Body Horror: Eating disorders, anatomy, and place (2)
Oliver Zarandi04.06.17
Part 2 of Oliver Zarandi’s meditation on body, gore, consumption, and physical influence, steering now toward the worlds of Cronenberg, Basketcase, and Travis Bickle.
Body Horror: Eating disorders, anatomy, and place (1)
Oliver Zarandi04.05.17
Oliver Zarandi’s essay in two parts on filmic gore, body image, and physical affect cruises through the unnerving anatomical matter found in Day of the Dead, Hellraiser, Frankenstein, and more. To be continued tomorrow.
INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR: GRAMMA POETRY
Shelby Shaw04.03.17
Shelby Shaw interviews Drew Scott Swenhaugen, editor of Gramma, a new poetry publishing imprint out of Seattle, WA.
Hope Valley
Dylan Angell03.23.17
Dylan Angell explores sensations of guilt, social responsibility, identity, and anxiety in remembering the act of taking part in burning down his elementary school.
Third Space at the Birmingham Museum of Art: An Interview with Wassan Al-Khudhairi
Kristen Iskandrian03.21.17
Kristen Iskandrian catches up with Wassan Al-Khudhairi, the curator of Third Space, a new exhibit at the Birmingham Museum of Art that melds ideas of “migration/diaspora/exile, gaze/agency/representation, spirit/nature/landscape, and traditions/histories/memory” to expand the notion of the American South.
Bad Poems for Girls Who Steal
Cornelia Barber03.09.17
“Poems are not free. They are neither liberated from history nor are they free of labor nor are they cheap. But poetry might be one of the last forms that can take shape without monolith dependence on technology and money.” Cornelia Barber provides a consideration of social politics, historical debt, race, commodity, and much more amid the landscape of contemporary writing and publishing.
Between Body and Mind: An Interview with Meredith Alling
Nicholas Rys03.07.17
Meredith Alling in conversation with Nicholas Rys about craft, inspiration, composition, and her debut collection of very short stories, Sing the Song.
Joy
Shane Anderson03.02.17
On finding happiness amid chaos, seen though the lens of Dostoevsky and Steve Kerr’s 2015-16 Golden State Warriors.
Facing Infinity: Yayoi Kusama’s Life & Endless Rooms
Sarah Rose Etter02.28.17
Six endless rooms and 70 pieces of art span the life of Yayoi Kusama in this intense, playful exhibit. However, looking closer at the artist’s past, something a bit darker emerges.
Cassandra at the Oscars
Kevin Killian02.27.17
Kevin Killian’s annual Oscars coverage finds him in a Los Angeles that despite the present state of national uncertainty and awakening feels hardly different than it did twenty years ago.
