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REVIEW: THIS SERVER SHOULD BE DELETED! by Mr. Omar King
The server is in our mind and our blood. Can it ever be powered down?
23 hrs ago
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andie blaine
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COLUMN: MALLCORE w/ Matthew Newton
literary dispatches from the food courts, fitting rooms, and fluorescent dreams of mall life
Jan 15
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Brittany Ackerman
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INTERVIEW: The Final Course Episode 3: Bud Smith
Welcome to the third episode of The Final Course, a monthly podcast hosted by Zona Motel contributor Grant Gerald Miller.
Jan 14
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COLUMN: Farm Liveblog, Fall Edition, “Sing Before Breakfast and You’ll Cry All Day”
Writer and musician Adam Gnade lives on a farm in Kansas. The following is a liveblog of his day, on Wednesday, November 26, 2025.
Jan 13
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GOSSIP: Week of January 12
More weird conservative woman self-victimization, a huge loss to the wife-guy community, long suffering Helen DeWitt
Jan 12
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mariah barden jones
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COLUMN: Catching up with... Crispin Best: "why wouldn't poetry have a power"
The poet and editor reflects on if Alt Lit produced any work of lasting note, how his literary webzine was ended as a result of the UK’s Brexit from the…
Jan 12
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Andrew Duncan Worthington
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ESSAY: On Hosting Readings
Literature is alive and you can be part of it
Jan 11
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Lucy K Shaw
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DISPATCH: Gallery Cabaret Reading Series (Chicago), The Rehearsal Is the Show
An open mic a few nights after Christmas
Jan 10
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Mallory Smart
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MEET ME IN THE MOTEL LOBBY 1/09/26
Before The Reading
Jan 9
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Mallory Smart
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COLUMN: Art in its Own Terms #8: Hats off to Fuckhead
On the occasion of the first Denis Johnson bio
Jan 9
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Dmitry Samarov
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INTERVIEW: Michael Liska vs Uzodinma Okehi, "Character Synthesis"
Uzodinma Okehi talks with Michael Liska about Liska's new book ALICE, OR THE WILD GIRL, historical novels, researching "in the headlights," nuts, bolts…
Jan 8
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ESSAY: Trash TV as Essential Reading
If you want to slide against the soft white underbelly of American Literature and tune into the heat of its gluttonous imagination, look no further than…
Jan 7
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Jillian Luft
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ESSAY: Winter Term
A syllabus with excerpts from the readings.
Jan 6
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Nicholas Rombes
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INTERVIEW: Alexandrine Ogundimu by Taylor Lewandowski, On Body Horror, the Void, and Transhumanism
We feel like we must transcend, because we feel so separate from our own body, but the feeling that’s making us feel separate from our bodies is our…
Jan 5
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Taylor Lewandowski
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