Showing results for June, 2014
GREAT MOMENTS IN CINEMATIC DRINKING: Silkwood
Matt Sailor
It’s a hot day in Oklahoma, and Kurt Russell has been working hard. At what, we’re not entirely sure. There may have been a throwaway line of dialogue about fixing cars or mending fences or digging
The Stink of Horses: Excerpts from The Marina Golovina Controversy by the Ballet Book Series
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
“I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.”
-- Anton Chekhov
“When I dance, the stage shakes with my weight.
Time and Resonance: An Interview with Shane Jones
J.A. Tyler
Shane Jones’s Crystal Eaters begins as a countdown. The chapter numbers start at 40 and irregularly drop to zero by the book’s end. The page numbers recede against conventions too, and the
Final Warning
Nora Bonner
Betty crossed her yard and our street and my yard holding a bundle of mail.
This Moment at the Peticolas Brewing Company...
Geoffrey Geoffrey
This Moment at the Peticolas Brewing Company When Chris and I Thought That Becoming Brewers Was the Only Way to Find Meaning in Our Otherwise Meaningless Lives
It looked like it was
Three Stories
Mike Topp
The Light Bulb
Man did not get the idea for the light bulb from those cartoons when someone gets an idea.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe’s last words were not
The Panda Barn
Lyndsey Reese
It’s called The Panda Barn, where you can go and it’ll just be rows and rows of beds
Brian Allen Carr Interview
Sean Kilpatrick
Sean Kilpatrick: If you and I could be said to exist outside ye old literary camps, and I think our flags remain hygienic because I don’t leave the house and you’re too good at what you do, also
This Is What That Means
Maggie Donohue
I snapped back into it at the bar. I’d been there the whole time, of course, but I hadn’t really acknowledged it, and I took in the room and the situation like crawling out of a ditch. Billy was
3 Fictions
Erica Stern
The Day Shirley Temple Died
I remembered I was a bad mother. I called up my son, a bellboy in a fancy Las Vegas hotel, I wanted to apologize, patch things up. Redemption is a thing I believe
Merry Christmas, Cheryl Ann
Nathan Elias
The next three and a half or four minutes will be used to draw conclusions on the relevance and authenticity of Christmas based on self reflexivity by using photographs of Cheryl Ann during the days leading up to Christmas.
Palo Alto
Sean Kilpatrick
You know shit’s over when they flunk a nihilist out of the suckass pedagogy for bringing too much optimism.
Jason Ockert Interview
Patrick Siebel
Following his debut collection, Rabbit Punches (Low Fidelity Press, 2006), Neighbors of Nothing (Dzanc, 2013) marks Jason Ockert’s triumphant return to the press, offering ten distinctly original
The Last Room
Amy Benson
Humans learn occlusion on their way out of infancy—the ability to grasp that the toy still exists when it’s under the blanket...