“I wished so hard my father would die, but he just wouldn’t.” –From Harold Brodkey’s “The State of Grace” in…
In Praise of Mannequin
1987’s Mannequin is a film about the transformative potential of aesthetics. Specifically, window dressing. The film’s main characters are employed…
John Yau’s Exhibits (2010)
Exhibits by John Yau Letter Machine Editions ISBN: 978-0-9815227-6-0 22 pages $10 The latest offering from Letter Machine Editions —…
q: best metafiction?
a: the novels of Jean Genet.
Dissemination and Political Compromise
In comments at Pandagon, commenter BlackBloc writes: MIA [a musician] would not have been given a podium by the cultural…
The Show that Smells is the Book that Effing Rocks
I’ve had Derek McCormack’s “The Show that Smells” sitting on my desk for like a year, and have thought abt…
On Broadway: ‘Red’ – Guest Post by Nancy Kelly
Red, currently playing on Broadway in a limited engagement through June 27th, is a stirring play about art, commerce, civilization,…
Love Is a Road and a River: A Review of Sasha Fletcher’s When All Our Days Are Numbered Marching Bands Will Fill the Streets & We Will Not Hear Them Because We Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds
With When All Our Days Are Numbered Marching Bands Will Fill the Streets & We Will Not Hear Them Because…
Summer? Reading
Sure, I understand summer is when kids and teachers have months-worth of vacation time. When people of means take trips…
a brief review of MY HEART SAID NO…
Thanks to the kindness of the folks at Raw Dog Screaming Press & author Bradley Sands, I was fortunate enough…