Vol. 2, Issue 16

For THE LOST COUNTRY is one of those rare books that is both deeply literary and hugely entertaining. Featuring an ever-expanding cast of characters and the gorgeous landscape and intense poverty of the land along the Tennessee River in 1955, this novel offers stunning line by line writing, a terrific sense of event, and an accumulation of conflict that both finds its way to an essential violence and dissolves into a satisfying existentialism. – Fred Leebron on William Gay’s THE LOST COUNTRY

The Same River Twice | Visual Art

by TNSF | Jun 19, 2019 | Visual Art, Vol. 2, Issue 16

The Same River TwiceThey say it can’t happen, our feet entering again the exact same place in the current. Sure, the sky is always changing color, and we know it must be different every day. But the children still utter their cries of hunger and despair, so who can...

Malaisonaisse | Poetry

by TNSF | Jun 19, 2019 | Poems, Vol. 2, Issue 16

Malaisonaisse “Squash is an excellent conveyer of butter,” my friend said. The strangest things go in and come out when he opens his head, watching fat-spackled beef bricks and spit hit the coals as barbecue sauce drips from ribs and wings and fingers and...

The Lost Country | Book Review

by TNSF | Jun 19, 2019 | Reviews, Vol. 2, Issue 16

The Lost CountryBy William GayISBN: 978-1-945814-52-5Dzanc Books, July 2018Hardcover: 368 pages, $26.95 William Gay’s posthumous novel, THE LOST COUNTRY, is an incredibly resonant and engaging story on many fronts: its path to publication, its constantly compelling...