“The Handgun’s In The Mail”: An Interview With Daniel Nester
Chris McCreary12.01.15
Chris McCreary talks New Jersey, original sin, and personal history with Daniel Nester through the lens of Nester’s latest, Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Grief, Making Out in Church, and Other Unlearnable Subjects.
Four Months Enduring the Short Temper of America
Eric Wallgren11.30.15
Eric Wallgren with an essay detailing his experience working at a call center in 2012.
Mankind’s Tooth
Colette Arrand11.23.15
Colette Arrand’s critical essay on unexpected images in professional wrestling, filtered through Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida.
When the Car Won’t Start: The Somnambulant Body Melt of The Incredible Melting Man
Ed Steck11.19.15
In the first installment of his ongoing B-movie and exploitation film revue, Ed Steck takes a look at the bizarre confluence of styles at play in 1977’s The Incredible Melting Man.
On the Unholy Family in American Horror Film
David Leo Rice11.16.15
David Rice takes an eye to the institution of the “freak family” and their ongoing association with incest and cannibalism throughout the history of American horror film.
You Say Tomato, I Say A Thousand-Year Drought: An Interview with Roy Scranton
Chris Holdaway11.10.15
Why worry about climate change when we’re all already zombies? Chris Holdaway goes in deep with author with Roy Scranton on where the hell to go from here, in the context of his new book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene.
Of Death and Los Angeles
Erin Wisti11.09.15
Erin Wisti’s essay on her trip to the Museum of Death in Los Angeles.
Positively Schizophrenic Power: An Interview with Actually Huizenga
Sunni Johnson11.05.15
Sunni Johnson in conversation with porn-pop video artist extraordinaire Actually Huizenga about her bewitching new short movie, Viking Angel.
Numb & Number – The Revolution Will Not Be Brooklynized
Scott Creney11.03.15
Scott Creney tries to find anything other than Joshua Cohen and Ben Lerner in the new ‘novels’ from Joshua Cohen and Ben Lerner.
On The Meaning of the Confederate Flag: William Pope.L and Robert E. Lee (An open letter to Southern Culture from an accidental exile)
Guy Benjamin Brookshire11.02.15
“The flag is humanity’s worst attempt to control the wind. A murder kite. An invitation to war.” Guy Brookshire takes a long hard look at the problematic legacy of the Confederate flag from secessionist William Miles to Dylann Roof, including stops along the way for Jasper Johns and Vanessa Place.
