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Author Archives: Chad Meadows

Trivia Barker Can’t Lose ||| Crack the Spine

March 23, 2016

Chad Meadows

I’m addicted to game-shows. One of the first things to pop into my head every morning is me standing face-to-face on a stage with Bob Barker, the fucking Elvis Presley of game show hosts. Every day I hear good ol’ … Continued

A Review of Lot Boy by Greg Shemkovitz

October 1, 2015

Chad Meadows

(Buffalo, NY: Sunnyoutside, 2015) You know that guy in your office?  You know the one I’m talking about.  That guy.  The one that is always the last person to get in and the first to leave.  The one that disappears … Continued

A Review of I Would Walk With My Friends If I Could Find Them by Jesse Goolsby

June 4, 2015

Chad Meadows

(New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) It’s strange how you can see the same things day after day and not give them a second thought. I ride a train into work every day. I keep my head down and … Continued

A Review of Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis

February 5, 2015

Chad Meadows

(New York, NY: Black Balloon Publishing, 2014) Butterflies.  That’s what they call that feeling of dread you experience deep down in the pit of your stomach before doing something that scares you, or after you’ve done something wrong. Tiny little explosions … Continued

A Review of Diary Of The Fall by Michel Laub

September 11, 2014

Chad Meadows

Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa (New York, NY: Other Press, 2014) It’s peculiar how ghosts will bump into you when you are least expecting them to.  How they’ll blindside you and drag you back to places long … Continued

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