Forthcoming from MOLOTOV EDITIONS, November, 2023. Poetry from internationally acclaimed novelist, essayist, and poet JIM NISBET. A seminal figure in the West Coast Noir Renaissance, Nisbet wrote this book during the worldwide pandemic, finished shortly before his death in September, 2022.

“Lethal Injection is an unheralded masterpiece of the Noir genre. Everyone who loves Noir should read this brilliant book.”— James Ellroy

“Jim Nisbet is a poet...[who] mixes the irony of Dantesque situations with lyric narration, and achieves a luxuriant cocktail that truly leaves the reader breathless.” — Drood’s Review

EDITED by Gillian Conoley. Issue 27 features cover art, Line of People in Purple by Katherine Bradford, and new fiction, poetry and visual art from Jeffrey Pethybridge, Julie Carr, Carolina Ebeid , Brandon Downing, Maxine Chernoff and more…

From the Interview:

“I started writing spontaneously after discovering Kerouac when I was about fifteen and experienced a very clear connection to that wellspring … In Happiness—that automatism plays through my main character, freelance writer Wally Jack Mack., and his infatuation with extra-dimensional medium Kartinie Thinie … I guess you could say I was channeling Wally Jack—as a fictional character—similar to the way he channels Kartinie …”

“Hitchcock is a woman: she is called Claudia Piñeiro and she lives in Buenos Aires.” Corriere della Sera

Elena Knows, by Argentine crime novelist Claudia Piñeiro, take as its main character an aging widow—suffering from end stage Parkinson’s—whose only daughter has been found hanging from the bell tower of the neighborhood church in Buenos Aries. Translated by Frances Riddle.