By Queen Mob

Interview: Timothy Dyke

/ Jaimie Gusman / Interviews
I wrote a story once about an extraordinary and dangerous experience I went through when I was devoted to this drug addict friend of mine.

Derek Walcott, 1930 – 2017

Not Pretending

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Rewatched The Fury. No one understood angles like De Palma.

The Other Side of Mistrust

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
“I don’t trust anybody but you.” A line that has always resonated with me.

Talk That Talk All Night Rihanna!

/ Paul Johnathan / Music
Rihanna's all grown up, but her magnum opus is yet to be written.

In Bed With Andrew Tran

/ Queen Mob / Misc
you nudge your head into a soft pillow—which is really a folded Patagonia sweatshirt

Everyone Counts: Some Questions for Joanne Kyger

/ Hailey Higdon / Interviews
Joanne Kyger invites everyone in. Her attention to the present is not without acknowledgment of the history that focuses her lens.

George in Oil, or a Schlemiel on Canvas

/ Menachem Feuer / Misc
We have yet to see the schlemiel enter the greatest medium of high culture: oil painting.

Putin Test (VI): Vlad Savich

The Too Much and the Too Little

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Teaching Moonstruck today and relating it to the question of productive frustration in love. Why we need to be frustrated before we can love.

[#]This hashtag means nothing

Interview: Jaimie Gusman

/ Timothy Dyke / Interviews
Aren't all vessels unreliable? Aren't all memories unreliable? Aren't all experiences seen through the lens of an unreliable narrator?

A Conversation with Uzodinma Okehi

/ Zeke Perkins / Interviews
I hate it when people say that there's nothing really good going on in literature. It's bullshit.

I Wasn’t Made For These Times

/ Sam Jaffe Goldstein / Misc
To call the road from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv a road is a lie.

Tonight: Fiender In London

Wanted to Say Hi

Poetry Review: Two from Talonbooks