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Batman, Anne Carson, buried treasure, Spooky images, and new releases! Also Happy April Fools...We have no pranks, I promise.
What have we been making?
Anna
On April 9th I’ll be a vendor at I.C.E. C.R.E.A.M. - (Iowa City Expo for Comics and Real Eclectic Alternative Media - what a mouthful!). I’ll be selling zines and a few fun crochet accessories. It’s a free event, so if you’re in the area come check it out!
More info »here«
I’ve also made a bunch of cool icons for Multiverse this month, and most of them were pretty spooky themed. Here’s a little sampling:
Speaking of spooky… my dog (named Spooky) has been needing a structured outlet for all his energy, so I built him some agility equipment! He loves to jump, so that comes naturally to him, but we still need to work on the weave poles.
Rachel
“Cock Block” should be out soon in Moon City Review, and just a few weeks ago I sent out a contract for another short story, “Loam,” to be published in the Vassar Review. Keep an eye out for updates on these!
As mentioned in our last issue, I have switched recently to an academic (rather than creative) mode of reading and writing. In this state, I read Anne Carson’s Eros The Bittersweet and was absolutely taken with it.
In this book of lovers and desire, Carson speaks as much of language as she does of love. A complex and vivid essay about desire, paradox, Sappho, language, Ancient Greece, writing, apples, and wings Anne Carson doesn’t pull any punches in Eros the Bittersweet, and she doesn’t wait for us. She drags us along, like a lover might, and dares us to turn away.
In response to Eros the Bittersweet, I wrote a short essay/review called Lessons from Desire, which you can read HERE. It combines Anne Carson’s theory of Eros with Ursula K. Le Guin’s and Barbara Johnson’s respective theories of metaphor and fiction. In our next issue, I will be using these ideas as the theoretical base for some practical writing advice.
What have we been enjoying?
Anna
I cautiously ventured out this month with COVID cases down again to see the new Batman movie in theaters. It’s a little ridiculous to think of how many renditions there are of this character, but with that aside I thought this one was the most interesting take, and the most emo. Also, I’m a Robert Patterson fan :)
R Bats - would recommend! (Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures)
Here’s a bonus photo of Spooky, chilling after a long day of jumping:
Rachel
I am really excited to read the first-ever issue from Ram Eye Press, Middle of Nowhere, which comes out online today!!! It is a very new lit mag, but it is already a sort of dream journal of mine, a place where I’d love to see my own work in the future. It is thoughtfully and artfully made and I cannot wait to read it. Check it out HERE!!
Right before I went on vacation to San Francisco, I fell absolutely in love with this British show, Detectorists.
About two friends who share a love for metal detecting, a passion for history, and little else, this show explores treasure in all its forms and all the places might we go detecting for it. In its own way, this show reminds us again and again how if we are patient, determined, and very very lucky maybe just maybe we will unearth something greater than gold. Irreverent, rich, funny in its darkest moments and profound in its lightest, there is nothing quite like Detectorists.
Will you search through the lonely earth for me?
Climb through the briar and bramble?
I'll be your treasure […]
I'm waiting for you- Detectorists Theme Song, by Johnny Flynn
I came home from my vacation to San Franciso to this beautiful sketchbook by SF-based artist Felicia Chiao. Every year or so she fills a whole sketchbook and then publishes complete a reproduction, including the post-its, scribbles, and all.
You can check out more of her art HERE.