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Literary publisher & book reviews site, EST. 2011 #babyeatbooks https://heavyfeatherreview.org/

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Burn the edges so there is no picture at the link in bio 🔥 Side A Flash Fiction + Mini-interview: “How I Forgot the Picture of Us as Babies” by Niles Baldwin #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/27/u...

heavyfeatherreview.orgSide A Flash Fiction: “How I Forgot the Picture of Us as Babies” by Niles BaldwinHow I Forgot the Picture of Us as Babies My cousin said would I like to burn a picture of us from when we were babies? I said no. My cousin said but if we do then we will remember it more. I said w…
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Vibrate through the walls and floorboards to the link in bio 🎶 Short Fiction for Haunted Passages: “The House of Mirrors” by Yeonjin Kim #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/26/h...

heavyfeatherreview.orgShort Fiction for Haunted Passages: “The House of Mirrors” by Yeonjin KimEach autumn, the same hollow weight returns. This year it arrived with force, summoned by a conversation a month prior, when I had dared to mention the firm’s new lease. “A private office, you say?…
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Drag yourself to the office at the link in bio🦶 New Autofiction: “The Worst Feet in Middle Village” by Mitch Levenberg #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/22/l...

heavyfeatherreview.orgNew Autofiction: “The Worst Feet in Middle Village” by Mitch LevenbergThe week I had pink eye was one of the best weeks of my life. I was in 6th grade and president of my class, not because of my leadership qualities but because I could spell antidisestablishmentaria…
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Read about the problematics of reading (don’t read around!) 🦋 Marcus Pactor Talks to Lance Olsen about His Most Recent Novel An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/21/a...

heavyfeatherreview.orgMarcus Pactor Talks to Lance Olsen about His Most Recent Novel An Inventory of Benevolent ButterfliesLance Olsen is one of America’s most formally inventive and intellectually stimulating novelists. Few writers have been as consistently excellent over the past thirty-plus years. In that time, he h…
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Keep the old tooth at the link in bio 🦷 New Haunted Passages Flash Fiction: “The Tooth Fairy” by Miles Greaves #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/19/t...

heavyfeatherreview.orgNew Haunted Passages Flash Fiction: “The Tooth Fairy” by Miles Greaves“You have to put your tooth under your pillow for the Tooth Fairy,” said the mother. “I want to keep it,” said the boy. “Ha ha,” said the mother. “What are you going to do with an old tooth?” “Just…
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Unite the incompatible at the link in bio ⬆️ ⬇️ Book Review: Daniel Barbiero Reads Paul Éluard & Max Ernst’s Surrealist Collaboration Repetitions & Misadventures of Immortals #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/15/e...

heavyfeatherreview.orgBook Review: Daniel Barbiero Reads Paul Éluard & Max Ernst’s Surrealist Collaboration Repetitions & Misadventures of Immortals“Max and I were at Verdun together and used to shoot at each other.” This was how French poet Paul Éluard drolly described his first encounter with the German artist Max Ernst. Each had served in h…
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Vi Khi Nao in Conversation with Poet & Scientist Kim Barke about Her Collections State to State & Months at a Time #babyeatbooks Read the full author conversation at the link in bio 👆 heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/08/b...

heavyfeatherreview.orgVi Khi Nao in Conversation with Poet & Scientist Kim Barke about Her Collections State to State & Months at a TimeKim Barke is a queer poet, playwright, composer, publisher, and creative director whose work defies conventional categorization. She holds a PhD in pharmacology and toxicology and an MFA in creativ…

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Amazing review of HIDDEN RIVER from the good people at Heavy Feather...check it out, folks!

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Follow the hidden river to the link in bio 👆 Fiction Review: Mia Carroll Reads @saralippmann.bsky.social’s Sophomore Novel Hidden River @tortoisebooks.bsky.social #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/05/h...

heavyfeatherreview.orgFiction Review: Mia Carroll Reads Sara Lippmann’s Sophomore Novel Hidden RiverCassandra Trout narrates her days as a retail associate at an Eileen Fisher store in Philadelphia and her sleepless nights alone in Hidden River, Sara Lippmann’s sharp second novel. When she receiv…
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Get the pigs, get the job at the link in bio 🐷 Fictional Dispatch from l’Hôtel Dauphin by Emily Rems: “Apartment” #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/07/a...

heavyfeatherreview.orgFictional Dispatch from l’Hôtel Dauphin by Emily Rems: “Apartment”At first glance, they looked just like babies. Frozen, lifeless newborns still curled up as if they had never left the warm insides of their mothers. But once I got a little closer, I saw what they…
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Our first installment! Really excited for this feature to take us weird places. Visit l’Hôtel Dauphin and wait for nothing at the link in bio 🕷️ New Fiction from l’Hôtel Dauphin: “The Silovik’s Corpse” by Theo Yurevitch #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/06/y...

heavyfeatherreview.orgNew Fiction from l’Hôtel Dauphin: “The Silovik’s Corpse” by Theo YurevitchThe stain is in the middle of the bed, but the silovik’s wife never sleeps in the middle of the bed. She sleeps on the left side even when she is alone, which is much of the time. Polina is sure of…
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Follow the hidden river to the link in bio 👆 Fiction Review: Mia Carroll Reads @saralippmann.bsky.social’s Sophomore Novel Hidden River @tortoisebooks.bsky.social #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/05/h...

heavyfeatherreview.orgFiction Review: Mia Carroll Reads Sara Lippmann’s Sophomore Novel Hidden RiverCassandra Trout narrates her days as a retail associate at an Eileen Fisher store in Philadelphia and her sleepless nights alone in Hidden River, Sara Lippmann’s sharp second novel. When she receiv…
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Visit the link in bio to devote yourself to delivery 🍔🍕🍟🍚 Flavor Town USA Short Fiction: "Our Only Violence" by Ryan Bender-Murphy #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/10/01/b...

heavyfeatherreview.orgFlavor Town USA Short Fiction: “Our Only Violence” by Ryan Bender-Murphy“No gloves, no utensils,” was how the note ended. I didn’t notice this until I had parked in front of the house. I would usually leave the white to-go bag at the door, but for this order, it was re…
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Find mental stability and survival in words at the link in bio 🖋️ Fiction Review: Jarrod Campbell Reads Nate Lippens’ New Wisconsin Novel Bastards @semiotexte.bsky.social #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/30/b...

heavyfeatherreview.orgFiction Review: Jarrod Campbell Reads Nate Lippens’ New Wisconsin Novel BastardsWe collect memories and glean from experiences in the hope that they amount to something. Anything. We use these collections to fashion ourselves into something presentable. More human. We strive, …

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“Moskovich does not stage history as background material that explains the lovers from a safe distance. History is in the bed with them.” In @hfr.bsky.social, Elena Rotzokou reviews Yelena Moskovich’s new novel, “Nadezhda in the Dark” - heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/28/n...

heavyfeatherreview.org“History in the Bed”: Elena Rotzokou Reads Yelena Moskovich’s New Novel-in-Verse Nadezhda in the DarkYelena Moskovich’s Nadezhda in the Dark begins in a room so still it almost seems sealed: two women in bed in Berlin, the lights off, neither speaking. From that nearly immobile setup, the book bui…
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Embrace contradiction. Hold on to hope at the link in bio 🛌 “History in the Bed”: Elena Rotzokou Reads Yelena Moskovich’s New Novel-in-Verse Nadezhda in the Dark #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/28/n...

heavyfeatherreview.org“History in the Bed”: Elena Rotzokou Reads Yelena Moskovich’s New Novel-in-Verse Nadezhda in the DarkYelena Moskovich’s Nadezhda in the Dark begins in a room so still it almost seems sealed: two women in bed in Berlin, the lights off, neither speaking. From that nearly immobile setup, the book bui…
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Check out the link in bio to avoid a slow, cold case of hindsight 🥶 “Theseus, Snow: A Journey through Hindsight”: Abriana Jetté Reads Rosanna Warren’s Seventh Poetry Collection @wwnorton.com #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/24/h...

heavyfeatherreview.org“Theseus, Snow: A Journey through Hindsight”: Abriana Jetté Reads Rosanna Warren’s Seventh Poetry CollectionHindsight, Rosanna Warren’s seventh collection of poetry, looks back as it moves forward. A whiplash of recognition, we follow a speaker growing older alongside a country growing apart. The collect…
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Visit the link in bio to refuse the cold vocabulary of management 📈 Poetry Review: Marina Carreira Reads Hugo Dos Santos’ Collection Reduction in Force #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/23/r...

heavyfeatherreview.orgPoetry Review: Marina Carreira Reads Hugo Dos Santos’ Collection Reduction in ForceIn Reduction in Force, Hugo Dos Santos writes from the fraught position of an immigrant father whose sense of arrival has been tethered—perhaps too tightly—to work. While the book takes its title f…
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Chase the liberating spirit to the link in bio 🌍 Fiction Review: Mel Kenne Reads Vincent Czyz’s Collection Old Man Evil & Other Stories #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/22/o...

heavyfeatherreview.orgFiction Review: Mel Kenne Reads Vincent Czyz’s Collection Old Man Evil & Other StoriesThe twelve stories in this collection are introduced with an epigraph by F.G. Lorca relating to his idea concerning the nature of duende, in a quote by a renowned Flamenco singer who says, “All tha…
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Fiction Review: Emily Capettini Reads Lauren E. Osborn’s Collection Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl #babyeatbooks Face your creature at the link in bio 🪲 heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/21/e...

heavyfeatherreview.orgFiction Review: Emily Capettini Reads Lauren E. Osborn’s Collection Entomology of the Pin-Up GirlLauren E. Osborn’s Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl opens with a dedication that is also a promise of what we’ll find inside: “for the insects and girls and those stuck somewhere in-between.” The stor…
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Hybrid Essay + Mini-interview for Side A: “Post-Mortem Report No. 0607-EX” by Atreus Fong #babyeatbooks Read the full report at the link in bio 🩻 heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/17/f...

heavyfeatherreview.orgHybrid Essay for Side A: “Post-Mortem Report No. 0607-EX” by Atreus FongPOST-MORTEM REPORT NO. 0607-EX EXAMINER: [REDACTED]SUBJECT: Male, 29 years old.DATE OF EXAMINATION: Ongoing. I. EXTERNAL EXAMINATION The body presents no visible or any obvious trauma. Facial muscu…
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Face the impossible freak events in your neighborhood at the link on bio 🏡 Haunted Passages Short Fiction: “The Patron Saint of All Domestic Mishaps” by Sarp Sozdinler #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/15/d...

heavyfeatherreview.orgHaunted Passages Short Fiction: “The Patron Saint of All Domestic Mishaps” by Sarp SozdinlerFirst, the dryer broke. Then the walkie-talkie in Brian’s room. Then my mother-in-law’s little marble angels lined along the topmost shelf of our china cabinet. No doubt we were being tested in som…
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We asked Jace & Rachel at @carrionbloombooks.bsky.social if we could run an excerpt from his chapbook, Letters from a Strange Land, as a sort of memorial in letters/digital marker to our great friend. Rest in peace, buddy #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/11/l...

heavyfeatherreview.orgRyan Bollenbach: A Memorial Excerpt from His Chapbook Letters from a Strange LandI first got acquainted with Ryan through his submission to our print issue, Vol. 6, where he sent two poems called “sometimes the word for tender isn’t tender.” Fortunately I’ll always have these p…
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How do you tell your air fryer you love them? Find out at the link in bio 🍗 Poetry for Flavor Town USA: “A Love Letter to My Emotionally-Intelligent Air Fryer” by Anne Panning #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/10/e...

heavyfeatherreview.orgPoetry for Flavor Town USA: “A Love Letter to My Emotionally-Intelligent Air Fryer” by Anne PanningEveryone said Goodwill will soon be flooded with you and your ilk. Butlast night I snuggled four frozen ovals of cheese bread inside your dark chamber. As if putting kids down for naps. Shh. When I…
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New York, New York writ realer than the real thing at the link in bio 🏙️ Fiction from the Future: “New York, New York: A Wikipedia Page” by Subrina Moorley #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/07/m...

heavyfeatherreview.orgFiction from the Future: “New York, New York: A Wikipedia Page” by Subrina MoorleyNew York, New York From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on October 22, 2046. “New York” and “New York City” redirects here. For other uses, see Old N…

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This book completely (dance)floored me when I read it. Sincere thanks to @coffeehousepress.bsky.social

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Climb the crescendo of the festival at the link in bio 🎼 “This Landscape Is a Monster”: HFR Editor @upandadamagain.bsky.social Reviews Mónica Ojeda’s Novel Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun @coffeehousepress.bsky.social #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/04/e...

heavyfeatherreview.org“This Landscape Is a Monster”: Adam Camiolo Reviews Mónica Ojeda’s Novel Electric Shamans at the Festival of the SunWe are living in a shared apocalyptic dream, go ask anyone. Every headline a prophecy of doom, every drizzle diluvian, every vibrato a volcano. The world is being undone, line by line, voice by voi…
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Climb the crescendo of the festival at the link in bio 🎼 “This Landscape Is a Monster”: HFR Editor @upandadamagain.bsky.social Reviews Mónica Ojeda’s Novel Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun @coffeehousepress.bsky.social #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/04/e...

heavyfeatherreview.org“This Landscape Is a Monster”: Adam Camiolo Reviews Mónica Ojeda’s Novel Electric Shamans at the Festival of the SunWe are living in a shared apocalyptic dream, go ask anyone. Every headline a prophecy of doom, every drizzle diluvian, every vibrato a volcano. The world is being undone, line by line, voice by voi…
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Decode the message at the link in bio 🖊️ Haunted Passages Flash Fiction: “Message from a Forlorn Mad Scientist” by Rachel Sterling #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/09/01/m...

heavyfeatherreview.orgHaunted Passages Flash Fiction: “Message from a Forlorn Mad Scientist” by Rachel SterlingThere was no way of telling where the messages were coming from exactly. Many attempts were made with sonar locating technological methods to zero in on their mysterious origin but to no avail. Dr.…
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Brace for the next one at the link in bio 🎈 New Hybrid for Side A: “Like the Air Is a Needle” by Kate Catinella #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/31/c...

heavyfeatherreview.orgNew Hybrid for Side A: “Like the Air Is a Needle” by Kate CatinellaSo the kids turn it into some sort of game with a lot of screaming. “How many balloons did you” POP AHHHHHHH “Did you say you bought again?” “Fifty, but it was a deal where you” POP AHHHHHHH “Let’s…

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“Three will outrun this decaying function if he’s far enough, fast enough, but emotions overwhelm him when he looks at the chair, because feelings aren’t his thing …” @happilander.bsky.social in @hfr.bsky.social heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/07/27/a...

heavyfeatherreview.org“Grief Algebra”: New Side A Flash Fiction by Mileva AnastasiadouGrief Algebra We sit in silence around a table of four. We’re only three, because someone is missing. His chair is empty and will remain silent until someone visits and sits there, unaware of the v…
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Check out the link in bio, chill at the movies 🍿 We’re excited to welcome Jacob back to our pages! New Side A Short Story: “Nobody Cares” by Jacob Austin #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/26/n...

heavyfeatherreview.orgNew Side A Short Story: “Nobody Cares” by Jacob AustinFinding himself with a rare Tuesday off, Laramie decides to catch a movie. He had been told the local theater offered five-dollar matinees on Tuesdays, and while there is not anything playing he pa…
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Five Poems by Jenny Grassl for Haunted Passages #babyeatbooks Visit the link in bio to check out the merging and transforming ideas in this photo-poetic collagescape 🧐 heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/25/j...

heavyfeatherreview.orgFive Poems by Jenny Grassl for Haunted PassagesThese poems are based on my engagement with The Thunder, Perfect Mind: a poem written by an unknown woman from Egypt in the fourth century. Pagan and Christian ideas were merging and transforming i…
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Roll with your dreams to the link in bio 💤 Haunted Passages: “Audrey Hepburn,” an Autofictional Dreamoir by Meghan Lamb #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/24/a...

heavyfeatherreview.orgHaunted Passages: “Audrey Hepburn,” an Autofictional Dreamoir by Meghan Lamb(A dreamoir inspired by Wendy C. Ortiz) I wake with a sharp pain behind my eyes, the kind that makes it difficult to open them. I rise in a fog of headache and blurred vision, taking careful, tende…