VINCENT AND ALICE AND ALICE (an excerpt)
Shane Jones07.02.19
“As the cheese melts, the rain stops. What just happened between being outside with Alice and the bathtub with Alice?” Bask in an excerpt from Shane Jones’ latest novel, Vincent and Alice and Alice, dropping July 8th from Tyrant Books.
Rat’s Nest Astrology: July
Never Angeline North07.01.19
Check into the Rat’s Nest for everything you need to know about July, courtesy of FZ’s resident astrologer, Never Angeline North.
In the Rows, In the Fields
Niles Baldwin06.26.19
“The hose was wrapped in circles. He untangled it by whipping it around. It stretched to where he could wet the flowers.” Fiction by Niles Baldwin.
Hoop (Lucid) Dreams
Hadiyyah Kuma06.25.19
“I dreamt I was Kawhi Leonard and still nobody loved me.” Hadiyyah Kuma with a genre-bending meditation on trauma, attention, and the 2019 NBA finals.
Phoneshopping
Josh Boardman06.20.19
“The American had been telling about the sex appeal of the Samsung—literally dripping off the edge—excuse me—” Fiction by Josh Boardman.
POETS ARE TIME-TRAVELERS: Ariana Reines & Emmalea Russo in Conversation
Emmalea Russo06.18.19
Ariana Reines speaks candidly with Emmalea Russo about her latest and largest work to date, A Sand Book.
Grappling with Singularity: On Reading Faylor’s Registration Caspar
Michael Martrich06.17.19
“Registration Caspar is urgently prophetic, a mirror onto the future, a mirror quite necessary where our own Vladi(mirrors) are Estra(gone).” Michael Martrich reviews.
Free Gold!
Sofia Banzhaf06.12.19
“I’m on a social media detox. I photograph my food and show it to no one. I sleep in a child’s bed in an air bnb on top of a hill.” Fiction by Sofia Banzhaf.
Book Album Book: Eclipse
Jeff T. Johnson06.10.19
The latest edition of Jeff T. Johnson’s Book Album Book focuses on the profound and otherworldly genius of Alice Coltrane.
Fouling
Rod Moody-Corbett06.05.19
“…musically, I told my father, it’s probably easier if you think about the sixth chapter of my critical exegesis of your first novel, “Fantasies of Masculine Annulment: A Paratextual History,” in terms of a permutation fugue, as like, in layman’s terms, a cantata of invertible counterpoints…” Fiction by Rod Moody-Corbett.
