Anti-Bond: A Conversation with Andrea Kleine
Jaime Fountaine12.27.18
Andrea Kleine in conversation with Jaime Fountaine about the porous feeling of living in the shadow of trauma, as depicted in Kleine’s new novel, Eden.
Bruegel the Elder Never got Called an Asshole
Dan Melling12.26.18
“I saw a Bruegel painting not long ago. I don’t remember which one. I do remember thinking, ‘If they came—the gun-to-your-head men, the would-you-rather enforcers—which Bruegel painting would I eat?'” Fiction by Dan Melling.
The Pools Beneath a Guillotine: A Review of Comemadre
Joseph Houlihan12.21.18
Roque Larraquy’s Comemadre joins the uncanny, self-aware tradition of Kafka, Mann, Walser, Artaud, with a dash of the Three Stooges. Joseph Houlihan reviews.
Three Ways Successful Women Manage Wealth
Jeanne Jones12.19.18
“I try not to let the names bring me down.” New work by Jeanne Jones.
A Hunger for Truth and a Taste for Toppings: A Conversation with Eileen G’Sell
Liz Latty12.17.18
Eileen G’Sell speaks with Liz Latty on the performative nature of gender, police brutality, and the #MeToo movement, in intersection with G’Sell’s first full length book of poetry, Life After Rugby.
On Institutional Garbage
Anne K. Yoder12.13.18
“Is it information fatigue? Do we all suffer from it?” Anne Yoder explores the anxiety of embodiment in the face of our increasingly digital existence, in response to the online archive for Lara Schoorl’s Institutional Garbage exhibition, Adrian Piper, Daniel Borzutzky, and more.
Five Poems
Jesse Prado12.12.18
“My last reading was okay” + “This guy working here hits the head of every doorway he walks through” + “Hella fell off this week seems like” + “Found myself” + “Have a goodnight” = Five new poems by Jesse Prado.
Fate-Touched
Brianna Albers12.10.18
“To be fate-touched is not to die, but to live while dying.” Brianna Albers on the experience of living in the presence of death and finding relief in role-playing and myth.
Book Album Book: You Aren’t Here
Jeff T. Johnson12.06.18
“If albums are literature, what sort of literature are they?” Jeff T. Johnson returns with a James Baldwin-inspired meditation on affect and emotion as delivered through song.
Hindenburg
Billie Rankin12.05.18
“for what returns and / for what is sore and / for what was saw: / purpose, control, management, unseeing , rubric.” Poetry by Billie Rankin.
