ALIEN OF EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY: An Interview with Maria Minerva
Fortunato Salazar01.28.16
Fortunato Salazar sets off on a series of interviews with extraordinary people currently living in the U.S. by way of the O-1 nonimmigrant visa, beginning with Estonia-born musician and writer Maria Minerva
The Fat Sonnets
Samantha Zighelboim01.27.16
“and I guess I can wear / Spanx but then I can’t breathe and I’ll have to leave the party early / because my organs are being smushed even though I look good”: Three poems from Samantha Zighelboim’s The Fat Sonnets.
The Lost Tweets of @bobcoover
Mark Baumer01.26.16
Is @bobcoover actually Robert Coover? If so, is it the same Robert Coover who wrote Pricksongs & Descants? Either way, Fanzine presents an archival restoration of the @bobcoover Twitter handle that Twitter suspended.
Ideal Home Noise (5): Hairy Who, McCormack, German
Jeff Jackson01.25.16
Jeff Jackson’s fifth installment of Ideal Home Noise takes us into the Hairy Who Publications, Derek McCormack, and Aleksei German’s Hard to Be a God.
Persuasive Essay for Sex Ed
Diana Hamilton01.22.16
“This is how you prepare your asshole for anal. / This is how to tell a partner you really want them / but have a yeast infection.” A new long poem by Diana Hamilton, selected by late winter poetry editor Ed Steck.
A Story About the Body: A Review of Rachel Levy’s A Book So Red
Hugh Sheehy01.21.16
Rachel Levy uses episodic metafictional methods to breathe new life into human relations, and the self. Hugh Sheehy reviews.
Straight
Elizabeth Ellen01.20.16
“I was manufacturing melancholy. I was trafficking in it. I was afraid of becoming boring. Or I was bored.” New fiction by Elizabeth Ellen.
DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN: An Interview with David Lynch and Marek Zebrowski
Steven T. Hanley01.19.16
Steven T. Hanley spoke with David Lynch and his musical improvisational collaborator Marek Zebrowski about their haunting, exploratory album, Polish Night Music.
The Pollock Streets: Ted Berrigan’s Art Writing, Part II
Nick Sturm01.18.16
The second part of Nick Sturm’s study of Ted Berrigan’s lesser known writing on art, including his commentary on Henri Michaux, William Burroughs, and Joe Brainard.
from The Four Seasons
Brandon Brown01.15.16
“I read that Kathy Acker and Mackenzie Wark e-mail book and the only thing I really took away from it was that Kathy Acker hated pizza.” An associative mapping of memory through pop culture and the seasons by Brandon Brown, selected by late winter poetry editor Ed Steck.
