Amber Sparks: May We Shed These Human Bodies
Laura Straub12.07.12
Laura Straub vouches for Amber Sparks’ first collection of stories May We Shed These Human Bodies as it breathes new life into our collective imagination.
Updated: Ben Mirov’s Hider Roser
Laura Carter11.19.12
From world darkness to The Purloined Letter, Laura Carter leads us through Ben Mirov’s Hider Roser.
Tangents Relating to Death & Scott McClanahan, Maybe
Amy Herschleb09.11.12
This is not really about Scott McClanahan’s Collected Works Vol. 1. It’s more of a reading of a life that would be better in stories directly and kindly told by Scott. It’s looking into the pool of his work and saying “Change me.”
Robert Anasi’s The Last Bohemia
Michael Louie09.06.12
Michael Louie examines the parallels between Robert Anasi’s Brooklyn and his own––the rapid gentrification of an industrial landscape, the new life of the ol’ fishin’ hole, and what was lost in the transition into respectability.
A Pilgrim’s Progress
James Greer08.14.12
James Greer takes the path of greatest resistance through Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s tale of traveling toward reconciliation, A Sense of Direction, and is reconciled himself with his high regard for the book.
Age As Disease: Nick Haymes’s Gabe
Thomas Moore08.07.12
Thomas Moore’s visceral reaction to the entropy of Gabe, a new book of photography by Nick Haymes. The nexus of exploitation, complicity, and friendship.
I Did Not Pee on R. Kelly’s Soulacoaster
Blake Butler08.01.12
Blake Butler sleeps with Soulacoaster under his pillow so the rest of us don’t have to: “in its wake the world is safe, if somehow at the same time that much closer to destruction.”
The Man Within The Metafiction: Laurent Binet’s HHhH
Michael McCanne06.21.12
Michael McCanne follows Laurent Binet’s struggle to retell the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich with integrity––by telling every story necessary. A review of Binet’s HHhH. If on a winter’s night two Czechoslovak partisans…
Hybrid Locations: Thoughts on Dreaming or Insomnia and Language
Blake Butler05.04.12
Gathering thought and expression from Joyelle McSweeney and James Joyce, in an excision from Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia, author Blake Butler examines the strange language of not sleeping.
Review: Patrick Wensink’s Broken Piano For President
Michael Louie05.04.12
The author of Sex Dungeon for Sale (and recent Fanzine contributor) Patrick Wensink is back with a new novel (and a cassette tape), a comedy that straddles alcoholic despair with cosmic “Burger Wars”. Michael Louie reviews.
