In the recent documentary, My Beautiful Broken Brain, a thirty-four-year-old woman in London records her recovery from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) following a massive stroke. While watching, I couldn’t help but relive my own experiences…
Posts Published by August Amoroso
August is a fiction editor at Portland Review and an MFA student at Portland State. He’s working on a novel. He is interested in place and identity, trauma and meaning.
Ethics in Publishing: Genre Bending and Pushing the Craft
In the first chapter of her instructional text Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin observes that “getting an act or an idea across isn’t all a story does. A story is made out of language, and…
Personal and Politically Poignant: A Review of CutBank 88
CutBank, the University of Montana’s biannual literary journal, features fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction by both established and emerging authors. The journal’s most recent edition, CutBank 88, exhibits a distinct Americanness in terms of place and identity. Like…