Subtitled “Truthiness”, the issue features interviews with David Shields (Reality Hunger: A Manifesto),
Lauren Slater (Opening Skinner’s Box) and the ultimate wag, Steven T. Colbert; a rebuttal “Some Thoughts on Araki Yasusada and the Author”
by Kent Johnson; Tony Tulathimutte; Vanessa Place; and more.
Wag’s first anniversary issue featuring: “Hotel Coover”, an unprecedented hypertext profile of
fiction great Robert Coover by Robert Moor; an interview with memoir writer Nick Flynn; a hilarious exposé “Google
is Butchering the Written Word” by fiction editor William Litton; Raymond Queneau’s endlessly generating series
of “100 Trillion Poems”; and more.
A conversation with David Rakoff
of This American Life fame as well as Chicago's best improvisers, TJ and Dave;
Julia Alter’s haiku series “Color
Theories”; Lucas Mann’s essay
on the Glee phenomenon; Ben
Rogers’ ingenious story “Mayfly”;
and more.
An interview with fiction master
George Saunders; John D’Agata and Lee Gutkind weigh-in on the state of nonfiction; an interactive
electronic translation of Cuban
poet Rogelio Saunders by Sara
Gilmore; a graphic essay by
Dayna Tortorici on the nature of
memory; “Laura, Linda, Sweetie
Pie,” a short story by Daniel
Wallace, writer of Big Fish; and more.
A conversation with T.C. Boyle; flarf poetry by K. Silem Mohamad,
Kenneth Goldsmith and Matthias Svalnia’s screenshot epic
“I am Extremely Terrified of Chinese People”; winners of the
inaugural Wag’s Revue’s writers contest,
Lindsey Baggette, Lili Wright and Lauren Lovett; and more.
Interviews with Dave Eggers, n+1’s Mark Greif and new master of the
short story, Wells Tower; photograph-inspired fiction by Brian Evenson in
collaboration with Peter Sellakaers; an essay by Rob Moor “On Douchebags”;
Wag’s bombastic founding manifesto, and more.
From the Editors
