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Kristine Ong Muslim

01.31.18

“It is not yet officially morning but everyone in the world has already reported waking up from dreams either completely coated or partially encrusted with black mold.” A new story from Kristine Ong Muslim, excerpted from her recently released collection, The Drone Outside.

Because of That Book: An Interview with Brian Evenson on Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Robert Lopez

01.30.18

Robert Lopez in conversation with Brian Evenson about his latest release, a book-length exploration of Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

There Is Something to Be Said For When Your Life Begins to Leave You Behind 

Abby Hagler

01.29.18

“There is something to be said for when your life grows tired of you. It will leave just a like a human. This is one of only two superstitions I have created for myself.” Abby Hagler opens up about the secrets we keep with our ourselves and feeling lost in your own person.

An I Remember for Mark Baumer

Amish Trivedi

01.25.18

Amish Trivedi with a heartfelt look back one year after the tragic passing of the poet, activist, artist, friend we knew and loved as Mark Baumer.

GOOD LOOKING OUT

Richard Chiem

01.24.18

“Something has settled in. I am helpless like a crumpled car, Spencer says. I am helpless like a crumpled car, he says, and this is how he wakes up every day. Something has settled in and run amok.” New fiction by Richard Chiem.

An Offering of Incisors: A manifesto for the unhinging of spinal column constipation

Lee Levinson

01.23.18

“Punk is dead, all we are left with is the synaptic resin no longer capable of singular identity.” Lee Levinson reports live from the edge of everywhere.

Christmas Presents Full of Nothing: A Review of The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan

Meghan Lamb

01.22.18

How to build a moving story out of a lifeline of lies, loss, and bad decisions? Meghan Lamb takes a look at how Scott McClanahan’s The Sarah Book weaves its strange and heartfelt magic.

Unpublishable: Fragments From An Underground Notebook

Derick Dupre

01.18.18

Derick Dupre shares an entry from a notebook of thoughts he collected when he was 23 and working at a bookstore in Penn Station. Enjoy this March of the Damned.

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Nooks Krannie

01.17.18

“i signed petitions to save baby walruses, to clean up oceans by drinking less man made liquid, to further the cause of skin wars by eliminating all skin from all everywhere.” New work by Nooks Krannie.

Wind In Your Fox Fur: you can never truly escape where you’re from

Erica Lewis

01.16.18

Erica Lewis returns with her second Wind In Your Fox Fur column, examining Ohio, jewelry, art, style, and, of course, metallic clogs.