Short Story Day Africa: Interview with Rachel Zadok
...work, they said they viewed SSDA as a project for literary writers. We didn't want that. So we sent out a call for speculative fiction (including every genre under that...
Blogging the Caine Prize 2012
...What other aspects of this most heterogeneous of continents are being explored through the imaginations of writers? image via, naturally, the indispensable Africa is a Country. For context, a few...
A Union of Poets
An interview with organizers of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers, the Resist Retail Nihilism conference, and the Worker Writers School
Un(der)known Writers: Gary Fisher
...Pocket: Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher * * * Excerpted and submitted by Zoe Sharpe. Thanks Zoe! If you have excerpts from writers you think are criminally un(der)known and...
Un(der)known Writers: Helle Busacca
...became known as a poet during her lifetime. She held close associations with many other artists, notably Eugenio Montale, who once called her “a sullen little bird,” in his 1956...
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...fiction. The barrier to be cleared—between one media and another, between things known and strange—is the point of the metaphor, and in an essay “against accessibility,” he wants an “initial...
Un(der)known Writers: Penelope Mortimer
...Photo | Penelope Mortimer, date unknown, via There is much to know about Penelope Mortimer. She was married to one man, but gave birth to two children from...
Un(der)known Writers: Aimé Césaire
People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: 'How strange! But never mind-it's Nazism, it will pass!' And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the...
Un(der)known Writers: Elaine Kraf
...fact any feeling can be cured if you want to get rid of it by shooting up large amounts of Thorazine, Stelazine and more recent derivatives into the buttocks or...
Un(der)known Writers: Lev Shestov
Photo (via) Excerpted from Athens and Jerusalem: We live surrounded by an endless multitude of mysteries. But no matter how enigmatic may be the mysteries which surround...
Un(der)known Writers: Nicola Chiaromonte
...has sensed the reality of a Power which nobody can control. Finally, he has found himself personally in question, and he knows that, under any circumstances whatsoever, there is only...
Un(der)known Writers: Jane Bowles
"I'll tell you," said Mrs. Copperfield, leaning over the table and suddenly looking very tense. "I am a little worried–not terribly worried, because I shan't allow anything...
Un(der)known Writers: Silvia Federici
...bacium sub cauda (the kiss under the tail), and of indulging in orgiastic rituals, night flights and child sacrifices. The Inquisitors also reported the existence of a sect of devil-worshippers...
Un(der)known Writers: Diane di Prima
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #9 advocating the overthrow of government is a crime overthrowing it is something else altogether, it is sometimes called revolution but don’t kid yourself: government...
Un(der)known Writers: Flavia Dzodan
...to not consider racism. That is, I insist, the power and self appointed right of the White majority to perpetuate racism. Flavia Dzodan, "An intersectional feminist approximation to aesthetics around...
Un(der)known Writers: Frank B. Wilderson, III
After Alice and I had been together for a while, I convinced myself that the looks we got from people in Santa Cruz when we went out...