OH MY GOD

Scott McClanahan

01.22.14

A chapter from Scott McClanahan’s The Sarah Book, featuring surgeries, love songs, and doughnuts.

Television and/or True Love

Kati Heng

01.21.14

Kati Heng wrestles with The Bachelor and why the pleasures it offers might be more than mere candy.

Missed Connections to Myself

Jimmy Chen

01.20.14

Craigslist confessionalism turns inward via the merciless analytic eye of Jimmy Chen.

Two Poems

Stephanie Barber

01.17.14

Two new poems from filmmaker and poet Stephanie Barber, selected by Fanzine’s winter poetry editor, Joseph Young.

How Much Does It Cost To Hitchhike Across America?

Mark Baumer

01.16.14

Mark Baumer provides an extremely meticulous and objectively insane database of the day-to-day cost of an actual trip for two hitchhiking across the United States.

People, Shut Up: An Interview with Ravi Mangla

Mel Bosworth

01.15.14

Mel Bosworth picks Ravi Mangla’s brain about writing too many words, not getting fucked up, and his latest book, Understudies.

A (Psychic) Portrait of The Artist: Looking at the Work of W.C. Bevan

Lucy Tiven

01.14.14

Lucy Tiven provides an up close and personal excavation of the work and process of visual artist W.C. Bevan.

Fuck Up Your Coffee Table: Vollmann’s The Book of Dolores

Lorian Long

01.13.14

Lorian Long dissects William T. Vollmann, “The Birthing Cave,” The Book of Dolores, and the problem of ‘white male’ mashed potatoes.

Poem

Amanda McCormick

01.10.14

A new lost poem from Amanda McCormick, selected by Fanzine’s winter poetry editor, Joseph Young.

Spike Jonze’s Underwhelming Her

Stephen Tully Dierks

01.09.14

Stephen Tully Dierks accounts the strong and not-so-strong suits of Jonze’s ambitious, but ultimately flawed, Her.