OPENING LINES TO NOVELS THAT HAVEN’T BEEN WRITTEN
Sam Pink02.25.16
Sam Pink provides insider info on some of the hottest and most buzzed about new forthcoming titles in American lit months before their forthcoming appearance in the Poets & Writers and the New Yorker, including the latest from Tony Churbneetzerelli and Rhythzar the Elder.
I Just Can’t Not: An Interview with Meat Wave’s Chris Sutter
Hannah Gamble02.23.16
In an interview with Chris Sutter of the Chicago band Meat Wave, Hannah Gamble asks about work, journalism, and the Chicago scene.
Navigating Michael J. Seidlinger’s The Strangest
Daniel Lamb02.22.16
Michael Seidlinger’s The Strangest updates the Camus classic for the online era. Daniel Lamb reviews.
In the Garble: A Review of Alice Notley’s Negativity’s Kiss
Nick Sturm02.18.16
“Negativity’s Kiss imagines a brutal, satirical world where all language and communication, including the answer to who shot (the protagonist) Ines, are mired in the Garble, an internet-like substance that obscures truth.” Nick Sturm reviews Alice Notley.
Excerpt from Leviathan
David Peak02.17.16
“This is real, Roland thought, strangely calm, resigned to whatever it was that was happening.” An excerpt from a novel-in-progress, Leviathan, by David Peak.
Unknown Pleasures, Luxury Poverty
Nicholas Grider02.16.16
Nicholas Grider examines the lines between poverty and luxury in the context of his having bought a pair of Beats headphones while on the verge of homelessness.
Sidepiece Blues
Andrea Lambert02.15.16
“Should the wife, the other, male sidepiece and I join together à la The Other Woman and seek some sort of misbegotten revenge? That sounds unlikely, fraught and nightmarish. I do not wish revenge. She has been honest with me. I am getting what I want out of the relationship, I think.”
Yellow
Joseph Mosconi02.12.16
“SORCERY AND SANCTITY ARE THE ONLY REALITIES.” New poetry by Joseph Mosconi, selected by late winter poetry editor Ed Steck.
