Some of the flora and fauna in Jacob M. Appel’s The Liars’ Asylum are real and others are made of painted silk and wire, but they are all as vibrant and memorable as the cast of characters whose lives they ornament. In this story collection published by Black Lawrence Press, Appel explores themes of love, disillusionment, and just getting along in the human condition, which is always difficult whether you are an orphan teen or a middle-age transporter of incapacitated …
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Tin House ‘Candy’ is Sweet & Twisted! A Review
In full disclosure, I submitted a story to the Tin House Candy issue in the hopes of busting into the sweet success of a major literary journal, and, as of this writing, my Submittable submission is still “in process.” Whether they’ve forgotten about it or pushed it onto consideration for another issue, I don’t know. Ok, now onto the review (im)proper… How could we at Aromatica Poetica not celebrate an issue which, although full of the tantalizing wrappings of candy …