Posts By: Josh

I love the quicksilver intuitions, the summoning of wind and light, the variations John Hay plays in his fine responses to the natural world and the life of our surrounding oceans, in particular. We both live on the Northeast coast,…

Chick Flexhardt grinned at the banner Grandma and he and his cousins and siblings had made a decade past—1961—from felt scraps and home-boiled glue, a dozen colors: WELCOME TO THE LAKE. He himself had cut and glued the last E…

I met John Hay only once. A quiet, watchful man, he had a pair of binoculars on a strap around his neck, just in case. I liked that. It gave an assuring sense of continuity between the man and his…

Making the collages for Ecotone began as active procrastination last February. A thesis paper loomed and in between finishing the paintings and writing the paper I compulsively cut and glued. There was a freedom in this side trip that benefited…

  Emily Louise Smith: The energetic style and colors of your paintings convey whimsy and humor—I think of those exaggerated, long-limbed characters—and yet some also hint at misfortune. Your work seems both playful and ominous. Kirsten Sims: Playful and ominous,

Ben Fountain's foreword to Lookout Books's new anthology of Ecotone fiction, Astoria to Zion Some years ago I met an American who’d lived in Senegal for a time, a woman who told me in passing of a traditional Senegalese greeting…

The third novel of Thomas E. Kennedy’s Copenhagen Quartet appeared in the United States in June 2013, in the United Kingdom in November. The Quartet consists of four independent novels set in the Danish capital, each in a different season…