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« WWPKDD? | Main | Postmodern paleo-futurism » Wednesday, March 28, 2007Brainiac's bedside table, 3d editionThe Winter/Spring issue of the bi-annual litmag Fence has arrived. One can't help noticing that at least three of the stories in this issue concern a woman troubled by the shortcomings of domestic life: "I lie in bed at night hoping my husband will be in a terrible car crash and die because these days a divorce would just be too much work." -- "The Housewife," by Shannon Turner. | "Kent arrived home from work to find his wife beating a boiling head of cabbage like it was the body of a subdued mugger." -- "The Guest," by Jim Hanas. | "I left my husband Charlie, but I haven't told him yet. I told him I was taking a vacation." -- "Tell Me When It Hurts," by Emily Benz. Perhaps editor Rebecca Wolff (who has been mentioned in Ideas a couple of times) is trying to tell us something? One hopes not.  I should also mention "Massachusetts," a poem by Milosz Biedrzycki in the same issue of Fence. Here's a good passage: "you can cough all the fiberglass out after work/go to dankin donats after midnight they'll give you/yesterday's donats six for a dollar/coat your throat with them, it'll help...." Posted by Joshua Glenn at 09:55 AM
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