January 2013
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
Land Beast
Kate Wyer
Going Down Like Little Jesus in Sun Hole
Nathan Blake
The Problem
Jessica Alexander
Nothing Out There to Save You
Justin Lawrence Daugherty
EXCERPTS
Edie & the Low-Hung Hands
Brian Allen Carr
POETRY
The Vocalist
"I Heart Pussy"
Blue and Green Music
Kendra DeColo
A life ago, I was a lake
Danez Smith
Elegy, Fort Greene
Anna Claire Hodge
Lullaby
Sharon Wang
NON-FICTION
Our Nuclear Age
Rachel Marston
BOOK REVIEWS
Shut Up/Look Pretty by Lauren Becker, Erin Fitzgerald, Kirsty Logan, Michelle Reale, and Amber Sparks
reviewed by Jennifer Messner
Autoportrait by Edouard Levé
reviewed by Colin Winnette
Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch
reviewed by Renée E. D'Aoust
We Monks and Soldiers by Lutz Bassmann
reviewed by a Collective in Support of the Imprisoned Grand-Jury Resisters Matt Duran, KteeO Olejnik, and Maddy Pfeiffer