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Featuring interviews with Deb Olin Unferth (Vacation), Ben Marcus (The Flame Alphabet), and Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk with Me); a new erasure poetry series by Mary Ruefle; Emileigh Barnes’s choose-your-own adventure poem, “How We Ended Up Where We Did and Why”; a poem by Les Gottesman; an essays section devoted to exploring why Louis C.K. is awesome, with takes by Andrew Marantz, Bess Bell Kalb and Michael Robertson; Katie Assef’s contest-winning flash fiction, “Statute of Limitations” ; a short story by Holocaust survivor Bernard Otterman; a fiction piece entitled “Diary of a Young Girl, Vol. II” ; with images of hipsterized icons by Fabian Ciraolo.
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The Music Issue: featuring interviews with Michael Gregory of the Gregory Brothers of AutoTune the News and noise princess EMA; poetry set to Satie by Jeff Alessandrelli; Mark Dow’s transcription of Ella Fitzgerald performing “How High the Moon”; “New Music” by Henry Finch; an essay on surviving rap’s malignant future by David Z. Morris; a sampling of sonic nonfiction from Craig Eley; the greatest hits of Daytrotter’s music writing by Sean Moeller; a lengthy, hilarious rant composed on his cell phone by Das Racist’s Victor Vazquez; new epistollary fiction with accompanying tracks by Beau Watkins; and digital collages by artist and musician Sonny Kay.
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Interviews with Sam Lipsyte (The Ask) and Wayne Koestenbaum (Hotel Theory); a collection of interdimensional poems by Annie Christain; poetry from Michael Ives and Rebecca Bates; M.J.C. Clark’s essay on premiere UFOlogist Dr. Leo Sprinkle; John Bresland’s video essay “The Seinfeld Analog”; essays by Diane Seuss and Paul Lisicky; Alvin Greenberg's first-place contest-winning “The Most Beautiful People in the World”; short stories by Onnesha Roychoudhuri,Tom Bonfiglio and Tim Denevi; with portraits of animals in dressed in finery by Ryan Berkley.
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Featuring interviews with graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel (Fun Home) and science writer Anthony Doerr (The Shell Collector); a zodiac of forgotten constellations by Travis Smith; Jennifer Croft translating Milosz Biedrzycki; three geometric poems by Emiliegh Barnes; an essay on the brilliance of Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Still Here by Lucas Mann; an excerpt from Mark Polanzak’s memoir POP!; excerpts from Bess Bell Kalb’s blog The Unit; two movies by EveryNone; fiction by Kaela Myers, James Michael Strong; a haunting excerpt from The Baltimore Atrocities by John Dermot Woods; with images of Brian Dettmer’s gorgeous sculptures carved from books.
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Featuring interviews with fiction master Gary Lutz (Stories in the Worst Way) and 2010 Pulitzer-Prize winner in Fiction, Paul Harding (Tinkers); “Qaeda, Quality, Question, Quickly, Quickly, Quiet,” a video alphabetization of George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech by Lenka Clayton as poetry; poems by Amanda Calderon, Mark Stricker and Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde; essays by Steven Church, Jen Percy and Miles Fuller; a hysterical meditation on tsunamis by Brad Fox; a short story “Version: 1.0 Start HTML:0000000167 EndHTML:00000040567 Start Fragment 00000000457 EndFragment 0000040551” by Mitchell Salm; fiction from David Milton Brent and poetry editor Will Guzzardi; and photogrpahs of urban decay by Jonathan Haeber.
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Subtitled “Truthiness”, the issue features interviews with David Shields (Reality Hunger: A Manifesto), Lauren Slater (Lying) and an interview, of sorts, with ultimate wag, Steven T. Colbert; a fiction section that is entirely nonfiction and a nonfiction section that is fictional and a poetry section that is generally pushing boundaries including: disturbing court transcript prose poetry by Vanessa Place; a new series “Eyjafjallajokull” by Travis Smith; a “List of Latin Phrases”by Alexander Marhefka; Beau Watkin’s hilarious, epic, (incomplete) fan Wiki of the classic, nonexistent television series Horso; “A Story Per My Therapist’s Request: A Story by Rachel Yoder” by Rachel Yoder; an essay in the form of a local newspaper by Sarah Viren; graphic science writing by Perrin Ireland; an essay about the Araki Yasusada authorship scandal by Kent Johnson (a.k.a Araki Yasusada); Tony Tulathimutte’s story about genital mutilation, “The Man Who Wasn’t Male”; short stories by Dylan Nice and Erin Flanagan; and collages by Sam Carr-Prindle.
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Wag’s first anniversary issue featuring: an interview with Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City); an Oulipian poetry section featuring Ian Monk, Raymond Queaneau’s infinitely generating series (its first digital publication); and Syllable Sestinas by Damion Searls, Tiel Aisha Ansari, Winston Daniels, David Hamilton, and Marina Blitshetyn; “Hotel Coover”, the first-ever profile of fiction great and electronic literature founder Robert Coover, constructed in the shape of a hotel by Rob Moor; a hilarious exposé called “Google is Butchering the Written Word” by fiction editor William Litton; four audio excerpts from his forthcoming memoir about San Francisco by Andre Perry; fiction from Michael Ives, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Steve McClain and Kenneth Tinghe; and one hundred images of tiny white figurines being brutally murdered by Tara Kelton.
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Featuring an in-depth interview with the late David Rakoff; a hilarious chat with Chicago’s best improvisers, TJ and Dave; an excerpt from Ara Shirinyan's Google-generated series “Your Country is Great”; Julia Alter’s haiku series “Color Theories”and
new poems by Mathias Svalina;
Lucas Mann’s essay on Glee; a stunning magic realist memoir from Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas; Ben Rogers’ heartbreaking tale of a horny insect, “Mayfly” as well as short fiction from John Givens Jessica Bentz; pieces by the winners of the second Wag’s contest, Engram Wilkinson, Michael Palmer and Naomi Kruger; with portraits of unsuspecting strangers by street photographer Markus Hartel.
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Featuring an interview with fiction master George Saunders; John D’Agata and Lee Gutkind in dual interviews spar on the state of the essay / creative nonfiction; a translation-focused poetry section featuring five translation of Arthur Rimbaud’s Voyelles by Christain Bok, an interactive electronic translation of Cuban poet Rogelio Saunders by Sara Gilmore, six translations of Hans Carl Artmann from Rosmarie Waldrop and translations using the Microsoft Word spellcheck feature by Winston Daniels; a graphic essay by Dayna Tortorici; an essay on Peeps by Rob Moor; an audio essay on the Birthright program by Kiera Feldman; a charming video essay by Jarbas Agnelli; “Laura, Linda, Sweetie Pie,” a short story by Daniel Wallace; short stories by Louis Wittig, Gerald Barton, and Donald Dewey; with charcoal stills of scenes from Point Break by Jack Lovell.
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Featuring a conversation with T.C. Boyle; flarf poetry by K. Silem Mohamad, Kenneth Goldsmith and Mathias Svalina’s screenshot epic “I am Extremely Terrified of Chinese People”; digitally scrambling annagrams by Gregory Betts; a video essay in the shape of an ant by Noam Dorr; five pieces of creative micro nonfiction by Stephen Elliott, Doug Brown, Travis Smith, Winston Daniels and Eve Hamilton; fiction from Robert Meixner and Raleigh Holliday; and the three winners of the inaugural Wag’s Revue writers contest, Lindsey Baggette, Lili Wright and Lauren Lovett. Disturbing photographs by first-ever Featured Artist Michal Chelbin.
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Featuring Wag’s bombastic founding manifesto; interviews with Dave Eggers, n+1 founder Mark Greif and new master of the short story, Wells Tower; poetry from Alexa Dilworth, Travis Smith, Winston Daniels, Jessica Laser, and Tina Celona; digitally interactive prose poems from Pauline Masurel; Rosemarie Waldrop translations of Ernst Jandl’s visual lips poems; Rob Moor’s seminal essay on the hipster “On Douchebags” and other essays from
Eve Hamilton and Alison Fairbrother; photograph-inspired fiction by Brian Evenson in collaboration with Peter Sellakaers; and short stories from Michael Paul Simons and Raleigh Holliday; images from Brandon Chinn, Julia McKinley, Raymond Sumser, Maureen Halligan, and Janine Cheng.
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