Fall & Winter Archive

A Brief History of My Breasts

by Barbara Novak 80 pounds of sugar and spice — 40 on the chest [full text]

Contagion

by Brian Henry A poem [full text]

In the Subtext of Things

by George Murray An interview with Jenny Boully [full text]

Jim Nolan, Writer of LightTM

by Jim Nolan From bright to dim, from early morning glow to faint, twinkling starlight [full text]

Black Truffle

by Stephen Brockwell A Poem [full text]

The Problem with Steiner

by Marius Kociejowski La Dolce Vita, the deepest film ever made about shallowness [full text]

The Prairie Dog Whisperer

by Mark Toft That’s funny. I was stopping by to see if I could borrow a vacuum truck. Why would you ask me if I wanted to buy one?” [full text]

Letter from the Editor

by Derek Webster Letter from the editor [full text]

Soliloquy

by Amy Schroeder A Poem [full text]

Are You for Real?

by Natalie Alvarez Life as a Big Fat victim. Stealth marketing [full text]

See Also Zyklon-B

by Robert Michael, Karin Doerr A Hitlerian vocabulary [full text]

The Most Spontaneous Thing

by Adrienne Ho A poem [full text]

Some Restrictions May Apply

by Tom King Christian Bök’s Eunoia [full text]

Mastering the Pain

by Michael Gliserman Pain. The mere mention of the word makes us cringe [full text]

An Interview with D.R. Cowles, Part I

by George Sellers For the past 10 years, D. R. Cowles (pronounced Coles) has been photographing historic architecture and cultural remnants in North Africa. Jewish sites have been his primary focus, though he has also photographed Roman ruins, historic Islamic archite [full text]

At the Modern Knothole

by Jack Illingworth Fencebooks: an aesthetic profile [full text]

Apes Eat Their Own Shit Too

by Timothy Hickey A short story [full text]

Shriners March to a Different Tune

by John Lee 15,000 delegates in Vancouver [full text]

An Airside Gambol

by Peter Richardson Portrait of the artist as an off-ramp attendant [full text]

Interview with D.R. Cowles, Part II

by George Sellers Interview continued [full text]

Things Left Out of My Resume

by Mark Toft Gladly let the bastards keep me down [full text]

Some More Remarkable Men

by Jim Nolan What’s in a name? [full text]

Hunting in the South

by Christopher Middleton A poem [full text]

Standing By

by Peter Richardson A poem [full text]

My Creative Method

by Francis Ponge The essay-journal of a French master. [full text]

Lonely, Near Wilkes Barre

by Neal Durando A short-short story [full text]

This Poetic Vacuum

by Christian Bök Jenny Boully’s The Body [full text]

Brushing Ice

by Robyn Sarah What we were hearing was wind-driven rain, ice removal equipment on the streets, and huge tree limbs cracking like great bones under the buildup of ice, then crashing to ground [full text]
Tenth Anniversary: Spring

ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012

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also in this issue:

  • Face the Music

    by Tim Falconer How can someone who passionately loves music also be a terrible singer? Tim Falconer takes up voice lessons—and discovers the surprising science of tone deafness.
  • The Big Job

    by Deni Y. Béchard As a teenager, Deni Y. Béchard went to Vancouver to live with his father, an ex-con with a penchant for telling tall tales. He met a man desperate to forget the past.
  • The Homesickness of Astronauts

    by Johanna Skibsrud "She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon."
  • [see full issue contents]