In Q and A, I try to get at something valuable from my fellow writers, by asking just a single…
While the World Was Sleeping: A Review of Blake Butler’s There Is No Year and Nothing
I started reading Blake Butler’s first foray into non-fiction, Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia, when I couldn’t fall asleep one…
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 40 / 41, Gary Lutz’s STORIES IN THE WORST WAY
Click through to read the full review of Gary Lutz’s STORIES IN THE WORST WAY, the fortieth in this full-press…
Shit is Wack, or Your Emoticons Won’t Save You
You ever sit down for coffee with a good friend who has just landed back in town after a long,…
Crazy Wisdom: von Trier’s Melancholia
This is from the Great Grotesque Thing I’m writing, but it has some topical relevance now so I’ll post it.…
Q and A: Writer and Musician Rob Gray, Portland
In Q and A, Matty Byloos tries to get at something valuable from his fellow writers, by asking just a single question. Installment #1: Rob Gray, Portland, OR.
Feature Friday: “Swans: A Long Slow Screw” (1986)
Earlier this week, I posted about Hail the New Puritan, one of my favorite films from 1986. Sadly, the full…
Exits Are: An Interview with Mike Meginnis
“A conversation is a journey, and what gives it value is fear.” So says Anne Carson. Exits Are is a…
Top Nine Online Science Fiction & Fantasy Stories from 2011 That You Should Read
The top nine online genre stories from 2011 that you should read: “Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders…