Negasonic Teenage Warhead: A Review of Mixtape Hyperborea by Adem Luz Rienspects
Mixtape Hyperborea by Adem Luz Rienspects (Self-published, 2023) It’s 2007. Another school year. The air has a nice breeze to it. You and your boys…
Everything is Insane, Everyone is Mad: A Review of Incurable Graphomania by Anna Krivolapova
Incurable Graphomania by Anna Krivolapova (Apocalypse Confidential, 2023) Apocalypse Confidential, a magazine that bills itself as a pulp publication…
Where Tread Demons, Where Follows Hunters: A Review of The Book Of by Frank Peak
The Book Of by Frank Peak (Apocalypse Confidential, 2023) Every American epoch has its own monster. The immediate afterglow of the atomic…
A Case Against Philistinism
Soon after the title sequence cuts in and A. leaves for the bathroom, having not so much as excused himself like O. who, with his phone held over the…
Ignatius J. Reilly Goes to New York: An Interview with Dan Baltic
This Friday, Terror House Press will release its 41st book: NUTCRANKR by Dan Baltic, a novel exploring social atomization, fringe ideology, sexual…
Bukowski, King of the Bums
A lot of writers bash Bukowski. It’s almost a sport, a very easy sport. Like kickball. No, Bukowski is not the pinnacle. Yes, Bukowski-worship is…
Possum and Brer Rabbit, Part 3
IV. During World War I and the period immediately following it, Ezra Pound was contributing regularly to three literary journals, wrote music essays…
The Ungoverned Tongue
Last summer, writer Alex Perez published a piece in IM-1776 called “Overdosing on the Literary Blackpill,” which essentially argues that angry,…
Possum and Brer Rabbit, Part 2
III. At about the time that T.S. Eliot appeared on the scene, Pound was beginning to show a wholly unexpected side of his character. This was most…
Possum and Brer Rabbit, Part 1
I. T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound introduced Modernism into verse and in the process became two of the most consequential poets of the twentieth century.…
