john madera’s hitherandthithering waters

Forthcoming:

▪ Review of Shane Jones’s The Failure Six (The Brooklyn Rail, March 2010)

▪ Fiction: “A Little Declines Outside the Flare” (Corduroy Mountain, print issue 2010)

▪ Review of Andrew Zornoza’s Where I Stay (Rain Taxi Review of Books, 2010)

▪ Review of Norman Lock’s Shadowplay (Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 2010)

▪ Review of Peter Handke’s Don Juan: His Own Version (Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 2010)

▪ I’m editing a book of essays (title TBD) on writing craft featuring critically-acclaimed writers. It’s slated for publication by Publishing Genius Press in 2010.

Fiction:

▪ “How to Be Happy and Free” (Opium Magazine 9: The Mania Issue)

▪ “data-dump dummy’s error messages” (Featherproof Books, September 2009) in an ebook compilation of remixes of a Blake Butler story “Tour of the Drowned Neighborhood” with Brian Evenson, Matt Bell, Christopher Higgs, J.A. Tyler, Andrew Borgstrom, Elizabeth Ellen, Matthew Simmons, Marcus Whale,  Catherine Lacey, and Jon Cone.

▪ “Beside a Ruin Nests the Eccentric” (Everyday Genius)

▪ “How Do You Scratch a Phantom Limb?” (Little White Poetry Journal)

▪ “The World According to Arthur Arluck” (Underground Voices)

▪ “Was What It Was” (ArtVoice)

▪ “Something, Fathered In the Wastes, Wormed Within the Body” (elimae)

Interviews:

▪ Interview with Brian Evenson (Rain Taxi Review of Books, January 2010)

▪ Interview with Thomas Cooper (The Chapbook Review)

▪ Interview with Tina May Hall (The Chapbook Review)

▪ Interview with Leni Zumas (Word Riot)

Music Reviews:

▪ Music review of Dälek’s Gutter Tactics (3:AM Magazine)

▪ Music review of Miniature Tigers’s Tell It to the Volcano (3:AM Magazine)

▪ Music Review of Andrew Bird’s Noble Beast (3:AM Magazine)

Book Reviews & Essays:

▪ Review of Brian Evenson’s Baby Leg (The Collagist, February 2010)

▪ Review of John Haskell’s Out of My Skin (The Rumpus, February 2010)

▪ Review of Mary Caponegro’s All Fall Down (Open Letter’s Monthly, February 2010)

▪ Review of Joseph Young ‘s Easter Rabbit (New Pages, February 2010)

▪ Review of Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing (New Pages, January 201o)

▪ Review of Robert Lopez’s Kamby Bolongo Mean River (Word Riot, January 2010)

▪ Review of John Dermot Woods’s The Complete Collection of people, places & things (The Collagist, January 2010)

▪ Review of Michael Leong’s e.s.p. (Open Letters Monthly, January 2010)

▪ Review of Joanna Howard’s On the Winding Stair (Brooklyn Rail, December 2009)

▪ Review of Ken Sparling’s Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall (The Collagist, December 2009)

▪ Review of Michael Kimball’s Dear Everybody (Word Riot, December 2009)

▪ Review of Justin Sirois’s MLKNG SCKLS (New Pages, December 2009)

▪ Review of Jamie Iredell’s Prose. Poem. A Novel. (The Rumpus, December 2009)

▪ “A Crazy Trolley to Nowhere and Back Again: Gert Jonke’s The System of Vienna” (The Millions, November 2009)

▪ Review of Jackie Corley’s The Suburban Swindle (The Collagist, November 2009)

▪ Review of The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright (Word Riot, November 2009)

▪ Essay entitled “Now I am Ready to Tell How Bodies Are Changed Into Different Bodies: Anne Michaels’s The Winter Vault” (The Prairie Journal:  A Magazine of Canadian Literature, Issue #52, 2009)

▪ Review of Sean Lovelace’s How Some People Like Their Eggs (Open Letters Monthly, November 2009)

▪ Review of Suzanne Jill Levine’s The Subversive Scribe (New Pages, November 2009)

▪ Essay “Magic and Music Steer this Vessel: On Jorge Luis Borges’s This Craft of Verse” (Fiction Writers Review, October 2009)

▪ Reprint of my essay “Call Me Fish-Owl: Reflecting on the Novella’s neither Fish nor Fowl Status” (Flatmancrooked, October 2009)

▪ Review of Midnight Picnic by Nick Antosca (The Collagist)

▪ Review of Lily Hoang’s Changing (The Collagist)

▪ Review of Matthew Simmon’s A Jello Horse (Open Letters Monthly)

▪ Review of Stephanie Johnson’s debut One of These Things Is Not Like the Others (New Pages)

▪ Review of Greg Gerke’s story collection There’s Something Wrong with Sven (The Rumpus)

▪ Review of Michal Ajvaz’s The Other City (The Collagist)

▪ Review of Brian Evenson’s Fugue State (Open Letters Monthly)

▪ Review of Fred Marchant’s The Looking House (Word Riot, August 2009)

▪ Review of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field, Edited by Tara L. Masih (New Pages)

▪ Review of Peter Selgin’s Life Goes to the Movies (DIAGRAM)

▪ Review of Aleksandar Hemon’s Love & Obstacles (Open Letters Monthly)

▪ Review of Translation in Practice, edited by by Gill Paul (New Pages)

▪ Review of by Chelsea Martin’s Everything Was Fine Until Whatever (The Rumpus)

▪ Review of Amelia Gray’s AM/PM (Word Riot)

▪ Review essay of Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s The Mirror in the Well (Tarpaulin Sky)

▪ Review essay of Stanley Crawford’s Log of the S.S. Mrs Unguentine (Tarpaulin Sky)

▪ The Last Book I Loved: Fog & Car (The Rumpus)

▪ Review essay of Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s The Bridge of the Golden Horn (The Quarterly Conversation)

▪ Review essay of Eugene Lim’s Fog & Car (The Rumpus)

▪ Review essay of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck (Open Letters Monthly

▪ Review essay of Waste, by Eugene Marten (Word Riot)

▪ Review of Words Overflown by Stars, edited by David Jauss (New Pages)

▪ Review essay of Partial List of People to Bleach, by Gary Lutz (Word Riot)

▪ Review of First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process, by Robert D. Richardson (New Pages)

▪ Review essay of Joseph Stroud’s Of This World: New and Selected Poems (Bookslut)

▪ Review essay of Can Xue’s novel Five Spice Street (The Quarterly Conversation)

▪ Review essay of J.M.G. Le Clézio’s debut novel The Interrogation (Bookslut)