Favorite Haunts, and How to Hold Them: A Conversation between Jenny Irish and Colin Bonini

Favorite Haunts, and How to Hold Them: A Conversation between Jenny Irish and Colin Bonini

[ad_1] Imagine that humans have ceased to reproduce successfully. A giant—and eventually sentient—metal womb takes over human reproduction, gestating what she thinks of as “would-be-future-humans” until they are ready for harvesting. The hatch that opens her gestation tank remains closed, though. The metal womb has realized that the cycle of seeding and gestating and harvesting, … Read more

A Form that Can Hold and Transform in “Very Cold People” – Chicago Review of Books

A Form that Can Hold and Transform in “Very Cold People” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] As a poet and nonfiction writer, Sarah Manguso is known for her gifts of compression. In 2017’s 300 Arguments—a work consisting of short, aphoristic sections of prose—she writes, “I don’t write long forms because I’m not interested in artificial deceleration. As soon as I see the glimmer of a consequence, I pull the trigger.” … Read more