A curious, bittersweet chapbook by David Lester of Mecca Normal. Afternoon Descends to Night adopts the look of the exclusive literary project, but instead uses a vital combination of drawings and prose bits to break-down literary pretensions. "What is your dream?" a crewcut demon figure asks a woman. "To be like everyone else," she replies in a typically atypical sequence that looks like it was smudged over the page with the kind of accidental precision that turns the mundane into the sublime. Very fine reading. Check out the fiction section of this issue for some of Lester's new work.

[Hal Niedzviecki, Broken Pencil]