Padgett Powell
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Threats of Violence: Discussing Pain, Form, and Cinema du Corps with Author Stephanie LaCava
There is a hyper self-awareness in all my work that acknowledges—teases itself, maybe—what it is addressing and from what entry point. I once modeled in a campaign for socks I designed for a skate label and on the box there…
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Cries for Help, Various by Padgett Powell
David Byron Queen reviews Cries for Help, Various by Padgett Powell today in Rumpus Books.
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This Week in Short Fiction
This week, Okey-Pankey treated us to not one, but two flash fiction stories from Padgett Powell, whose third collection of short stories, Cries for Help, Various, is forthcoming this September as the first title from the new Electric Literature/Black Balloon…
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Stirring Coffee with a Feather
Margo Berdeshevsky’s work straddles the line between fiction and poetry. Her characters grieve, dream, punish themselves, and try to find harmony between who they are and who they might still be.
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
Greetings my fellow aesthetes, epicurians, book junkies and all around fine people! I’m back in the Sunday guest side-car for today and next week while our legendary Seth Fischer prepares to graduate!
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The Interrogative Mood
“Does integrity lie in failure?” asks the narrator of Padgett Powell’s new novel. He hopes that it does.