Matches
Rachel Pafe10.12.16
“The landlord had sent over a slow moving, snow-haired man to repaint the walls after her roommate had killed herself two weeks ago.” New short fiction by Rachel Pafe.
In Search of Duende: Language In His Own Hands: Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker The Berry”
August Evans10.11.16
A mouth, open to its widest, prepares for ancestral possession. August Evans considers duende as a potent force in Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker the Berry.”
Watching to Score
Anonymous10.10.16
Insights from a vintage watch collector on the thrill of the hunt in the eBay era and how the minutiae of an obsession can redefine the margins of your life.
Industry from Bed
Gabriel Gudding10.07.16
“Outside the bed are the pleasant tearing sounds of rockets, the stately continuations of commerceless rivers leading to the interiors of warm and mirrory cities. The walls of the universe are blown near, but seem far from inside the bed.” New poetry by Gabriel Gudding, from late summer poetry editor Sean Kilpatrick.
All that Exists for the Audience: On Gabriel Blackwell’s Madeline E.
Nathan Knapp10.06.16
In a kind of “literature of bewilderment,” Gabriel Blackwell takes the form of film criticism (that is, a book-length dissection of the mysteries at work in Hitchcock’s Vertigo) and blends it with memoir, philosophy, and memory-maze, to mesmerizing results. Nathan Knapp reviews.
Notes From the Field
Katie Ebbitt10.05.16
“When SW found the bird, maggot larvae were already breaking down the body. She determined the bird had hidden itself to die alone, away from trouble.” An unnerving new short work by Katie Ebbitt.
Getting Back To Your Own Hand: An Interview With Ann Hamilton
Sarah Rose Etter10.04.16
The artist opens up about her latest installation, habitus, process, and spending your whole life returning to your own hand.
Swallowing
Oliver Zarandi10.03.16
Oliver Zarandi shares and intimate and wrenching account of his lifelong eating disorder, centered around the discomfort of swallowing.
Four Poems
Jennifer Militello09.30.16
“froth + earth = rupture / cell + cell = death death death” Four new poems by Jennifer Militello, from late summer poetry editor Sean Kilpatrick.
World and War Memories: A Review of Don Mee Choi’s Hardly War
Paul Cunningham09.29.16
Don Mee Choi’s Hardly War collages photographs, equations, and verbal shrapnel tracing the ghostly damage broken open in wartime Korea and Vietnam. Paul Cunningham reviews.
