The Black and Red Interviews
Felix Bernstein & Vanessa Place12.18.14
Roman Polanski, Kill List, anti-intellectualism,Terry Richardson, alt lit, and many further forms of scandal and desire come to collide in a pair of conversations intertwining Felix Bernstein and Vanessa Place.
Impossible to Ignore: on #BlackPoetsSpeakOut
Morgan Parker12.15.14
Morgan Parker provides a vital roundup of the #BlackPoetsSpeakOut movement, born in the wake of the murder of Mike Brown and countless other black Americans at the hands of the police.
Notes Towards an Essay about the Writing Scenery in Portland.
Jeff Alessandrelli11.17.14
Jeff Alessandrelli digs into Portland’s literary scene, finding both a lack worth paying attention to and a sufficiency to make flyover states jealous.
Against Easy Answers: Eating Pho with Dodie Bellamy
Lucy Tiven10.23.14
Dodie Bellamy sat down to lunch with Fanzine’s Lucy Tiven in San Francisco to discuss cults, narcissism, drugs, and her latest book, The TV Sutras.
Whose Body Is My Body: Terrifying Things I Learned from Reading Katha Pollitt’s PRO: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Kati Heng10.16.14
Kati Heng tries to wrestle with the question of whether an abortion is about the woman or the life she’s carrying.
I Don’t Want To: Two Possible Responses
Frances Chiem10.08.14
Frances Dinger takes a personal look at two different ways of handling intimacy and the boundaries therein.
Names are Graves
Elizabeth Mikesch09.16.14
Elizabeth Mikesch pries windows into Marilyn Minter’s Green Pink Caviar, a film inspiring her debut collection, Niceties: Aural Ardor, Pardon Me.
Disconnection Notice
Nicholas Grider09.15.14
Nicholas Grider provides thoughtful consideration of how autism affects his reading and his writing.
The Crossing
Lorian Long09.02.14
Leo, an aspiring boxer who has crossed the Mexican-American border multiples times, shares his experience in interview with Lorian Long.
A Review of Nicotine Gum
Melissa Broder08.25.14
Melissa Broder takes on small lives, oral cancer scares, addiction, and Nicorette gum.
