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Staff Picks: ‘DOC,’ ‘Luminous Airplanes’
H. L. “Doc” Humes in Greenwich Village, ca. 1961. Photo: Courtesy of the Humes family. A gregarious talker, novelist, activist, hippie, druggie, filmmaker, and original hipster, Harold L. “Doc” Humes...
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The Paris Review in Vice
For their fiction issue, Vice magazine asked Sadie and me to write the Dos and Don’ts. A dream come true! Except it turns out to be much harder than it looks. Eventually Sadie connected with her inner...
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On Uncle Vanya: Part Three
But the reason I was telling this story was because I was reminded of that night in St. Petersburg when I saw Annie Baker’s adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Like Vanya and Astrov, I am middle-aged, a drunk,...
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Dr. Seuss’s Hats, and Other News
“In Plath’s case, her writing began, soon after her death, to be relegated to a supporting role in a seductive, but intensely misleading, narrative of victimhood.” How to give the poet her due. Are...
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What We’re Loving: Reckless Love, Love via Telegraph
From an early twentieth-century postcard. “Kisses from both are now flying about / Where all of a sudden the current runs out.” After reading David Constantine’s story “In Another Country,” which the...
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Staff Picks: Salukis, Sincerity, Slithering
An illustration from Vice’s Fiction issue, which featured an excerpt from Rachel Cusk’s Transit—see what we did there? The 2016 Vice Fiction issue is the best literary magazine I’ve seen this year....
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When Jazz Was Dangerous
“Robinson’s Band Plays Anything,” F. Bildestein, 1890. From the cover of the New Orleans newspaper the Mascot (November 15, 1890). Musical forms have the life cycle of carnivorous beasts: clumsy in...
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Staff Picks: Medusa, Magic, and Moshfegh
T Kira Madden. Photo: Jac Martinez. T Kira Madden is magic. In her forthcoming memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, she uses language new and strange but always devastatingly right. One of...
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Staff Picks: ‘DOC,’ ‘Luminous Airplanes’
H. L. “Doc” Humes in Greenwich Village, ca. 1961. Photo: Courtesy of the Humes family. A gregarious talker, novelist, activist, hippie, druggie, filmmaker, and original hipster, Harold L. “Doc” Humes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Paris Review in Vice
For their fiction issue, Vice magazine asked Sadie and me to write the Dos and Don’ts. A dream come true! Except it turns out to be much harder than it looks. Eventually Sadie connected with her inner...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On Uncle Vanya: Part Three
But the reason I was telling this story was because I was reminded of that night in St. Petersburg when I saw Annie Baker’s adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Like Vanya and Astrov, I am middle-aged, a drunk,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dr. Seuss’s Hats, and Other News
“In Plath’s case, her writing began, soon after her death, to be relegated to a supporting role in a seductive, but intensely misleading, narrative of victimhood.” How to give the poet her due. Are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What We’re Loving: Reckless Love, Love via Telegraph
From an early twentieth-century postcard. “Kisses from both are now flying about / Where all of a sudden the current runs out.” After reading David Constantine’s story “In Another Country,” which the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Salukis, Sincerity, Slithering
An illustration from Vice’s Fiction issue, which featured an excerpt from Rachel Cusk’s Transit—see what we did there? The 2016 Vice Fiction issue is the best literary magazine I’ve seen this year....
View ArticleClik here to view.
When Jazz Was Dangerous
“Robinson’s Band Plays Anything,” F. Bildestein, 1890. From the cover of the New Orleans newspaper the Mascot (November 15, 1890). Musical forms have the life cycle of carnivorous beasts: clumsy in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Medusa, Magic, and Moshfegh
T Kira Madden. Photo: Jac Martinez. T Kira Madden is magic. In her forthcoming memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, she uses language new and strange but always devastatingly right. One of...
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