Jennifer Acker's Blog, page 131
July 20, 2018
Contributors in Conversation: Jennifer Acker and Stephen O’Connor
Editor-in-chief Jennifer Acker and Stephen O'Connor discuss "The Common Statement" and "Con."
Contributors in Conversation: Leigh Newman and Tyler Sage
Issue 06 contributors Leigh Newman and Tyler Sage discuss "Big Not-So-Bad Wolves" and "They Called It Shooting Then."
Contributors in Conversation: Hisham Bustani and Jamie Edgecombe
Issue 06 contributors Hisham Bustani and Jamie Edgecombe read and discuss their fiction pieces "Freefall in a Shattered Mirror" and "Blue Mountains."
Contributors in Conversation: Rowan Moore Gerety and Eleanor Stanford
In this episode of The Common's Contributors in Conversation podcast, Issue 06 contributors Rowan Moore Gerety and Eleanor Stanford read and discuss their essays "Well-Armed" and "Geology Primer (Fogo, Cape Verde)."
July 19, 2018
Contributors in Conversation: Oliver de la Paz and L. S. Klatt
Issue 06 contributors Oliver de la Paz and L. S. Klatt read and discuss their poems "Labyrinth 76" and "Apple."
July 18, 2018
Contributors in Conversation: Paula Bohince and Joshua Mehigan
Paula Bohince and Joshua Mehigan join host Steven Tagle to read and discuss Bohince's poem "The Nature of the Hedge" and Mehigan's poem "How Sweet."
Contributors in Conversation: Helen Hooper and Megan Staffel
Host Steven Tagle is joined by Helen Hooper and Megan Staffel to discuss two stories from Issue 6, Staffel's "Mischief" and Hooper's "Meetings."
Corregidor Flames
CLINTON CROCKETT PETERS
Ironic that the only other eternal flame I’ve visited is in Hiroshima. That one an actual fire that takes a bleaker look, burning until the last nuclear bomb is disassembled. And which will outlast, I wonder, bombs or freedom?
Ironic that the only other eternal flame I’ve visited is in Hiroshima. That one an actual fire that takes a bleaker look, burning until the last nuclear bomb is disassembled. And which will outlast, I wonder, bombs or freedom?
Loss and Its Antonym
ALISON PRINE
I want to learn to write about the loves / that haven’t died—yellowed paperbacks / with broken spines, the stillness of the lake / from the fishing pier on winter mornings, / the people in this small city / I sometimes recognize on the sidewalk / a decade after our bar shut down.
I want to learn to write about the loves / that haven’t died—yellowed paperbacks / with broken spines, the stillness of the lake / from the fishing pier on winter mornings, / the people in this small city / I sometimes recognize on the sidewalk / a decade after our bar shut down.
July 14, 2018
Review: The Consequences
OLGA ZILBERBOURG
This sounds like a satire of conceptual art. And though the result, in the words of Minnie’s agent, is “a weird fucking collision between crazy personal junk and images as stale as three-day-old bread,” it also “adds up” to a work of art that meaningfully explores the artist’s vulnerability and her place in the world. The same goes for the novel.
This sounds like a satire of conceptual art. And though the result, in the words of Minnie’s agent, is “a weird fucking collision between crazy personal junk and images as stale as three-day-old bread,” it also “adds up” to a work of art that meaningfully explores the artist’s vulnerability and her place in the world. The same goes for the novel.
