topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Isaiah’s chubby fingers fondled my neck as I strolled along the beach, my almost two-year-old riding behind in his blue backpack. The air suffused our skin with September warmth and the sky blanketed us in blue, the ocean reflecting […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Night had fallen on Jersey City by the time my brother and I arrived. We’d driven the seventy miles from northwestern New Jersey, finding ourselves in a city where water utility workers were pressed into service directing traffic while […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call check out Alan’s website! Where was I on Sept 11? How about where wasn’t I? I was not by a typewriter. I was also not someone who claimed, but then stopped. Deserted for convenience. I was also not anywhere […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Yesterday was September 11th. I know I was supposed to feel something but all I could think about was how fucked up the world was. It didn’t used to be like this. But it is now. Not to say […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “TO CONNECT”: KL Frank imagines the gray inner life of an office drone who tunes out of the humans around him by day, and tunes into the avatars of Second Life at […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, said of “brb g2g do stufs irl”: Quick peek into the mind of a rebellious 22-year old cyborg-cybergirl—that is, a woman who can’t stand being offline. When Anne’s mom sends her out on a date, Anne “missed […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Deja Voodoo”: Who is Toby Heaton? This is great. This reads like “The Wire,”it reminds me of Richard Price. I love the dialogue here, the characters feel real. There’s a whole lot […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “From My Nigerian Connection”: Pauline Masurel has fun here riffing on the barrage of grammatically-challenged exhortatory missives so many of us discovered in our inboxes over the last decade, sent by enterprising […]

topic: CONNECTED medium: TEXT Liesl Schillinger, of the New York Times Book Review, had this to say about “Disconnected Pen”: This is a great subject, and a low-key but powerful demonstration of how 21st -century communication technologies are changing the way people live—and die— before any of us has had […]