L. Shapley Bassen, a 2011 Flannery O’Connor Award finalist, had three books published in 2014 in Hong Kong, Canada, and Tennessee. She is a fiction editor for prickofthespindle.com, was a first reader for electricliterature.com, and won the 2009 APP Drama Prize and a Mary Roberts Rinehart Fellowship. Her book reviews appear at brooklyner.org, therumpus.net, and elsewhere.
Fiction
Mar/Apr 2015
Triptych
… while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then […]
Fiction
Winter 1984
Flash Gordon
It had rained for two days in Isle End after two weeks of miserable, humid weather. It was early in August for things to go brown at the edges as […]
Fall 2016: The Poetics of Science
What Can the Matter Be?
When Homo sapiens or its hybrid heir has outwitted death, will tragedy be missed or transcendence possible? When history has long revealed the mental limits implicit in that question, what […]