The Pilot
The Pilot by Sam Pink This guy comes in and sits at the bar and asks for a menu. He says I heard your pizza is good is that true. I say yes that’s true. He says alright is a 16 inch enough for two people, I gotta bring some home for the wife. Yeah […]
Two Poems by Rachel Brown
Driving, I See Horses& 我爱家人 Two poems by Rachel Brown. Art by Joohee Park. Driving, I See Horses I swear It is so unnatural to see a horse in a trailer on a highway Weren’t they born to run? Hasn’t anyone the decency to tell them why the earth is moving without their physical consent? […]
The Golden Fish
The Golden Fish by M. Verlaine I was one of only a small number of SamCom employees who heard the muffled pop of the mailroom explosion that afternoon. It was the final Friday of the quarter–always a busy day for the DOCS–and I was wrestling with a pile of forms in desperate need of processing. […]
Plan Z
Plan Z by Mackenna Vickery 01010111 You finally get that raise at work, so you decide it’s time to do the treatment again. What is money for, if not to be spent? And you’ve been waiting a while. It’s been, what, four months? You need this. You need this bad. Worse than you […]
An Interview with Ariel Dorfman
An Interview with Ariel Dorfman Ariel Dorfman discusses The Suicide Museum, literary doubles, Henry Kissinger, and more.by Dylan Cloud There are few writers working today whose body of work displays as much literary and political intelligence as novelist, playwright, poet, and activist Ariel Dorfman. Born to Jewish immigrants in Argentina in 1942, he lived for […]
PLAY COUSIN
Edmund White discusses The Humble Lover, Heian Japan, and how to write a great sex scene.
by Dylan Cloud
Tupping Time Plus
Edmund White discusses The Humble Lover, Heian Japan, and how to write a great sex scene.
by Dylan Cloud
De-creation
De-Creation Cole Stapleton reads Alvina Chamberland’s Love the World Or Get Killed Trying.by Cole Stapleton There is a series of improvisational ‘technologies’ created by choreographer William Forsythe that I find useful for both dancing and writing. One technology, Decreation, shares a name with Forsythe’s 2009 ‘artificial opera’ (which itself takes its name from Anne Carson’s […]
Party Planning
Party Planning by Glynnis Eldridge An electric eel goes limp in his hand when he pulls it from a pan of shallow water, north: the passing between realms. The eyes of the eel look just like yours while you sleep, when I pull your lids up to see you while you’re dreaming. I’m sure you […]
The Woman in All of Us
The Woman in All of Us A review of Britney Spears’ new tell-all, as featured on Kiara’s Court.by Kiara Smith I have been a Britney fan ever since I can remember. Like many of you reading this, I have been in awe of her talent since the first time I heard the iconic opening chords […]
