Weird!
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer provides an introduction to her fiction selections as guest summer editor of Issue 34: Summer 2016 of The Puritan
ISSUE 34: Summer 2016
Introduction
A Space for the Aggro
Our guest summer editor for Issue 34: Summer 2016, Sonnet L'Abbe, introduces her poetry selections. Read for more on The Puritan's unique poetry contest.
Fiction
Complicit
Khalida Venus Hassan's unique take on crime, surveillance, and cultural collision; read on to learn more about writing contests
Poetry
Yellow Fever
Natalie Wee's poem complicates race, desire, and homeland in this evocative poem; find out more about our annual poetry contest within.
Essays
Punching Like a Girl
The new essay "Punching Like a Girl" by Hamilton writer Krista Foss in Issue 34: Summer 2016 of The Puritan. Read on for more info on our writing contest!
Comparative Zoology
Read the new essay "Comparative Zoology" by Sunny Chan in Issue 34: Summer 2016 of The Puritan, then stick around for more on our writing competitions.
Interviews
“Makes You Want to Talk about Baseball:” A Conversation on Andrew Forbes’s The Utility of Boredom (Invisible Publishing, 2016)
Myra Bloom, Joseph Thomas and E Martin Nolan offer up an insightul and multi-faceted round-table discussion on The Utility of Boredom by Andrew Forbes
“They Didn’t Want to Use a Traditional Sports Model:” Talking Flat Track Roller Derby with D.D. Miller (“The Derby Nerd”) and Monica “Monichrome” Mitchell-Taylor
Meghan Harrison interviews D.D. Miller (The Derby Nerd) and Monica Mitchell-Taylor (Monichrome) in Issue 34: Summer 2016 of The Puritan.
“Everything After Follows from That”: An Elegiac Conversation Between Grant Stonehouse and Len Carey
Michael Trussler records an interview between "Grant Stonehouse" and "Len Carey" in Issue 34: Summer 2016. Read on for info on our writing contest.
Reviews
“LOLing with Claws”: A Review of Liz Howard’s Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
Read Brecken Hancock's new review of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Liz Howard in Issue 34: Summer 2016 of The Puritan.
“Solo Protests Against Solitude”: A Review of Steven Heighton’s The Waking Comes Late
Read Myra Bloom's review of The Waking Comes Late by Steven Heighton in Issue 34: Summer 2016 of The Puritan. For more on our writing competition, read on!
“War without a Name:” A Review of Mercè Rodoreda’s War, So Much War (Translated by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent)
Amanda Sarasien offers up a probing, yet evanescent review of Mercè Rodoreda’s haunting Catalonian novel, War, So Much War.
“Pragmatic Complications of Perfections:” A Review of Klara du Plessis’s Wax Lyrical
Aaron Boothby dives into Klara Du Plessis's Wax Lyrical, exploring how dreams, bodies, shame, and the self are intertwined
