I Remember Joe Brainard’s Cock Pics I remember the first time I saw Joe Brainard’s cock pics. His lover Kenward kept a box and I was Kenward’s curious assistant. The cock was lovely, the photos keepers, the sentiment a reminder things don’t change much.…
Interviews
Punctuate in Conversation with Ken Krimstein, Author and Illustrator of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth
Ken Krimstein has published cartoons in the New Yorker, Punch, the Wall Street Journal, and more. He has written for New York Observer’s “New Yorker’s Diary” and has published pieces on websites including McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Yankee Pot Roast, and Mr Beller’s Neighborhood. He is the author of Kvetch as Kvetch Can and teaches…
Short Fables Made with Industrial Noir For several years, I daydreamed my way around an industrial neighborhood and a few scrap yards that were located around and in between my apartment and painting studio in Chicago. Dusk and dawn—when the light defining the buildings, the water…
Swarming Season May Spring too long delayed. Months of wet, cold days, and half-lit sky. In Chicago, my friend S., who wanted one more spring, is going about the slow business of dying. In my Michigan rental house, a buff-brown female cardinal nests on…
Naked The Polaroids arrived in a padded envelope marked “CONFIDENTIAL.” After thirty-five years, my ex-husband had returned photos he took of me during the first year of our brief marriage. I was twenty-one years old at the time, and I was naked. We hadn’t…
Mental Health Narrative(s): A Review of Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir Sarah Fawn Montgomery 296 pages Mad Creek Books, $23.95 September 21, 2018 When I started reading Quite Mad by Sarah Fawn Montgomery, my collar suddenly…