Mock the Death Trance: An Interview with Sean Kilpatrick

Nicholas Rys

10.01.15

Nicholas Rys spoke with Sean Kilpatrick about voice, influence, and lack of narrative in his latest book, Sucker June.

HOW TO START A FIGHT CLUB

Vanessa Norton

09.30.15

“The chef possessed a third eye.” Gastronomically unnerving new short fiction from Vanessa Norton.

Heather Fuller’s Dick Cheney’s Heart

Fitz Fitzgerald

09.29.15

Dick Cheney has a heart? Well, he does now at least, rendered by its impression in Heather Fuller’s tragicomic verse.

Your Spanish Fling

Jana du Plessis

09.28.15

Jana du Plessis’s essay on Tinder, meeting people online, getting over heartbreak, small talk, and clichés.

Two Poems

Courtney Kersten

09.25.15

“A little boy told me he saw her drinking bleach / from a bucket out his back porch.” Two new poems from Courtney Kersten.

Ideal Home Noise (3): Wenders, Costa-Gavras, Home

Jeff Jackson

09.24.15

The third installment of Jeff Jackson’s Ideal Home Noise takes a look at new and updated releases from Wim Wenders, Costas-Gravas, and Stewart Home.

Wolf is a River in Germany

Alex Higley

09.23.15

“This is more than lacking a plan and different than choosing arbitrarily what to write down. I am saying this is consciously not knowing, and embracing any decision as a viable path.” New short fiction from Alex Higley.

100% Animals: An Interview with Andrew James Weatherhead

Andrew Duncan Worthington

09.22.15

Andrew Worthington catches up with Andrew James Weatherhead about the influences and attentions in his new book, Cats and Dogs.

The Bathhouse

Brandon Shimoda

09.21.15

Scenes from The Grave on the Wall, a project in which Brandon Shimoda writes about his grandfather through a series of poetic images: “One dreams of living above a bathhouse / In a snow-covered field…”

Wolf Fucker

Aurelia Guo

09.18.15

“Pole dancer body and I unfriend white people who go to Africa. Have sin but throw the first stone”: 5 new poems from Aurelia Guo, selected by Late Summer poetry editor, Penny Goring.