Dear Reader, I would like to compile a list of books/stories about doubles, and I would love your…
No Time Like the Present to Once Again Break the Silence
The government of the United States of America is still, as Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, the “greatest purveyor…
A Sequence on Sequence, Pt. 7: Elizabeth Frankie Rollins
[A guest post from Elizabeth Frankie Rollins: Elizabeth Frankie Rollins has published work in Conjunctions, Drunken Boat, Bellevue Review, Trickhouse,…
Good Kid, Meme City: Froggy Fresh’s Hip-Hop Bildungsroman
The odds are against Tyler Cassidy, better known as Froggy Fresh, formerly known as Krispy Kreme. Not in the sense…
The cultural machine
I have started reading Donald Sassoon’s monumental The Culture of the Europeans (1,400 pages not counting notes, I may be…
1000 Words: Life Is with People by Atticus Lish
“What the work of art looks like isn’t too important.” Sol LeWitt 1. If I close my eyes, I cannot…
Yi Yi: The Best Film You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
How often do two people who have been watching a film look upon each other breathless and transfixed at the…
Image replication or recycling
J. Robert Lennon’s latest novel, Familiar, came out in October 2012, and it has this cover: …
Sorry, John
But the Imperial White House has responded: “The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than…
Creative Engagement with Kari Larsen’s The Black Telephone (Unthinkable Creatures, 2012)
When I was young I played telephone too! The game is fun but also an enigma in regard to…