ISSUE 130

200 pages

In This Issue

“The Farm” by Pepe Hernandez:
As long as there was La Revolución, there would be rations for the weak as well as the strong,
and as long as there were rations for the weak as well as the strong, then neither would know
starvation. You may think you are dying, but you are not dying. The trick then, Ernesto thought,
was to not think. Hunger made him think about food and thinking about food made him hungry,
hunger made him think about food and thinking about food made him hungry. He could not trust
his thoughts and if he could not trust his thoughts, then he could not think. “We need to work,”
Ernesto repeated.

“Budgeting the Shark” by Tom Bissell:
Late in the book, Brody spots the shark and exclaims, “You can’t tell me that thing’s a fish. It’s
more like one of those things they make movies about.” But novel Brody is wrong, about this
and much else. The shark isn’t at all like “one of those things they make movies about,” because
in 1974 absolutely no one, ever, had tried to make a movie like Jaws.

“Séance After My Brother’s Suicide via His Old Emails and My Daughter’s White Pastel” by
Dan O’Brien:
Was a hurricane, petty
and jealous: the view from my office. Pleasure
was a personal, practical bicycle going fast!
I watched a lot of blue movies,
addicted to the burden. I read novels
because I avoided reason.

Fiction 

Claudia Durastanti

Poetry

Kazim Ali, Peter Campion, Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo, Sophia Le Fraga, Jesse Nathan, and
Alison Turner

Nonfiction

Lauren Markham, Keenan Norris, Wesley Stace, and Frances Stroh

In Conversation

Teresa Carmody and Lucy Corin talk about writers’ identities, queerness, reading, animals,
gossip, and time, how “we are taught that time is linear, but it’s not. And humans create stories
for how to exist within it.”

Art

Miguel Arzabe