DAVID 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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ConversationFeaturedFictionInterview“I write in order to dispel some small part of my ignorance”: A Conversation with Christopher Woodall
Christopher 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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Norman 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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If 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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ConversationInterviewPoetryA kind of intelligence that refuses to act smarter than its life: A Conversation W/ Ed Pavlić
If 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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The 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 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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ConversationCraftFictionInterviewLiteratureTranslation“A way of belonging to the future”: A Conversation With Carmen Boullosa
It 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 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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History 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…
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Have you ever felt wooed by power? The desire to have your name jotted down in history’s endless tomes? Civilization V: Brave New World provides the cure. You can finally step…