AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF SHITHEADS: An Interview with Kyle Seibel
July 21, 2023
Kyle experimented with ChatGPT once: “What are twenty-five short story ideas?” The answers it puked out were uniformly terrible, except for one.
Interviews & Reviews
X-R-A-Y SPECS: ZARDOZ (1974)
July 14, 2023
I knew I was going to love it when the head started to vomit guns. The tone felt like a Monty Python film. Is that a common comparison?
I WOULD LIKE TO STARTLE THE READER: An Interview with Mike Topp
July 7, 2023
I was reading my bad poems and in between bad poems I was telling some stories and Steve said I should quit writing poems and instead tell funny stories. So I followed his advice.
OUR MONSTROUSNESS AS A TEMPLATE: An Interview with B.R. Yeager
June 30, 2023
At my most pessimistic I’ve worried that this collection is akin to charging people to watch me at the gym; when I’m more optimistic, it feels like I’m just flexing in different genres.
I’M JUST LIKE EVERY INSECURE WRITER: An Interview with Drew Buxton
June 23, 2023
There was this thing near San Antonio when I was in high school called the Elmendorf Beast that killed livestock. It turned out it was just a coyote with mange.
MY IDEA OF SELF IS SELF-INFLICTION: Jared Daniel Fagen in conversation with Vi Khi Nao
April 21, 2023
I don’t feel free, Vi. Never have. I know you don’t either. I don’t know anyone who does, or has. Maybe nothing is, nor should it be.
CALVIN WESTRA’S “DONALD GOINES” REVIEWED by Conor Hultman
November 17, 2022
What Westra does is this brilliant magic trick: he takes these simple sentences, with their insouciant humor, and stacks them like bricks.
CENTOVIEW WITH DAVID WOJCIECHOWSKI by Evan Williams
November 10, 2022
I thought the world would understand. But no.
WRITING BY EAR: Dashiel Carrera interviewed by Kira K. Homsher
October 4, 2022
Transfixed by the odd turns and cadence of its speech, each day I set a timer and kept writing until the alarm went off. This approach no doubt held its roots in my background recording music: I thought of these writing sessions like performances, called “takes.”
THE WORSER PERSON IN THE WORLD: STEPHANIE LACAVA’S I FEAR MY PAIN INTERESTS YOU by JC Holburn
September 8, 2022
LaCava’s story straddles a tenuous faith that through constant debasement and submission a breakthrough can occur, undergirded by a mind/body conundrum: if the pain isn’t felt, is an uninvited infliction technically still misconduct? Answer: yes, yes it is.