A Review of Gina Myers’s Hold It Down
Laura Carter05.15.13
“Not more deep, more shallow. You take what you can.” A review of Gina Myers’s Hold It Down and the things that make up a life.
“We Don’t Need Freedom?” an Interview with Ian Svenonius
Jordan Somers05.10.13
Ian F. Svenonius discusses his new book, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group, a satirical instruction manual slash insightful lesson in Capitalism from the late greats. His book tour brings the new title (and perhaps a séance or floating chair) to 529 Bar in East Atlanta, Saturday, May 11th at 7:30 pm.
Arrival of One Adulthood: A Review of Amy Lawless’s My Dead
Gina Myers05.07.13
Out of the crucible and into the ossuary: Amy Lawless forges adulthood out of meditations on death, and a parade of elephants.
Images of Kept Women by Kate Durbin
Megan Milks05.03.13
A tour through the Playboy mansion: Kate Durbin’s Kept Women as part travel brochure, part cultural archaeology.
Everything I’m Reading Right This Second
Amy Herschleb04.18.13
I strained my neck but supposedly had fibromyalgia for about three gruesome days (it didn’t take) because hypochondria, and I’m over that now, because who has time for that? Which means I count myself infinitely lucky and here is a summary of everything that happened during that time.
SCENE: There is no land: Pop Corpse! by Lara Glenum
Laura Carter04.11.13
More mermaid drams explored in Lara Glenum’s forthcoming poetry-drama Pop Corpse!
Haute Surveillance as The Real Thing
Laura Carter04.03.13
Looking through Yeux-Verts at Johannes Göransson’s Haute Surveillance, the cross-genre trek back to the mansion of the Father.
Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey
Gina Myers03.29.13
Meeting a pale man at the crossroads at midnight, Hubert Humphrey, to barbecue some baby back ribs. A slice and a side of Americana: Daniel Mueller’s Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey is now out from Outpost19.
A Conversation with Jaswinder Bolina’s Phantom Camera
Amy Herschleb03.26.13
This is much less a review of Phantom Camera and much more a summation of a single conversation spanning years which was caught in the throat of Gchat and coughed onto the page, whole hog.
Renata Adler: Radical Intelligence
Mark Asch03.19.13
Picking up the threads of Renata Adler’s novels and readdressing the weave: the reissue of Speedboat and Pitch Dark by NYRB prompt a closer look at the wit that wove them together.
