Nikita Gale in the Champagne Room

Megan Nare

10.04.13

Fanzine talks to artist Nikita Gale on the heels of a High Museum of Art gig supporting local artists about the real value of a performer’s work.

Six Steps To Being Salinger-Esque

Patrick Wensink

09.30.13

Patrick Wensink watches the new J.D. Salinger biopic and gleans how you too can live a thrilling life of quiet isolation.

I Reviewed the Most Disturbing Children’s Book of All Time

Shane Jones

09.12.13

Meta language that makes Calvino look like a pussy and design seemingly “concocted from a dinner date with Matt Furie and Ryan Trecartin”, “Oscar’s Book is basically twenty three pages of Oscar the Grouch yelling, specifically, at the reader and their child”. Shane Jones reviews the most disturbing (and one of the best) kids books ever.

Turning Everything Inside Out/ Imagination and Memory: An Interview with Jeff Jackson

Thomas Moore

09.10.13

Fanzine sits down with Jeff Jackson to talk about intermediate consciousness, haunting childhood recollections, and writing through a hypnagogic haze in his debut novel, Mira Corpora.

“What the Witch Doctor Says”: A Review of Travis Jeppesen’s The Suiciders

Blake Butler

09.09.13

Travis Jeppesen’s new novel The Suiciders works over/ fucks the reader, seeps into the mind like a good cult should. Blake Butler reviews.

A View from the Factory Floor

Jaswinder Bolina

08.28.13

Accessibility and the avant-garde: a possibly false dichotomy (my favorite kind) squished together like a ball of silly putty in the hands of the Poet. From a forthcoming anthology, The Force of What’s Possible. Art by Danny Jock.

2013 NFL Preview

Adam Underhill

08.26.13

Football’s crystal ball: a rundown of the teams, their history, and karma for the 2013 NFL season. Art by Danny Jock.

TRUST

Thomas Moore

08.23.13

The choices that make The Canyons the complicated and Bret Easton Ellis-y thing it is meant to be.

Melt Down Low Down

Jordan Somers

08.22.13

Vague recollections of the year’s best party: a field reporter tries to remember what he was doing in the woods. Art by Danny Jock.

This is Not a Review: A Fan’s Notes of Madness, Rack, and Honey

Alex Gallo-Brown

08.21.13

The uselessness of poetry, the pretension of coffee, and the unutterable necessity of it all.