By John Madera It’s Bradford Morrow’s birthday, today, and so I decided to spend the day reading The Uninnocent,…
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,…
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,…
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…
elimae’s last issue?
Some sad news from Cooper Renner and Brandon Hobson, editors of elimae: In light of which, may I suggest…
Moving Through the World: An Interview with Alex Gallo-Brown
In March of this year, Alex Gallo-Brown sent me an email about a book of poems called The Language…
Much Gnashing of Teeth: Reviewing a Review of Book Reviews
Jacob Silverman writes “Against Enthusiasm” at Slate: “The writer Emma Straub has 9,192 Twitter followers . . . let’s say…
Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass (continued)
25 remaining, & here they are, picking up where we left off, with Tolstoy & his disgraced Natasha 26) The…
Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass.
25 now, 25 to follow, with many thanks 1) In The Odyssey, there’s Penelope’s more intimate test of this stranger…
Tim Horvath’s “Literary Pillars”
The Top Five: As widely as my tastes ebb and flow, these five remain, stalwarts, five friends I want with…