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Issue 119: June/July 2018

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The After-Monkey Blues: By Boyce Upholt

Willie Seaberry didn’t show for work one Wednesday. But that was unremarkable: Willie was a day laborer on a grain farm.

Location, Location, Location: A Brief Personal History of House Moving by Jeannie Vanasco

My parents raised me in a white-sided saltbox house, the sort children draw in crayon. Years before we lived there, it had been cut in half and moved across town. We never learned why.

Interviews

May 9, 2018

Our Dictionary Yields to None: Jez Burrows and Tom Comitta in Conversation

May 9, 2018

That was the flashpoint: realizing I had access to thousands of pieces of an infinite number of jigsaw puzzles, all of which could be any shape or size.

May 9, 2018

Apr 17, 2018

An Interview with Amen Dunes

Apr 17, 2018

Over the last ten years Damon McMahon has released five records as Amen Dunes, but there is something elusive about the project’s singer, songwriter, and spiritual leader.

Apr 17, 2018

Feb 9, 2018

Anti-Particle Women: An Interview with Writer Laurie Sheck

Feb 9, 2018

LAURIE SHECK: With Gertrude Stein, we say she is a writer. We don’t label her in terms of genre. I love that.

Feb 9, 2018

Nov 8, 2017

An Interview with Writer and Illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham

Nov 8, 2017

As someone who has been more or less fixated on death since I was a child, I am a fan of children’s books about death, and as a parent, have mourned the fact that there is a dearth of them—or at least a dearth of ones I really like.

Nov 8, 2017

Sep 29, 2017

An Interview with Poet Ishion Hutchinson

Sep 29, 2017

Last Bastille Day, at the Bastille, Ishion Hutchinson and I met in the back of the Cafe des Phares.

Sep 29, 2017

Sep 8, 2017

An Interview with Kevin Killian

Sep 8, 2017

In a sexier and more exciting world, Kevin Killian would be a household name.

Sep 8, 2017

Aug 8, 2017

Motherest, Process, and Kristen: An Interview with Kristen Iskandrian

Aug 8, 2017

Kristen Iskandrian’s first novel, Motherest, is told in first-person by 18-year-old Agnes, who lives in “the middle of a New Jersey nowhere” and has just begun college in “the middle of a New England nowhere” in 1993.

Aug 8, 2017

May 9, 2017

"An Expression of Love": Rebecca Miller and Barbara Browning in Conversation

May 9, 2017

I first saw Barbara Browning when she was naked, one hand extended to open a shower curtain, in our shared dorm bathroom, when we were both in our late teens. Barbara wore her hair short then, and her compact little body was so unapologetically whole, not a series of parts in the way I considered my own body to be.

May 9, 2017