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sizzling acrobat, you try the wire from pine to pine. potential flashforward, your claws cut like scimitars across the line yet you know nothing of capacitors, of relays and dynamos, or how we use dinosaurs’ bones to make our debauched suns glow. but you know about flux and resistance: the lean of a limb, the […]
Read More Poetry: “sudden prayer for the squirrel on the powerline” by B.J. BestOur submissions email account is momentarily down. We’ve got tech support working on it, but anything sent in the past 24 hours didn’t make its way to us. We’ll update this post when the account is working again. Thanks for your patience! **Sorry for the delay on the update, but everything is up and running […]
Read More Technical Issues (Resolved!)I come to the mirror, a smug, run animal, extracting my eyes, teeth, rub the dent of rings into the sink. I put a comb to my head because I’m flirting again, and catching blown kisses in my beard.
Read More Poetry: “Ablutions,” by Josiah BancroftThere are dead men in the bushes, she thinks, right by where I walk the dog. Dead rich men killed by goblin boys. Thin, wiry boys, strung out on greed and miscellaneous wanga. Breath burned by that crazy smoke. Lips, cracked and dry, marked with tender pipe sores. Smelling a sweet, plumy scent like a […]
Read More Fiction: “The Dead Men in the Bushes” by Lisa BurdigeReview by Levi Foster Rizzoli Hardcover, 408 Pages November 2009 Umberto Eco is terrifyingly erudite, as anyone who has read his novels will attest: the extravagant wealth of information in his novels, on medieval scholarship, or the Kabbalah, or any of a dozen other subjects, is staggering. And anyone who has read, for example, the […]
Read More Book Review: Umberto Eco’s “The Infinity of Lists”Our Winter issue is available for download here and will be coming from the printer shortly. Pick up a copy anywhere on campus or around Hyde Park. Enjoy!
Read More The Winter 2010 Issue is Here!I sent my guinea pigs ahead of me with the friend of a friend. He was going to Portland and came to pick them up on Friday afternoon in a corroded green station wagon that was missing a fender. There was barely enough room in the trunk, on account of the mountains of old books, […]
Read More Fiction: “May the Road Rise Up to Meet You”Laura Stiers is a third year English major studying abroad in London this quarter. In Dispatches from London, she blogs about books, curious Anglicisms, and literary culture in one of Europe’s most literary cities. This post concludes the series. It’s cold and grey in London today. I’m glad of it, really. If it had been […]
Read More Home is Where?Laura Stiers is a third year English major studying abroad in London this quarter. In Dispatches from London, she blogs about books, curious Anglicisms, and literary culture in one of Europe’s most literary cities. Winter smells exactly the same here as it does in Chicago. The street outside our residence hall is hung with Christmas […]
Read More “I Do Love Their Commas”Laura Stiers is a third year English major studying abroad in London this quarter. In Dispatches from London, she blogs about books, curious Anglicisms, and literary culture in one of Europe’s most literary cities. I’m doing my reading for tomorrow, a British political newspaper from 1931. Bored, I flip to the end to read the […]
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