After The Storm: On Katie Jean Shinkle’s Ruination
Berry Grass07.31.18
Berry Grass explores the rootgrowth, pareidolia, and post-storm green nightmare of Katie Jean Shinkle’s latest novella.
MELANCHOLY WOMAN
Brigitte Lewis07.30.18
Segmented, cast in blue, and influenced by hypothetical footnotes, Brigitte Lewis explores medication, identity, reading, and how a lens of sadness colors everything.
PISSED PANTS ACADEMY
Liby Hays07.25.18
“the dark germ that all conclusivities draw from and preclude, brazen chapping-hand that wags and wanes with the splendid rot of oaks…” New work by Liby Hays.
Anxious Magic: A Tarot Interview with Allie Rowbottom
Jon Lindsey07.24.18
Allie Rowbottom, author of the brand new Jell-O Girls, a feminist retelling of her family’s involvement in the Jell-O brand, sits down with her husband Jon Lindsey for a tarot reading.
I Hope Death Comes Gently: Notes From A Lish Lecture
Sebastian Castillo07.23.18
Sebastian Castillo reports in from a three-hour workshop at A Public Space with Gordon Lish that covers…basically everything.
Book Album Book: Parquet Courts, Wide Awake!
Jeff T. Johnson07.19.18
“No apologies / and fuck Tom Brady,” sings Parquet Courts in the second edition of Jeff T. Johnson’s Book Album Book, this month on the review of their new album Wide Awake!”
Charon, Crossing the River Styx
Alyssa Proujansky07.18.18
“Tch-aron, Kh-aron, Sh-aron, spelled with a Ch- (like the largest of the five known moons of the dwarf planet Pluto, like the underworld ferryman of ancient Greek myth): I never knew how exactly to pronounce the name of the self-professed self-help guru I worked for, the year after I graduated from college.” New fiction by Alyssa Proujansky.
Eden Comes Easily to Mind: Nine Questions with Visual Poet Catherine Bresner
Jason Teal07.16.18
Catherine Bresner opens up in conversation with Jason Teal about the process of combining collage with poetry to create the “poetry comics” of her book, the empty season, spanning haunting public domain images and immersive collage works harmonized to summon powers of body horror and feminism.
from FREAKOPHONE WORLD
Madison McCartha07.13.18
“we can squelch a little harder— / above our cilia / the meat-planet begins its muscular / eclipse” New work by Madison McCartha.
“Noodlin” & “Skirl”
Alex Gregor07.11.18
“Larry fell off the turnip truck wound up in a drain ditch with a plastic grocery sack tied over his head in a top knot.” New fiction by Alex Gregor.
