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Alan Catlin reviews Dave Newman’s She Throws Herself Forward to Stop the Fall

first published in http://misfitmagazine.net/ Dave Newman, She Throws Herself Forward to Stop the Fall, Roadside Press, Magical Jeep Distribution, available on Amazon, 200 pages, 2024 Poet and prose master Newman scores big in this collection of seven tight stories. While these people don’t know each other, they probably would make instant connections. Most of them are at an …

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Alan Catlin reviews Karl Koweski’s Abandoned by All Things

first published in http://misfitmagazine.net/ Karl Koweski, Abandoned by All Things, Roadside Press Distributed by Magical Jeep Distribution, available on Amazon, 2024, 136 pages $15- Koweski’s journey in life travels from the Midwest to the deep South. He observes Alabama’s barely sentient senator Tommy Tuberville as “the mostly evil, largely senseless/senator of Alabama” whose modest credentials for elective office,  …

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Cover Reveal and Pre-Order—ALL SKATE: True Stories from Middle Life by Lori Jakiela

ALL SKATE: True Stories from Middle Life will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered what comes next and how to face it with humor, love, and strength. Don’t miss this masterful new release from Lori Jakiela, available March 14, 2025. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cover Reveal and Pre-Order Announcement: ALL SKATE: True Stories from Middle …

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Two Roadside Press titles are reviewed in Rain Taxi Review of Books

Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet, edited by Leon Horton and Michele McDannold is reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan “The pressure of fame mixed with a hidden yet inherent shyness drove poet Gregory Corso to adopt a bad-boy persona, fueled by a heroin habit he never could kick and only resisted with the steady aid …

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Beatdom publishes review by Ryan Mathews on NIGHT BIRD FLYING by Danny Shot

“Legend has it that it took Jimi Hendrix 32 takes to master his “Night Bird Flying” and that was before multiple overdubs were added. The tune was first presented at the opening party of Jimi’s Electric Lady studio on August 26, 1970. Danny Shot nailed his version in one.” —Ryan Mathews, author   Read the …

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Review of NIGHT BIRD FLYING published at Sensitive Skin Magazine

“Danny Shot’s Night Bird Flying from Roadside Press is a fierce and poignant collection that captures the grit and tenderness of life on the fringes—where New Jersey meets New York and scars of the past meet the possibility of healing. Shot’s voice is steeped in the dualities of identity, blending humor with heartache and toughness …

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Shot of Life: A Review of Danny Shot’s Night Bird Flying by Westley Heine

Shot of Life: A Review of Danny Shot’s Night Bird Flying By Westley Heine first published at the Rusty Truck Like its namesake the Hendrix song “Night Bird Flying,” this collection of stories builds and builds until you think it’s hit a plateau. Then it builds upon itself again. Largely autobiographical, this book is written in a …

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Starred Book Review: APOCALYPSING by Jason Anderson

Apocalypsing By Jason Anderson Genre: Science Fiction / Satire Reviewed by Samantha Hui (Independent Book Review) Jason Anderson’s Apocalypsing is a quick-witted, pop-culture savvy, sci-fi satire that is equal parts absurd and introspective. Reviewed by Samantha Hui. Death and the apocalypse is as good a time as any to take charge of your life. Domestic foibles. …

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Westley Heine reviews APOCALYPSING by Jason Anderson

A pop culture Book of the Dead, Apocalypsing begins with David, a freshly deceased ghost, who is more self-conscious about his looks rather than upset about being dead. If he knew he was going to die he would have worked out more and dressed up first. This nonchalant humor sets the tone for a journey that …

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3 poems from THESE MANY COLD WINTERS OF THE HEART by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

Demi-glace Gods Nothing worse than being sauced for other sauces, demi-glace gods spooning out all the simmering half-baked worship at discount prices and they say a dog and its human grow to look more like each other as the years go on, the same is true of writers and their writing which does not bode …

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