“The literary equivalent of Jason Molina; and (like Molina’s best work) a poem too pure for a world weaned on trends.” Read Dan Leach on the reissue of THE RED TRUCK by Rudy Wilson, out now via Cash 4 Gold Books 💥 southwestreview.com/accented-dar...

Accented Darkness

By Dan Leach

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“Walking off a university campus today, I was behind a man with a comb-over so recondite I thought it a hatchet wound.” Leer A PIECE OF SHIT by Padgett Powell (tr. Juana Silva Puerta) en inglés o español southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

A Piece of Shit / Un pedazo de mierda

By Padgett Powell (Translated by Juana Silva Puerta)

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🔔 New review “A collage of poetry, prose, fiction, & nonfiction, recounting the stories of Indigenous people, mainly women and girls, from Oaxaca, where Mendoza grew up.” Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on SILENCIO by Clyo Mendoza out now via 7Stories Press 💥 southwestreview.com/breaking-the...

Breaking the Silence

By Cory Oldweiler

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🔔 From our summer issue THE GUEST LIST is back w/ legend Melissa Aug der Maur talking reading recs w/ @saderotica.bsky.social BASS WOMB ROOM, the first music release in 15 years by the former member of Hole and Smashing Pumpkins, is out tomorrow 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

“One of the best Texas novels to come around in years.” Read @michaelschaub.bsky.social on DAYTONA TEDDY RIGGS by Drew Buxton out now via @hubcitypress.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/a-portrait-o...

A Portrait of a Fuckup as a Young Man

By Michael Schaub

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THE GUEST LIST is back 🔥 ““To me, if there were only one, Kiss would be the perfect band in an epic novel about music.” OG homies Elizabeth Nelson & Sam Sodomsky talk shop about TAKE LEAVE, the new album by The Bird Calls Read Sam's recs, inspos, & more 💥 southwestreview.com/the-guest-li...

The Guest List | Sam Sodomsky

By Elizabeth Nelson

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💥 From our summer issue “Night has fallen and there’s no sign of my leg. The other one is getting impatient. I’m a little afraid it will leave too.” Read MERMAID FOSSIL by Sofía de la Vega translated by Kit Maude southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

🔔 New review today “The novel’s precise structure matches Allen’s sentence-level work, which is dexterous and astonishing.” Read Carrie R. Moore on Kendra Allen's fiction debut GOOD MORNING MEANS I LOVE YOU out now via @eccobooks.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/tender-offer...

Tender Offerings | Kendra Allen’s Good Morning Means I Love You

By Carrie R. Moore

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“It doesn’t matter that I’m fifty and fat.” Rad new from our summer issue: GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS, BUT NOT IN A GROSS WAY by Adam Prince 🔥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Girls, Girls, Girls, but Not in a Gross Way

By Adam Prince

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Who's ready to throwdown w/us at the @hayfestival.bsky.social ? SwR is celebrating the work of David Berman at our HQ The Wild Detectives 🖤 feat. Ryan Davis, Cassandra Jenkins, Brett Eugene Ralph, & @leeranaldo.bsky.social FREE & abierto al público 💥 www.hayfestival.com/forum/dallas...

NEW from our summer issue ☀️ “Looked like I was at a museum for the Great Depression. The background of my life.” Read SUPER 8 by Leila Register 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Super 8

By Leila Register

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“Villalobos plunges the reader into a tragicomic marathon where drugs, cops, and gravediggers begin to appear.” Nicolás Ferraro reviews THE PAST PURSUES US LIKE DETECTIVES, DEBT COLLECTORS, THIEVES by Juan Pablo Villalobos (tr. Daniel Hahn) 💥 southwestreview.com/the-past-is-...

The Past Is a Hunting Dog

By Nicolás Ferraro

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“Published in 1968, Coover’s oddball baseball novel now reads like an analog prophecy for our algorithmic age.” ⚾️ From our summer issue: Ryan Ridge reviews THE UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC. by Robert Coover 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Pastime, Present Time: Robert Coover’s The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

By Ryan Ridge

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💥 NEW from our summer issue “One day a mothership came down over her house and released five flying saucers.” Read TROPICAL UFOs by @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social (tr. Chris Andrews) 🛸 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Tropical UFOs

By Liliana Colanzi (Translated by Chris Andrews)

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“An energy that I could now see had been building, chapter by chapter, toward the ecstatic, sad catharsis that is McClanahan’s trademark.” Homie Meaghan Garvey on Scott McClanahan's FIGHTS! out now via the esteemed & v gucci Rose Books 🥊 southwestreview.com/deeper-than-...

Deeper Than Cool

By Meaghan Garvey

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🔔 New review today Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on Marina Closs's THE DEPOPULATION (tr. Thomas Bunstead), out now 💥 southwestreview.com/the-mirage-o...

“The Mirage of All That Was Beyond Saving”

By Cory Oldweiler

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🔔 NEW from our summer issue “And the war was a fire somewhere on your street that everyone smelled but never saw.” Read WELCOME TO WHITE PINE by @danleach.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Welcome to White Pine

By Dan Leach

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🔊 Track premiere! SwR is pleased to drop the new banger by Taylor Hollingsworth. Watch the video for "Sunday Driver" & preorder his new album FOLK N’ ROLL via @dialbacksound.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/video-premie...

Video Premiere | Taylor Hollingsworth’s “Sunday Driver”

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“Haber’s satire turns from a story about sexual desire or love or infatuation to a tale about the ridiculousness of male grandiosity” Read Efrén Ordónez Garza on Mark Haber's new novel, ADA, out now via @coffeehousepress.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/the-indiscre...

The Indiscreet Charm of the Royal Dunces | Mark Haber’s Ada

By Efrén Ordóñez Garza

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“Fútbol was religion, and on that Sunday we were very much at church.” ⚽️ Keep the WC vibes alive with a new edition of HAY QUE VENIR AL SUR by the homie Songmess southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Hay que venir al sur | Fulbo

By Richard Villegas

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“My father had just had another knee replaced, and my mother was monitoring a clogged artery. He liked to say she worked hard enough to keep the blood pushing through her heart whether it liked it or not.” Read X-RAY by Cathryn Rose from our summer issue 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

X-ray

By Cathryn Rose

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“Things poets tend to love: the moon, birds, horses, heartbreak, the phrase which is to say. Things poets tend to hate: football.” Lace up & join our own Hannah Smith as we dig into an essay by Amos Taub from 1951 in a brand new DISPATCH FROM THE ARCHIVES 🏈 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Dispatch from the Archives | Amos Taub, Summer 1951

By Hannah Smith

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🚨 New review alert 🚨 “If Minor is making an argument, it’s that perhaps instead of grasping at disappearance, humankind is grasping at transcendence” Read @clairehopple.bsky.social on HOW TO DISAPPEAR AND WHY by Kyle Minor (via @sarabandebooks.bsky.social) 💥 southwestreview.com/majoring-in-...

Majoring in the Minor Perspectives

By Claire Hopple

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“The cover of my book had been bestowed to me like a vision years before when the novel was merely the germ of an idea, a jellyfish swimming desperately in the lunar waters of my brain.” First up from our summer issue, read SPLENDOR AT NIGHT by Mark Haber 🌙 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

Splendor at Night

By Mark Haber

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We partnered w/ the best record store The End of All Music @fatpossumrecords.bsky.social to gift y'all their latest collab: HOSPITALITY STATE OF MIND, a collection of blues and gospel recordings curated by Lenny Kaye 🎶 Free w/ our summer issue. Get after it. 💥 southwestreview.com/subscribe/

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“Bush points out that growing up is not synonymous with growing wise, and that most of adulthood is just defending conclusions one has arrived at by accident.” @formermissnj.bsky.social reviews LEARNING by Courtney Bush, out now via Joyland 💥 southwestreview.com/the-degradin...

The Degrading Experience of Learning

By Shy Watson

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“Garvey’s commitment to specifics, to precise, felt descriptions, is a master class in vibes.” Mila Jaroniec reviews MIDWESTERN DEATH TRIP by Meaghan Garvey, out now via Panamerica Books 💥 southwestreview.com/hello-strang...

Hello, Stranger

By Mila Jaroniec

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“He made the mistake of one day showing to Gina his ball of gold, which was the size of a baseball.” Read THE GOLDEN BALL by Barry Gifford from his new collection THE EXCEPTION, out now via 7 Stories 💥 southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

The Golden Ball

By Barry Gifford

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