Patrick Dacey‘s fiction has appeared in Bomb Magazine, Greensboro Review, Guernica, Salt Hill, Washington Square Review, and West Branch, among other publications. He is currently seeking publication for his first novel, Language of the Dead. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Fall 2012
Uncommon Vision: Melanie Rae Thon’s In This Light: New and Selected Stories
It may seem strange for a writer to release a volume of collected stories after having published only two previous collections, but each of the stories included in Melanie Rae Thon’s In This Light: New and Selected Stories is so meticulously crafted that it’s easy to see how she could take over two decades to produce the kind of work we find here.
Summer 2012
Among the Ash-heaps: Vanessa Veselka’s Zazen
In Vanessa Veselka’s debut novel Zazen (the first publication from Richard Nash’s Red Lemonade) there are two concurrent wars: one in the parallel America of Veselka’s creation, and one inside the mind of her fervent narrator, Della.