Paige Cooper: an excerpt from Zolitude

Paige Cooper: an excerpt from Zolitude

THANATOS from Zolitude (Biblioasis, 2018) By Paige Cooper This view, I make explicit to the child, has shattered the unity through which I had thought I could extend my sovereignty…

Jessica Michalofsky: prose

Jessica Michalofsky: prose

BABIES CW: Graphic sexual scenes, NSFW When I come home, there is no one there. I make a hasty transformation. In the bedroom, I strip off my clothes—stockings and garter…

Phoebe Glick: prose

Phoebe Glick: prose

FEAR FACTOR Looking after yourself is hard if you’re not much of a people person. Once I entered the doctor’s office and was photographed by a robot receptionist whose one…

Flannery O’Connor reads A Good Man is Hard to Find

Flannery O’Connor reads A Good Man is Hard to Find

I wrote about this story, indirectly, a while back. Here’s an excerpt: A new story by Alice Munro in the current New Yorker had the Hound up part of the…

Vanessa Place: Two Rounds of Conversation

Vanessa Place: Two Rounds of Conversation

I first heard of Vanessa Place and Les Figues in a cab going from JFK to midtown. I was with fellow poet Christan Bok who had much to say about…

Sheila Heti on Ticknor

I can’t strictly recommend this podcast, but I can recommend anything Sheila Heti-ish, and there she is, talking about the creation of Ticknor. But you can read The Littlest Dumpling,…