AT THE CENTER OF THE WASP
Evelyn Hampton06.13.18
“Shit that was once flowers became shit again.” New fiction by Evelyn Hampton.
“To One Who Governs the Pauses”: LM Rivera’s The Drunkards, or The Book of Years and the Radiant Void
Julia Madsen06.12.18
“LM Rivera’s captivating debut collection, The Drunkards, or The Book of Years, presents ecstatic lyrical-philosophical excursions that simultaneously think, play, drink, and feel, inhabiting a fluid and open space where anything can happen and possibility is just within reach.” Julia Madsen reviews.
What Goes Up
Maya McCoy06.11.18
Maya McCoy with a meditation tracing her family’s immigrant roots to her own experience growing up among the “white working class” in northwest Ohio, not far from Cedar Point amusement park.
Portrait of my Mother
Mike Corrao06.07.18
“I would not like to read another Pynchon novel, / especially if it is written by someone else.” New work by Mike Corrao.
The Heat Map: Exciting New Music from An Alien Earth
Thomson Guster06.05.18
Who are LANDMARK PRESERVATION COMMITTEE? Who are THE SLOT ADDIX? Thomson Guster’s index of new alien music sheds some light into the celestial aural future.
Either Way, I Lived: An Interview with Chelsea Hodson
Lauren Grabowski06.04.18
Lauren Grabowski in conversation with Chelsea Hodson upon the release of her essay collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else, out this week from Henry Holt.
Purse Map
Jessica Lawson06.01.18
“ENCLOSED SPACE / ‘used to be a men’s toilet'” New work by Jessica Lawson.
Sundresses
Meg Pokrass05.30.18
“Dad stands staring at the stolen sundresses in my closet.” New fiction by Meg Pokrass.
Kafka on the Skin
Michael Harris Cohen05.29.18
What does a tattoo say about a person? What if that tattoo is a portrait of Franz Kafka? What would Kafka think?
Neptune (an excerpt from How to Have Sex on Other Planets)
Dolan Morgan05.25.18
From Dolan Morgan’s surreal graphic novel How to Have Sex on Other Planets, Neptune “is going to show you what’s behind those closed doors.”
