January 29, 2014 | Nonfiction
I Became A Pop Music Fan In Rehab
Jordan Castro
On August 23, 2013 I checked into an inpatient treatment center in middle-of-nowhere Ohio to get off heroin and other drugs. Besides detoxing me safely, teaching me things about drug addiction and
January 29, 2014 | Interview
An Interview with Kyle Minor
Douglas Watson
This one's massive. We're just going to get right into it.
Kyle, our friend, is the author of the new collection, Praying Drunk.
—Ed.
The title page says that this is a book of
January 28, 2014 | Fiction
A Very Tiny Bowl of Frosted Flakes
Lindsey Gates-Markel
My girlfriend moved out. She gave me back the lease the next day. “I’m not sorry,” she said, but she agreed to stay for afternoon coffee. We sat by the window. The coffeepot gurgled.
“I want a
January 27, 2014 |
Ask Mira
Mira Gonzalez
*Has guilt ever almost eaten you alive? If so, how'd you - Like, how'd recuperate? Guilt is such a tricky emotion, don't you think? The sincerity behind true guilt is deafening.
Yes. I have
The Last Days of California and My Favorite Mary Millerisms
Amy Butcher
It’s been a big month for Mary Miller. Even prior to today’s release of her debut novel, The Last Days of California, excerpts and starred reviews found their way into the pages of Elle and O!
Short of Lundy
Cameron Pierce
Every summer my father and I would make the drive to the ghost town of Lundy near the Nevada border to fish the lake there. We’d wake early and get doughnuts at 7-11 and drive and every five
The Man Who Painted Night
Sarah Domet
It was a difficult job for the man who painted night. First off, he always stained his clothes. An occupational hazard, and Frank supposed he could wear an apron, but when he arched his back,
3 Sad Sonnets
Brenna York
One
Can’t write now would be too sad to read.
My celeb crushes get married or domestic.
I’m like a pair of dollar store sunglasses
look good but the fuckers snap!
If anyone, anywhere
Benjamin Percy Interview for Red Moon
Matt Bell
Benjamin Percy is the author most recently of the novel Red Moon (out this month in paperback), as well as another novel, The Wilding, and two books of stories, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of
Becoming the Soup Nazi (part 2)
Joe Sacksteder
Read part one of Joe's adventures through soup nazi'ing here.
—TURKEY CHILI (The Other Side of Darkness)—
Done got et.
During the taping of the infamous last episode of Seinfeld,
Just Like...
Alex Myers
I had no business in a haberdashery store that expensive as a seventeen-year-old high school student most recently employed as a dishwasher; even less so as a recently self-declared man, an until-three-weeks-ago woman, lurking timidly, covetously, in the racks of ties.
Becoming the Soup Nazi (part 1)
Joe Sacksteder
Just look at those soup prices when Clinton was in office.
—MULLIGATAWNY (The Pain and the Yearning)—
You could put that rooster sauce on a shoe and it would taste pretty good to
A Review of the Foreign Flavors of Lay’s in China
Peter Tieryas Liu
For most foreigners overseas, the closest they’ll ever come to tasting American cuisine will be our junk food. McDonald’s, KFC, and Lay’s Potato chips are our culinary ambassadors, spreading the
Gift Horse
Jeremiah Budin
Leo and I are dicking around in his room after school when I pull this big cardboard box out of the closet.
—What is this? I ask.
—That’s my card catalogue, Leo says.
—Is this every
Ask Mira
Mira Gonzalez
In my experience, it has been more helpful to have resolutions with a more quantitative approach, like 'cutting back on meat' or 'doing less drugs' or 'not being in a relationship for a while'.