“One may say that the human ability to understand may be in a certain sense unlimited. But the existing scientific…
Rust Belt Bindery
Rust Belt Bindery is “a book bindery that’s committed to producing and distributing new work as well as repairing and rebinding…
A Bird, a Plane
From David Shields’s How Literature Saved My Life: When I was a little kid, I was a very good baseball…
A Sequence on Sequence, Pt. 5a: Matthew Salesses
[Matthew Salesses was kind enough to expand just a bit on his earlier thoughts about ordering his new book,…
Doubles
Dear Reader, I would like to compile a list of books/stories about doubles, and I would love your…
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,…
Kellie Wells’s Fat Girl, Terrestrial
“Chronology commits you to a straight line, I said. This story’s ovoid.” But no, not ovoid either. Vertical. Kellie Wells’s…
William Gaddis Interview
“Saul Steinberg, the artist, said one of the major problems for the creative person is to avoid boredom. . .…
A Sequence on Sequence, Part 6: Peter Tieryas Liu
I stuffed too many stories into the first draft of Watering Heaven. There were originally thirty of them and I…
Noy Holland’s Swim for the Little One First
Noy Holland’s new collection of short fiction, Swim for the Little One First, came out in September. I would…