“For him, god was another gun to aim.” – Teo Shannon, “Pecha Kucha: After Packing My Father’s Room” We are barreling toward the end of Behind With Knife! Part four […]
Friday Links: At This Point I’d Accept Area X Edition
“Natural places are no different than human cities. The old exists next to the new. Invasive species integrate with or push out native species. The landscape you see around you […]
Friday Links: What Even Is Control Edition
“’The fish rots from the head.’ Fish rotted all over, cell corruption being nonhierarchical and not caste-driven, but point taken.” – Jeff VanderMeer, ‘Authority’ Second week of October—how spooked are […]
Friday Links: Annihilation Edition
“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?” – Jeff VanderMeer, ‘Annihilation’ […]
Friday Links: Keep Reading Your Friends Edition
“cops & landlords know / where to buy. but the past is // what you make of it & the future, / the future does not need // to echo […]
Friday Links: Re-Read Your Friends, Fuck ICE, and Free Palestine Edition
“A group of monsters / should be called // a possibility” – Chloe N. Clark, “If I were a monster” This week and next week are devoted to friends! Next […]
Friday Links: Why Are People The Way They Are Edition
“You tried to tell your story to people who didn’t know how to listen.” – Carmen Maria Machado, ‘In The Dream House’ As a reader and a writer, I have […]
Friday Links: Exile In The Swamp Edition
“As soon as they left the river and entered the bayou, the landscape grew denser, twitchier, closer, as if the trees had bent over to give them a sniff.” – […]
Friday Links: Chicago Over Everything Edition
“It’s one thing to know a place on paper, but it’s never any good to be totally out of place with no sense of the turf you’re in…” – Theodore […]
Friday Links: It’s Percival Everett Week Edition
“White people often spent time admiring their survival of one thing or another.” – Percival Everett, ‘James’ To read a Percival Everett book is to read a book with all […]