Unpublishable: A Year of Emails With Padgett Powell

Jane Dykema

11.30.17

Jane Dykema shares a year of intimate emails with Padgett Powell, exploring politics, parenthood, and the personal.

Black Fog: An Interview with Jon Padgett

David Peak

11.29.17

Jon Padgett spoke with David Peak about Padgett’s debut collection, The Secret of Ventriloquism, a “relentlessly creepy, exploring themes of altered realities, human simulacra, and occult conspiracy.”

The Invisible Man

Daniel Beauregard

11.28.17

“The sharper the pen knife is the easier it will be to penetrate the skull, which is where we’re going.” New fiction by Daniel Beauregard.

Positive Space: an Essay in Simultaneity

Katie Jean Shinkle

11.27.17

Katie Jean Shinkle on the intersection between art and absence, consent and longing, through the frame of Joan Mitchell’s painting, “Dune.”

the world is falling apart but at least you look cute

Erica Lewis

11.21.17

The first installment of “Wind In Your Fox Fur,” a new fashion column by Erica Lewis, kicking off with a look at work by David Smith, Miss Coco, Joe Fletcher, and much more.

Wild Bird Store: An Interview with Bud Smith

Jaime Fountaine

11.20.17

Jaime Fountaine interviews Bud Smith about birds and his latest book, Work, out from Civil Coping Mechanisms.

Unpublishable: Five Poems

Mark Leidner

11.16.17

In this installment of Unpublishable, Mark Leidner offers up five poems examining tanning beds, Jurassic Park, and angels wrestling.

Oral History of Waiting

Mike Corrao

11.15.17

“Allen brought diapers; Ellen brought old trash bags; Henry made a hair cake; Barbara vomited onto a plate. There’s nothing better, so you might as well eat it.” New fiction from Mike Corrao.

Anna Maria Maiolino Retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Joseph Houlihan

11.14.17

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is hosting a comprehensive retrospective on the work of the Brazilian conceptual and performance artist Anna Maria Maiolino through January 22, 2018. Joseph Houlihan goes in.

More Than Love & Joy: A Conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib

Jaime Fountaine

11.13.17

Hanif Abdurraqib talks about his incredible new book, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, the story inside his cultural heroes, and finding joy in the emotional orchestra.