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Artículo de Lisa Dillman sobre la traducción de groserías y blasfemias: «On Swearing in Translation», en la «Southwest Review» 110:2 (2025). (Gracias, Lisa, por la mención.)
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BLOODLINE is full of “characters motivated by ill intentions, bludgeoned with moments of dark comedy.” 📌ICYMI, P.S. Dean reviews the second novel by Lee Clay Johnson via Panamerica Books
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The South Dies Every Day: Lee Clay Johnson’s Bloodline
By P. S. Dean
https://southwestreview.com/the-south-dies-every-day/
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And just like that, we back! New KNOWN ASSOCIATES is now live, and in this ep Elizabeth Nelson hits the studio w/ the legend Jessica Hopper 💥 Listen below courtesy of
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Known Associates | Episode 3: Jessica Hopper - Southwest Review
Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts n episode three of “Known Associates,” a podcast brought to you by New Pony in affiliation with Southwest Review, the Paranoid Style singer-songwriter and cu...
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Sean Burns
10 days ago
Bill on Abel. This is so good.
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🚨 New review today Lee Clay Johnson “casts a spell of characters on the fringes of society meeting nefarious and often brutal ends.” Read P.S. Dean's review of BLOODLINE & grab a stocking stuffer via Panamerica Books 💥
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The South Dies Every Day: Lee Clay Johnson’s Bloodline
By P. S. Dean
https://southwestreview.com/the-south-dies-every-day/
11 days ago
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You think you know about Santa? Think again tbh 🎅 Kevin Sampsell Christmas oracle, spits hard facts about the holiday in THE 24 DAYS OF XMAS out now via
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The 24 Days of Xmas - Southwest Review
Below you’ll find two stories from a new zine by Kevin Sampsell with collages by Katie Price. The 24 Days of Xmas is out this month from Future Tense Books. Best enjoyed with a mug of spiked egg nog. ...
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The Paranoid Style is back w/ another banger off their upcoming album KNOWN ASSOCIATES via
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🔥 Listen to WHITE WINE WHATEVER below & chug your way through Elizabeth's ultimate wine-themed playlist 🍷
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Track Premiere | “White Wine Whatever”
By Elizabeth Nelson
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18 days ago
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New memoir from Abel Ferrara out now and who better to review the goods than our certified movie-guru
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NOBODY. THAT'S WHO. 😤
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Abel Ferrara’s Back Pages
By William Boyle
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Adrian Van Young
25 days ago
I reviewed Ana Paula Maia's novel On Earth As It Is Beneath for
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At the Edge of the Known | Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath
By Adrian Van Young
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“Hailed as South America’s answer to Cormac McCarthy,” Ana Paula Maia is back w/ a new novel ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH (trans Padma Viswanathan) ✨ Read
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At the Edge of the Known | Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath
By Adrian Van Young
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Travis Woods
27 days ago
Happy 88th to Ridley Scott—I wrote for
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about his misunderstood and marrow-sick masterpiece of the End Times, THE COUNSELOR. Not a noir thriller, or a cowboy noir, or a crime film at all; rather, THE COUNSELOR is Scott’s soap opera of the Grand Guignol.
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Bolito: Lost Worlds, Cautionary Stones, and The Counselor
By Travis Woods
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This Black Friday grab the gift that's gonna make all the haters jelly Sign up for a 1 year (or more) subscription & you'll get a David Lynch tote (designed by Barry Gifford), a SwR back issue, & INVASION 88 (Argentine punk comp LP) to put under the tree 🎄 Purchase:
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“RELEASE THE HORSE situates itself squarely in the space between Appalachian folklore and gonzo cosmic horror.” 📌 ICYMI, Andy Davidson reviews Matthew Mitchell’s story collection, out now via
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If You Care to Go, I Will Follow
By Andy Davidson
https://southwestreview.com/if-you-care-to-go-i-will-follow/
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“Chelosky’s not going for shock value—the tenderness of the bruises is too visible.” 📌 ICYMI, Laura Albert reviews FEMALE LONELINESS EPIDEMIC by Danielle Chelosky out now via Far West Press
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Cracking the Code of Female Loneliness | | Danielle Chelosky's Female Loneliness Epidemic
By Laura Albert
https://southwestreview.com/cracking-the-code-of-female-loneliness/
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Matthew Mitchell
about 1 month ago
dawg, I could not have asked for a more personally affecting review lmao bless
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and the incredible Andy fuckin Davidson
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“Wondrously weird and utterly familiar and of a world that’s doomed.” 🕳️ RELEASE THE HORSE, Matthew Mitchell’s debut horror collection, is out now via
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Only fitting to have our fave horror king Andy Davidson review the goodz 🖤
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If You Care to Go, I Will Follow
By Andy Davidson
https://southwestreview.com/if-you-care-to-go-i-will-follow/
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📣 New review today! Laura Albert writes: “Chelosky’s book impresses with the sense that we are being asked to pay careful attention to what is beneath the text.” FEMALE LONELINESS EPIDEMIC by Danielle Chelosky is out now via Far West Press ✨
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Cracking the Code of Female Loneliness | | Danielle Chelosky's Female Loneliness Epidemic
By Laura Albert
https://southwestreview.com/cracking-the-code-of-female-loneliness/
about 1 month ago
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“SEA, POISON is populated by funny moments of characters being well read and into literary history.” 📌 ICYMI, Kevin Sampsell reviews the new Caren Beilin novel, out now via New Directions
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The Good Kind of Bafflement | Caren Beilin’s Sea, Poison
By Kevin Sampsell
https://southwestreview.com/the-good-kind-of-bafflement-caren-beilins-sea-poison/
about 1 month ago
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💥 New review today! Read Kevin Sampsell on SEA, POISON by the "incendiary and very funny writer" Caren Beilin, out now via New Directions
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The Good Kind of Bafflement | Caren Beilin’s Sea, Poison
By Kevin Sampsell
https://southwestreview.com/the-good-kind-of-bafflement-caren-beilins-sea-poison/
about 1 month ago
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🎙️ We're back with the second episode of our new podcast KNOWN ASSOCIATES, hosted by Elizabeth Nelson In this ep, Elizabeth talks with
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from
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about the past, present, & future of all things DBT & PH 💥
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Known Associates | Episode 2: Patterson Hood
By Elizabeth Nelson
https://southwestreview.com/known-associates-episode-2-patterson-hood/
about 1 month ago
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⏰ Clock's ticking bbs! Our Submittable page opens 01 DEC Do. Not. Snooze.
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Cory Oldweiler
about 2 months ago
New piece from me
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on Brenda Lozano’s MOTHERS, trans. by Heather Cleary. Loved this novel, particularly the way it explores how “Fear and love are not separate things; on the contrary, they’re like two fires. One doubles the other.”
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Fear and Love Are like Two Fires | Brenda Lozano’s Mothers
By Cory Oldweiler
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💥 New review today! “A thriller with a social consciousness,” MOTHERS by Brenda Lozano (tr. Heather Cleary is out now via
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Fear and Love Are like Two Fires | Brenda Lozano’s Mothers
By Cory Oldweiler
https://southwestreview.com/fear-and-love-are-like-two-fires-brenda-lozanos-mothers/
about 2 months ago
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⏰ It's that time of year! ONLY your BEST. NO holds barred. NO excuses! 🥊
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Cory Oldweiler
about 2 months ago
Fantastic novel that I wrote about and contextualized in terms of DSP’s career. My
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piece from this past summer is here:
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CLASH Books
about 2 months ago
Yes!!!
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Happy mf HALLOWEEN!!!! 🎃 To finish our month-long fright-fest, read HE MADE ME by
@charleneelsby.bsky.social
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He Made Me
By Charlene Elsby
https://southwestreview.com/volume-110-number-3/he-made-me/
about 2 months ago
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Happy Halloween eve y'all. To pregame the big night, we got you covered 🔥 Read THE PIT by Maximiliano Barrientos translated by
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The Pit
By Maximiliano Barrientos (Translated by Will Vanderhyden)
https://southwestreview.com/volume-110-number-3/the-pit/
about 2 months ago
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Our own Hannah Smith combed through the cobwebs & plucked this poem from 1967 by Vincent Barrett Price 🕸️ Read her take on THE CYCLOPS' GARDEN in the latest (& certified spookiest) DISPATCH FROM THE ARCHIVE 💥
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Dispatch from the Archive: Vincent Barrett Price, 1967
By Hannah Smith
https://southwestreview.com/volume-110-number-3/dispatch-from-the-archive-vincent-barrett-price-1967/
about 2 months ago
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New from our horror issue: On the reissue of her cult classic THE ORANGE EATS CREEPS, out now via
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, Grace Krilanovich talks w/ Mike Corrao 💥 🎨
@nicolerifkin.bsky.social
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The Spectacle Of | An Interview with Grace Krilanovich
By Mike Corrao
https://southwestreview.com/volume-110-number-3/the-spectacle-of-an-interview-with-grace-krilanovich/
2 months ago
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Big Uniform heads at SwR HQ so we're stoked to host them for a spooky edish of THE GUEST LIST 🎶 Read their convo w/ Jimmy Cajoleas & grip their latest LP AMERICAN STANDARD now via
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The Guest List | Uniform
By Jimmy Cajoleas
https://southwestreview.com/volume-110-number-3/the-guest-list-uniform/
2 months ago
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“I think of my own overlapping compatriots who are women, and I want to call them all and start a band.” 📌 ICYMI, The Paranoid Style on Linda Rondstadt+ a new single from her upcoming album KNOWN ASSOCIATES
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Track Premiere | The Paranoid Style’s “It’s a Dog’s Breakfast”
By Elizabeth Nelson
https://southwestreview.com/track-premiere-the-paranoid-styles-its-a-dogs-breakfast/
2 months ago
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New freshie from the horror issue by Joe Koch 💎 Read the THE RETIREMENT HOME FOR PSYCHIC DETECTIVES 🔍 🎨
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The Retirement Home for Psychic Detectives
By Joe Koch
https://southwestreview.com/volume-110-number-3/the-retirement-home-for-psychic-detectives/
2 months ago
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Hay Festival
2 months ago
A Republic of Consciousness Prize spotlight on bold fiction and independent publishing – Rodrigo Fresán and Mark Haber talk to Lori Feathers at Hay Festival Forum Dallas. 📸: Kyle Montgomery
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Elizabeth Nelson
2 months ago
Big Paranoid Style news! New single "It's A Dog's Breakfast (for LR)" is available now! Plus new LP 'Known Associates' is available as a Bandcamp preorder! Check out the new tune, a tribute to my hero Linda Ronstadt, with an accompanying essay at Southwest Review!
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Podcast host, pal, & fave shredder The Paranoid Style shares a heater from her upcoming album + goes deep on Linda Ronstadt 🔥 Listen to “It's a Dog's Breakfast” below via
@barnonerecords.bsky.social
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Track Premiere | The Paranoid Style’s “It’s a Dog’s Breakfast”
By Elizabeth Nelson
https://southwestreview.com/track-premiere-the-paranoid-styles-its-a-dogs-breakfast/
2 months ago
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“Latin America is a perfect ecosystem for goth” Get grim w/ our music columnist Richard Villegas in the latest installment of HAY QUE VENIR AL SUR 🖤
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Hay que venir al sur | Soy Darks
By Richard Villegas
https://southwestreview.com/volume-110-number-3/hay-que-venir-al-sur-soy-darks/
2 months ago
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Our horror issue is chock-FULL of spookies & we're always down to s/o the goods of our homies 🖤 Read
@bopgoth.bsky.social
on Harris Lahti’s FORECLOSURE GOTHIC, out now via Astra House 💥
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Extreme Makeover, Gothic Edition
By Adrian Van Young
https://southwestreview.com/volume-110-number-3/extreme-makeover-gothic-edition/
2 months ago
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Joe Koch
2 months ago
Finally had a chance to crack open my copy of the
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horror issue and found my story illustrated by
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whose work I've followed for a few years. I'm not sure if the editors knew this; if so, thanks! If not, amazing confluence of energies, thanks!
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“I took a handful of mud into my bleeding hand, and stuffed it into my mouth, then started digging.” 📌 ICYMI, read EARTH EATER by Max Restaino from our horror issue
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Max Restaino
2 months ago
This is one of my favorite things I’ve written.
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xrafstar
2 months ago
my new story ✦ The Name of Your Disease 🧫
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brutally illustrated by
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and published by
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The terror train continues ⛓️💥 New drop today w/ THE NAME OF YOUR DISEASE by Porpentine If you don't have our print issue in the mail rn, nuthin will sv u tbh 😱
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The Name of Your Disease
By Porpentine
https://southwestreview.com/volume-110-number-3/the-name-of-your-disease/
2 months ago
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Beyond hyped to have Manuel Sánchez Viamonte from El Mato a un Policia Motorizado back in Dallas to party w/ us 🔥 Catch him in covo w/ Fernando A. Flores at
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for the
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this Sunday 19 OCT 🎞️
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“So, are you dead or not?” Our month-long scary scuttle rages on & we ain't quittin' 🚂 Read EARTH EATER by Max Restaino from our horror issue 🕳️
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Earth Eater
By Max Restaino
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2 months ago
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elle nash
3 months ago
excerpt from my recent short story, LIVE EVERY DAY, up at
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☠️The Chapter Maggot☠️
3 months ago
Hey, y'all! The
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horror issue is available to order! $6 shipped is an absolute steal, and these horror issues NEVER disappoint.
#booksky
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Volume 110, Number 3 - Southwest Review
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“The sound of severed muscle echoes wet through the room, dampened when the blade hits bone.” 📌 ICYMI, read LIVE EVERY DAY by
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Live Every Day
By Elle Nash
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David Leo Rice
3 months ago
Very excited to be in conversation about SQUIMBOP with the great
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in LA this coming Tues -- we started the conversation several years ago, w/r/t DODGE CITY 2:
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The Mythmaker Gazes at Himself: A Conversation with David Leo Rice | Los Angeles Review of Books
Matthew Specktor and author David Leo Rice discuss his book series, “A Room in Dodge City.”
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-mythmaker-gazes-at-himself-a-conversation-with-david-leo-rice/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNXiRZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhH85WtgQIGkcs8nWbfxOuNqTUbXJC6MmH_DsCOgl1CXWKmFxU8CDWQuQY0h_aem_kvSd1TJLLMvvyx3wzXpsng
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“Its role in Donnie Darko has dimensions that only some viewers can see.” 📌 ICYMI, read Danielle Chelosky on Joy Division in the latest edish of NEEDLE DROPS
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Needle Drops | Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
By Danielle Chelosky
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