Metaphors matter. They shoot the right smile, the right handshake, the right colors, posters squirreling. They eye the right clock, ready their knees to implode with the right cascade of…
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In the Name of Our Mother
by Guest Contributor March 17, 2020Image Credit: Kosoluchi Agboanike 1. Where I am from, a boy is taught to trace his history beginning from his father’s loins. He is to secure a rope around…
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Literacy Narrative: On Red
by Guest Contributor January 16, 2020Image Credit: “Red Dresses” by Elena Filatov Red is my favourite colour. I have heard it said that red is a masculine colour, a patriarchal colour; the colour of…
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The New Comics: David Mahler
by Guest Contributor July 26, 2017DAVID MAHLER is a comic artist and filmmaker from Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, The Suburban Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Palooka Mag and more.…
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“I write in order to dispel some small part of my ignorance”: A Conversation with Christopher Woodall
by Joe Milazzo April 17, 2017Christopher Woodall’s November (Dalkey Archive) is a big book. I knew that going in, and, frankly, its length (just a little over 700 pages) contributed significantly to its allure. Yet…
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THE IMAGINARY 20TH CENTURY
by Maxi Kim April 6, 2016Norman Klein’s & Margo Bistis’ recently released media novel The Imaginary 20th Century comically exposes what stands between our present and the ever-occluded future. Described on a recent LA…
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Tabletop Games Curriculum: History
by Byron Alexander Campbell December 12, 2015If we accept “history” as the sum of human achievement up to the present day, then this is the most widely represented subject in analog gaming. In the genre of…
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A kind of intelligence that refuses to act smarter than its life: A Conversation W/ Ed Pavlić
by Joe Milazzo November 11, 2015If the book is a metaphysical mechanism (e.g., an entity whose vitality must be delved into behind that cover by which you’re cautioned not to judge), then Ed Pavlić’s Let’s Let…
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Kransekake
by Guest Contributor August 24, 2015The first time I remember having Kransekake was at the 50th wedding anniversary party of my paternal Grandparents Leslie M. Gravesen and Ethel Firing Gravesen (as I write this, Grandma…
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The New Comics: Joshua Coon & Cassey Kuo
by Guest Contributor July 7, 2015“The Pneumatic Detective: The Case of the Red Ant Menace” (excerpt) JOSHUA COON & CASSEY KUO are a writer and artist from New York and New Jersey, respectively. Joshua teaches on…
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“A way of belonging to the future”: A Conversation With Carmen Boullosa
by Joe Milazzo June 11, 2015It may not be evident from the questions posed below, much less whatever line they may be drawing, sinking, etc., but Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014)…
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Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This was born…
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The Biographizer Trilogy
by Guest Contributor February 5, 2015The Biographizer Trilogy by D. Harlan Wilson Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2014 305 pages – Raw Dog Screaming / Amazon Harlan Wilson’s The Biographizer Trilogy should interest writers—indie writers in particular—because of…
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First Drafts of History
by Entropy October 21, 2014History is a work in progress. History books, stories, our version, their version. And if history is in the making, we should be able to see its revisions, a revision…