Excerpt: Ben Tanzer’s UPSTATE
December 3, 2020
Things Start How does it start? With a bump and a thud, or maybe it’s a thud followed by a…
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One Question: Ben Tanzer
December 3, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Ben Tanzer, author of UPSTATE, “Why re-release a book that the world has already had the chance…
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Hypertext Interview With Mike Puican
November 13, 2020
By Christine Maul Rice As a longtime Chicagoan, reading Mike Puican’s debut collection, Central Air (Northwestern University Press), felt like…
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Hypertext Interview With Randall Horton
October 22, 2020
By Gee Henry Your poems hold a powerful mirror up to the face of society, and seem to deem the…
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Excerpt: Bob Campbell’s MOTOWN MAN
October 8, 2020
Beep. Jim rolled up quickly behind Bradley out of nowhere. The engineer turned to greet the skilled trades’ foreman just…
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One Question: Bob Campbell
October 8, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Bob Campbell, author of Motown Man, “What is the significance of ‘Motown’ in the name and how…
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Hypertext Interview With Rachel Swearingen
October 5, 2020
By Christine Maul Rice Each of the nine finely-tuned, emotionally-taut, and darkly-humorous stories in Rachel Swearingen’s How to Walk on…
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Excerpt: Ellen Birkett Morris’ LOST GIRLS
October 1, 2020
Heavy Metal Laura’s body felt heavy. Heavy was the word her son Jason had used when he could no longer…
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One Question: Ellen Birkett Morris
October 1, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Ellen Birkett Morris, author of Lost Girls, “Why is the collection titled Lost Girls? Are these women and girls…
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Hypertext Interview With John McNally
September 30, 2020
By Cyn Vargas I’ve long admired John McNally—from Troublemakers to The Book of Ralph and numerous works in between—and it…
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Uncle Art Appeals His Conviction to Indiana’s Supreme Court by C. Christine Fair
September 30, 2020
C. Christine Fair is a provost’s distinguished associate professor within the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She studies…
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Bright Lights by Matt Geiger
September 27, 2020
The average person has five sphincters, a cervix or two, and possibly a soul. These are just some of the…
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Stomach Pains by Becky Sisco
September 25, 2020
Whenever mom’s weight was up and her picture was taken, she cut off the bottom part of the photo just…
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Cut More, Save More by Kathleen Quigley
September 23, 2020
While recuperating from my mastectomy, I read as much as I could, burrowing into rabbit holes on the internet trying…
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Hypertext Interview With Michele Morano
September 22, 2020
By Anita Gill Whenever I pick up a memoir or collection of essays, I first read the disclaimer where the…
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Politeness Will Not Protect You by Nicole R. Zimmerman
September 20, 2020
The attack came from behind—arms pinned suddenly to my sides, my body immobilized. Panic pulsed through my veins and terror…
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The Outer Limits of Love by Maija Rothenberg
September 18, 2020
That my brother showed up at all that Sunday was the insult, or so I thought at the time. Robert1…
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Hypertext Interview With Ignatius Valentine Aloysius
September 17, 2020
By Christine Maul Rice Ignatius Valentine Aloysius’ debut novel Fishhead: Republic of Want (Tortoise Books) details the soul-crushing obstacles a…
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Three by Nicole Schnitzler
September 16, 2020
When I walk by Daniel’s room, it is dark. The moon hangs low outside, casting a ray of faint light…
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Mother’s Day by Julie Lambert
September 13, 2020
The wail of sirens disturbs the stillness of our shushed suburban street. My seven-month-old daughter is heavy and soft in…
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Touched: From Notes Taken at the Facility by Anne-Marie Oomen
September 11, 2020
1. That day when they strap you into the lift harness, and you rise, swaying like cargo, then they slop…
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Excerpt: Tara Lynn Masih’s THE BITTER KIND
September 10, 2020
Stela Stela returns home for a short visit at Easter. Her mother tells her on the phone that the Captain…
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One Question: Tara Lynn Masih
September 10, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Tara Lynn Masih, author of The Bitter Kind, “Setting plays a large role in The Bitter Kind. Have you…
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Kintsugi For Aunt Vera by Barbara Ungar
September 9, 2020
In that wee hour when the cats go madand carom around the house, a crash.Dad’s WWII picture, where he’s prettyas…
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One Question: Karin Cecile Davidson
September 9, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Karin Cecile Davidson, author of Sybelia Drive, “Why is LuLu so fierce when it comes to her friendship…
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Ukiyo-E by Barbara Ungar
September 6, 2020
I go to bed with shutters openwatch the snowswirling in streetlight the sudden apparitionof a facein my upstairs window an…
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Excerpt: Karin Cecile Davidson’s SYBELIA DRIVE
September 2, 2020
By Karin Cecile Davidson Girl – October 1967 Rainey paraded down on us the year my daddy left. It was…
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On First Teaching Emily Wilson’s Homer by Barbara Ungar
September 2, 2020
Athena’s turned Odysseus into a bum againwithering his handsome body arthriticdimming his fine bright eyes, dulling his hairturning his clothes…
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Scent Dragonfly by Miho Nonaka
August 30, 2020
Mother called it scent dragonfly;we never learned its real name.It was so thin, so discreet thatwe considered its appearancemore a…
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Excerpt: Gwen Goodkin’s A PLACE REMOTE
August 28, 2020
By Gwen Goodkin Excerpt from “Just Les is Fine” After lunch with Naomi, I called Lynn and told her I…
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