Rat Nest Astrology: June
Never Angeline North06.03.19
The first installment of Fanzine’s new monthly horoscope column by Never Angeline North comes in blazing with meta-mystical wisdom for your June.
Consensus
Jeremy Packert Burke05.30.19
“Today our task is twofold: keep the flames at bay, and recover a child’s ashen bones.” Fiction by Jeremy Packert Burke.
Hold Your Horses, Grace: A Review of Joshua Kornreich’s Horsebuggy
Paul Cunningham05.28.19
“Who is speaking to you? Is it the man with the crooked nose or is it the woman with the crooked chin? And what’s that noise?” Paul Cunningham reviews Joshua Kornreich’s richly styled and mysterious new novel, Horsebuggy.
Okay, Alexa
Derick Dupre05.23.19
“Sometimes I’ll wake up in a fright and the words SO WAS I appear to be spelled in blood on my bedroom walls. SO WAS I has become a mantra for all my failures past and present.” Fiction by Derick Dupre.
Empathy
Claire Donato05.20.19
“Once, I typed all of my secrets into an anonymous Internet survey. After I was done typing them, I pressed ‘send.’ Who, I wonder, was the recipient of my shame?” Claire Donato with a moving personal essay, inspired by Cigarettes After Sex’s “Affection.” Art by Sara Jimenez.
zoo body
Lily Rose Kosmicki05.15.19
“the rhinoceros graveyard is rife with horns / the living gather to roll over the bones” Poetry by Lily Rose Kosmicki.
Book Album Book: About US
Jeff T. Johnson05.13.19
The 11th installment of Jeff T. Johnson’s Book Album Book takes a look at Jordan Peele’s uncanny Us.
HOW I WON AN NEA FELLOWSHIP AND STOPPED HAVING FUN
Joseph Rathgeber05.06.19
Joseph Rathgeber reflects on how the career high point of winning an NEA grant spiraled into a neurotic abyss of self-doubt and rejection amid a hyper-competitive field of literary hopes and dreams.
Morning Song
Sarah Walker05.04.19
“I stayed on the dirt road, keeping watch, suppressing my laughter when she ran from the lake with her arms full of wet flowers.” Fiction by Sarah Walker.
Three Stories
Alejandro Badillo05.01.19
“He went down to the basement and found his body lying in a pool of blood.” Three very short stories by Alejandro Badillo. Translated by Toshiya Kamei.
