Ruin Review 2
Sean Kilpatrick12.29.15
In the second edition of his catalog of American ruin, Sean Kilpatrick carries his Detroit blood into Williamsburg: “But here bled such searchlight wonders, fumeless in the concoction lungs afford. They assigned my oxygen a DJ.”
Album Roundup: December 2015
Scott Creney12.28.15
Scott Creney listens to a slew of new releases and finds—aside from Grimes’ latest—quite a bit that’s worth the bother, including Antlered Aunt Lord, PC Worship, and Lubomyr Melnyk.
The Moss of the Danube School
Jennifer Nelson12.23.15
A poem from Jennifer Nelson’s Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife, recently released from Ugly Duckling Presse.
In a Mirror Maze: A Review of Derek McCormack’s The Well-Dressed Wound
Lonely Christopher12.22.15
The Devil assumes the form of Martin Margiela in one of 2015’s most decadent and best new books. Lonely Christopher reviews.
“Let’s ironically move to where Twin Peaks was”: An Interview with Eva Anderson
Stacy Elaine Dacheux12.21.15
Stacy Elaine Dacheux interviews Eva Anderson, writer for shows such as You’re the Worst, Comedy Bang! Bang!, and a teacher of sketch comedy for the Upright Citizens Brigade. They discuss LA, writing, magic, and community.
Two Poems
Phoebe Glick12.18.15
“And you ask me, what happened after the ice age? And I say, then birthmarks. Then humor. Then cancer. Then love.” New poetry by Phoebe Glick, selected by Fall poetry editor Julia Cohen.
Arriving is like Drowning: Joanna Walsh’s Vertigo
David Schuman12.17.15
With their distance and unhurried urgency, their syntactic pinpointing and clarity, the narrators in Joanna Walsh’s Vertigo are vital, unsettling companions. David Schuman reviews.
Other Babies
Meredith Alling12.16.15
“Other babies suck the life force from any adult human that looks into their clean glass baby eyes. The adult humans are powerless.” New short fiction from Meredith Alling.
NONHUMAN MATERIALISATIONS: THE HORROR IN THE DETAIL OF THE COCKROACH
Gary J. Shipley12.15.15
“Where something is attainable there is no art.” Gary J. Shipley explores the boundary between the human and the animal, and how the shades of that distinction color our perception of creation, and existence.
THE LONESOME CROWDED WEST: An Interview with Michael Galinsky
Steven T. Hanley12.14.15
Michael Galinsky’s once-forgotten photos taken in shopping malls in 1989 capture a lonely, eerie era of American life and consumerism.
