Archive for June, 2012
Ask The Author: Sarah Henning
Sarah Henning had Four Stories in the March Issue. 1. Does breastfeeding really work in the bonding of a child to its mother? From what I understand (not being a mother myself!), both bottle feeding and breastfeeding are good times … Continue reading
Friday Five
[PANK] 7 will be released in September. You can pre-order it here. Have you seen the cover art from Elena Duff? It is gorgeous. Below are works from five contributors with work in [PANK] 7. 1. Casket is an American Euphamism, … Continue reading
Announcing [PANK] 7
Marking the first of our move to bi-annual print issues, we are proud to announce the scheduled release of [PANK] 7 for September 1, 2012. [PANK] 7 is a yearbook of literature, a dense periodical filled with the author’s you need … Continue reading
On Feeling Red: a failed essay about eczema, riots, Mesut Özil and Zinedine Zidane, the Belarus Free Theatre, neoliberalism, austerity and the Eurozone, KLM Airlines, Derek Jarman, Mary Magdalene, clingy women, feminist killjoys, melancholic migrants, contamination, sickness, health, racism, capitalism, totalitarian patriarchy, “the barbaric,†suicide economies, refusing to leave your shit at the door, showing your wound, not getting over it, feeling it, still feeling it.
(Note: Having not written at the [PANK] blog for nearly a year, I apparently thought the best way to make up for that absence would be to stuff an entire year’s worth of posts in one. I am definitely doing … Continue reading
Wichita by Thad Ziolkowski (A Review by Sara Lippmann)
Tonga Books 256 pgs/$16 It takes a certain kind of writer to pull off a wild rumpus of a book. (Particularly, when there are no accompanying illustrations of teeth and eyes and claws.) Acclaimed poet (Our Son the Arson) and … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Virginia Konchan
From the March Issue, Six Poems by Virginia Konchan, and now this interview. 1. What wouldn’t Napoleon do? “My†Napoleon (in the lineage of Susan Howe) wouldn’t convert on his deathbed, betray emotion, harbor regrets, or talk just for the … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Isaac Butler
We published Isaac Butler’s great piece, “In the Heart Library,” in the March Issue. 1. What would you like your heart to be made of? Given the history of heart attacks on both sides of family, probably adamantium, the indestructible … Continue reading
The Bee-Loud Glade by Steve Himmer (A Review by Helen McClory)
Atticus Books 224 pages/$9.99 Sitting in a cafe full of bustle, greasily-lit against the mist outside and pungent with the unsettling reek of poorly-brewed grounds dumped into an open bin, I open this book at its beginning, and suddenly … Continue reading
Three Ways of the Saw by Matt Mullins (A Review by David Atkinson)
Atticus Books 216 pgs/$7.99 In recent memory, it seems that much of the fiction that receives significant critical attention is the writing that is unusual. Whether this means fiction that experiments with language, fiction that challenges what a story is … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Rebecca Hazelton
From the March Issue, Three Poems by Rebecca Hazelton. 1. Where would you like to wash up? Things that wash up seem melancholy for me, though I suppose it’s all in how you look at it—I could view these items … Continue reading
Reminders For Your Week
1. Have you read our June Issue yet? It is amazing and filled with greatness. Take a peek. 2. There’s still time!…but not much, Â submit to our Special Pulp Issue, guest edited by Court Merrigan, Â until July 1. 3. Keep … Continue reading
A Forsley Feuilleton: Franz Kafka should have spent his time rolling dice with confidence on the corner instead of writing letters in confidence on the paper – Act Two
There aren’t many like you – members of that almost non-existent subculture of Americans who practice the ancient art of reading words – and the few peers that you do have aren’t reading these words. They are reading the words … Continue reading
CLMP Hosted a Great Event
Last weekend saw the annual CLMP Lit Mag Marathon Weekend. The two day event began with a “Magathon” reading at the New York Public Library’s DeWittt Wallace Periodicals Room on Saturday afternoon. It was a pleasure to read with so … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Melissa Yancy
In March came Melissa Yancy’s “Boolean Napoleans.” 1. Do you put the boo in Boolean? I’d like to think so. I’d like to think I put the lean in Boolean, too. 2. Are you a leaker? Sadly, yes. At work … Continue reading
Cataclysm Baby by Matt Bell (A Review by Joseph Michael Owens)
Mud Luscious Press 118 pgs/$12 Matt Bell’s Cataclysm Baby has been a tremendously difficult book for me to review. I’ve read it twice now and still find myself at a loss for words, though, admittedly, it’s a loss in an … Continue reading
So Many Things We Have Wanted to Tell You
Gene Albamonte, one of our favorite columnists, has compiled his columns into a book, for sale now, with new material. Details here. Congratulations to the PANK contributors who were recognized in the Wigleaf Top 50Â and Kristen Iskandrian, in particular, for … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Kimberly Ann Southwick
From the March Issue, “Near Sonnet for S” by Kimberly Ann Southwick. 1. What would a far sonnet look like? You would have to squint to see it. When you reached out, it wouldn’t be there. Maybe they write them … Continue reading
F-Stein by L. J. Moore (A Review by J. A. Tyler)
What follows is the fourth in J. A. Tyler’s full-press of Subito Press, a series of reviews appearing at [PANK] over the course of 2012, covering every title available from Subito Press. J. A. Tyler’s previous full-press series have appeared … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Lisa Ahn
From the April Issue, “Blown,” by Lisa Ahn. 1. How many bodies have you left in the Everglades? I’m sure I’ve buried at least three or four incarnations of myself – the self-destructive teen, the cloudy drunk, the fear-sodden twenty-something. … Continue reading
Friday Five
1. Red Number One from Rebecca Cook at The Cortland Review. 2. Salt from Issue 03 of The Common by Jane Satterfield. 3. The Rumpus interviewed Emily St. John Mandel. 4. Three Poems from Brian Henry at Conjunctions. 5. RECEIVED from Lily Brown at Epiphany.
Books We Can’t Quit: Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Chosen by: Alicia Kennedy Original Publication Date: 1996 Sometimes I think, I miss the places I used to go in those books I used to read. I don’t really know what it means. Do I miss being adolescent, spending … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Ian Brown
In April, “Fuck You Superman” from Ian Brown. 1. Would you ever tell Superman to go fuck himself to his face? Oh boy – what a question. No. Definitely no. I mean, assuming I was living within the realm where … Continue reading
This Modern Writer: Wait With Me Here by Carmela Starace
A few weeks before a CT scan revealed a tennis ball sized tumor on the frontal lobe of my brain, I happened to be in the Beijing Airport. Truly, I had no business being in the Beijing Airport or anywhere … Continue reading
The Postmortal by Drew Magary (A Review by Steven Casimer Kowalski)
Penguin 384 pgs/$10  The Postmortal is a book about a near future in which humans develop a “cure†for aging. Take the cure, and you’re locked in at the same age until an outside force like cancer or a bullet … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Carly Berg
You should read Carly Berg’s amazing story, “Oysteresque,” over and over. 1.How did you walk the fine line of delusion in “Oysteresque”? Well, it was based on a dream, so I just kind of went with that. 2. What undersea … Continue reading
For Your Monday
1. Have you ever wondered how a print issue of [PANK] is born? Have you seen our fancy video yet? 2. Stop by and say hello at HousingWorks bookstore, Sunday, June 17! We’ll be participating in the annual CLMP Lit … Continue reading
Ask The Author: MarÃa Elvira Vara Tatá
From the March Issue, “La Muda y La Tonta,” by MarÃa Elvira Vara Táta. 1. If your hair was a pendulum, what would you have hanging at the end? A lie detector. That way, I wouldn’t be able to lie … Continue reading
Friday Five
1. THIS VIDEO. 2. “Live Forever” from B. J. Hollars at The Rumpus. 3. Mel Bosworth Every Laundromat in the World Release Contest. 4. The Collagist Chapbook Contest. 5. “Neighbor,”  poetry from Chad Redden at Punchnels.
Reality, Reality by Jackie Kay (a review by Helen McClory
Picador Press 240 pages,  £12.99 Jackie Kay’s voice in my head is clear and light and dancing, a young river through green grass. I’ve been to see her read poetry twice, and both times reveled in that voice, … Continue reading
A Forsley Feuilleton: the Hollywood Machine started feeding unoriginal ideas to unsuspecting movie-goers as a cheap alternative to risk
Last Memorial Day weekend I went to Rasputin – the music/movie store from Berkeley, not the ‘Mad Monk’ from Siberia – to get a war flick, not a magic dick. I planned on honoring our country’s fallen soldiers by lying … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Jared Yates Sexton
We were so excited to have this great story from Jared Yates Sexton in the March Issue, “A Man Gets Tired.” We were also excited about Jared’s answers to these questions. 1. How do you look when you get drunk? … Continue reading
Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine (A Review by Lynne Weiss)
Tonga Books/Europa Editions 176 pages/$15.00 Anyone who loves reading has discovered at some point the book or the character that seems to offer a model for how to live. Some find it in Dostoevsky, others in Austen, or Bronte, or … Continue reading
Logophily: 13 Ways of Not Looking at a Blackbird
I spent a good hour [1] the other day [2] firmly establishing [3] that I have no idea what a crow looks like. I can pick a crow out of a lineup [4]. I’ve written about corvids. I’ve sculpted them. … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Christopher Woods
These two photos from Christopher Woods were a part of the March Issue. Now Christopher answers our questions about them. 1. What made you get started with photography? I have always been interested in visual art. In fact, years ago … Continue reading
For Your Monday Morning
1. If your in New York City, look for [PANK] at the upcoming CLMP Lit Fair, June 17th at Housing Works! 2. While regular submissions are currently closed, you still have just under a month to submit to the Special Pulp Issue. … Continue reading
Win with Shut Up/Look Pretty
Did you read Shut Up/Look Pretty? You can win goodies from Tiny Hardcore! Each chapter of my contribution to the book, Local God (a novella about four boys in a terrible punk band at Stirling University), is titled with a song … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Erin Stalcup
Erin Stalcup’s “Why Things Fall” was a lovely addition to our March Issue. 1. What would you shoot off a lover’s head? An owl made of mica. Wouldn’t that be beautiful? (Yet, while my father is a great archer who … Continue reading