Lovely CC Readers:
Welcome to the August installment of [hey!] bales, where we round up the month’s posts and link to them all in one convenient spot. If you’d like to be notified whenever we post, just mosey over here, scroll down, and enter your email to subscribe!
And now, without further ado, here are our latest offerings:
Publishing a New and Selected Stories collection is a milestone in any writer’s career, and with First Law of Holes, Meg Pokrass joins the club. Call it micro, call it flash, call it great fiction, as Pokrass finds meaning in the smallest details. Poet Bob Hicok calls her imagination “a fire-lasso” that can save her characters and Pamela Painter writes that these stories explode “everything we thought we know about the human heart.”
If you’re venturing into the woods this summer to go camping or hiking, the perfect companion book might be Darrin Doyle’s latest, Let Gravity Seize the Dead. Doyle excels at bringing the natural world alive with electric prose and imagery that conveys the beauty and occasional menace of the forest. Let Gravity Seize the Dead has echoes of William Faulkner, Stephen King, and Raymond Carver, but above all the book is Darren Doyle at his original best.
That’s all for now, but stay tuned for more as we head into autumn!
~ CC Staff
Lead image: “A field with hay bales in the middle of it” (Photo by Bernd Dittrich on Unsplash)