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Saint Morissey

May 15, 2013

Cathy Park Hong after Omar Fast   When I listen to you, I feel heroic. I drink gin that tastes like gasoline and hear Mama roja in the toilet. I am the heir to nothing in particular. I want love...

Sunday Review of Joyelle McSweeney’s Book, “Percussion Grenade,” With Lines From Foxy Shazam’s “Flamingo Trigger” Album

February 2, 2013

  OO EE  AH.  A’BIGGITY BIGGITY BOO I—got a fever.  And the only cure for it.  Is a suicide note.  Wrapped in the flensed flesh headdress   of a book review  I criticize  I...

Phoebe Issue 42.1 Spring 2013

February 2, 2013

Samples from our new print issue, Phoebe 42.1, now available for purchase through our Subscription page!...

An Interview with Katherine Boo: National Book Award Winner

November 29, 2012

This year’s recipient of the National Book Award in Nonfiction is Katherine Boo, for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. In...

The “Phallus-Man” Reflects: A Review of Frederick Seidel’s Nice Weather

October 2, 2012

While I won’t reveal where I come down on the question of whether Frederick Seidel is “the best poet we have” in contemporary American poetry, I think anyone familiar with his career would...

Crafting Truth: the “New” Journalism of Dick Reavis

May 15, 2012

Blog Traci Cox

“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

May 15, 2012

Blog Dan D'Angelo

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....