, who shabbily inhabit the 1980s East Village, always one step ahead of eviction and the law. Duke ekes out a living by selling porno rags on the street, boosting and petty drug sales. Jill is a bit more upscale, doing phone sales and working in…

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Violent Outbursts by Thaddeus Rutkowski: Review

Violent Outbursts by Thaddeus Rutkowski: Review

Thaddeus Rutkowski, Violent Outbursts (New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2015) A reader of Thaddeus Rutkowski’s new book of short fiction, Violent Outbursts, might be tempted to compare him to a number of writers, though not Kafka. Kafka writes in a dead-plain style, eschewing the prose hijinks Rutkowski often utilizes. (Rutkowski’s “McDonald’s Mania,” for instance, is an exercise in using M words: “Or…

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