Reviewed: The Awful Possibilities by Christian TeBordo

(featherproof, 2010) 185 p. Review by Tobias Carroll Punctuating the spaces between stories in Christian TeBordo’s collection The Awful Possibilities are a series of postcards, their images disfigured by the skull-faced raindrops that alight across the book’s cover, their words acting out a parody of intimate communications. “Postcards I sent home when we were last on vacation together so that you would have something to look forward to on our return,” reads a line of text at the bottom of […]

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Some Opium for iPhone

Opium joins McSweeney’s, Featherproof, and whoever else we are forgetting to mention in the category of “lit publications with iPhone apps”. Todd Zuniga talked to Jacket Copy about his mags new use of technology. JC: Is the Opium app addictive? TZ: In a word: absolutely. Opium publishes fantastic, bite-sized gems every day (next week we’ll showcase 250-Word Bookmark Contest finalists — an estimated reading time no longer than one minute and 20 seconds). So there’ll always be something new to […]

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