All posts by John Madera

February 1st, 2010

The World Was Still There

John Haskell’s novel takes readers on a metaphysical journey through the mind of a Steve Martin-impersonator impersonator. …more

December 1st, 2009

Fog Is Also Good for This

Prose. Poems. A Novel.Jamie Iredell weaves a drug-and-alcohol fueled journey out of brief, vivid bursts of language. …more

November 19th, 2009

Monster Girl: The Rumpus Interview with Chelsea Martin

convosmall“The second and fourth parts of that sentence came directly from life, but the first and third parts came from some thoughts I had while watching a movie, and the sentence after it I just thought would be really funny.” …more

August 17th, 2009

Sex and the Witty

 There’s Something Wrong with Sven combines imaginative leaps worthy of Calvino and Vonnegut with tragicomic irreverence of the George Saunders variety. …more

June 18th, 2009

FUBAR Nation

Chelsea Martin’s strange collection of miscellany evokes the loneliness of life lived through technology. …more
June 1st, 2009

John Madera: The Last Book I Loved, Fog & Car

picture-48I have a problem with fidelity. But don’t call me a book slut as I prefer the term “promiscuous bibliophile.” When so many seductive stories vie for my attention, how can I settle for just one? …more

About

John Madera edits the forum Big Other and journal The Chapbook Review. He is published widely online and most recently in The Brooklyn Rail, The Collagist, Opium Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and The Prairie Journal: A Magazine of Canadian Literature, and forthcoming in The Review of Contemporary Fiction and Corduroy Mountain. He is editing a collection of essays on the craft of writing.

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