FICTION | NONFICTION | POETRY
SUBMIT SUBSCRIBE STORE DONATE OPPORTUNITIES ISSUES AUDIO
Our latest issue, "Animalia," is available now in print and as an ebook!
All in Lurid Esoterica
Upon learning that Louisa May Alcott spent more than a decade moonlighting as a sordid, heady mix of Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Brontë, I dove eagerly into this secret canon. To my surprise, I found neither the shame of a literary author slumming, nor the through-the-motions prose of one writing merely to pay the bills.
The Abbey of Crime offers none of the playful indulgences of the arcade; you never blast away at marauding aliens like in Space Invaders, nor do you swallow the occasional ghost as a super-charged Pac-Man. As Delcan explains, "there were plenty of games of immediate gratification and this was clearly not one of them."
by Sean Gill
Despite some dapper pretension, there is a basic ridiculousness in "the person of letters" making the rounds on a game show, which, in theory, ought to be a real dignity-leech. Most of these authors seem amused to be on television, as if they can't believe that a network executive signed off on such a thing.
by Sean Gill
The cover of Martin Amis’ Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict’s Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores, and the Best Machines really sets a tone.
