“The Threatening Clarities That a Sentence Can Occasion”: Marcus Pactor Interviews Garielle Lutz, Author of WORSTED

Before I conducted the following interview with Garielle Lutz, I knew what all of her readers have long known: she … More

“Accidental and Inevitable”: Marcus Pactor Talks to Christian TeBordo about His Short Story Collection GHOST ENGINE

Christian TeBordo’s Ghost Engine has everything I always want from a short story collection. These pieces are darkly humorous, formally … More

Little Hollywood: A Collection of Scripts & Paper Doll Actors, by Jinnwoo. Minneapolis, Minnesota: 11:11 Press, April 2020. 168 pages. … More

Essays One, by Lydia Davis. New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2019. 528 pages. $30.00, hardcover. Lydia … More

Burn Fortune, by Brandi Homan. Clash Books, May 2019. 214 pages. $15.95, paper. Holden Caulfield still irritates me, though I … More

My cousin and I once fished under an interstate where a bent leg of swamp lay exposed and easy to … More

—after Blake Butler The cake reminded me of the twins’ wet sludge food. I could never shovel it well … More