Welcome to the second issue of Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts, an extension of the Interfictions anthology series published in conjunction between the Interstitial Arts Foundation and Small Beer Press. As writers with one foot in the academic world…
Tag Archive for Issue 2
poetry
PeelMaria Romasco-Moore
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Supplemental Declaration of Henry Lien Henry Lien
I, Henry Lien, declare: 1. I am the former Trustee of the Trust of Thornton J. Hess (the “Trust”). Except where noted, the following facts are of my own personal knowledge and, if called as a witness, I could and…
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The Interstitial Practice of Wonder Katharine Haake
In the spring of 2013, the CSUN chapter of Sigma Tau Delta hosted a student conference titled Worlds Between. Early in the day, one student presenter, Karlee Johnson, remarked that an interstice is not a “void to get lost in…
nonfiction
Rise of the Irregulars: The Radical Potential of Fantasy from Jerry Cornelius to Downloadable CharactersMark P. Williams
Between populist fictions and avant-garde experiment there are a series of hinterlands of stylistic and conceptual excess where the two meet and interact. I argue that these liminal spaces mirror both the linkages and critique of globalisation, and they also…
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Mapping the Interstices: Reif Larsen’s and Umberto Eco’s Illustrated Texts Brenda Hammack
“A novel is a tricky thing to map.” So says the twelve-year-old narrator of Reif Larsen’s The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (2009). Certainly, this book can’t be easily tacked to any of the usual genre categories, although it could…
poetry
My Language, My Voice Alexandra Seidel
You see, there is a plane of raw thought, and a plane of working that raw thought into something the world outside of your head may recognize as real, most of the time in the form of language. …
poetry
I am the lost scarf chased by the wind, I am the snowdrift and the snow Kathrin Köhler
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The night is dark and winter is filled with both. I cannot see for all this waiting. There is more emptiness than light radiating down through the universe, the great Void echoing…
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Orthography: A Personal History Sara Norja
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Lecture #1 Palaeography – the science of the study of handwriting. From the Greek, of course: παλαιόϛ ‘ancient’ + γραφία. Papyrus, parchment, paper; wood, metal, stone: all marked by human hands…
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Hamsa Sonya Taaffe
I want to give you Lilith of the towpaths, the woman who watches joggers pass in the pearl-wet morning like sand drifting closed against doors, shaking her hair back over her rain-turned collar, calling your black dog to heel. She…