“The Strands” by M./Megan Milks
by Foglifter PressNov 12, 2020Foglifter Features, Volume Three
Review of Phantom Advances by Mary Lynn Reed
by Joanna Acevedo | September 5, 2023 | Book Reviews | 0 Comments
The stories in Phantom Advances, out now from Split Lip Press by debut author Mary Lynn Reed, are often hard to take. They are filled with yearning—frequently to an uncomfortable degree, and in many cases, they do not have happy endings. But they are able to capture...
Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian Reviewed
by Joanna Acevedo | August 15, 2023 | Book Reviews | 0 Comments
Cleo Qian’s Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go, set alternately in Japan, China, Korea and America, is reminiscent of a disco ball—no matter which way you turn it, it remains luminous, catching the light and sending shards of brilliance into the air. Forthcoming from Tin...
Interview with Allison Blevins, author of Cataloguing Pain
by Joanna Acevedo | July 17, 2023 | Interviews | 0 Comments
Your work is classified as a lyric memoir. Can you speak to this definition and what genre means to you (and as a queer person, potentially)? I wanted to tell our story—my story, my husband’s story, our life together with our children. At first, I...
Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s Happy Stories Mostly Anthology Reviewed
by Joanna Acevedo | June 27, 2023 | Book Reviews | 0 Comments
The stories in Happy Stories, Mostly, which is forthcoming from Feminist Press this June, are not happy—they do not even pretend to be happy. No, most of these stories are tragic—within these pages, a sister betrays her brother over a menial job, a mother mourns...
A Review of Journal Of A Black Queer Nurse by Britney Daniels
by Joanna Acevedo | May 1, 2023 | Book Reviews | 0 Comments
Britney Daniels’ Journal of A Black Queer Nurse, forthcoming from Common Notions in May 2023, promises to deliver, and it does. Daniels is a conversational, likable writer from start to finish, but the stories she tells are far from easy to read. Told in a series of...

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Check out Joanna Acevedo’s review of Cleo Qian (@clllqian)’s debut short story collection, “LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO” on the Foglifter blog. Released by Tin House, this electric collection is full of dating simulations, social experiments, supernatural karaoke machines, and so much more. ![]()
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“Cleo Qian’s Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go, set alternately in Japan, China, Korea and America, is reminiscent of a disco ball—no matter which way you turn it, it remains luminous, catching the light and sending shards of brilliance into the air...We, the reader, are looking at these women. Perhaps we are the only ones who are. They ache to be seen, and as welook at them, we learn more about what it means to look, to be overlooked, what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a minority, and somehow, we learn more about ourselves as well.”![]()
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