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June 27, 2026 | Interview

Infinite Detail: One Man’s Attempt to Graphically Chronicle Infinite Jest

Hannah Smart

Put simply, Swinehart writes like Wallace, and this similarity reminds me of something Wallace once said in an interview with Richard Powers and John O’Brien about his ideal reader: “If stuff is going well, it feels like I’m talking to somebody. Or like there’s somebody there. And I think it’s somebody rather suspiciously like me.”

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June 26, 2026 | Poetry

Two Poems

Kathryn Bailey

if i / am left with lack, let it be / infinite, stretching further / than any man’s tongue

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June 24, 2026 | Poetry

Two Poems

Casper Kelly

Sometimes I wake up to my own asthma / making small morse codes.

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June 23, 2026 | Poetry

Complicated Feelings Guide for People with Persistent Depressive Disorder Volume I.

Ivan Genc

if you listen to duran duran while prancing around in nature and it's mostly overcast, you will feel like you're missing, but not loved enough to be put on a milk carton

June 22, 2026 | Poetry

Banged Erasers

Damon Hubbs

Amazing fucking Grace, 

tell them 

how you’re production 

and I’m consumption

and how we mess around 

with gender roles 

June 21, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

On Blowing Your Life Up

Daddio Jones

Every morning I’d wake up, walk to Target and take a hangover dump in their nice clean bathroom

June 19, 2026 | Fiction

Hydroponics

Arthur Aronstein

James served ten years in prison. His crucial impasse occurred a week after his life in the clink—under a neon sign that read Green Goddess.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Exit, Carefully

Elizabeth Ellen

"I loved reading Exit, Carefully. It’s unusual, and in my opinion exciting, to publish a play without previously receiving a major production."

                      -Walker Caplan, Lithub