Tag: Blake Butler

  • Contributors’ Corner: Timmy Reed

    Contributors’ Corner: Timmy Reed

    Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Timmy Reed, whose stories “The Spider’s Eggs” and “Minutes from Meeting of Afterdeath Board of Directors” appear in 2.1 and 3.2. Timmy Reed is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland.…

  • One, a text by Blake Butler & Vanessa Place. Assembled by Christopher Higgs. Reviewed by Will Kaufman.

    One, a text by Blake Butler & Vanessa Place. Assembled by Christopher Higgs. Reviewed by Will Kaufman.

    One is perhaps most notable for what it is; a unique collaboration between three writers. Blake Butler and Vanessa Place were assigned the tasks, respectively, of writing the exterior landscape and interior landscape of a single character. They were not allowed to collaborate or communicate at all with each other about their projects. Once they…

  • Sky Saw, a new novel by Blake Butler, reviewed by Sheldon Lee Sompton

    Sky Saw, a new novel by Blake Butler, reviewed by Sheldon Lee Sompton

    In Blake Butler’s lyrically imagined new novel, Sky Saw, due out in December from Tyrant Books, you’ll find the his name spelled Blk Btlr on the cover and on each page. Yes. It’s like that. I toyed with the idea of writing this review without vowels. But I was concerned some might have a problem…