Dream Sex With Angelina Jolie and Nicolas Cage

Mark Baumer

05.14.14

At last, a window into Mark Baumer’s nightly dreamlife, comprising a very special sort of sex with a special set of people.

What I Have Been Reading: Outdated Dating Advice That Isn’t As Incompatible With Our Current Cultural Moment As I Wish It Was But Why I Enjoyed It Anyway

Hannah Gamble

05.13.14

Hannah Gamble reads Helen Gurley Brown’s 1962 book Sex and the Single Girl and tries to square it with contemporary experience.

Time Unregained: Billy Corgan’s Siddhartha

Jimmy Chen

05.12.14

Jimmy Chen takes a hard look into Billy Corgan’s hard look into Hermann Hesse’s spiritual Siddhartha.

On the Island of the Fire Eaters [have you heard about the Come-to-Jesus meeting?]

Dina Hardy

05.09.14

Weather, planets, and many liquids converge in a new poem by Dina Hardy, selected by Spring poetry editor Molly Brodak.

When I Was Younger, I Too Saved the Earth Many Times: A Review of EarthBound

Frances Chiem

05.08.14

Frances Dinger explores Ken Baumann’s textual exploration of the totally bizarre cult video game, EarthBound.

Remembering Frank Lima (1939 – 2013)

Wendy Xu

05.07.14

Frank Lima made peace with the terror of the accidental, spoke to an America both chimeric and cruel, and defied clean categorization into any school of poetry. Wendy Xu remembers her single “foundational” poet.

Desperate Machines

Daniel Bailey

05.06.14

Searching for work online alongside Daniel Bailey raises questions of validity, identity, and what the hell anybody is supposed to do for work in an eWorld where we don’t even know who’s really who.

Body Map: Eggs

Lorian Long

05.05.14

Body Map is a series that invites authors to write about the body. In the fourth installment, Lorian Long talks about eggs.

Sonnet

Andrew James Weatherhead

05.02.14

A new poem by Andrew James Weatherhead concerning an electric guitar and food, selected by Spring poetry editor, Molly Brodak.

A Conversation Regarding Jeff VanderMeer’s Wonderbook

Brian Allen Carr

05.01.14

Brian Allen Carr talks with Jeff Vandermeer about his latest, Wonderbook, a new approach to the fiction craft manual.