Did Not Shave Our Legs For This: A Conversation with Kristin Sanders’ Cuntry in Ten Line Dances
Carrie Chappell12.03.18
“This text is about a woman trying to fit her body into any market, into any genre. Whether pop object, blues object, rap object. This text is about America, is about the body in America.” Carrie Chappell with a deeply personal look into Kristin Sanders’ exquisite Cuntry.
Is Publishing a Purgatory? A Conversation with Robert Kloss
Amber Sparks11.29.18
Robert Kloss and Amber Sparks in conversation on influence, the difficulty of writing experimental fiction and trying to sell experimental fiction in a traditional way, and the hazards of publishing in any format or medium.
Death Called Comfort
Natalie Casagran Lopez11.28.18
“She starts a blog where she posts recipes that can be filed as both stew and edible face mask. A rash bubbles up, her cheek a pink ripped vellum.” New work by Natalie Casagran Lopez.
We See No More Than He: Schluter’s Schwob
Dylan Byron11.26.18
Why does Marcel Schwob remain an obscure literary presence? Dylan Byron argues for the greatness of the anti-idealist’s darkness.
I Love You In the Grocery Store: An Interview with Caitlin Pasko
Claire Donato11.20.18
Claire Donato in conversation with singer-songwriter Caitlin Pasko about the process of collaboration, literary art, loss, and Pasko’s stunning new album Glass Period.
IN SEARCH OF DUENDE: A CATALOG OF CONFOUNDING DESIRE
Kate Montgomery11.19.18
“My heart stopped and must have stopped too long, because that was the moment the devil got in—or whatever it was. A haunting spirit. A small god animating the body of this man. He pulled off all the seeds, and recast me in a new image. Woman desiring. A new, dark melody filtered in. Nothing has been the same since.” Kate Montgomery’s hypnotic meditation on duende in the other.
A Brother’s Life-in-Death: A Review of Prosopopoeia by Farid Tali
Paul Cunningham11.15.18
How do we explore death? Particularly, through the eyes of the death of a loved one, to HIV/AIDS? Paul Cunningham reviews Farid Tali’s vulnerable and brutal Prosopopoeia.
Welcome To My Possum Kingdom
Alexandra Naughton11.13.18
“I was sitting on my stoop, smoking a spliff, thinking about my future, thinking about why I’m having a hard time working on my writing.” New work by Alexandra Naughton.
Book Album Book: Guilty Pleasures
Jeff T. Johnson11.12.18
The latest from Jeff T. Johnson’s Book Album Book takes a look at why we like what we like when we like it, how we think about those things, and where to go from here.
Ben Affleck on the Ground
Paul Hansen11.07.18
“If I rob this bank they’ll make a movie of me someday. That’s the way it goes.” Fiction by Paul Hansen.
