“…clearly, the powers that be have a lot to answer for since they failed to foresee that their bizarre social experiment would create a legion of orphans and untold legacies […]
Friday Links: Beastly Edition
“‘I know what you want,’ said the sea witch; ‘it is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you sorrow, my pretty princess.’” […]
Friday Links: Lemme See The Weirdest Fishes Edition
“At night, mother smudges our foreheads with ginger and steam. Her song is a braid of witches who lift windows with a single, crooked finger to slip inside and feed.” […]
Friday Links: Who Even Are You Edition
“I wouldn’t use the cliché that I was the captain of a sinking ship, that implying some kind of authority, but rather I was a diesel mechanic on a steamship, […]
Friday Links: Something Happening In Mississippi Edition
“They were like zebras, he thought—not one had stripes just like any other, but who could tell one zebra from another? He found it depressing, not that lynching could be […]
Friday Links: Wanna Get Lit And Make A Golem Outta Stolen Clay? Edition
“This is no slur upon his character. For every rabbi so magnificently pious or learned or original in his theory or prodigious in his writing that he he is remembered […]
Friday Links: Every Book Title Could Be This Week’s Title Edition
“Everyone spoke underwater; I could only / hold my breath to listen for so long. / I did learn the water carries its own song.” – Michelle Peñaloza, “POST DIASPORA” […]
Friday Links: They Don’t Want You Around Edition
“George did not sing along but he listened intently to the words of the song. He found them to be the words of a people that must have been constantly […]
Friday Links: Amorak Huey’s Mouth & Other Poems Edition
“I put in a plastic bag / 8 limes, even the plastic / was alive, it used to be / Precambrian vegetables” – Matthew Rohrer, “49” It’s poetry week, but […]
Friday Links: Weirder Functioning Public Transit Edition
“To see something like that, to discover that the world you thought you’d lived in was a lie, a thin shell of respectable rationality over a roiling core of madness?” […]