In ten hours, the surgical resident Syd’s day at the hospital will be behind her and she will meet…
Cuddly Doll Caught on Barbed Wire, by Lance Olsen
Henry Darger is from Brazil! You from time to time shouting at David. David Berglund. The…
Absolute Away, by Lance Olsen
THE GREAT SLUR The next day, a new order of strangeness, The Great Slur, broke out across the…
(Trans)Forms as Philosophy, by Lance Olsen
Let me begin with a quote: The American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands…
He Can’t Remember, He’s No Longer Sure, Maybe
By Lance Olsen I don’t remember much about the particular circumstances surrounding my stumbling upon Robert Coover’s Pricksongs &…
From the Archives: Lance Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling”
Happy birthday, Lance Olsen! Celebrate by reading Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling” (which we published earlier this year) and “169 Tweets…







