Category: Visual

  • Fiction: Three Atrocities by John Dermot Woods

    Fiction: Three Atrocities by John Dermot Woods

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. New Jersey In the suburbs of New York City, the police were called to detain a trespasser who had been witnessed climbing the fences of several residents’ backyards and digging up their lawns with a steel shovel. The trespasser was a woman, a mother who said she…

  • Poetry: Nick Barr’s “craigslistgirls”

    Poetry: Nick Barr’s “craigslistgirls”

    *Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Nick Barr lives in San Francisco, where he does product management for an Internet startup. His work has previously appeared in Very Bad Poetry. He is a tiny speck in the Twitterverse.

  • “The Inexhaustible Variety of the Human Body Is Beautiful”: A Conversation with Luca Dipierro by Zach Mueller

    “The Inexhaustible Variety of the Human Body Is Beautiful”: A Conversation with Luca Dipierro by Zach Mueller

    *Ed.’s Note: click on images to view larger sizes. An introduction to Italian-American visual artist Luca Dipierro’s work becomes unfinished the moment it’s written. Luca is less a visual artist than he is an invisible city planner, a tactile architect who uses pencil, paint, fabric, wood, tree bark, buttons, cotton, old book covers—anything and everything…