Book Reviews
Review of Appalachia’s Alternative to Mainstream America by Paul Salstrom
As a kid lying on the floor beneath the big passive-solar windows of the house my mom designed on a piece of graph paper, paging through the large-format Whole Earth Catalog, I sensed the empowering impulse to take tools into one’s own hands and live closer to the source of things.
“Holding a Stuffed Raccoon Up to the Sky”: a review of Erin Carlyle’s Magnolia Canopy Otherworld
We must become the girl, but we must also become The Animal, the man, the trash stuck to skirts.
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The Waking is an online literary magazine and a part of the Ruminate creative community that houses high-quality literary writing about what it’s like to be human. We are interested in short-form prose and image-text hybrid work. This art can be beautiful, it can be strange, we just ask that it feels true.