Images of Kept Women by Kate Durbin
M. 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.
We Cannot All Be Rocks In Heaven: Brandon Shimoda’s Portuguese
Laura Carter03.15.13
Laura Carter delves into “this shifting image of myself in which I see my past, my present, my future, all indivisibly reflected” of Brandon Shimoda’s Portuguese, the first collaboration between Octopus Books and Tin House Press.
The Human Work of Animal Bodies
Laura Straub03.11.13
Laura Straub gets lost in the fur of David Courtright’s new collection of poems.
Michelle Tea Magic: An Interview
Marisa Crawford02.27.13
Fanzine recruited fellow fangirl Marisa Crawford to talk to Michelle Tea about magic, her forthcoming YA Novel Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, and a bazillion other current projects that bring queer & feminist perspectives into the conversation of What is Awesome. Call it Zeitgeist. Call it the pink elephant in the room.
