Bennett Sims
My thoughts tend to run toward worst-case scenarios and I’m quick to misread social cues or assume the worst, and because it’s the way I process data, I have to assume it’s going to keep showing up in my writing.
Boyun Eğme // Don’t Bend Your Neck
I don't know what's going to happen to Gezi Park, to Istanbul, to Turkey, and I don't know where I'll be when whatever happens does, but it would be a shame to know that I lived in Istanbul for the protests in 2013 but missed out on revolution-köfte.
Features
Full Stop Recommends (June, 2013 Pt. II)
Full Stop recommends some love and war.
Full Stop Recommends (June, 2013 Pt. I)
Full Stop recommends two big ballads, a sex cult, and getting out of your head.
WRECK-IT RALPH: a Primer for Dads on Smashing Patriarchy
There is no ideal world for a person that pre-exists one's participation in creating it. But here’s what Ralph and I can do: hurl our fumbling selves against the world. Smash it up real good.
Interviews
Christopher Hacker
We need to speak the name of terrible things occasionally, to touch these things with our imaginations, in order to be reminded that the euphemisms we use are not the thing itself.
Karen Russell
If given my druthers, everything I write would be some B horror movie "Swiss Family Robinson" situation. That just seems to be where I live, narratively.
Rachel Kushner
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
Blog
Best of “God Hates Us All”
A tribute to Slayer's "God Hates Us All" after the untimely death of Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman.
First Class on a Sinking Ship
Eric Hobsbawm, beloved and recently deceased, was the rare type of Marxist who receives a complimentary obituary from The Economist.
20 4 420: 2013 Edition
20 heady songs! Featuring: Morphine! Rain Parade! Follakzoid! Yes! Cave! And many others!
Reviews
The New Gods – Emil Cioran
Is Emil Cioran an author to be feared?
Linda Perdido – Mac Wellman
Linda Perdido is a story about wanderers. Not wanderlusts, and certainly not “lost,” but those who wander for the sake of it.
Odds Against Tomorrow – Nathaniel Rich
He addresses with poise and the kind of gallows-humor that would make Don DeLillo, Joseph Heller and Gary Shteyngart proud.
