Renata Adler: Radical Intelligence
Mark Asch03.19.13
Picking up the threads of Renata Adler’s novels and readdressing the weave: the reissue of Speedboat and Pitch Dark by NYRB prompt a closer look at the wit that wove them together.
We Cannot All Be Rocks In Heaven: Brandon Shimoda’s Portuguese
Laura Carter03.15.13
Laura Carter delves into “this shifting image of myself in which I see my past, my present, my future, all indivisibly reflected” of Brandon Shimoda’s Portuguese, the first collaboration between Octopus Books and Tin House Press.
The Human Work of Animal Bodies
Laura Straub03.11.13
Laura Straub gets lost in the fur of David Courtright’s new collection of poems.
The Little We See In Moscow Case 1993
Christina Lee03.06.13
Michael Jackson: Moscow Case 1993: An overlooked documentary offers a brief but devastating glimpse at the King of Pop during his fall from grace, a time we would rather forget.
Videogames Are Where The Violence Goes
Michael Thomsen03.04.13
Which came first: a violent society, or the art which reflects it? The problem with attributing violence to videogames and the case for offering them up as a scapegoat. Also Coleridge: “In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.” Because, Coleridge. Art by Danny Jock.
Michelle Tea Magic: An Interview
Marisa Crawford02.27.13
Fanzine recruited fellow fangirl Marisa Crawford to talk to Michelle Tea about magic, her forthcoming YA Novel Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, and a bazillion other current projects that bring queer & feminist perspectives into the conversation of What is Awesome. Call it Zeitgeist. Call it the pink elephant in the room.
TV Party: Oscars 2013
Kevin Killian02.25.13
Ok, so you probably skipped the Oscars to watch The Walking Dead and Girls instead, and believe you me Spreadeagle author Kevin Killian gets that. Still it’s fun to see what stars show up looking high (Renee, the Kristens anyone?). Here’s the saucy highlight reel 2013 Academy Awards wrap-up to save you from your DVR.
Dinette
Casey Michael Henry02.21.13
The eroticism is where the consumer finds it. A close-up of table legs: new fiction by Casey Michael Henry. Art by Danny Jock.
Being Sized Up by Samantha Crain’s Kid Face
Christina Lee02.18.13
When Samantha Crain parted ways with her founding band the Midnight Shivers, the Shawnee, Okla., troubadour picked up an electric guitar and wrote 11 songs written from the perspectives of 16 different people she’s met––2010’s excellent You (Understood), her version of a “breakup album.” But with followup Kid Face, Crain fully embraces her newfound freedom.
Sorting Out The FA Cup
Pete Hausler02.15.13
Every man, Jack, and soccer team in England (& some in Wales) gets a crack at the title in the oldest soccer competition in the history of the game––if anyone can figure out who’s in it. A run down of the Whys and WTFs of the FA Cup––and the greatest potential Cinderella soccer story––as play rejoins tomorrow.
