Journalism for SPIN
Carlos Alomar on the Black Engine that Powered Bowie at His Artistic Peak
Talking Sobriety and Reinvention with Rapper Niño Brown, Formerly Cortez Garza
Dr. Maria Parker, AKA Linqua Franqa, Diagnoses Schools with a Bad Case of Prison Conditioning
Literary Essays
The Feeling and Fear of Inevitability: Rothacker on 9/11 (Brooklyn Rail)
An Essay, “On Process”: In Light of The Death of the Cyborg Oracle (invert/extant)
“Mon Cher, Apollinaire”: Jordan A. Rothacker’s Death Day Letter to the Father of Surrealism (Heavy Feather Review)
Something Happened on the Day He Died: Jordan A. Rothacker on David Bowie (The Believer)
The Bard Lives On: On Anthony Burgess’ Nothing Like the Sun, John Reed’s All the World’s A Grave, and Jason DeBoer’s Annihilation Songs (The Believer)
My Favorite First Line (As It Ought to Be)
Picasso’s Masterpiece: Art in the Novel II (As It Ought to Be)
Art in the Novel: Thomas Bernhard’s Old Masters Through Don Delillo’s Point Omega (As It Ought to Be)
Interviews with Writers and Artists
“I’m Done with Fiction”: A Conversation with Chris Kelso (Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
Unifying Sounds: John Vanderslice Interview on Glenn Hendler’s Diamond Dogs 33 1/3 (Bomb Magazine)
An Interview with Muntazer al-Zaidi, the “Shoe-Thrower of Iraq” (The Believer)
An Interview with Publisher and Writer James Reich (The Believer)
William E. Jones: Urgency and Impermanence (Guernica)
“In the realm of the imagination, the facts hold no currency.” An Interview with Jeff Jackson (The Believer)
The Disintegrations: Alistair McCartney with Jordan A. Rothacker (Brooklyn Rail)
Book Reviews
Olympus on Earth: Daniel H. Turtel’s The Family Morfawitz (Brooklyn Rail)
The Future Won’t Be Long by Jarett Kobek (Cleaver Magazine)
Buckskin Cocaine by Erika T. Wurth (Cleaver Magazine)
Eileen Myles’ Afterglow and Caroline Picard’s The Strangers Among Us (Cleaver Magazine)
A Review of Jennifer MacBain-Stephens’ The Messenger Is Already Dead (The Believer)
An Unnecessary Defense of William T. Vollmann’s Last Stories, and Other Stories (As It Ought to Be)
Assorted Journalism
The Nazis Went Down to Georgia (Flagpole Athens)