Where I’m Bound
Amy McDaniel04.21.16
Amy McDaniel visits the longest running prison rodeo in United States, the Angola Prison Rodeo at the Louisiana State Pen, and comes away thinking about authenticity, exploitation, and America.
Natural Burial for a Youth Abducted by the Immortal Alain Robbe-Grillet
John Trefry04.20.16
“Light lingering in the brown scuffs and sparkles, brown smoke lit by beige fire is not vision, has no range, no distinction, a sensory frottage of no more than what sparkles are directly impressed upon the surface of the eyes.” New text from John Trefry.
THE GIANT SURF GOTH INTERVIEW WITH OSCAR BRUNO D’ARTOIS
Andrew Duncan Worthington04.19.16
Andrew Worthington catches up with Oscar d’Artois on clickbait, Rimbaud, his book Teen Surf Goth, and much more.
The Dissonance in Terence Malick’s Knight of Cups
Philip Dinolfo04.18.16
Philip Dinolfo weighs the highs and lows of Terence Malick’s flawed vision of L.A. in his latest film Knight of Cups.
Four Poems
Mark Francis Johnson04.15.16
“moments before we received the foul contents of a single ditch and, within seconds,
began to die off, all of us laughing at the vast voice blaring out of the sky from every
direction with advice” New work by Mark Francis Johnson, selected by early spring poetry editor Ed Steck.
Shades of Bruise: A Review of Dawn Lundy Martin’s Life in a Box is a Pretty Life
Paul Cunningham04.14.16
Dawn Lundy Martin’s assemblage of bodies, debris, and mechanisms of control might be one of the most important (and most overlooked) books of last year. Paul Cunningham reviews.
FOUR EXCERPTS FROM INCINERATOR III
C. A. Kaufman04.13.16
“My most memorable childhood field trip was the one my kindergarten class took to turn off the oven at our teacher’s house.” Four prose excerpts from C. A. Kaufman’s series Incinerator III.
“We’ve Been Getting A Lot of Calls About You”: Mark Baumer Hitchhikes the USA
Mark Baumer04.12.16
One writer documents his journey as he attempts to hitchhike from Rhode Island to Los Angeles for the annual AWP Conference.
When the Car Won’t Start: It’s Exactly What You Think It Is, If It’s Exactly What You Think It Isn’t
Ed Steck04.11.16
Ed Steck veers his monthly column on b-movie horror toward 1973’s Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood, a reality-bending, resolutionless ensemble unnervingly set at amusement park in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania
Three Poems
Daniel Owen04.08.16
“the lake burned the / lake burnt in a language they couldn’t but it / won’t actually hurt the dead horse right” Three new poems by Daniel Owen, selected by early spring poetry editor Ed Steck.
