Every Friday, the Anobium web staff provides some ideas for what to do with that paycheck in this new segment, “Commerce in Shall.” The title comes from Catherine Wagner’s poem “Macular Hole,” which can be heard here and is available from Fence. Fund the relocation of Seven Kitchens Press by purchasing a copy of editor […]
With his tribute film poster art, Midnight Marauder puts pedestrian fandom to shame. The sordid and the splendid: j/j hastain on Kate Durbin’s Ravenous Audience. I would like to be invited to champagne and caviar with New Directions and Melville House. “In the future, everything will be terrifying.” Dougal Dixon’s post-human art. Tumblr tag: Fiddle […]
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. – T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock I spend a lot of time thinking about death. From an early age: death beds, obsessions with film […]
“I like when people are really frank about what’s going on with them.” For Hazlitt, Emily Keeler interviews Leanne Shapton about malaise, reckoning with the dead self, and swimming. Roxane Gay at the Virigina Quarterly Review on a label rarely offered in kindness. Heroines, Heroines, Heroines, Heroines. Heroines! “Whoever said that, Luck is a residue […]
Thunderbird is Dorothea Lasky’s third book of poetry, but as a reader I am new to her. When a writer has built a manageable oeuvre I like to approach it as completely as possible, but I was not attracted to Lasky’s work by typical means. I enjoyed her poem “I Had a Man” in the […]
