Crafting Truth: the “New” Journalism of Dick Reavis
“I read pamphlets and Marx in college,” he noted. “Not Esquire.” In both his writing and lifestyle, Reavis is a bit of a daredevil, willing to risk his life...
BOOK REVIEW: Look! Look! Feathers by Mike Young
The twelve stories that make up Mike Young’s debut, Look! Look! Feathers do a couple of shitty things to us: they castrate us, kidnap us, curse us, and choke us....
Note from the Editor
By now this burgeoning genre of editorial writing, in which we rationalize a shift away from print media, has become familiar enough that we can anticipate its...
Issue 41.1
It might not surprise you to see an editor professing excitement over the magazine's content. But, while I'll cop to my role as hype man, please trust that I'm...
Phoebe’s second annual Twitter contest!
1). Follow us on Twitter @PhoebeJournal.
2). Tweet us some superb prose or poetry--in 140 characters or less!
3). The three best tweets received by the end of April, as judged by us,...
Rhythm vs. Fact
There were factual inaccuracies in D’Agata’s essay, including the statement that Las Vegas had 34 strip clubs, when the source clearly said it had 31....
In A Strange Room
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut is a novel in three parts. Or rather, a book in three parts. The novel part is debatable. Why? Because each of the three...
What is Left is What Matters
A review of Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward. What is at stake for this family comes starkly to the fore of this intimate and brutal narrative set in Bois...