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first published in Misfit Magazine, Alan Catlin, ed. William Taylor Jr., The People Are Like Wolves to Me, Roadside Press, roadsidefam.com distributed by Magical Jeep, also available on Amazon, 2025, 85 pages, $17. If his poetry is to be taken literally, and there is no reason not to take him at his word, Taylor is a melancholy …

first published in Misfit Magazine, Alan Catlin, editor Roadside Assistance: A Roadside Press Reader, roadsidefam.com, available on Amazon, 2026, 198 pages, $20, https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/roadside/SO7LETPOXJR5T4LEQK36FBRE This weighty collection is not a best of the press’s books so much as a selection of the work of 48 poets and writers of fiction all of whom had a book …

first published at The Literary Underground’s In Conversation Roadside Assistance: A Roadside Press Reader edited by Dan Denton & Michele McDannold There’s something refreshingly unvarnished about Roadside Assistance: A Roadside Press Reader — a book that refuses polish in favor of presence. As the publisher’s note makes clear, this is not a curated “best of,” but a …

first published in Barrelhouse mag https://www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/mcconnell-currentdisasters-waite Reviewed by David Waite Roadside Press / May 2025 / 100 pp In Jen McConnell’s Current Disasters, the absurd looms just as large as dread or joy or understanding. The twenty stories, some medium-sized and some only a paragraph, often have a shattering absurdity, but equally often, they offer …