by Andy Sturdevant Alec Soth, photographer and subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, sells zines on his website, and that’s exactly what he calls them. Not “art publications,” not “self-published books,” but zines—like a 1990s-era punk band, or a kid behind the merch table at an all-ages rock show. In […]
by James Naiden In one of her most trenchant poems, “Life’s Calling,” Deborah Digges begins with a strikingly exaggerated metaphor describing what she was meant to do with her life, as she saw it: “My life’s calling: setting fires.” This is the first line only. At the end of the poem, the final line and […]
by rob mclennan Don Quixote is an extraordinary contemporary story because it’s about the two pillars of modern life, love and books. To be precise, it’s about an impossibly romantic love and bad books. —Douglas Glover, The Enamoured Knight Poor Alonzo Quijada meant to elevate himself into the legendary figure of a knight-errant. Instead, for all […]