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Former 3:AM fiction editor Greg Gerke‘s debut short story collection is out now from Queen’s Ferry Press. From the publisher’s page: “These swift, swervy, nervous fictions—as often as not about writers in antic crisis with the language, lovers in trouble with their loves—are heartachingly hilarious and stocked from margin to margin with agony-born brilliances fresh […]

Beirut 12 / 11: Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille

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The disaster… is what escapes the very possibility of experience–it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

The silence following the Beirut atrocity voiced by words culled from Blanchot and Bataille.