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Craft

In the Land of Difficult History
Elizabeth Lopeman on Trans Europe Express and Living (and Writing) Abroad

Propeller Q&A

"As soon as I started writing fiction with focus and intention it took place in Europe." A Q&A with Elizabeth Lopeman on her debut story collection, Trans Europe Express. more
Craft

Echolocation
Steven Church on Ultrasonic and the "state of not-knowing"

Propeller Q&A

"They regularly resisted the narrative push toward arc or crisis...instead operating much more associatively, where a dramatic event becomes yet another stop in an echolocation through the dark, only briefly illuminated and somewhat illusory in its meaning." more

Aisles

Is Everything Here On Fire?
Mary Margaret Alvarado's Hey Folly

Review by Daneen Bergland

The speaker of many of these poems wants to touch ecstasy with both the spirit and the flesh—wants to "eat hot dinner rolls & get smash beatific." more
The Conventionalist

Destruction Under Construction
Pittsburgh's past may be Portland's future. But does critricizing a city reveal more about the city or the critic?

By Patrick McGinty

Stefan Lorant escaped Hitler, was hired to play violin by Kafka, and then wrote the history of the city of Pittsburgh. Examining the weaknesses and biases of Lorant's prose, however, leads to a consideration of the weaknesses and biases of cities themselves—and of anyone who hopes to explain them... more

Publishing

Winged

Propeller Q&A
Through poetry, fiction, and essay, Winged: New Writing on Bees features thirty-six writers exploring the relationship between human and honeybee. Melissa Reeser Poulin, the book's editor, discusses the origin of the project and... more

Mostly Novels

The Metafictions We Tell Ourselves

By Emily Burns Morgan
John Fowles and Kurt Vonnegut both qualify as writers of "metafiction," but their approaches—and the conclusions they come to—couldn't be more different... more

Aisles

Homespun Sophisticate

By Alan Limnis
Kooser's latest is more than a "field book." more

Mostly Novels

Elizabeth Rosner's Beloved Obligation

Propeller Q&A
When the Holocaust is family history. more

Arts

Crafted, designed, choreographed, performed.

Film

Art form of the twentieth century.

Inquiry

Investigations and lived experience.

NFL Ad Report

Don't Fall for Revisionist Fake History
Daring visionaries had the courage to film automotive history. Then they took it back.

By Pete Tothero

A bold October film revealed the Dodge brothers were arrogant one percenters. In a historical outrage, a November film rewrote the record. more
NFL Ad Report

We Control the Grid
GE warns us that if it can score, it will

By Pete Tothero

Did General Electric just broadcast—directly, to the entire country—its plans to manipulate the power and air traffic grids for its own sexual gratification? more

Poetry

Language, pushed.

Sport

Reports from court and field.

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Fall 2014:

Craft

In the Land of Difficult History Elizabeth Lopeman on Trans Europe Express and Living (and Writing) Abroad

Craft

Echolocation Steven Church on Ultrasonic and the "State of Not-Knowing"

The Conventionalist

Destruction Under Construction Pittsburgh's Past May be Portland's Future. But Does Criticizing a city reveal more about the City or the Critic?

Books

Craft

In the Land of Difficult History Elizabeth Lopeman on Trans Europe Express and Living (and Writing) Abroad

Propeller Q&A

Craft

Echolocation Steven Church on Ultrasonic and the "state of not-knowing"

Propeller Q&A

Aisles

Is Everything Here On Fire? Mary Margaret Alvarado's Hey Folly

Review by Daneen Bergland

The Conventionalist

Destruction Under Construction Pittsburgh's past may be Portland's future. But does critricizing a city reveal more about the city or the critic?

By Patrick McGinty

Publishing

Winged

Mostly Novels

The Metafictions We Tell Ourselves

Aisles

Homespun Sophisticate

Mostly Novels

Elizabeth Rosner's Beloved Obligation

Arts

Portfolio

Where Do We Fit? Tyler Corbett and Erinn Kathryn's "Metro 14" reveals the landscape of Portland

By Sara Sutter

Film

Film

Meeting The Counselor on Its Terms The pitch-black comedy critics didn't understand

By Nicholas Pierce

Inquiry

NFL Ad Report

Don't Fall for Revisionist Fake History Daring visionaries had the courage to film automotive history. Then they took it back.

By Pete Tothero

NFL Ad Report

We Control the Grid GE warns us that if it can score, it will

By Pete Tothero

Poetry

Reading Lines

An Outbreak of Severalness Literal meanings are packaged commodities for passive consumers

Sport

Aside

List of NFL Players Whose Parents Were Clearly Huge Zeppelin Fans Evidence Being They Named Their Son Something I Hear as an Obvious Play On "Led Zeppelin"

by Pete Tothero

Propeller MAGAZINE

Contact

Staff

In the Land of Difficult History
Elizabeth Lopeman on Trans Europe Express and Living (and Writing) Abroad

Echolocation
Steven Church on Ultrasonic and the
"State of Not-Knowing"

Destruction Under Construction
Pittsburgh's Past May be Portland's Future. But Does Criticizing a city reveal more about the City or the Critic?

In the Land of Difficult History
Elizabeth Lopeman on Trans Europe Express and Living (and Writing) Abroad

Echolocation
Steven Church on Ultrasonic and the "state of not-knowing"

Is Everything Here On Fire?
Mary Margaret Alvarado's Hey Folly

Destruction Under Construction
Pittsburgh's past may be Portland's future. But does critricizing a city reveal more about the city or the critic?

Where Do We Fit?
Tyler Corbett and Erinn Kathryn's "Metro 14" reveals the landscape of Portland

**Meeting The Counselor on Its Terms**
The pitch-black comedy critics didn't understand

Don't Fall for Revisionist Fake History
Daring visionaries had the courage to film automotive history. Then they took it back.

We Control the Grid
GE warns us that if it can score, it will

An Outbreak of Severalness
Literal meanings are packaged commodities for passive consumers

List of NFL Players Whose Parents Were Clearly Huge Zeppelin Fans
Evidence Being They Named Their Son Something I Hear as an Obvious Play On "Led Zeppelin"