Authors: Z. Smith
Jim Williams’ Smiling Faces: Exploring The Idea of Home As...
From the street, the 130-year-old, (rumored) former polygamist house belonging to the artist, architect and all-around creative beacon, Jim Williams, is fairly unassuming. … read more
Luxury and Necessity: The Unabashed Musings of PWR BTTM’s Ben...
“I want people to never ever question the fact that I’m queer and that I’m in public and that I’m taking up the space that I am. Fashion is a way of making the space I take up more dramatic.” … read more
Sound & Vision Vinyl: Home Away From Home
Owned and managed by New York natives, spouses Pam Lancaster and Michael Maccarrone, and established at the end of 2015, Sound & Vision Vinyl is the gem you may not have heard of and, after visiting, won’t forget. … read more
Discussing Mongrels with Stephen Graham Jones
“Mongrels is about a kid, on the run, making his family up as he goes, like Lilo & Stitch kinda stuff” he says. “And for me that was kinda autobiographical until I grew up. … The family in this novel [was] my family.” … read more
Review: Sugar House Review #12
Sugar House Review does, as always, what they do best: present quality poetry to a hungry and, hopefully, ever growing audience; proving and proving again their invaluable nature as a local and nationally inclusive poetry journal. … read more
Review: Night of Nights
Romanticism has begun its revival, and at the helm is Brooklyn-based artist/musician Angela Carlucci (Little Cobweb) and her charming zine, Night of Nights. … read more
Review: Proportion and Ornament
One suspects from the onset that Proportion and Ornament is to be understood in terms of its aesthetic value and experience. … read more
Review: The Staked Plains
The Staked Plains is functioning (successfully) as a modern apocalyptic text, filling in the gaps of Revelations and beyond. A glad addition to my library. … read more
Review: The Wolves That Live In Skin And Space: A...
In his most recent foray into the literary world, The Wolves that Live in Skin and Space: A Novel, Zeischegg attempts to create a devastating vision of the modern porn era by exposing (or at least explaining) the ever-diminishing fourth wall between performer and audience, the growing threat of HIV, and the severely crippled lives of those in the industry. … read more
Review: Back to the Wild: A Practical Manual for Uncivilized...
Syntactically and semantically, Back to the Wild presents something of a challenge. … read more