FAITH
William Lessard07.03.17
Bill Lessard with an essay on faith and religion: “I didn’t find faith in the religion of my birth until I gave up faith in God.”
What I Learned from a Cockfighter
Christopher Bundy06.27.17
Christopher Bundy goes to the South Carolina Lowcountry to take a close up and personal look into the world of cockfighting from a world apart.
Very Rational People: Scott McClanahan in conversation with Chelsea Hodson
Chelsea Hodson06.26.17
Scott McClanahan’s latest, The Sarah Book, finds him at the height of his powers, speaking like only he can speak. Recently he caught up with Chelsea Hodson to talk about the making of the book, the being of a person, changing who you are, and much more.
#FOLLOWMEBOOK – MISSED CONNECTIONS
Michael J. Seidlinger06.23.17
Michael Seidlinger’s fourth dispatch from the road gets anonymously personal with some rumination on regret, social anxiety, and impostor syndrome.
“This is our century now, and we are alone in it.” – An Interview with SOd press
Barrett White06.22.17
The editors of avant-garde Australian publishers SOd press caught up with Barrett White about the radical work they present, the exciting state of Australian experimental poetics, and much more.
#FOLLOWMEBOOK – NOTHING GOOD CAN COME OF THIS, TURN BACK
Michael J. Seidlinger06.16.17
The third dispatch from Michael Seidlinger as he makes his way across the country directed by social media finds him amid the gators in Tallahassee with Jeff VanderMeer.
The Last Illegal Harvest
Ezra Carlsen06.12.17
The passage of the Adult Use of Marijuana Act has opened up the largest market in a legal marijuana industry already valued at close to $6 billion. The question is this: will the new law protect the small, organic, California weed farmer who took considerable risk building a functioning underground industry out of an ideal of autonomy and dissent? Or will America’s industrial past repeat itself? Ezra Carlsen reports from the fields.
#FOLLOWMEBOOK – AND THEN CAME THEN
Michael J. Seidlinger06.09.17
Michael Seidlinger checks in with his first dispatch from the road amid the early days of his trip across America in search of how social media and reality intersect, getting honest about ambition, intention, and loneliness.
The License to Begin to Imagine: An Interview with Lawrence English
Bobby Power05.30.17
Lawrence English caught up with Bobby Power to talk about his latest album, Cruel Optimism, its relationship to the work of Lauren Berlant, and more.
GOING UNDER
Sara Jaffe05.23.17
Sara Jaffe on the function of awareness and culpability in narrative, and so in life, with nods to Gus van Sant and Charles Burnett.
