Kera Yonker

Kera Yonker is a versatile writer and editor with over 15 years of marketing experience.

Arts and Letters •

Review of Station Eleven

If Cormac McCarthy‘s The Road met television’s The Walking Dead, you’d have Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven—minus the grisly cannibalism and zombies. With the recent popularity of post-apocalyptic writing in books and on the screen, it would be hard to write that world with originality, but Mandel does so by focusing on the lives of the survivors by unravelling their connections before the disaster. It is Year 20 after a pandemic has wiped out all but a few pockets of the human populatio

Plants Don't Drink Coffee by Unai Elorriaga

This deceptively slim volume metes out the big stories of four individuals in simple and elegant prose. Each character is in search of something: a blue dragonfly, a rugby field, a lost love, an answer. It begins with young Tomas who is on the hunt for the elusive blue dragonfly – once caught Tomas believes it will give him the particular intelligence he seeks. Tomas views his world through the lens of a camera tightly focused on the things he sees: a blue dragonfly, a lodestone used to pick up
JERRY Magazine •

A New Sense of Loneliness: Follow Me Down by Kio Stark

The protagonist in Kio Stark’s Follow Me Down does not want to be followed. Or perhaps she does, but she’ll make sure that you keep your distance. An itinerant observer, Lucy lives in an urban neighborhood where she is clearly an outsider. She wanders her neighborhood with her camera and snaps photos, which, as she states, is a good reason to “stop and stare,” but also a reason to hide in plain sight, always ready to put up another barrier between her and the world. “Sometimes what you want is t