“What the Witch Doctor Says”: A Review of Travis Jeppesen’s The Suiciders
Blake Butler09.09.13
Travis Jeppesen’s new novel The Suiciders works over/ fucks the reader, seeps into the mind like a good cult should. Blake Butler reviews.
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Thomas Moore08.23.13
The choices that make The Canyons the complicated and Bret Easton Ellis-y thing it is meant to be.
This is Not a Review: A Fan’s Notes of Madness, Rack, and Honey
Alex Gallo-Brown08.21.13
The uselessness of poetry, the pretension of coffee, and the unutterable necessity of it all.
Some Notes on Andy Mister’s Liner Notes
Laura Carter07.30.13
An interview with Andy Mister on the “meta-modern” Liner Notes, narrowing the margin where music and writing meet.
The Disordered Mind of Yours Truly
Amy Herschleb07.18.13
Anhvu Buchanan’s The Disordered is a catalog of what ails you in the most understanding and awful terms––no stones cast or unturned––in the precise language of a photograph or a feeling.
Bringing Back the I: Ana Božičević’s Rise in the Fall
Laura Carter07.12.13
The Self and Sensibility of Ana Božičević’s Rise in the Fall.
“When you come to the water / you should fear nothing”
Laura Carter06.25.13
A course in knowing: Emily Toder’s Science.
This Is A Book, Tina: A Review of Peter Davis’s Tina
Gina Myers06.21.13
The llama from Napoleon Dynamite or Peter Davis’s muse? The shifting, fading, making out image of Tina and her legacy.
The Spot-On Stupidity Behind Fat Tony’s Smart Ass Black Boy
Christina Lee06.13.13
While the majority of underground rap now groans and pines for ’90s-inspired artistry and sociopolitical awareness––”Where’s the real hip-hop?” being a key question––Fat Tony’s raps flaunt his smarts but also bear an easy appeal. Smart Ass Black Boy is out now.
I know now that nothing written will bring love
Laura Carter06.11.13
A review of Jenny Boully’s first versebook: of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon: a book of failures: and what she found there: the A’s and the X’s and the necessary that got away.
