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Fiction
After Homecoming
“I am not looking. None of my concern, I have to remind myself. A nice, respectable citizen doesn’t care what two cops are doing because he’s done nothing
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Fiction
Three Stories of a Future to Come
"We worked, and loved, and charted ourselves, wrenching legibility and dignity from the system one Google Maps update at a time."
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Essays
Where You From
The intersecting lives of immigrants and gentrifiers in Northeast Los Angeles.
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Fiction
Woman With Phone on Ferry
"But she knows that she is not Nick Carraway, she is not reliving her beloved story."
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Shrapnel
Breaking Up Hard To Do, But You Could’ve Done Better – Vol. III
"He told me that he didn't like my hair in a ponytail, and if I wore one again he'd break up with me."
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Essays
America Needs a Network of Rebel Cities to Stand Up to Trump
We must look to cities to protect civil liberties and build progressive alternatives from the bottom up.
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Essays
Foreign and Domestic
"I told myself that it was important to show that those that served were not props for hate."
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Shrapnel
Notes on My Africa
"The little girl smiled because she thought that he was genuinely interested in her, a white man with fancy gadgets and bright teeth."
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Shrapnel
Breaking Up Hard To Do, But You Could’ve Done Better – Vol. II
Are you a muffin person or a sushi person?
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Art
Visibility Sustains the Struggle: An Initiative in Support of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike
As prisoners fight against their inhumane conditions, artists make sure that the world doesn't look away.
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Fiction
She and Her Kid and Me and Mine
"To further complicate matters, we are both married to white men."
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Poems
Flying United
The plane ratchets a twinge in my intestines. / I'm reading during takeoff. Why trust the sympathetic?
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Shrapnel
Topography of a Novel: Sonora
"That was when I knew, however eerily, I had an obligation to the material."
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Shrapnel
Topography of a Novel: All Grown Up
"I felt like my whole career was up in the air and also I seriously did not know what I was going to write next."
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Poems
Book of Kings XXVI – XXX
sweat between mine teeth the jaw / unsteady the tongue holding consonants
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Columns
Rhyme & Reason: Sign Language’s Anti-Authoritarian Streak
Some subversive signing to celebrate President Pea-Brain's coronation.
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Poems
Resolving Host I & II
an advertisement for a mountain / that says you too could be / the opposite of where you are
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Poems
Junk: An Excerpt
facing the possibility of total economic collapse on the back of / war and falling oil prices vs Australia’s avocado shortage
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Poems
they ask me write anything
will this be on the final? is there a final on the syllabus? no. then no.
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Essays
For Art, If Not for Democracy
"Would it be so bad, if art didn’t make us better citizens, and didn’t strengthen our democracy?"
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Fiction
A Peak You Reach
The backseat is a tangle of sweat and skin, two parts boy and one part girl. Over the blaring hip-hop Molly can hear hot, heavy breathing and the
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Comics
Conversation in a Deli in North Miami Beach
"BLACK SHEEP OF THE FAMILY; SPENDS MONEY LIKE HE NEVER HAD IT; MARRIED TO THAT WITCH FROM NEW JERSEY"
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Essays
The Music My Mother Brought Home For Me
"But somehow, she recognized that I would need these songs, that they could give me something that she could not. And she was right."
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Fiction
Some Other Place
“Because he said that if he didn’t want to be here, he wouldn’t be here, you now think about that when he is not here.” They say, anyway,
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News
Blunderbuss to Launch Free Print Magazine
Public literature, art, and criticism for the public sphere.
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Fiction
Saul and the Witch of Endor, or High Hopes for the Nightmare of History
"Two days later the Philistines enter the city. Saul is at home looking at his oatmeal and white toast when Chief shows up at the door."
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Fiction
After Action
"Gunpowder clings to me like perfume... Did I shoot this man? No holes in him but mine."
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Comics
The Unblinking Hive
Blunderbuss Magazine is participating in an ongoing collaboration with Marsam, a comics website run by an international collective of artists and authors who met in the comic mecca
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Fiction
Structural Integrity
"Jeanette went home and called Social Services, who said there was nothing they could do about it because eccentric behavior was not enough grounds for an evaluation."
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Art
A Call to Arms from NYC’s Guerilla Superhero
Mission: To smash the myths of the information industry and shine a light on the urgent issues of our time.
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Shrapnel
Topography of a Novel: Hold Still
"For me, the hardest part of writing is the work you have to do not-writing."
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Poems
Centerfold: Best Picture
You see stars over my nipples—shoot me— / the cover girl, hands reaching
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Essays
B-Roll Weekends
"So rarely do we remember the things that aren’t worth mentioning but that mattered so much."
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Essays
Mini-Europe, Vol. VI
"A world of laughter, a world of tears / It’s a world of hope and a world of fears"
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Fiction
Nadja on Nadja
"I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence, memory trace
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Fiction
We All Fall Apart
"She stood up and left me there, covered in my own gore and staring at what I once considered a very vital piece of human anatomy floating in
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Essays
I SAW SUCH HORRIBLE THINGS
"The real reason I chose poetry over prose is that prose is too painfully accurate at preserving memories."
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Art
Echoes of A Tumbling Throne (Odas Al Fin De Los Tiempos)
Odes to the end of time: imagining a radical new future.
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Shrapnel
Topography of a Novel: What Belongs to You
On editing, El Greco, and finding the right wrong note.
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Essays
The Lust Peddlers
"My job entailed selling packets of women's names, addresses, and phone numbers for $25.00 to men who were horny but lazy."
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Fiction
On the Veranda
"It was the summer of 1937, in the August of my thirteenth year, and two months before I would, because of what happened that day, leave home forever."
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Comics
On the Bus
Dad breath, chicken nipples, and the opportunity to knock some sense into your teenaged self.
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Fiction
Sirius Numb
“Look. When it gets bad for me, I want you to do me just like you did that dog.”
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Poems
Just Kiss Him, Bro
Young men of the age / I’m thinking sit with empty spaces / between them at the movies
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Comics
Mr. Block, Vol. XXIV
It's something unpredictable but in the end is right / Mr. Block hopes you had the time of your life.
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Essays
Mini-Europe, Vol. V
Two things are certain about the new year: tradition will live, and people will die.
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News
Best of Blunderbuss 2015
Our annual, enthusiastic-yet-necessarily-incomplete accounting of some of the best work we've run this year.
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Art
The Anvil Hits Back: Sariev-Contemporary in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
A look at the dark humor and bright young things of Bulgaria's art scene.
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Fiction
The Air Where I Belong
"It wants me. It does not seize me, but it is persuasive. Another mouthful of water."
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Shrapnel
Topography of a Novel: The Hopeful
Soft pants, sweet pups, and the making of a hypnotic debut.
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Essays
The Work of Drag in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Has drag moved from the performance of gender to the constant, never-ending, technoculture-defining performance of information?
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Poems
Three Poems
Janelle thought meat would be big soon and we couldn’t wait. We wanted the next decade in our throats.
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Fiction
Beach Bumster
"In the village, ancient baobabs grow pregnant with the bones of holy men and papered prayers, and in the city, small boys beg, tin cans to their elbow."
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Poems
Blue Heart Baby
I think I am weak & without purpose, // your father texts you from the kitchen, sauced up, / after he rolls his heavy body over the loaded
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Shrapnel
Topography of a Novel: Among the Ten Thousand Things
The secret to a stunning debut novel? Glue-sticking till the break of dawn.
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Comics
Last Night in Miami
A group of stragglers takes shelter as Miami braces itself for one final hurricane.
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Fiction
The Warmest Color
"Her: Mona, the girl with pointy front teeth that bore an eerie resemblance to fangs: an artist; an aspiring mortician; an ongoing problem."
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Shrapnel
What happened, Fu Manchu?
"No, these beautiful white men will write poetry about my hu-ma-ni-ty."
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Fiction
Head of a Snowman
"Didn’t people know by now that nobody was better at punishing Ellis than Ellis?"
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Essays
Mini-Europe, Vol. III
When you set out to prune an artificial flower and end up giving a fuzzy mane to Jesus Christ.
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Shrapnel
Topography of a Novel: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Eggo waffles, Pac-Man, and other fuel for literature.
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Fiction
The Man from Yorba Linda
“The President of the United States is calling–will you accept the charges?”
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Essays
Mini-Europe, Vol. II: Mini-War
"Are there more war reenactments than wars? Are there more plastic soldiers than soldiers?"
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Comics
Bunnyman, Vol. VII
Last time around, our hero shattered the comic-panel continuum. Will he ever be able to put it back together?
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Poems
Four Poems
“Each one of my breasts,” she cried, “is 3lbs / of pure gold / & if you don’t believe me, tough!”
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Essays
Mini-Europe, Vol. I
"The large assaults the eye. It obstructs, resists a frame. The small invites noticing. Utopia through shrinkage."
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Fiction
Another Name for Stargazing
"The first time her father came back from the psych ward, he was given tasks to occupy his eyes."
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Essays
#BlackAndBullied
Bullied by black kids for acting white. Bullied by white kids for being black.
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Fiction
The Blue Tiger
"She guessed that’s what love was--making each other feel bad on purpose and then being sorry about it."
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Poems
Four Poems
We felt dangerous // like cowboys trying to swagger with legs / wrapped up in garbage bags and electrical tape / to keep out the ice-melt. The road
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Comics
The City, Vol. I
Three comics take us to a Lost City on the banks of one of the grander and filthier tributaries of the River Danube.
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Fiction
Technology
"Without the benefit of the diagram, you might just start clapping, creating tiny explosions that spread myriad pustules of anti-bacterial hand soap all over..."
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Essays
Filching Christopher Robin in the Shadow of Mount Rushmore
A Confession of Theft on Stolen Land
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Fiction
In Flagrante Delicto
"What would it be like to fuck a man who finds such horrors beautiful?"
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Essays
Pulp Nonfiction: Death (and Life) on Reality TV
When murder reenactments remind you how to live.
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Fiction
How to Clean a Dollhouse
"The child-sized foundation will shudder at the feel of your fingertips on its spine."
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Shrapnel
The Last Folk Song Ever Written
"The last folk song ever written will nearly die of loneliness."
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Poems
Three Poems
it’s almost too late / I keep thinking but / for what I’m not sure / having woken repeatedly / in the night with / the pitiful coughing
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Fiction
Where Things Are Made
"Hopefully, his new girlfriend’s towels were cheap and smelled of mildew."
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Poems
Five Poems
On the seat behind her an old woman tells the story of her long affair with a man named Vidic. He’s dead now. The man from somewhere else.
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Essays
Testosterone Cypionate
"There was, for me (and perhaps most transgender guys), an unspoken need for hormones to be a kind of miracle cure."
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Fiction
Postal Worker and Housewife
“She bends to pick up the envelope, and something about the elongation of her right thigh makes Sarah Wheeler pause."
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Shrapnel
Unfinished Business: Aborted Books and Failed Secessions
Reflections on things left undone.
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Fiction
The Discarded
"These Silicon Valley firms sometimes self-destruct, I am discovering, much like supernovae."
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Essays
Nameless in Their Own Land
"It took me two to three years to say that I was aboriginal. But before then, I felt something akin to closeted."
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Poems
Invocation
The rental gear's here suss it / All out snare crack bass thunk / Pick squeal how does it feel / To be so far from home each
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Fiction
Ida Abandons Ship
"Sometimes, the nice young man from that other TV show on the same cable network comes by."
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News
Best of Blunderbuss 2014
An incomplete accounting of some of the best work we've run this year.
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Fiction
One-Hundred Percent Risk
"Isadora’s father had been an acting teacher, so at first it had been hard to distinguish his changes from performance."
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Poems
Improvisatory Jazz on the Sound System, Weekend C-Span on TV, People Inclined to Be Listening, Some Kind of Time Rounding the Clock
A state senator from somewhere declares, None of these liberties mean much after you’re dead, though who knows what he said before
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Poems
Blackness as a Compound of If Statements
And if your parents decided to split, say I am a // statistics major. And if you had trouble making white friends stay that way, say /
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Poems
Four Poems
When the grass is still matted down / from a body, you comb it over each day / so it will stay in shape; you mold to it,
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Art
Shit Anti-Corruption Comedians Say: An Interview with Ryan & Sean Kleier
How two brothers from Kentucky are helping take down big-money politics.
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Fiction
Backtrack to ’97
"You are on the cusp of something sublime, awesome the way awesome was in the seventeenth century."
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Poems
Retired Architecture
father / dreams of / the fountain / he visits / he stays / he looks into its center / thinks he sees a world
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Art
“A Funeral For My Selves”: An Interview with Carla Perez-Gallardo
For this artist, self-improvement is a kind of death.
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Fiction
Bad Sex: Microfictions
"The hooker said her name was Solace, which was exactly what he needed after the heartwreck of the last six months."
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Shrapnel
Thirteen Ways of (Not) Looking at a Crime Scene
Celebrity nudes. Decapitated journalists. Beatings on elevators. When should we look, and when should we avert our eyes?
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Poems
Rappelling
My mother finds out about the child I did not have from Facebook. This is how regret arrives: in the arms of machines.
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Poems
The Topography of
The you in a stranger’s bed, / closing your eyes once / thinking only ocean.
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Fiction
On the Terror Traditionally Associated with Developing Real Property
He’d planted his daughters there, but they’d borne no fruit. He called it a farm though that was the exact thing is wasn’t.
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Essays
From Burning Man to Bellevue: A Hero’s Journey
In the Nevada desert and the psych wards of New York City, a man tries to live with his madness rather than have it bludgeoned out of him.
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Poems
IRL: A Third Excerpt
One night she steals / an onion from one / of the nuns tells me it’s / the sweetest thing she ever / tasted.
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Poems
IRL: A Second Excerpt
feasting on boys ideas / and language and chips / of technology. Sometimes / real food.
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Essays
Brown Pills
"The cap’s all smudged with dusty fingerprints; it’s a dirty looking thing. It’s just like they said it would be in DARE."
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Poems
Owl Contemplating a Frisbee
if you journey home by nightlight consider / how much the beak’s wielded innocence can rend and tear
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Essays
Revolutionary Twee?
A new book claims that twee culture is politicizing the youth and changing the world for the better, but can sweaters & sweetness really fix what ails us?
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Poems
IRL: An Excerpt
Who deserves yr story? / Not all stories. Not my story / my lol truth not life of live-/ lihood or food.
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Poems
Three Poems
What might Job have thought of the many doctors who, / when commanded by Franco’s men, took hundreds / of newborn babies from their mothers as they trembled
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Fiction
Purification
"They are beautiful, but she doesn’t touch them. She does not know if this is allowed."
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Essays
The Well-Tuned Moment
A summer's night, a bottle of wine, and five hours of avant-garde minimalist music.
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Poems
Three Gunpoems
(meanwhile) (my idol suggested we go someplace) / (so I cd show him my stretch-marks) (what did u call them) (the lion's miss-timed / leap
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Shrapnel
The Skeksis
"There was definitely something wrong with this guy; besides the fact that he was an 8-foot-tall pterodactyl with a mischievous look and torn Victorian robes."
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Poems
Three Poems
The umbilical cord becomes a tender red S hanging out of the belly, / an incompleted television cable curling from your eaves.
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Poems
assimilation
the last flower i saw in south suicide / queens was on a little girl’s tee, a trio / of violets banged up with giddiness—
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Shrapnel
Choice Excerpts from the 1935 Writers’ and Artists’ Year Book
Spoiler: Poets didn't make any money then either.
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Essays
Seven Days After Father
"Compared to the esoteric medical treatments you endured for the past six days, this final procedure is sensibly named: The Last Breath."
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Events
Join Us For Blunderbuss’ First Birthday Party!
Blunderbuss has weathered its first year on earth! We are hardened, wizened, and still hanging on. So we cordially invite you to come celebrate our continued existence with
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Essays
Time Will Tell
What does The Americans have to do with time travel, Felicity, and political imagination? More than you think.
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Fiction
Young Chul Kim
"The Walrus asked if this missing person had Down syndrome and was I his caretaker?"
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Essays
Ableism Hurts
While the country prides itself on its increasing acceptance of traditionally marginalized populations, disabled people continue to be stripped of their voices, and it’s hurting everyone.
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Essays
Coping with Chaos: Unreadable Avant-Garde Fiction and the Art of Political Conversation
How do we talk about Tristano when every copy is different? The same way we talk about the world.
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Essays
Kunkel’s “Utopia or Bust”: A Review
Ben Kunkel is bringing
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Fiction
How Not to Play Pool
"My pedagogical disagreements with bartenders are a source of never-ending grief for me."
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Essays
A Roomful of Shooters and Nothing to Shoot
Inside the Dallas Safari Club’s Annual Hunting Convention.
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Poems
Combing the Long Branch Beach, I Lose My Life in the Debris
I feel trapped in my old life / Like a hermit crab that won’t abandon its shell
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Comics
Mr. Block, Vol. X
When "strong union men" start scabbing on each other, Mr. Block gets caught in the crossfire.
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Shrapnel
Another Think Piece on Actor/Poet Kristen Stewart
K-Stew, Kerouac, and the poetic identities of 23 year olds.
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Fiction
Plans for Dealing with the Public
"My upstairs neighbor is converting his toilet into a public toilet."
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Essays
For Children and Sensitive Readers
Stalinist Russia was a tough place for an absurdist poet, but Daniil Kharms knew you can't kill a pseudonym.
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Essays
Let’s Stop Mansplaining Eastern Europe
Despite what the Western media says, the uprisings in Bosnia and Ukraine are more than a "collective nervous breakdown."
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Essays
MFA vs. NYC vs. n+1?
n+1's new book surveys the landscapes of NYC and MFA, but what of the independent magazine culture beyond them?
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Columns
You, Too, Dislike It: Comparing Notes on Being Ourselves
Are you guys hanging out? I mean, we're talking. Mike Young read your GChats.
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Essays
Against Orientation
If the debate about human sexuality is going to get anywhere, we need to stop talking about "orientation."
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Shrapnel
Drinking / Praying / Eating / Drinking
"I’m sorry that I told you I was Drew Barrymore’s sister. I’m not."
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Columns
You, Too, Dislike It: Self vs. Self
Melissa Broder is working on herself right now, you know?
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Essays
The Tell-Tale Heart of Chemical Valley
In the wake of Elk River, a West Virginia native outlines the seven phases of Appalachian industrial disaster.
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Poems
Marshall Berman, 1940-2013
A poem to remember one of Marxist humanism's most brilliant voices.
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Fiction
What a Waste
Is longevity an accomplishment, or does sticking around for the marathon mean a deal with the devil?
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Essays
Being With Grace
“I feel so sorry for people not living in Detroit.” Despite her city's troubles, a 98-year-old activist sees hope.
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Essays
LiveJournaling the Revolution: Dispatches from Kiev
Street fighting. Molotov cocktails. Gunfire. LiveJournal? A blogger writes from inside the Ukrainian uprising.
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Shrapnel
The Craven
Who somehow swept the rap categories at Sunday's Grammys? "Quoth the white man, ‘Macklemore.’"
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Comics
Mr. Block, Vol. IX
Decades before anyone coined the term "champagne socialist," Mr. Block found himself seduced by a "gentleman comrade."
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Fiction
Cosi Fan Tutte
Sordid sex. Hard drugs. Human connection? A new short story from Doug Weaver.
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Shrapnel
A Review of The Epic Split
Suspended between two Volvo trucks, a wrinkled, fissured Jean-Claude Van Damme races the twilight backwards.
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Fiction
Shit Diamonds
In a short story not for the weak of stomach, one woman gropes for a "glimmer among feces."
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Audio & Video
The Incompletists, Ep. 1: What’s in a List?
How do "best of" lists shape our engagement with culture? A new podcast investigates.
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Columns
You, Too, Dislike It: No Resolutions, No Narratives
Kim Addonizio keeps it real for New Year's.
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Columns
Why Republican Billionaires Are Gay Rights Advocates
By pretending to be populist, the corporatized gay movement reaffirms the dangerous lie that American democracy isn't imperiled.
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Poems
the chinese are trying to reach me
a small watercolor paints itself on the lowest point of my coffee spoon...
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Shrapnel
Three Scenes from a Better Universe
A much-anticipated delivery. An unholy dance move. A Hollywood legend. Three darkly hilarious scenes from one glorious universe.
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Columns
When Coming Out Doesn’t Work
Coming out makes life easier for The Straights, but not always for us.
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Audio & Video
Measure of a Life
In this short documentary, a pair of filmmakers trace the aftermath of deadly drone strike in Pakistan.
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Essays
Detroit State of Mind
As Detroit faces bankruptcy, its people are responding with a revolution of everyday life.
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Comics
9 True Scientific Facts About Haters
In case you needed an empirical basis to hate the haters.
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Columns
I’m Queer & So Are You: Against Being Born This Way
The common defense undermines our fight for liberation and is a symptom of rape culture.
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Columns
Street Writer: Morningside Drive
Writing is misery. Thank god for the egotism and obsession that make it possible.
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Comics
Aquafair #1
This week, Schweef Comics takes us to Galilee Gardens. Who will choose Christ and who will choose reason?
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Columns
I’m Queer & So Are You: Why We Don’t Talk About Butt Sex
Taking the sex out of sexuality has handed the gay movement to rich white men.
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Columns
Street Writer: Orchard Street
The Lower East Side begs you to take its authenticity seriously, but does the authentic need to beg?
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Columns
You, Too, Dislike It: Maps
A funny poem about a cold state; the rare poem with a great ending.
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Columns
I’m Queer & So Are You: “Power” Bottom
When someone gets his dick out and rubs it against your lower back, you’re not really making choices anymore.
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Columns
Street Writer: 26th Street
Bellevue, communism, forgotten poets, and zero calorie organic vegan whiskey. Travis digs up the secrets of 26th Street.
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Comics
Awvenchura Girl #3
In the latest comic from Drew Lerman, a salacious email means a visit with the grandparents.
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Columns
Otherwise Known: Blue is the Most Controversial Color
"Blue is the Warmest Color" generated plenty of controversy after its Palme d'Or. Meredith has words for the haters.
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Columns
I’m Queer & So Are You: The Sentimental Movement
The mainstream gay rights movement wants to make queers look like straights. We're not.
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Art
Archipelagic Shift—A Conversation with Mariano Henestrosa
"Once that seat’s starting to take the shape of your butt, it’s time find another chair.”
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Columns
Street Writer: MacDougal Street
Travis sets out to write a street-by-street psychogeography of Manhattan. First up, Greenwich Village's MacDougal St.
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Columns
You, Too, Dislike It: Poems for Non-Poets
Think you're not a "poetry person"? Alex Howe begs to differ.
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Essays
Marginal Futility: Don’t Cry for the Artists
David Byrne laments that artists have been pushed out of neighborhoods like NYC's East Village. Niral asks, so what?
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Columns
Otherwise Known: Masters of Sex & Hollywood’s Anatomy Problem
Is an antiquated rating system to blame for the TV's nudity double standard?
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Essays
It’s Friday
From Occupy Wall Street to occupied Palestine, our economic problem is our war problem.
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Events
Blunderbuss Occupies KGB Bar on Tuesday 10/8
With readings from Mark Bray, Molly Crabapple, Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Anna Lekas Miller, and Nathan Schneider.
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Essays
A Note to the Hegemony: How to Respond to a Protest
A provocative protest at Middlebury College has us asking all the wrong questions.
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Comics
Mr. Block, Vol. VIII
In this 1912 comic, Ernest Riebe looks unflinchingly at how management uses racism to keep workers from uniting.
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Poems
We Won’t Be Blue Always
I want to tell you natural facts. Sister / Rosetta, full-throated / at Wilbraham Road.
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Shrapnel
The Best of Blunderbuss Search Terms
"best internal swallow ever." "porta reican girls wereing swimsuit." The roads that brought you to Blunderbuss are strange indeed.
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Essays
In Defense of Skyler White
Haters of Breaking Bad's Skyler White are gonna hate, and their hate is misogynistic, plain and simple. SPOILERS AHEAD!
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Fiction
Clark Gable
A mother, a son, a boob job, a knife. Drew's fiction is as weird and wonderful as his comics.
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Shrapnel
GIF Reviews, Vols. III & IV
The Pauline Kael of GIFs is back! This week, Alex explores canine car racing and the metaphysics of plant growth.
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Comics
Mr. Block, Vol. VII
In this seventh comic from 1912 Spokane Industrial Worker, Mr. Block finds himself the recipient of some most uncharitable charity.
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Comics
Awvenchura Girl #2
In this collaboration with Drew Lerman's Schweef Comics, a salacious email sends the aged from the internet to the telephone.
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Poems
Butcher Boy
Beside the other blighted / gods in the waiting room, / pale and creaturely, / I anticipate.
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Shrapnel
A Review of Yeezus
Kanye West's Yeezus isn't just any old album, so Patrick Gaughan gives it something more than just any old review.
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Poems
Elegy in Which The War Is Not Much With Us
I don’t think much / about the war, / been so busy, you know, / reading and writing, / tasting all these new / kinds of beer.
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Art
Beautiful Mechanisms—A Conversation with Benjamin Edwards
Digital meets the physical in one artist's notion of utopias: lands both beholden to and acutely critical of technological potential.
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Poems
The Moth: an Alter-Dream-Ego
I made a Mt. out of milkweed. // I drink virgin Cranberry Redbull / on the rocks.
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Comics
Mr. Block, Vol. VI
In this sixth comic from 1912 Spokane Industrial Worker, the Salvation Army sees the devil in Mr. Block's alleged drunkenness.
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Essays
Blinking Red Lights and the Souls of Our Friends
An activist writes on inner strength and squat life in this excerpt from the memoir "Maps to the Other Side."
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Comics
Mr. Block, Vol. V
In this fifth comic from 1912 Spokane Industrial Worker, Mr. Block tests his salesmanship while stubbornly avoiding the radical Wobblies.
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Fiction
Rush Hour 3
As devotees know, the theatrical release of Rush Hour 3 is non-canon. Blunderbuss makes its first foray into fan fiction.
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Shrapnel
The Great “Nordic” Novel: A Children’s Treasury of Uncomfortable Gatsbyisms
Nick Carraway wants it both ways. Rich WASPs are repugnant, and the only folks who matter. Travis catalogs his hypocrisies.
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Comics
Wolfsheim in Sheep’s Clothing
Four cartoons for the price of one! Watch as Schweef Comics and Meyer Wolfsheim venture into the WASP nest of West Egg.
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Essays
In Defense of Nick Carraway
The narrator of The Great Gatsby is a textbook unreliable narrator, but maybe the kind we ought to rely on.
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Essays
Impossible Objects—In Defense of Truthiness in Creative Nonfiction
We give movies "based on a true story" the space for artistic interpretation. Why aren't memoirs given the same latitude?
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Comics
Crawdads Welcome
In this new strip from comic artist Ezra Butt, Teamsquad Manatee heard something about cake. There is cake here, right?
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Comics
Mr. Block, Vol. IV
"Mr. Block is legion. He owns nothing, yet he speaks from the standpoint of the millionaire. He's patriotic without patrimony."
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Essays
Get Rude: In Praise of Obnoxious and Annoying Activism
As student protesters up at Dartmouth College are proving, sometimes you need to get impolite to provoke an adult conversation.
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Comics
A Walk Thru Park Slope
In the second installment of a collaboration between Blunderbuss and Schweef Comics, Drew sweeps an elderly Brooklynite off her feet.
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Essays
When Youth and Pretense Meet a Shiny Trophy
In an island that has only known financial security in the past 25 years, there is still no charted template for any musician opting out of lifetime industrial
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Shrapnel
in case you are swallowed by a wolf
When you are in a house that is swallowed by a wolf the best thing to do is to wrap yourself in a blanket of water and set
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Poems
Aubade: Delivery
During pregnancy, cells cross / through the flat disk of placenta / in both directions—mother // gives the fetus her body / and takes it back. They aren't one.
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Comics
Mr. Block, Vol. III
"Mr. Block is legion. He owns nothing, yet he speaks from the standpoint of the millionaire. He's patriotic without patrimony."
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Events
Everyone’s Invited to the Blunderbuss Magazine Launch Party – UPDATED: Thanks for coming!
Readings, beer, and fraternity among comrades--come join the Blunderbuss team this Sunday 4/14 at KGB Bar in Manhattan's East Village.
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Comics
Awvenchura Girl #1
The aged meet the internet in this first installment of a collaboration between Blunderbuss Magazine and Drew Lerman's Schweef Comics.
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Poems
The Revelation on TV
No more looking outside for good / this time. The resurrected dead can scratch / their hands to mash, puke against / the doors, rag their faded clothes stupid // but the
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Shrapnel
A Pair of Unstageable Dialogues
Brian May writes for the stage. This is what happens when he forgets that the theater has rules & conventions.
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Comics
Mr. Block, Vol. II
"Mr. Block is legion. He owns nothing, yet he speaks from the standpoint of the millionaire. He's patriotic without patrimony."
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Art
Anthropocene
Geologists can't agree if humanity has pushed the earth into a new geologic era. A photographer goes searching for evidence.
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Fiction
The Book of Consolation
Not every casualty of war dies on the battlefield. When the fight comes home, how can a mother move on?
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Art
Islands Apart: An Interview with Artist Jessica Feldman
Manhattan has pushed its undesirables to the tiny islands that surround it. Last fall, Jessica Feldman brought them back home.
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Essays
The Ballad of Puerto Rican Rick
A journalist investigating a suspicious death near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation finds that his questions are more than just questions.
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Poems
Why You Couldn’t Live Here
Poolside, an ocean’s distance from the coast / and village where I met you, learned the weight / of bagged cement, the reek of palm oil stirred / by children sweating
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Shrapnel
GIF Reviews, Vols. I & II
A Blunderbuss editor plumbs the spiritual and intellectual depths of two animated GIFs. The first installment in a groundbreaking series.
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Comics
Mr. Block, Vol. I
"Mr. Block is legion. He owns nothing, yet he speaks from the standpoint of the millionaire. He's patriotic without patrimony."
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Essays
Our Manifesto
Who we are, what we stand for, and why visceral humanism will save your life and redeem art & politics.
