The Force of What’s Possible – Lily Hoang & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
The avant-garde, in prizing the possible, is always asking about — everything. Possibility and asking: fundamentally, the two intertwine.
Disaster and triumph became another set of eventualities, ones that television could help viewers practice, prepare for, and witness, at least through their screens. TV both created its audiences and informed them.
At The Palestine Festival of Literature
Surely life under the world’s longest military occupation should be no great mystery to the well-read foreign audience. Right?
The Guild of Saint Cooper – Shya Scanlon
The Guild of Saint Cooper feels less like Twin Peaks fanfiction than a novel written for an audience that will understand the joke.
That’s what it really comes down to: companies extracting value not just from your consumption, but from the raw materials of your life, the informationalized version of yourself.
The strangest thing that could happen in a story of modern, domestic malaise is for a struggling single mother not to, say, turn into a doily.
The Old Man and the Bench – Urs Allemann
It’s not spoiling anything to say that the old man’s twaddle does eventually stop.
Desire expands, complicates (to staples, to other women) when you fuck with clichés.
The Fall of Language in the Age of English – Minae Mizumura
The kids don’t read enough, but even if they do, they don’t read the good stuff.
I, Bartleby – Meredith Quartermain
I, Bartleby is reluctant to provide those markers we most associate with “short stories.”