fiction

While I can admire perfection, not only can I not achieve it, but it isn’t something I can engage with. The perfect poem or piece of art is on a pedestal. I am interested in text and art that rolls around in the dirt and plays.

[Image Credit: “Soul Groups,” by Kazuya Akimoto] Washington Bridge now connects with Broadway. You’re bloodied on the jungle floor. Her marvellous intellect. Description of your infantile attempts. Corn soup on…

[Image Credit: “Passersby” by Jaeyeol Han]  Section 2 A Japanese beetle pregnant with fungus landed three and a half centimeters above my belly button. It weighed .0827 grams, which meant…

[Image Credit: “The Song of Orpheus,” Barnett Newman] A. and B. met at a young professionals networking event. They discussed social media strategy, and each found the other attractive. She…

It’s important to me to be part of the literary community, and it’s important that my authors participate in the literary community. This isn’t just about do-gooding either: the literary community buys literary fiction.

I’d like to see a return to the traditional handsell of bookselling that was the mainstay of the likes of the afore-mentioned J. Laughlin. There is nothing more exciting and satisfyingly rewarding than publishing a good book and getting it into the hands of truly engaged, concerned and discerning readers, regardless of what format they choose.

I remember when Curt killed this King on the Tracks. I say / we said, “the Tracks,” but that was really a name for this big section of the Chicago…

We’re delighted to bring you this month’s Where to Submit, featuring a collage by author, publisher, and collage fanatic Kevin Sampsell. His collages can be seen in various publications and at…

For this week’s Sunday list we asked Entropy contributors: What book did you read in high school that had the most impact on you? Ben Roylance The Book of During by…

My mother blamed my recent bad luck on my refusal to go to church, and she harangued my friend Etor to do something about it. He wasn’t a Catholic, which…

[Image Credit: “Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas” by Otto Dix] The 20th Century waited up until just before dawn before sneaking out to use the bins next door (its own being…

[Photo Credit: Beth Rakouskas, courtesy of Arthur W. Toga, USC Laboratory of Neuro Imaging] A spacious brightly lit auditorium. A few dozen people, most of them young, fill the rows…

Cat Power is blasting, but all I really hear is my friend Erica retching. She is bird-boned and high yellow by her own proclamation, yet her chiseled, golden cheeks are…

1 We’ve been waiting for more than two centuries for someone to write The Great American Novel. There have been countless very, very good novels, but none that was truly…