In high school, he was one of three linebackers. All three wore good names on their backs. Sword. Seabolt. King. Strong side. Middle. Weak.
You Should Be Paying Attention: An Interview with Lynn Steger Strong
Lynn Steger Strong discusses her second novel Want, a book that explores the complexities of motherhood, lost friendship, and the ways in which we live in, and in spite of, broken systems.
Between Screens: Bedroom-Induced Prose
I always took pride in never writing in bed. My rule was that I could only write once I was dressed, out of the apartment, and sipping coffee somewhere (preferably by a window), next to a stranger whose presence held…
Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King
King is able to capture the particular kind of youth Casey is struggling with perfectly: one where she hasn’t lived anywhere with a dishwasher since high school, where she does not want to be infertile yet also does not want…
Women Who Write: Zoe Marquedant, Interviewed by Paulina Pinsky
I am sitting in front of a half-eaten burrito bowl in a booth at 1020. I text Zoe, “quick— what do you want to drink” because I feel anxious about eating in an establishment that doesn’t serve food. I order…
Two Poems by Angie Sijun Lou
“…How you are / you & I am the gap […] The mold of things / To come / Blossoming & kinda stubborn like god” (from “last summer there was some hair in the tide”
Three Poems by Hanna Andrews
night driver you’ve got your night posture on your profile pieced together with cellular backdrop & booth bearing cotton your hands toy at the napkin holder and beyond your elbow bright headlights meet window but only long enough to search…
“Midnight Poems:” A Series by Justin Jannise
— 23:45:03 — A QUARTER TO MIDNIGHT Deep in Kentucky, behind twelve percent of the world’s chain links, past snipers’ sights and paperwork bundled into granite-lined, torch-resistant, blear impenetrability, a vault of gold! I bet it’s empty, says my mother,…
“A Cruel Angel’s Thesis” by Michael Hessel-Mial — a Macro Poetry Series
A CRUEL ANGEL’S THESIS “…either I’m the one on the wrong planet or I’ve got the wrong world projected onto my screen, pummeled into me.” This macro series is a meditation on technological alienation in the voice of a young…
3 Poems from Rob Carney’s “Call and Response”
Ever Wish You Were Famous? I knew a man who made money as a silhouette. That outline standing upstream, brilliantly backlit by morning, that was him. The famous photo. Chin to the north. They’ve got a museum now somewhere, and…
Kayla Tanenbaum speaks with Tim Murphy, author of the novel Christodora
Tim Murphy’s Christodora is a time-traveling, political, historical, educational heartbreaker of a novel. Christodora’s seven main characters are connected in the story by the title’s eponymous building in New York City: the Christodora on the Lower East Side. It delivers a…