Brick: A Literary Journal, Summer 2017

by Michael Helm (Editor), Rebecca Silver Slayter (Editor), Laurie D. Graham (Editor)

Don DeLillo returns to the grassy knoll
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks to Eleanor Wachtel
Reviews by Catherine Bush, Emily M. Keeler, and
August C. Bourré
Pura López Colomé translates C. D. Wright
Alexandria Peary’s invasive species
Saidiya Hartman on beauty and the tenement
Yves Bonnefoy boards Beckett’s dinghy
Jan Zwicky on learning free verse’s verbal music
Mark Anthony Jarman rescues a Croatian Madonna
Johanna Skibsrud on fact, fiction, and atrocity
Valerie Miles charts Bolaño’s America
Martha Baillie finds her future self in Paris
Janet Hong on the breath of haenyeo
Joni Murphy praises the wave
Mustapha Safadieh on violence and boredom
Cheston Knapp’s best Federer
Erica Johnson Debeljak on the landscape of loss
Shaun Pett follows Bruce Chatwin to Athos
Peter Lewis on Jim Harrison’s search for Machado
Michael Redhill achieves “fame”
Poetry by Natalie Shapero, Emily Dickinson, Fernando Pessoa, and Yusuf Saadi
Fiction by Shailja Patel and Antonio Di Benedetto

159 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Pamela · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've never before read a journal with such a mix of pieces, styles, and musings. The editors truly try to put a lot of different voices & works together. I do think there is a certain, overall style here: a looking in that looks out while retaining a very personal feel. It a writer's journal.

[Pearse Anderson · Rating 2 out of 5]

This really wasn't very good at all, but it wasn't terrible: just uninteresting, unmotivational, overall left me feeling sort of stale. The art was gorgeous and the design was well done, I just did not want to keep reading after I got about halfway. Glad it was thin.