All of the men I love are dead now. At least it feels that way. After the news of Jason Molina’s death yesterday, I sat down and put on “Molina & Johnson,” stared at the ceiling, and let the knives dig in. Only the night before I was restlessly spinning Vic Chesnutt, the rain and wind beating at the window, trying to exhaust myself enough fall asleep. […]
The Riot Grrrl Collection edited by Lisa Darms might not come out until the summer, but while supplies last, copies signed by Darms, Johanna Fateman, and Kathleen Hanna are available through pre-order. Name your price for Borborygmus, a sonic gem by the mysterious Hebdomad. Garrett Tiedemann will have lots to say about it this week, […]
Announcing Belabored: a Dissent Podcast hosted by Sarah Jaffe and Josh Eidelson. Get on her level: the Ann Friedman Weekly is coming. The closing date has passed, so it’s time to speculate: who will become the Publisher/Executive Director of CUNY’s Feminist Press? VIDA initiates a write-in/call-in/email-in campaign in response to this year’s disappointing count. Courtesy of […]
I. Cosmology Recently, Benjamin Van Loon resurrected a thorny old idea – cosmology – to describe the stronger, darker force than animates Sam Lipsyte’s ephemeral and satirical jests. The thorniness of the issue we owe, in part, to the postmodern conceit that everything is art, everyone is an artist, and in part to an older […]
Want to see RiffTrax Live: Twilight? So would RiffTrax. Make it happen! Make Better Magazine better. If you didn’t pick up Roxanne Carter’s Beyond This Point Are Monsters at AWP, how are you going to wait until May? Red Doc> by Anne Carson: available now. Will you have any money left over from AWP for […]
