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Winterstate
Paintings by David Nakabayashi
"In January 2009 I was driving through Ohio during an ice storm when an out-of-control car came spinning into my lane from the other side of the freeway. A moment later I was standing alone next to my totaled car on a snow-covered embankment. A short while later I sat in a truck-stop restaurant looking out the window, the whole country seeming to pass me by."
ALSO IN VISUAL ART: Nine Paintings by Mario Robert
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Paste
a short film by Cecelia Chapman and Jeff Crouch
Cecelia Chapman lives in Northern California. Her work examines the way we think and live, the human hunger for adventure, mystery and illusion. Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google "Jeff Crouch" to see where he's been on the internet.
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When You Come Again, You Will Never Go
by Andreas Morgner, winner of the First Annual WRITE REAL GOOD Poetry Chapbook Contest
When You Come Again, You Will Never Go is exactly what a publisher hopes for when we run a contest. Although talented and clever, Andreas Morgner will never get a Creative Writing job, nor will he sit around literary conferences hoping to find an agent to schmooze. He is an "outsider artist" in a way an "underground writer" can never be; his work gives us a set of experiences and insights that simply can't be found through the poetry world's normal networking structure.
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Guide to Ending the Siege in Gaza
by Yacov Ben Efrat, July 2010
'Israel has become a convenient punch-bag. The world is sick of the checkpoint photos, the separation "fence" and the Gaza blockade. These things do not look good. They bring to mind actions by other despotic regimes which have disappeared from the world stage, such as the Apartheid regime in South Africa. The world no longer believes Israel; there is a growing feeling that it is the victim of its own intransigence.'
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State of the Union
A Sardine on Vacation, Episode Sixty-Five
'"Maybe there's nothing he can do," says McNulty. "How can you complain, Frank, when the insurance industry, your bread and butter, put the country in a financial hole?"
'"Joe's mortgage company did much more than the insurance companies," retorts Frank. "Joe was handing out mortgages like they were candy."'
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frith froth, evidence, and and whirly-giggy as the colors dance
by Steve Dalachinsky
"they play laments
spacious liturgical almost — distended church bell
difficult sonorities — a whole new view
knocking on the doors of..."
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Ghost and Ganga: A Jazz Odyssey
Gabriel Ricard reviews the book and interviews the author, Kirpal Gordon
"All three stories...feature two characters who have likely been waiting for a writer like this to come along for years. Imagining Ghost and Ganga haunting a thousand different songs is not unreasonable. At times they don't even feel like new characters. It sometimes seems as though they were around long before their stories were finally put into print."
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The One
by Natasha Grinberg
"Not a hair was amiss on his head, but other than that, his appearance was so indistinctive that in a year I'd be hard pressed to remember who he was. He looked like a company lifer, at the zenith of his slow but steady rise from a floor salesman to corporate functionary. I'd met scores of them. In the Soviet Union, he'd be a party or union boss at some organization the size of YourRooms."
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"suspicious_look@yahoo.com," "Unionize Now," and "ReLAX Security"
by Joja, July 2004
"Now, in this moment of knowledge-power,
i am more expendable than ever."
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