June 19, 2015 | Nonfiction
Pop Therapy: A Playlist
Kate Lebo
By dread I’m inspired, by fear I’m amused. The phrase was cursived on a cocktail napkin and folded into my handshake by a steel-haired young woman two weeks before my 20th birthday.
June 18, 2015 |
The Tribe
Sean Kilpatrick
Cinetopia is a Detroit film festival for fresh retirees on a cinematic tour bus who belch knowingly whenever they mistake their hunched way into an obscene masterpiece.
June 18, 2015 | Poetry
poems about the spiritual weight of hard shell tacos
Pete Holby
My sense of regret is the dog
you remember with immense fondness
but that you no longer know.
Non-Reader Spotlight: Rebecca Klaes, Part 1
Going to school full-time and raising two kids definitely involves a lot of reading, but does it make you a reader?
Ex Machina / Captain Phillips
Sean Kilpatrick
Some animals devour their young to cease lactation so they can fuck more often. People tripped over the invention of a conscience for no other happenstance than to keep our numbers plump.
Those Bears (pt. 3)
Jarod Roselló
You want to watch a movie?
Nah, I think I'm going to go write for a bit.
popsicle stick bomb
Steve Anwyll
In my head I can't believe what he just said. How the hell are we going to take a bunch of ordinary popsicle sticks and turn them into bombs? Bombs? Shit, they explode. There's fire involved! Is Kevin nuts? We'll kill people!
What a Weird Game of Dominoes: A Conversation with Alex Jiang
Pat Siebel
Last fall, Aaron tweeted something about accepting a few comics from a nine year-old. We’d soon discover the boy’s name was Alex Jiang, and that he was hilarious. When “Meet Lazy Wolf,” “Fashion
Soul Retrieval in the Southwest
Lana Spendl
At my friend’s bonfire on a chilly Southwestern night, a blond woman in Birkenstocks approached me and said that her name was Singing Humyn.
Mathletes, Exile and the ‘Nerd-dom’
Jeffrey Ethan Lee
Only one person on the team had a significant mustache. She was the only girl, but she wasn’t good at math.
Night Swim
Dan Reiter
Memories are like Asian pears. Store them cold and they will keep.
She climbed shivering out of the river. The Taigan smeared its nose on her shin. Soily fish. Down on the rug, massaging its
Bars We Don't Fuck With
Victor Freeze
Idk what it is but I’ve never liked Thomas Street Tavern. It was even listed on the itinerary of “Bars We Don’t Fuck With” one night when my roommate and I got drunk and devised a plot to attend all of the neighborhood bars we never go to.
Great Moments in Cinematic Drinking: Goldfinger
Matt Sailor
Sean Connery has been waiting three entire movies to say this line. The first chance he got, Dr. No beat him to it, ordered the drink for him with that genteel menace so common among Bond villains.
Strawberries
Mary Helen Specht
Angélica, who is always setting me up with the entirely wrong type of man, invited the raw foodist to lunch. In the crowded restaurant, he sat rigidly upright, munching on sesame seeds, waiting Zen-like for us to decide on a dish.
The Reconstruction of William Zero / Lost River / Buzzard
Sean Kilpatrick
Gosling has an understanding beyond the Franco. There’s a certain silence to his pose. I dig his tone, even if he’s sexy.
Non-Reader Spotlight: Elizabeth Olson, Part 1
With all of these other endeavors, Elizabeth's reading life has changed markedly, and she was kind enough to talk to me about it.
My Father Bottles Howls
Drew Knapp
On the nights my father brings home a new howl my mother prepares a feast and adorns a whalebone corset like a rib carved from the moon. On these nights I love my family because we are together and in this way I have come to worship the wolf.