“Go with great care”
Laura Carter02.12.13
Laura Carter leads us through the forest of Kate Greenstreet’s “experimental memoir” Young Tambling.
Alain Badiou: Philosophy For Militants
Gean Moreno02.07.13
The new translation of French philosopher Alain Badiou’s lectures explains why Militants are necessary to philosophical thought, who the hero of our times must be, and which colors to wear for Spring (anything that goes with red, basically).
Interview: Alt Lit with Noah Cicero
Matthew Sherling02.01.13
Matthew Sherling interviews Alt Lit author Noah Cicero about diligent writing, the future of literature, and the benefits of the internet.
American Spleen: Charles McLeod’s National Treasures
Matt Roberts01.22.13
The atlas that is Charles McLeod’s National Treasures describes the geography within disregarded Americans and maps the migratory routes of their ambitions.
My Pet Mystery
Kory Calico01.18.13
Kory Calico delves into Michael J. Seidlinger’s My Pet Serial Killer to uncover the larger Mystery of what the human heart desires.
Past Tense
Thomas Moore12.31.12
Thomas Moore shares his Best of 2012 list now that the world hasn’t ended and more things happened than Xiu Xiu’s Always.
The Sound Of My Voice Will Haunt You: Spreadeagle by Kevin Killian
Johnny Drago12.28.12
Kevin Killian’s Spreadeagle mashes up the shimmery world of A-list established gay writers in post-activist San Francisco with the shadow-monde of impoverished trailer punks, driven by the need to consume and destroy, hungry for fame, attention, porn, drugs… blood. Spreadeagle is as cautionary as Austen, visceral as Acker, and wry as a knife. Johnny Drago reviews.
Sky Saw
Kory Calico12.18.12
What’s black & white and puce all over? The whorey Word in liminal whirls in Blake Butler’s Sky Saw. Kory Calico reviews.
Interrogating the Real: A Review of One
Laura Carter12.13.12
Laura Carter works her way closer to the body of One in the shared Meate Dream of Blake Butler, Vanessa Place, and assemblagist Christopher Higgs.
Reviving Our Heroines
M. Milks12.10.12
The “madwomen” of Modernist literature come out of their cages and rattle the bars in Kate Zambreno’s Heroines.
