There Is No Year

from lisapeet

I recently came across a box of teenage memorabilia, which included a folder of submissions to my high school literary magazine. I can't remember if we had anything as egalitarian as an editor-this was one of your hippie, noncompetitive schools with an ultimate frisbee team and a working farm on ...

from jasonpettus

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) So perhaps it was the microscopically small expectations I had going into Blake Butler's admired yet re...

from Abbsalah

I found this book very compelling even though I had no idea what was going on for most of it. I usually enjoy postmodern/less traditional books, like this (House of Leaves, one of my favorites, seems to be in the same genre), but There Is No Year just gave me a really hard time. I think I may go ...