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A Skeletal Low: Juliet Escoria Interviews Sarah Gerard

01.13.15

Juliet Escoria picks Sarah Gerard’s brain about her debut novel, Binary Star, writing in a trailer, and the best book of the year.

Lost Scripts and Misbehavior

Nicholas Grider

01.12.15

Impromptu communication can be complicated for the autistic, and even more so when trying to get involved in something as formal as converting to Judaism.

Bucolic is a Funny Word: An Interview with Alan Michael Parker

Jeff Jackson

01.06.15

Jeff Jackson interviews Alan Michael Parker about his latest book, The Committee on Town Happiness, the word bucolic, and the ratings of life items.

Safe Is Not A Place

Emily Vizzo

12.29.14

Emily Vizzo considers defensive architecture and safety, sex dolls and Torrey Pines, the body and the murder of Claire Hough.

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Probably)

Nicholas Grider

12.24.14

What does “So have yourself a merry little Christmas now” actually mean? Nicholas Grider takes a personal peer into the nature of a Christmas spent alone.

Roman Polanski, Kill List, anti-intellectualism,Terry Richardson, alt lit, and many further forms of scandal and desire come to collide in a pair of conversations intertwining Felix Bernstein and Vanessa Place.

Migrating Forms Festival

Micah Gottlieb

12.16.14

Micah Gottlieb provides an inside look at the Migrating Forms Festival, taking place December 10-18 in NYC, including new films by Gina Telaroli and Stanya Kahn.

Impossible to Ignore: on #BlackPoetsSpeakOut

Morgan Parker

12.15.14

Morgan Parker provides a vital roundup of the #BlackPoetsSpeakOut movement, born in the wake of the murder of Mike Brown and countless other black Americans at the hands of the police.

Three Little Devils: A Discussion of Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers

Daniel Beauregard

12.02.14

American indulgence and destruction may have never had a more appropriate depiction than in Harmony Korine’s VHS-affected feature, Trash Humpers.

I have felt crazy at almost every point in my life: An Interview with Mallory Witten

Andrew Duncan Worthington

11.20.14

Andrew Worthington talks with Mallory Whitten about PTSD, depression, art, and her new book, Collected Stories and Poems.

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