5/29/2023 0 Comments Forget me hit me let me drink great quantities of clear, evil... by Katie Schmid![]() ![]() An old-school vibe, an air of knowing something underground that the shiny book clubs haven’t heard about yet. In the last year I’ve become addicted to these small, subversive texts-they’re like vinyl for book-lovers. The Future Tense chapbook may be palm-sized, but the lyric, dense prose takes over your entire world. Novellas, short memoir, and the curious chapbook. Ortiz, And the most interesting part is, they’re doing it in bite-size form. ![]() Future Tense published Chloe Caldwell’s breakout Legs Get Led Astray and the immersive Excavationby Wendy C. Run by literary community extraordinaire and Powell’s ambassador Kevin Sampsell, Future Tense has consistently published work that eviscerates everything I thought I knew about literature. It’s tough to admit when a cynical corporate slogan hits the mark, but I can’t think of a better way to describe Portland’s Future Tense Press and its portfolio of literary fire-starters. Small is huge, Wells Fargo tells us with a Pleasantville main street gloss. ![]()
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