Shared Obsessions
As a writer and artist who has and continues to regularly submit work to various grants, journals, and publishers, I am intimate with the stresses involved, particularly the waiting.
Issue 38: Summer 2017
Introduction
Bringing the Magic
What makes a good piece of writing?
Fiction
Fledgling
His keys land somewhere and the noise awakens her.
Poetry
Date Night
Read Jenna Lyn Albert's poem "Date Night" in Issue 38: Summer 2017 of The Puritan, then check out our fantastic poetry contest!
Essays
Father John, Moral Pornographer
About twenty years ago, in a Tower Records in Times Square or Piccadilly Circus, I picked up a marked-down copy of John Preston’s first essay collection, My Life as Pornographer.
Seriousness and the Sublime: An Outsider's Guide to Nerd Culture
These days I will, on occasion, drop a casual reference to Captain America or Mass Effect, or mention BioWare or Batman, or finally agree to my husband’s pleas that I join him for a round of HeroQuest, “mother of modern board games.”
Interviews
“The Problem of Other Minds”: A Conversation with Chris Gilmore
The characters in Nobodies have a hard time getting out of their heads.
“The Witnessed Self”: A Conversation with Molly Peacock
The bargain that I’m making with my audience is that if I’ve gone some place emotionally, I can’t be alone.
“A Relationship to Play, A Relationship to Craft”: A Conversation on Poetry and Stand-Up Comedy
I blame Mitch Hedberg for all of this.
Reviews
Sifting the Stream: A Review of Laura Broadbent's In On the Great Joke
Yes, Laura Broadbent’s In On the Great Joke is funny, but there’s nothing worse than an essay on the mechanics of humour.
Chockablock with Drops: A Review of Carellin Brooks's One Hundred Days of Rain
Rain’s Vancouver-based protagonist, “our heroine,” lives a variant of the same day over and over; her life repeats with little difference.
