New & Upcoming

  • Upcoming: "UFOs Over Humqaq"

    Will appear in ROVA August/September 2022:

    “Of all the people in the campground at Jalama State Park, I alone saw the UFOs. Quite literally, I could not believe my eyes. But there they were, soaring across the starry sky, alien, unlike anything I’d ever seen. “

  • Book cover of 2 am in Little America

    "2 A.M. in Little America - Review"

    Appeared in the Colorado Review Online Fall 2022:

    “Ostensibly responding to our own increasingly sundered political poles, Kalfus’s novel places the reader in an alternative history in which America has been decimated by a partisan-fueled civil war, forcing citizens to migrate to neutral host countries around the world. Not ten years ago, that premise would’ve seemed impossible. In 2022, Kalfus’s vision of America’s future feels depressingly salient.”

  • Upcoming: "Great Albums Explained: Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison"

    Will premier on YouTube Fall 2022:

    “Nine AM, and grey clouds hung over a granite fortress. It’s January 1968, and the mood, almost apocalyptic. The castle-like structure is Folsom prison, and it had a history as ominous as its gray walls. But Folsom’s greatest claim to fame was about to walk through its gates.”

  • Sellouts 1970: Love Story

    Appeared in MAYDAY Magazine, 2021:

    “Released in a time when Americans railed against the establishment and became increasingly progressive, Love Story offered a diversion of old-fashioned, heteronormative escapism. The message, banal: Love conquers all. The story, unoriginal: A wealthy Harvard preppie, Oliver Barrett IV, falls in love with Jennifer, a blue-collar student at Radcliffe. Parental and class dynamics complicate their relationship. Sound familiar? The story also cribs from Romeo and Juliet in terms of overall structure; the characters’ romance is just a tee-off for a fourth-act tragedy.”