On-the-Run Expansion Pack: Paging Jared Joseph
Jerimee Bloemeke08.12.13
A dissection of the image of the artist: Jared Joseph as Frank Quitely, as Hosni Mubarak, as Jared Harvey. The words that build a poet.
HELL YEAH
Scott McClanahan07.10.13
Sarah takes to nursing: an excerpt from The Sarah Book. Art by Danny Jock.
Cracker Barrels for the Creative Classes
Jordan Somers04.26.13
Both sides of the cultural divide against the tedium of the middle: a serving of nostalgia trends in the faux-olde timey bar and restaurant scene.
A BLOWJOB IS PROBABLY OUT OF THE QUESTION, EH?
Peter Thompson04.15.13
A review of nudist club-cum-desert resort Buff Valley Sun Club and various aspects of the landscape thereabouts. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
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.
How Dare She Claim The Sun As Her Own?
Laura Jane Faulds01.07.13
A strained relationship with Cat Power’s Sun is the opening credits in a sitcom about the life and times of Laura Jane Faulds. A story about the soundtrack of her life & waiting for it to hit.
When Riot Grrrls Grow Up
Christina Lee10.12.12
Feminist Press and the Corin Tucker Band’s new releases––the PUSSY RIOT! A Punk Prayer for Freedom eBook and Kill My Blues––both hearken to riot grrrl nostalgia, but with seemingly different responses on how to restart the radical feminist movement. Who’s right?
My Kingdom for a Sexologist
Michael Thomsen07.16.12
Does a little online chicanery a sexpert make? Or is there a legitimate borderland between science and the philosopher’s albatross? Michael Thomsen searches among manifold claims to authority for a legitimate sexologist. Art by Danny Jock.
G is for Ghetto
Louis Chude-Sokei05.10.12
Louis Chude-Sokei analyzes the meaning of a word, the reality of a community, and the failed assimilation of an immigrant in Inglewood.
Elegy for Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012
Laura Carter04.26.12
The resonant hall of memory is a lot like the First Unitarian Universalist Church on Polk Street, San Francisco. Adrienne Rich held court in both, filling her audience with the direct, fluid power of her words. Laura Carter examines her legacy, grasps at the delta, to find that the poet “long ago moved on / deeper into the heart of the matter.” Rest in peace.
