The MFA debate
Arguments over the value of a creative writing MFA have long been an Internet staple, perhaps in part because creative…
Stephen Fowler—Napoleon’s Hat: Or, The Nostalgist’s Progress
It’s not the same as memory. Memory is a record of actual experience: things you did, places you visited, feelings you felt. This is something more subtle and uncanny.
Mike Barnes—Lascaux Bull: On Savage Liberations and Their Tamings
Artists I know sweat and worry over their print or painting, performance piece, or video installation; but they agonize and despair over their artist statement
Leanne Shapton and Derek Shapton—Eleven Cars, One Motorcycle
Until my brother and I were well into our thirties, our father collected vintage cars and motorcycles. He loved their design, the satisfaction of repairing and restoring them, and the social atmosphere of the car shows and swap meets.
David Solway—Paros
Travel is no longer the pleasure it once was, especially on Aegean boats, even if one is looking forward to…
Brian Busby—1969
Brian Busby I’m not sure when it was that I first read of “the flowering of Canadian literature.” George Woodcock…
Carmine Starnino—Interview with Michael Harris
FROM CNQ 90 C: Let’s say Martians visit Earth and dig up a complete series of your run as Signal Editions editor.…
Robyn Sarah—Are You Serious?
What is that little grating chink in college girls’ voices, like the chirp of glass marbles rubbed together in a…
Mark Anthony Jarman—Johnny Cash in the Viper Room (Cowboy Asylum)
For centuries I waited inside, waited out those fierce Irish immigrants on their black Blasket rocks surrounded by waves and…