THE BUSHWICK REVIEW #3

 

Did you know The Bushwick Review #3 is out now? You can find out all about it on the current issue page. Since this blog is dedicated to focusing on contributors’ creative endeavors beyond The Bushwick Review, I am instead going to write about that. Here’s three contributors and what they made in issue #3 and what they make everywhere else.

Alexander Beninato wrote the short story that opens this issue. When I started reading it, I thought it was going to be a nice domestic story about a young couple living an unhappy relationship of quiet desperation, but then it went somewhere obsessive and weird and awesome, and I’ll say no more. When Alex is not writing short stories, he’s in a band called The Aviation Orange and they have a new EP out called East of Here. Also, here is a sweet music video they shot a while back for their song “Radio”. 

Alla Ilyasova wrote the one-act play that closes The Bushwick Review #3, a play I have had the honor of seeing performed. She also wrote a play about the moon that I saw a first reading of this past weekend. I will be interested to see any of her future work as a playwright, because she does not follow conventions that other young playwrights or screenwriters sometimes get trapped in, the tendency to imitate dialogue or scene structure that you’ve seen in many other plays or TV or whatever. She wants to take risks in her writing and she’s not playing easy.

Tim Vienckowski’s contribution to The Bushwick Review #3 is about Bill Motherfucking Murray. Here is Tim’s porfolio site timtimtimtim.com (tim and timtim and timtimtim were already taken). He’s an amazing designer who proves that design can be both functional/informative, but also fun, artsy, and incredibly COLORFUL. Speaking of colorful, he also took the beautiful photograph that is this issue’s cover.