The Seaplane on Final Approach – Rebecca Rukeyser
Mountains and bears and ice floes are hardly cheap lipstick and pleather jackets, but to a hormone-addled teenager, anything and everything looks like sex.
We are not dealing with the end of the human species so much as we are dealing with the end of narcissism. If we want to keep on living on this earth, we have to deal seriously with others’ painful memories.
We Are All Things – Elliot Colla and Ganzeer
The entire effect is TENDER BUTTONS but with interiority, animation of the inanimate that manages to be expansive where it could have been precious, engaging where it could have been stultifying.
Becoming Horses – Disa Wallander
This is HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON for adults, a road map for anyone who makes or wants to make art.
To me, that’s very queer — to write a chracater who you’re very thirsty for but who would have no interest in you.
Progressive politics and privilege butting heads: that’s sort of where I like to live when I’m writing.