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The Quail Bell Crew's Most Influential Books of the 2010s
By The Editors
The 2010s were a roller coaster of radical progress, pain, and resistance. Along the way were the books that paved the individual paths of our own crew to inspire our writing and personal journeys. So it is only fitting that we share our picks with you.
Because there are so many books that transcend time, our picks are a mixture of books published in this decade as well as previous decades.
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Runway Trends I'm Most Excited to Wear in 2020
We're rolling into the Roaring 2020s, and I'm so damn ready to wear some bold new fashions...and resurrect some old favorites. Besides flapper dresses and cocktail parties, we can expect revamped favorites from the early days of the millennium and new decade-setting innovations. So if you're looking for suggestions on how to rock the runway trends, stay tuned for my own personal assessment of what will be the best runway trends of 2020 to wear on the daily.
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An Unlikely Romance
By Ghia Vitale
Looking for something to read during the holidays? Reading A Polar Bear In Love Vol. 1 by Koromo is the perfect way to warm your heart during the winter. If you’re looking for a good manga to read that features 2 animal characters as a cute queer couple, this is for you.
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The Best Song of the Decade: A Slightly Informed Opinion Well-ArguedBy Christopher Sloce  Photo by Kenny Sun You can’t stream the best song of the decade on Spotify, even though it’s by the best rapper of the decade. You can listen to it on Youtube, where, in its top 3 iterations, there’s a FMV cut together with Looney Tune clips, a black and white lyrics video with wrong lyrics, and one including a static picture of Kendrick Lamar, said best rapper of the decade. It is a song where the best rapper of the decade isn’t even the best part of the song--not that he’s bad, but in the same way that on a Dinosaur Jr song, the best part is a guitar solo--because he is busy laying foundation and tensions for the final bits of release in the song. The song, however, is not cathartic. The song is not an anthem, but an anti-anthem, down to its knotty relationship with the audience. The song is “Cartoons and Cereal” by Kendrick Lamar and Gunplay.
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It All Hurts: A Cats ReviewBy Christopher Sloce  The drama’s done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck. - Moby Dick
This was not made for you. This was not made for anyone. The only conceivable group that this was made for was as the cheesecake for actual, factual, practical non-jellicle cats. But they're going to get bored and play with a tag on a shirt instead. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
'Tis The Season To Dismantle Diet CultureBy Ghia Vitale  Photo Credit: Pexels.com Here’s your annual reminder that it’s okay to enjoy food on the holidays. Also, keep your eyes on your own plate instead of shaming someone else for what’s on theirs. Food shaming, food policing, and fatphobia kill any kind of cheer the holidays have to offer.
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Your Rap Lyrics are Bad, and You Should Feel Bad
On November 25th, 2019, Billie Eilish was named Billboard’s Woman of the Year after a successful chart-climbing and record-breaking year. Just one year ago, Eilish confirmed she had Tourette Syndrome while addressing video compilations of her tics. When addressing why she never spoke about it previously, she simply wrote, “I’ve just never wanted people to think of [Tourette] every time they think of me.”
Fast forward to a few weeks later on December 10th of this year, rapper and TV personality Nick Cannon released “Pray for Him”, a new diss track against Eminem. The track is the second installment of a reawakened feud between the two rappers, which began in 2009 with Eminem’s “Bagpipes from Baghdad”. In the song, Eminem alludes to a relationship between himself and Mariah Carey, who was married to Cannon at the time. Cannon brought up racist lyrics from Eminem’s discography while Carey not-so-subtly dissed him in her song “Obsession”. Though it stayed quiet for some time, the two reignited the decade-long feud after Cannon appeared on T.I.’s podcast ExpidTIously. When T.I. asked what his reaction was to the track, Cannon responded with his memories of the incident: "This m--------- drops a song, talking s---.[He was calling Mariah] all kinds of [names]. I'm like, this is my wife. This is my new wife. I wrote a letter first….saying, 'Look, I respect you as an artist. I'm actually a fan and I think you're one of the best to ever do it. But from man to man, you talking out of pocket to my wife. You gotta be held accountable for that so I need to see you face-to-face.'" The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Editing Her Plumage: An Anthology of Women's Writings from Quail Bell MagazineBy Alex Carrigan  The last decade of my life was spent realizing that I wanted to be an editor. I got a real taste for it when I began journalism school and worked on a literary magazine in my spare time, but as time passed, I found myself taking on more and more editing projects. I soon began editing for literary organizations, had my first real career editing news articles, and am currently editing a magazine for a non-profit. The more I drifted into editing nonfiction and news content, the more I started to miss editing literature and other literary projects. The opportunities to do so were limited in my area, but in 2019, I started to search for more literary editing opportunities to hopefully segue into a career at a publisher or something related.
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When Fatness Meets Sci-Fi
By Ghia Vitale
Thanks to fatphobia, fat people still lack meaningful representation in most kinds of media. Science fiction is no exception. Fortunately, Ali Thompson, a renowned fat activist and writer, decided to author They Don’t Make Plus Size Spacesuits, a small collection of sci-fi short stories that describe how fat people suffer in so-called “utopian societies” that are actually very dystopian and fatphobic.
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OK MillennialsBy Leah Mueller  Dear Millennials:
I have a confession to make. I am a Boomer. I like to con myself with inner dialogue like, “I’m a CUSP Boomer! Almost a Gen X-er!” However, I was born in 1959. This makes me a solid Boomer (though not like those hippies-turned stockbrokers, who came of age a few years after I was born). So, yeah, I’ve taken note of the OK Boomer hashtag. I mean, who hasn’t? I’ve an embarrassing confession to make: I still have an AOL email account. It is, in fact, my main email address. However, I’m not some Luddite who has to fetch one of her kids to help her create an email attachment. I’ve been using computers since I was in my 30s. Though I came late to the party, I did arrive. And I haven’t left yet. I understand what you’re saying about Boomer entitlement, because I’m jealous of most of the people in my age group. My peers had parents who put their kids through college. In my 20s, I belonged to a scrappy social group, made up of loosely affiliated members who were too cool for university. Still, a lot of my memories involve fucking boyfriends in dorm rooms and hanging out with them at their parents’ after they went home for the summer. My friends pondered rebellion from the safety of backyard hammocks, as they drank homemade lemonade and read dogeared copies of Our Bodies, Ourselves. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
The Cat Haiku Book For Every Season
By Ghia Vitale
Remember Neko Atsume, the mobile game app that where the goal is to take pictures of animated cats? Well, the brand has released an official poetry book called Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector Haiku―Seasons of the Kitty that advertises itself as “Haiku For Cat Lovers.”
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Long-Time Contributor Included in New Short Story AnthologyBy The Editors  Image Courtesy of Guts Publishing Our very own Alex Carrigan, resident reviewer and all-around kickass person, makes an appearance in Guts Publishing's debut anthology Stories About Penises: An anthology of short stories and poetry.
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Endless CycleBy Alex Carrigan CW: This review discusses sexual and violent material that may be uncomfortable for some readers.  Confucius once said "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." This is generally said to mean that revenge will often hurt the person seeking revenge in the process, either resulting in their literal death or their figurative death, where the pursuit of revenge cost them everything in the process to the point where revenge itself is ultimately hollow. While it is difficult to say if every act of revenge is as destructive as Confucius intoned, there is the question of what would happen if such a quest for revenge doesn't result in just two graves, but an entire new cemetery's worth of them.
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Understanding the Threat of the Mountain Valley Pipeline By Joanna Patzig  A photo of an excavator on an easement in Elliston Virginia. As the year and decade comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on a project that has been changing the landscape since it was approved in 2014: The Mountain Valley Pipeline (abbreviated as MVP.) This project is one of two pipelines planned to carry natural gas through Virginia, but since its inception it has been fraught with mismanagement and disregard for local citizens and the environment.
The community has widely rejected and protested the pipeline, making amazing efforts to protect an area that I’m proud to have grown up in. There have been protests, tree sitters, and inspiring legal action that give me hope that Virginia will turn towards clean energy despite the corrupt forces that be. Unfortunately, a lot of people seem to be unaware of the harm caused by these projects, and equally of our power as citizens to fight them. Dr. Emily Satterwhite is a professor of Appalachian Studies at Virginia Tech who has been involved with protesting the pipeline since 2017. She graciously agreed to speak to me about the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and to shed light on the issues surrounding it for fellow concerned citizens. You can read the interview below: The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Fart Anime For The SoulBy Ghia Vitale  Onara Gorou (also called Onara Goro) is a short-form anime series that focuses on farts. In other words, fart anime is a thing. "Onara" means "fart” in Japanese and Gorou is the name of the main character/fart. Warning: This anime isn’t compatible with Smell-O-Vision of any kind!
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