Archive for August, 2012
A call to the arms of love: on the love of film as a politics of film, on critique-as-love and love-as-revolutionary-force, in memory of Alexis Tioseco, Nika Bohinc and my father; or, another letter I would love to read to you in person
On September 1, 2009, Filipino Canadian film critic and founder of Criticine, Alexis Tioseco and his girlfriend, Nika Bohinc, were killed at home in Quezon City, “in an apparent burglary staged by three armed men who fled the scene.” From … Continue reading
Good Intentions by Jeff Lacy (A Review by David Atkinson)
310 pgs/$18.95 Many of us forget that the people involved in the criminal justice system are still people. After all, the only contact many of us knowingly have with such people is through the news, such not being a common … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Ashley Inguanta
Ashley Inguanta’s “It’s End Of The World Karaoke” appeared in the May Issue. Below, Ashley speaks about how the world turns certain, fiction vs. non-fiction, and songs for the end of the world. 1. Being also in Orlando, I noticed … Continue reading
The Birdwisher by Anna Joy Springer (A Review By Helen McClory)
Birds of Lace 108pgs/$10 I found this a difficult book to read, though it was short, and beautifully put together and in parts as light as souffle. ‘A murder mystery for very old young adults’, it describes itself within, and … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Georgia Bellas
Georgia Bellas’ beautiful, “Recipe for a Winter’s Day in Three Courses,” was a part of the May Issue. Here Georgia speaks on summer meals, Goodwill glasses, and endless vacations. 1. How many courses would you prepare for a summer meal? … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Neal Kitterlin
These Two Poems written by Neal Kitterlin appeared in the May Issue. Below Neal discusses sneaking in writing, the skin of prose poems, and the best songs to listen to while cutting one’s ear off. 1. How do you sneak … Continue reading
Three Excerpts From [PANK] 7 For Your Friday
“It’s suspicious the way the world looks in the first few minutes of morning, the color of circumvention, scattered dots scrambling on a signal-less television screen.” -Excerpt from “Conjecture in Early Morning,” by Kelly A. Wilson, forthcoming in [PANK] 7. … Continue reading
Good Grief by Stevie Edwards (A Review by Gretchen Primack)
Write Bloody 112 pgs/$14 I just wrote up a piece for a literary magazine’s Contributors’ Blog, and in it I described what I look for in poems: “I admire the poet who keeps a gleam in his rolled eye. I … Continue reading
“An Unbearable Lightness”
My friend Leslie remarked via email that she was “somewhat jealous†of my impromptu adventure, to which I replied “don’t be.†There’s no envy to be found in fright, in flight, in a series of decisions made on the fly … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Kristi DeMeester
From the May Issue, Kristi DeMeester’s “The Beautiful Nature of Venom.” 1. What’s with literary fiction’s fascination regarding collarbones? Is it the sound that word makes? I’ve always found a strange beauty in that which is fragile. The physical collarbone … Continue reading
Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night by Tracy DeBrincat (A Review by J. A. Tyler)
What follows is the seventh 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 reviews have covered … Continue reading
Logophily: Memes and Macros
People [1] have occasionally [2] written lately [3] about memes — not Dawkins memes proper, but internet trope-jokes, most particularly image macros [4]. The gist of all this writing is more or less the gist of any of this type … Continue reading
Books We Can’t Quit – A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Chosen by: Kenny Mooney A Clockwork Orange is, after Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, one of the most important novels I have ever read. And that is as much to do with what it led me on to read, as it is … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Ryan Bradford
Read Ryan Bradford’s “Post Apocalypse” here, and then follow it with this interview. Or do it the other way around. You’re an individual, make your own decisions. 1. How would you end the world? I’d shut down the internet. It … Continue reading
All the Best on Monday
1. The [PANK] August Issue is alive and you should live it. 2. [PANK] is currently accepting submissions for the third annual Queer Issue, but only until September 1, so get your submit on. 3. [PANK] is looking for a … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Blaze Dzikowski
Blaze Dzikowski wrote “Corporate Birthday” and we published it in April. 1. What faces do you see on trains? It was a tram actually, a streetcar. Most faces are turned off, as their owners are somewhere else. Seeing eyes belong to … Continue reading
The August Issue and We’ll Tumbl For Ya
Check out our August issue featuring Jen Knox, Rhoads Stevens, Kejt Walsh, Ross McMeekin, Emma Smith-Stevens, Michael Lupi, Becky Kaiser, Owen Duffy, Kimberly Bunker, Christopher Shipman, Jacob Victorine, Quinn Wolf-Wilczynski, Rion Scott, Ben Tanzer, Jane Otto, Emily Howorth, Amy Benson, and Ruth … Continue reading
Three Squares a Day With Occasional Torture by Julie Innis (A Review by Meg Tuite)
Foxhead Books 188pgs/$15 There are moments, hours, days in a lifetime that you actually feel like you have gone somewhere to a point on a map that doesn’t exist. That is the power of great writing. You’ve been transported from … Continue reading
A Forsley Feuilleton: I Can’t Watch Another Ape Shit Without Going Ape Shit
The seventh and newest installment in the Planet of the Apes franchise, The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), has been rotting, unwatched, at the bottom of a duffle bag filled with a year’s worth of my dirty … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Kelley Bright Leidenthal
We published these Two Poems by Kelley Bright Leidenthal in April and then asked her these questions. 1. When have you pretended to be in hate? I very rarely pretend to hate. It’s not nearly as fun as pretending to … Continue reading
Suggested Readings
Dennis Mahagin’s new collection, Grand Mal is now available for pre-order. Kathleen Hellen has a new collection of poetry Umberto’s Night that is a ghost walk through the post-industrial landscape. It won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Poetry Prize and will be published by … Continue reading
Fast Machine by Elizabeth Ellen (A Review by Helen McClory)
Short Flight/Long Drive Books 380 pgs/$11.95 Some books have a colour palette. Certain colours tinge the prose, or give the impression of appearing in the furniture, scenery, shadow, across the spread of tales.  This occupies a bleed zone between poor remembrance of … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley and his Three Poems, from the April Issue. 1. “Bears In The Street” has this epic collapse in the last stanza, compared to how the other stanzas are constructed. What was your intent behind that? A crash. Possibly … Continue reading
In Conversation with Nuala Nà Chonchúir
Irish writer Nuala Nà Chonchúir’s fourth short story collection Mother America has just been published by New Island: “In Mother America and other stories mothers tattoo their children and abduct them; they act as surrogates and they use charms to cure childhood illnesses. The story … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Zachary Buscher
“Terminal Boredom,” from Zachary Buscher, was in the April Issue. 1. What ribbon do you always earn? The kind that makes my pigtails look hot. 2. What makes a man a man? All I know is that a man cannot … Continue reading
Friday Five
1. The entire, and final, issue of >kill author. 2. All these great Maira Kalman videos at THNKR. 3 . This essay, “Love and Poetry,” from Maura Kelly at The Paris Review. 4. “THE LOVELY LASS OF INVERNESS,” from Nate … Continue reading
What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali (A Review by Joy Mushacke Smith)
Putnam 197pgs/$11.99 The end of the school year. The time when even your favorite students start to get under your skin. Grades are due. Assignments are missing. You’re tearing off each calendar day with the ferocity required to wrestle an … Continue reading
I Am a Magical Teenage Princess by Luke Geddes
A helpless surfer girl drifts through time like flotsam, tormented by the bizarre cliches of drive-in-era B-movies. A reluctant teenage astronaut idles away her post-apocalyptic adolescence huffing gasoline and fooling around with her five brutish shipmates, all of them … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Kenton K. Yee
Back in May there was Kenton K. Yee’s “Try My Shank.” 1. How has working in the world of finance influenced your writing? Two finance guys sit down next to a mysterious stranger at a bar. “Stocks had a bad … Continue reading
The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel (A Review by Dawn West)
Unbridled Books 288pgs/$24.95 If the crime thriller, bildungsroman, and domestic realism genres all got together for drinks in a smoky blue-toned jazz club and went home in a needy haze of swamp heat, passing abandoned businesses and ignored newsstands, to … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Wendy C. Ortiz
The amazing and well-worth-your-time to read, “Interiors,” was published in the April Issue. 1. What are you willing to destroy for love? My definitions of love have completely been wrung out, stretched, flung out into space and back in recent … Continue reading
Domestication Handbook by Kristen Stone (A Review By Helen McClory)
Rogue Factorial 96pgs/$TBD Domestication Handbook, not appearing, by its thickness (slender) or its cover (of bloodied and pounded meat arranged in symmetry) to be really a handbook on some aspect of farming, is in fact a book of finest … Continue reading
Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson (A Review by Kirsty Logan)
Chatto & Windus 266pgs/£12.99 The first line of Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float contains four swear-words, which sets the tone perfectly for what’s to come. This is the story of a Scottish childhood: the women all struggling, screeching … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Glen Pourciau
Glen Pourciau’s “Inside,” from the April, Issue can be found here. 1. Are you sorry for Huey Lewis and The News? I admire their music. I feel sorry when I hear the news, but I do not feel sorry when … Continue reading
American Poet by Jeff Vande Zande (A Review by Brian Fanelli)
Bottom Dog Press 160 pages, $18 American Poet is a novel filled with scenes that are all too familiar to anyone involved in a local poetry community. Jeff Vande Zande successfully depicts awkward open mic nights, workshops, and competitive … Continue reading
A Forsley Feuilleton: I was Facebook ‘friends’ with Patrick Wensink before Jack Daniels sent him the nicest cease and desist letter ever
If your desire for attention is anything like mine, you have a Facebook account. If your Facebook account is anything like mine, it includes a ‘news feed.’ If your ‘news feed’ is anything like mine, it’s filled with pictures of … Continue reading
Ask The Author: Carina Finn
Carina Finn’s “#11″ from the April Issue is here. 1. Are you a Twitter thug? I’m not sure what a twitter thug is. I like twitter, sometimes; sometimes I forget that it exists. I like it because it feels like … Continue reading