Top Vanity License Plates In My Neighborhood
Shane Jones10.22.13
Ever wonder what kind of person it takes to pay to get a vanity plate like HOTSAWCE for your ride? Shane Jones provides a guided tour of his neighborhood’s most recognizable motor-ID personalizations.
What is Sought: A Review of Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City
Lucy Tiven10.21.13
Stark, slippery language and shape-shifting poems make The Eternal City a book worth defacing, underlining, annotating. Lucy Tiven reviews the best book of poetry she almost never bought.
Three Poems
Brian Foley10.18.13
Three poems from Brian Foley, selected by Fanzine’s Fall poetry curator, Ella Longpre.
Boost House: An Interview with Steve Roggenbuck
Matthew Sherling10.17.13
The internet’s most optimistic poet talks with Fanzine about launching his new co-op cum publishing house, distancing himself from the apathy of the alt lit scene, and the importance of loving the moon.
The Trophy
Rob Walsh10.16.13
Babies, fire, and dogs (AKA everything you ever needed in a short story) populate a strange and powerful new short fiction from Rob Walsh, author of Troublers. Art by Danny Jock.
IDGI: A Review of Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces
Janey Smith10.15.13
More than twenty years after its release, Janey Smith takes a bold-eyed look back at American music critic Greil Marcus’s mammoth Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century.
All Glitter, Everything: An Interview with Laura Relyea
Gina Myers10.14.13
Laura Relyea has transformed Ke$ha, the very embodiment of glitter’s most popular properties (sharp, dangerous, sparkles) into an everywoman, the kind of best friend a girl dreams about, a glorious and monstrous synthesis of all the women you wish you could be, in her forthcoming chapbook All Glitter, Everything. Gina Myers sits down with Relyea to discuss her many varied projects and inspirations.
Review of Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole And A Half
Sarah Maria Griffin10.11.13
Set off against the millenial panicscape of a world where internet lists are a thing, Allie Brosh’s long-awaited book, like her webcomic, reads like the journal you’ve been too anxiety-ridden to keep. Sarah Griff dissects Brosh’s preternatural ability to remind us that we are going to be okay.
#YOLO: A Review of Jimmy Chen’s Dear Depressive
Jarett Kobek10.10.13
Formspring may no longer exists, but Jimmy Chen’s Dear Depressive archives the author’s quasi-candid reality-philosophizing tracts into a handy eBook of hilarious profundity. Jarett Kobek reviews.
Review of Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
Mark Asch10.04.13
Jonathan Lethem’s latest chapter of New York novels is in some sense “a commensurately “big book,” about family, and the promise and disappointment of the Left, its chronology-skipping chapters encompassing protest singers, hippie anarchist communes, Sandinistas, Quakers, queers, academic Theorists and Occupy crusties.” Ah but there’s more…
