ISSUE 28: Winter 2015

Fiction

A New Place

"Let’s find a new place to get to.”

Bellyflop

What if it had been you, that day at the pool with Drew and Theo, and you’d bumped into Jen Hamilton and Tessa Brown?
Poetry

Two Poems

A grey grape hangs from my spine. The phone is ringing steadily, insistently, with no intent of stopping.

General Preamble

On MC Hammer’s Birthday

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Interviews

The Texture of a Life: An Interview with Joan Thomas

I reviewed for so long. I began to be fed up with the 800-word limit, and the job never got easier.

Use It as Your Own Story: An Interview with Christine Fischer Guy

To be honest, I think my journalism background meant that I did what was most familiar and comfortable—I hit the research road.

Put on Your Negative Capability Helmet and Go with It: Excerpts from a Conversation with Donato Mancini

Initially, Loitersack was supposed to be a kind of cultural theory and poetics “commonplace book.”
Reviews

Shaking the Past Awake: A Review of Gillian Sze’s Peeling Rambutan and Sandy Pool’s Undark: An Oratorio

Historically, the act of writing is valued as a means of recording the past.