“Everybody needs someone to know who they really are” – Documenting The Greatest Literary Hoax of Our Time with Jeff Feuerzeig
Steven T. Hanley08.30.16
Filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig in conversation with Steven T. Hanley about the making of his new film, Author: The JT Leroy Story, which follows Laura Albert’s journey in causing one of the biggest literary scandals ever.
Take the ugliness and the beautifulness and stick them right next to each other: An Interview with Juliet Escoria
Andrew Duncan Worthington08.29.16
Juliet Escoria in conversation with Andrew Duncan Worthington about witches, shopping, the recents floods in West Virginia, Axl Rose, and her latest book, Witch Hunt, out now from Lazy Fascist.
VICKS/VAPO/RUB/POETICS
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague08.25.16
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague takes a deep gaze at contemporary Latino-American poetics through the lens of Roberto Harrison’s Counter Daemons and Vicks VapoRub.
EPICENTER
Kevin Maloney08.24.16
“I’d only been single a few weeks when I found myself explaining the concept of Attachment Theory to a stripper named Lola in the private booth of a club called The Butt Factory.” New fiction by Kevin Maloney.
No Way Does Anyone Live up Here
Michael Seymour Blake08.23.16
Michael Seymour Blake with a personal essay about a trip involving unexpected Airbnb accomodations, a graveyard, a farmhouse, and shrieking sheep.
A Dollop of Puerile Fireworks: On the Suicidal Squad of David Ayer
Susana Bessa08.22.16
What made Suicide Squad such a disaster? Susana Bessa peers deeply into one of the year’s biggest entertainment flops and attempts to sort how and why.
Two Poems
Peter Richards08.19.16
“WAS IT THE SUPPER WAS IT THE GUEST OR TOO MUCH IN THE LOUD THAT NIGHT / MAKING PRAYER FOR HIS NUDITY” Two new poems by Peter Richards, from late summer poetry editor Sean Kilpatrick.
WHATEVER: A Review of Nevermind by Robert Fitterman
Laura Theobald08.18.16
What’s the point of repurposing the lyrics to Nirvana’s Nevermind into a 712 page poem? Does there have to be a point? Laura Theobald reviews the latest book length work by conceptual badboy Robert Fitterman.
THE FATHER’S FACE
Nat Baldwin08.17.16
“I watch my brother watch the father’s face fill with dirt. When the hole fills to the top my brother lies on his back. Mud spills from the sides of his mouth.” A new short story from Nat Baldwin.
