The Impulse of the Irr: Darby Larson’s Irritant

Laura Carter

05.28.13

The progress of the irr (Ur) is charted through the swimming sea of flowerpots and otherness. Hindu mythology? Creative process? The tale of what is both friend and foe exploded.

Three Chapbooks

Gina Myers

05.22.13

New chapbooks by Marisa Crawford, Jared White, and Brenda Sieczkowski. Small volumes encountering the big issues: Rebellion! Love! Bears eating potato chips!

Monomania: Monomania

Thomas Moore

05.17.13

A review of the new Deerhunter album, Monomania, waiting for the guitars to kick in.

A Review of Gina Myers’s Hold It Down

Laura Carter

05.15.13

Not more deep, more shallow. You take what you can.” A review of Gina Myers’s Hold It Down and the things that make up a life.

Four Poems

Marisa Crawford

05.13.13

Four new poems from maven of mid-90s nostalgia Marisa Crawford detailing the life and times of the 8th Grade Hippie // whatever happened to all the mixtapes in the world??

“We Don’t Need Freedom?” an Interview with Ian Svenonius

Jordan Somers

05.10.13

Ian F. Svenonius discusses his new book, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group, a satirical instruction manual slash insightful lesson in Capitalism from the late greats. His book tour brings the new title (and perhaps a séance or floating chair) to 529 Bar in East Atlanta, Saturday, May 11th at 7:30 pm.

Arrival of One Adulthood: A Review of Amy Lawless’s My Dead

Gina Myers

05.07.13

Out of the crucible and into the ossuary: Amy Lawless forges adulthood out of meditations on death, and a parade of elephants.

Images of Kept Women by Kate Durbin

M. Milks

05.03.13

A tour through the Playboy mansion: Kate Durbin’s Kept Women as part travel brochure, part cultural archaeology.

Gulf Coast Deep Game

Eric Nelson

04.29.13

An unbiased glimpse of the culture of dog fighting in 1960s Texas: new fiction from Eric Nelson. Art by Danny Jock.

Cracker Barrels for the Creative Classes

Jordan Somers

04.26.13

Both sides of the cultural divide against the tedium of the middle: a serving of nostalgia trends in the faux-olde timey bar and restaurant scene.