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pearseanderson's review
3.0
I'm the only person who has read this on Goodreads? OK, I'm fine with that. This wasn't a spectacular literary magazine. The best prose came in the beginning: Wendy Rawling's "Restraint." Some nice poetry throughout, but honestly a bit too much to parse out what's good/what I liked. The rest was just fine. Stories about dysfunctional families, love, sex, and baseball, nothing really groundbreaking. The most speculative was a short bit about a toaster-woman that was really magical realism. Felt kinda white to me, but I can't prove that. Definitely middle America, even the California piece read like it could've been Nevada. Wasn't super motivated to read any more, wasn't super convinced I learned that much. But it was very professionally done, and wasn't ever disgusting.
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