I had a piece picked up by the Carolina Quarterly for their inaugural online issue a while back and it’s finally up and available. The story behind the piece is this: shortly after I arrived in Chicago I started writing little art blurb review things for a couple of local publications. And art blurb review [...]

Read more...



that i just uncovered doing a little self-googling–put that away! the important stuff (about me): Erik Wennermark’s short story, “The True Story of Yu Tien,” is an excerpt from his unpublished novel, “I am Falun Gong.” The story is written as a solid wall of text, which seems overwhelming at first, but from its conversational [...]

Read more...

§64 · April 19, 2011 · crit, lit · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


upstreet #6 (the lit mag with “The True Story of Yu Tien”) was reviewed in a recent New Pages. No mention of my story, but I take solace in these words: “Choosing which poems and short-stories to comment on is almost a random process; there is good variety, and the quality is consistent.” Indeed. How come [...]

Read more...

§76 · August 8, 2010 · crit, lit · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


A review of my story Jukebox Hero is here.

Read more...

§78 · May 8, 2010 · crit, lit · (No comments) · Tags: