"The trick, then, is how we intentionally employ the mischief or menace of language. How have other sort-of poets and artists bucked coherency to make meaning for themselves?" Read More
As Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaws once represented the lure and possibilities of trans community to me, alone and scared as I was in some unswept corner of [Georgia], Ryka Aoki's book represents the possibility of healing, of hope and redemption... Read More
A variety of theories, predictions, prophecies, astronomical fears, and ancient calendar concerns mark December 21st, 2012—the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, the return of the sun—as the end of the world.
What of literature, then?
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Matias Viegener's 2500 Random Things About Me, Too may be an answer to that question of what we do with our powers of digital text and connection. As our brains rewire, immersed in the great weirdness of cut-n-paste cyber space, social networks, and 24/7 technological tethers, perhaps we can take the engineering constraints of the mediums to make profound and shockingly intimate art. Read More
"Literature is a documentation of our values, our flaws, our most strident and/or ridiculous aspirations- and the best literature truly pushes how we think of ourselves, of others, of consciousness and mortality and thinking itself." Read More
“all day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade.” -Rumi The summer that...
This week, a new column from writer TT Jax.
"Special Topics" is an exploration of the "freakish, weird, queer, othered, excised, and inimitably special" in LGBT literature. Read More
