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Vito Gulla

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Vito Gulla is a writer based outside of Philadelphia. He holds an MFA from Wilkes University and teaches English and film at Delaware County Community College. His fiction has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles, Pithead Chapel, Subtopian, and Mulberry Fork Review.

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Average rating: 3.5 · 8 ratings · 0 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles - Issue Three by Robin Wyatt Dunn (Editor), Jesse Shipway, Rob Talbert 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Subtopian: Selected Stories: Volume 2 by Trevor D. Richardson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kirby Light (Contributor), Steve Gronert Ellerhoff (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Click, Issue 22, September 2015 by Jeremiah Tolbert (Editor), Barry Graham (Contributor), Vito Gulla (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Review of Ex Partum

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At the midpoint of Emma Burnett’s Ex Partum, the exhausted mother protagonist, Panya, makes the startling realization that you can feed your baby a biscuit instead of an undefined goo called nutribulbs. In a scene that’s supposed to be serious, Panya is shocked to learn that food is a perfectly good substitute for the novella’s central nutrient-dens

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