Brian Chappell

Animal Collection: An Interview with Colin Winnette

by Brian Chappell October 16, 2012 Reviews

Animal Collection is a new book of stories by Colin Winnette (author of Revelation, discussed here at THEthe). Like his previous book, it is a subtle blend of experimentation and dramaturgy. The concept: each story contains some kind of animal behaving in unusual and, in some cases, very human ways. From being cuckolded by a [...]

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Underground Revisited by Yahia Lababidi: With Introduction by Brian Chappell

by Brian Chappell March 1, 2011 Fiction

Introduction If we want to call Yahia Lababidi’s work since Trial by Ink fiction, we should do it for lack of a more accurate term. Like Trial, the following, titled “Underground Revisited,” exists between genres. We have an invented speaker and audience, and a steady flow of ideas and verbiage. But we don’t have a [...]

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Ur Poems: Brian Chappell

by Brian Chappell February 11, 2011 Fiction

It was the novel, specifically The Brothers Karamazov, that once and for all set me on the path toward dedicating my life to literature. Only recently has poetry come to occupy a similarly sacred space as the novel in my outlook. This delay is not due to any prejudice on my part, but more to [...]

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