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The Welder
By Ingeborg Bachmann“The man read and read, moving his lips; now and then his whole body started moving and then the words entered him like spirits, and began to work their mischief.”
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Fiction
Curtis
By Patrick Cottrell“Stephen suggested that they have sex on the kitchen table but Susan declined. She hadn’t brushed her teeth yet.”
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Fiction
Rotten Dot Com
By Dena Yago“Rotten.com was a haunted arcade, dispensing trauma in gumball-machine doses straight to kids with dial-up, who chewed on images never meant for their half-formed stomachs.”
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The House with the Mezzanine
By Dan Bevacqua“I was supposed to middle-man these people into a situation of potential annoyance—if not harassment? Me? The poor kid from Jersey?”
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The Ignorant Art Historian: Ice Floes
By Hal Foster“This is a river you can’t step in even once.”
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On Art
On Albrecht Dürer’s Engraving Saint Eustace
By Inger Christensen“We shall see the deer as part of the trunks of the forest. // We shall see its antlers imitating the branches of the trees.”
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Poetry
1981
By Asiya Wadud“in a world / the orange sun / resets / a recessed darkness”
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Poetry
ART 149: Music for Visual Thinking
By Cauleen SmithThis portfolio renders a selection of the vinyl records Smith plays to begin each session of the undergraduate studio course she teaches at UCLA.
