Queen Mob's Tea House

The architects of the American literary canon have always struggled between aesthetics and the demands of historicity. The Hartford Wits are a sad example of how this tension has become lopsided in favor of aesthetic currency,

Will and Representation

29th Dec 2016 / Masha Tupitsyn / Misc

The best part about making work is to talk to the work of others.

On Thomas Pynchon’s Comical Figurations of Slowness & Sloth

28th Dec 2016 / Menachem Feuer / Misc

Thomas Pynchon, years before the advent of Facebook or Twitter, suggests that the best way to resist society is through slowness and sloth.

I Am Zelda

27th Dec 2016 / Fortunato Salazar / Fiction

I am Seth Rogen’s Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and I’m obsessed with the words “harlequin” […]

Prose Review: Encyclopédie of the Common and Encompassing

26th Dec 2016 / Greg Bem / Reviews

"Even our curves are patterns."

Spend the Night

24th Dec 2016 / Masha Tupitsyn / Misc

If we can’t learn to live with and love being frustrated by the person we love, then it is because we are too busy “loving” not ever being close enough to anyone or anything to be changed or touched by it.