All posts by J.A. Tyler

January 19th, 2012

The Misperceptions of Being a Stranger in a Strange Land

Event Factory is proof that as Renee Gladman has something new to offer, the perspective of invented linguistics encountered as a traveler. …more
November 7th, 2011

Irreconcilable Differences

Gary Lutz’s new collection, divorcer, tells seven stories of divorce that will captivate every reader―single, married or divorced. …more

September 12th, 2011

If Hemingway Were a Poet

In poet Ben Lerner’s debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, we follow expat Adam Gordon as he travels Spain managing the boundaries between art and life. …more

April 4th, 2011

The Bee-Loud Glade

Steve Himmer’s The Bee-Loud Glade is a rubber-band, stretching from nature to virtual reality and back.

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March 8th, 2011

Color Plates

Built on a walk through a privately-owned museum, a four-chambered version of art, Color Plates is not an easily defnable book. …more

December 7th, 2010

Asunder

“Boats are lost at sea. Drowning is different. Water fills the lungs making life at first difficult, then impossible, to sustain.” …more

October 11th, 2010

How They Were Found

“As soon as the wolf forced himself inside her, she sprung her trap, showing him that she too knew what it meant to consume someone whole.” …more

September 1st, 2009

J.A. Tyler: The Last Book I Loved, Scary, No Scary

Picture 27The last great book I read was the very recent Scary, No Scary by Zachary Schomburg, released from Black Ocean Press in August. I was a big fan of the previous collection from Schomburg, The Man Suit, and was hoping that Scary, No Scary would be equivalent. It is not. Scary, No Scary is far better, much sharper and more drawn from images, shaking through the reader in its short and livid sentences. …more

About

J. A. Tyler is the author of Inconceivable Wilson (Scrambler Books, 2010), A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed (Fugue State Press, 2011), and A Shiny, Unused Heart (Black Coffee Press, 2011). His work has appeared with Caketrain, Diagram, Black Warrior Review, Redivider, Fourteen Hills, Sleepingfish, and New York Tyrant. He is also founding editor of Mud Luscious Press. For more, visit: chokeonthesewords.com.

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