OMG Embarrassing Yourself Is the Best Art: A Review of E-Flux Journal

Janey Smith

12.19.13

Janey Smith interrogates the definition, effect, marketability, and reception of contemporary art in the age of YouTube.

Let’s Keep Doing This: A Manifesto

Ryan Craig Bradford

12.18.13

Ryan Craig Bradford says literary readings don’t have to be a load of boring bullshit, and his suggestions range from performance coaching to just realizing you suck.

I Don’t See Them As Doll-Like: An Interview with Amina Cain

Richard Chiem

12.17.13

Richard Chiem talks with Amina Cain about her latest book, Creature.

Alt Lit Has Fake Race Problems and Real Race Problems

Safy-Hallan Farah

12.16.13

An updated (and partially reframed) look at Safy-Hallan Farah’s examination of issues of race, gender, and homophobia within the Alt Lit movement.

The American Greeting Card Company (an excerpt)

Dana Ward

12.13.13

Two new poems as sheet music from Dana Ward, in consideration of Stevie Wonder, selected by Fall poetry editor, Ella Longpre.

Rookie Yearbook Two (or Why You Should Stop Caring about the Haters and Obsess over Tavi Gevinson)

Kati Heng

12.12.13

Kati Heng writes about how Tavi Gevinson’s Rookie might be the best magazine not just for teen women but all women.

Two Elucidations

Sean Kilpatrick

12.11.13

Sean Kilpatrick provides commentary on two works of media that have influenced his writing, including his latest, Gil the Nihilist.

Space In Love With Space: An Interview with Ashley Obscura

Matthew Sherling

12.10.13

Ashley Obscura talks with Fanzine’s Matthew Sherling about internet consumption, protection from sadness, and why fishing magazines are more popular than lit journals.

A Poet’s Review of Botox

Melissa Broder

12.09.13

Melissa Broder talks life, death, and three lines in the forehead in a dispatch from Los Angeles that glows like a gem.

Three Experiments

Andrea Rexilius

12.06.13

Three new poems by Andrea Rexilius, generated by a somatic experiment, in collaboration with CA Conrad and HR Hegnauer, and selected by Fall poetry editor, Ella Longpre.