Reviews

Mon Jan 28 2013 American Sunshine: Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light by Daniel Freund by Catherine Cocks American Sunshine: Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Lightby Daniel FreundThe Read more...	Fri Jan 25 2013 Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature by Daniel Levin Becker by Leigh Arber Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literatureby Daniel Levin Becker Harvard University Read more...	Thu Jan 24 2013 New Directions in Digital Poetry by C.T. Funkhouser by Eric Goddard-Scovel New Directions in Digital Poetryby C.T. FunkhouserContinuum Academic Publishing I came to C. T. Read more...
Wed Jan 23 2013 Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons by Ethan Blue by Anne-Marie Cusac Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisonsby Ethan BlueNew York Read more...	Tue Jan 22 2013 Fowling Piece by Heidy Steidlmayer by Michael Morse Fowling Pieceby Heidy SteidlmayerTriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press The poems in Read more...	Mon Jan 21 2013 Overpass by Steve Davenport by Alex Starace Overpassby Steve Davenport Misty Publications One gets the sense that Steve Davenport composed much Read more...
Sun Dec 16 2012 You Will Island by Curtis Perdue by Luke A. Fidler You Will Islandby Curtis Perdue H_ngm_n Books This unassuming collection of shorter poems—only Read more...	Mon Dec 3 2012 Fight Song by Joshua Mohr by Steve Himmer Fight Songby Joshua MohrSoft Skull Press The suburbs can be an easy target. For every Revolutionary Read more...	Mon Nov 5 2012 Engima and Light by David Mutschlecner by Mike Puican Enigma and Lightby David MutschlecnerAhsahta Press David Mutschlecner has organized his fourth book Read more...

Views

If You Are Absolutely Certain, I Get Suspicious

But what if this book were called memoir? Suddenly the puppeteer is gone; the people are real, the plot is preordained, and the “I” narrator is also the author. Can we read on equally engaged, or do we pull back from a narrator too unreliable to tell a true story? In this five part TriQuarterly series, five writers of nonfiction and one writer of fiction brainstorm creative ways for writers to make themselves unreliable narrators—with playful, conflicted, and imaginative results.
The Psychopaths Among Us: A Three-Act Essay

For this kind of nonfiction to work, there has to be an “I” who is not “I,” a narrator who is both author and character, a narrator in whom we see the split or, at least, a tear. The author steadies us while the character grows untrustworthy. In this five part TriQuarterly series, five writers of nonfiction and one writer of fiction brainstorm creative ways for writers to make themselves unreliable narrators—with playful, conflicted, and imaginative results.
My Father, Unreliably

I wanted to approach this subject of an unreliable narrator in creative nonfiction by talking about some very personal memoirs I’ve been writing about my father. My father drives me crazy. Bat-shit crazy. I’ve spent years diagnosing him. In this five part TriQuarterly series, five writers of nonfiction and one writer of fiction brainstorm creative ways for writers to make themselves unreliable narrators—with playful, conflicted, and imaginative results.
Did It Really Happen That Way? The Memoirist as Unreliable Narrator

A good number of memoirists are writing not so much to confess or tell their stories as to discover, hopefully, through the writing, what poets and fiction writers often describe as finding out “what we didn’t know we knew.” In this five part TriQuarterly series, five writers of nonfiction and one writer of fiction brainstorm creative ways for writers to make themselves unreliable narrators—with playful, conflicted, and imaginative results.

Interviews

Douglas Foster: Interview

"We’re quite rightfully concerned by the level of unemployment in the United States and the ways people were devastated by the financial crisis of 2008, but in the circumstances people face in a place like South Africa, 10 percent unemployment would be heaven."
Stephen Elliott: Interview

“We all change; the things you want from writing, at a certain age, become different from the things you want later. I’ve avoided any obligations, and I still live like a child. I don’t have a wife and kids. I’m on my own. It’s a choice.”
B.J. Hollars: Interview

"Blurring the Boundaries was inspired by my own frustration with facts."
Karen Rigby: Interview

My poetry won’t suit everyone. It has been described as dense; I’m aware of that response, so I wouldn’t say “I hope everyone reads it.”

Reviews

Inscriptions for Headstones by Matthew Vollmer

Matthew Vollmer’s newest book, Inscriptions for Headstones, asks: when we die, what will matter most about how we lived? The issue of legacy preoccupies many, especially writers. When they die, they leave their words behind.
The Cost of Living by Rob Roberge

Both gritty and lyrical, The Cost of Living by Rob Roberge is a drug-fueled emotional rollercoaster ride that mainlines the voices of Denis Johnson, Charles Bukowski, and Jim Carroll, leaving you spent and shaky, looking for your next fix.
The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks by Timothy Messer-Kruse

Has hagiography transformed a clumsy group of criminal conspirators into secular saints? Are subscription to an ideology and belief in common modes of action by individuals and small groups enough to constitute a network capable of autonomous action?
Let the Dark Flower Blossom by Norah Labiner

Norah Labiner is not interested in linear storytelling or books with a traditional beginning, middle and end. You should know this before you read her work.

Blog Posts

TriQuarterly Contributor Updates: Summer 2013

Jun 19, 2013
Summer Reading: TriQuarterly Staff Edition

Jun 6, 2013
How Poems Move #12

Apr 25, 2013
How Poems Move #11

Apr 23, 2013