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IN THE PINES

 

Widening the Horror Genre: A Conversation with Victor LaValle

FOUR POEMS

Campbell McGrath is the author of ten books of poetry, including Spring Comes to Chicago, Florida Poems, Seven Notebooks, and most recently XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century (Ecco Press, 2016), a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  He has received many of America’s major literary prizes for his work, including the Kingsley Tufts Award, a  Continue Reading »

WILLIAM WALKER: BETWEEN HIS ARRIVAL & EXECUTION IN HONDURAS (1860)

 

How the Voice Outlives the Body: A Conversation with Carmen Maria Machado

MĂIASTRA: A HISTORY OF ROMANIAN SCULPTURE IN TWENTY-FOUR PARTS

 

The Honeybee Conjecture

FALL 2014 RELEASE PARTY

Saturday September 13, 2014 7-10 PM
Locust Projects 3852 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33127
Please join us as we celebrate our tenth issue including a special print-only Miami insert!

The Lightheaded View from the Helipad

It all begins with a proposal that no one, barring roughnecks lacking any degree of sensitivity, would disagree with: the world is moving too fast. This is also unfortunately becoming a bit of an alibi to not have to think too hard. As the distribution of information accelerates and the hierarchies that once determined the value of its units vanish, experience is impoverished.

Karen Russell’s SLEEP DONATION

The Insomnia Crisis that permeates Karen Russell’s Sleep Donation is already pumping vigorously through the story in the opening pages, but it quickly begins to spread. Insomnia is akin to a zombie plague, but for those readers who are too familiar with endless hours of restless sleep or have experienced jet lag that sucks melatonin to abysmally low levels will find similarities to the horror in Russell’s new traipse