I reviewed Julian K. Jarboe's debut story collection Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel for The Seattle Review of Books (Lethe Press, March 2020). Here's how the review begins:

Scissors dropping out of a uterus, a head attached to its neck with just a green ribbon, cement poured down throats to keep the soul from escaping — these are but a few examples of what I think about when I think about body-horror, a genre in which the graphic metamorphosis or destruction of a body creates a viscerally disturbing experience for the reader. Myth and fairy tale, in their rawest iterations, are natural precedents for body-horror. And isn’t the body itself, so much a source for horror? On its own the body can mutate; or outside forces, like, oh, say, a deadly pandemic exacerbated by capitalism and climate change, can impose new, terrifying ways of trying to stay alive.

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My poem-collage-essay-thing (I guess the kids these days call it a hybrid piece), "What Keeps You Up At Night?" is in the current issue of PageBoy Magazine. Issue IX's theme is "writers on writers" and my piece touches on Kafka, Ricardo Piglia, anxiety, and memory. You can pick up an issue online, at the launch party at Vermillion on May 5th from 7-9 pm, or in Portland on May 27 from 6-7 pm at Another Read Through Books.After the May 5 launch, you can pick Pageboy up at many fine bookstores. (I've starred stores that also carry the new issue of Moss. Maximum efficiency! Yay.)In Seattle:Elliot Bay*, University Bookstore*, Third Place Books*, Bulldog News, Open Books, Left Bank Books*, First and Pike News. (Moss is also available at Phinney Books.)

In Portland: Powell's*, Another Read Through.

In Olympia: Orca Books, Last Word Books, The Evergreen State College Library.

In San Francisco: Dog Eared Books, City Lights, Green Apple Books.

In Berkeley: Pegasus Books (Shattuck).

 Apropos of Moss, you can also find it:In LA: Skylight Books.In NYC: McNally Jackson.