Stories
Nonfiction
They believed that the American movie should be taken seriously.
Poem of the Week
home is his hands, our bowls, so many gay fridge magnets.
Story of the Week
“You could come, too! No one’s forcing you to go to fucking China.”
Story of the Week
Don’t start conversations or attract attention. Don’t be suspicious.
Readers' Narratives
The house is full of houseguests and they’re giving Netflix a workout.
Poetry
I will leave the pills in their bottles, I will leave the bottles by my bed.
Photography & Art
The power to alter one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark.
Story of the Week
It changes nothing. It’s nasty shit, and you’ve gotta get clean.
Story of the Week
I’d done what no woman of my race and social station had ever done.
Story of the Week
It was as if we were shedding our very selves to become someone else.
Interviews
Whether or not I’m working on the book, the book is working on me.
Narrative Outloud
Sam was like family. He was the angel of my writing life in every word.
Interviews
Jayne Anne Phillips recalls her friend, the legendary Sam Lawrence.
Classics
I was the man in her life. I know I’m different now. Now I’m a bird.
Poem of the Week
I taste on my tongue a gunshot of synapses warm and light like butter
Interviews
I’ve wavered in confidence, but never on whether I was going to write.
Nonfiction
A friend said she hated the State of Israel because it killed her cat.
Poem of the Week
Someone says Jesus is bread. He is also suffering. He is like the Internet.
Story of the Week
I never left my wife, and she never left me, but this isn’t exactly true.
Story of the Week
The boy in the woods was a secret. My secret. My first real secret.
Story of the Week
Barth looked after his students beyond anything expected of him.
Story of the Week
Thus John Redding grew to manhood, playing, studying and dreaming.
Story of the Week
I didn’t know that by falling for you, I was falling for your demons too.
Story of the Week
In a few days the troops were to go further on. I left the next day.
First & Second Looks
“One of the most objectionable books in any language whatsoever.”
