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- this is a really nice poem
nude abed with oranges
aubrey ryan
Some morning in the clean, pale house
we woke to find oranges still in the bag
by the bed. I sat cross-legged in sheets
and liked the rind against my breast; I smiled
for your shutter. We were together
seven years and when I left I felt I’d heaved
a whole ocean overboard. My breasts
are mine—they fit […]
- Oh to Live Like Gustave Fucking Flaubert
On his daily routine:
Days were as unvaried as the notes of the cuckoo. Flaubert, a man of nocturnal habits, usually awoke at 10 a.m. and announced the event with his bell cord. Only then did people dare speak above a whisper. His valet, Narcisse, straightaway brought him water, filled his pipe, drew the curtains, and […]
- Don’t End Yet, Summer!
As much as I dislike your heat and dissolution, as hopeless as waking sweatily is, summer, I have a few more projects I need to finish before they (and everything else) unfolds beautifully into fall. Keep being hot! Don’t be beautiful yet! I don’t have time to relax. Also, has anyone heard of this book, Nip […]
- What I Realized About Obscenity in Poetry
I think it is important.I was thinking about that movie Pan’s Labyrinth and how near the beginning that guy takes a bottle and fucking beats this dude’s face in, in such a violent and direct manner that is different from almost every filmic portrayal of violence we’re used to that it is a truly shocking […]
- What I think of Keith Gessen’s First Novel
(also posted on smoke signals magazine’s book review section)
Approaching ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN by magical Brooklynite Keith Gessen, like works of actual literature, requires a some context. The informed reader will bring to this book a knowledge of the literary gang of Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s, The Believer; Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Safran Foer, Zadie […]
- Why I Love Working at Fineprint, pt. 1
I told my boss about one of my favorite webcomics, Nobody Scores! ,and mentioned how they don’t have representation, and now he is one of our clients! This means we will talk to him about putting together a book and then try to sell it to publishers! This also means I get to ask him […]
- Here is a list of things not to submit to clarkesworld sci-fi web magazine
stories in which a milquetoast civilian government is depicted as the sole obstacle to either catching some depraved criminal or to an uncomplicated military victory
stories in which the words “thou” or “thine” appear […]
- Decisions!
This morning my back hurts and I am working and I find myself thinking about how Hemingway wrote: standing, at a lectern, with blue ink. So many things about his style begin to make sense, when you think about that.
because what then? maybe i’d lose my personal life. Maybe I’d starve to death. Maybe the […]
- Sometimes
I forget how much I love this poem. I miss being an English major.
To his Coy Mistress
by Andrew Marvell
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of […]
- I Took Tifa Who Did You Take
At a late point in the game Final Fantasy 7, there’s a chance for the main character to go on a date with another person in the party. It’s right before a series of extremely tough and complicated battles, right after a long and grueling period of puzzle-solving and leveling, and you and the […]
