As part of a new initiative to help readers and potential contributors become more familiar with the journal and our editorial team, Fiction International is launching a new Featured Friday segment on our social media platforms. During this time, we’ll be giving readers a closer look at our editorial team for the upcoming submission period which opens […]
Harold Jaffe’s Goosestep: Fictions & Docufictions
Harold Jaffe’s new volume: Goosestep: Fictions & Docufictions will be published in November, 2016, by JEF (Journal of Experimental Fiction)
SOS: SAVE OUR SCAT!
BLACK SCAT BOOKS is struggling to stay afloat. It must replace its dying computer system and outdated software, and raise funds to pay book authors and contributors to BLACK SCAT REVIEW. Since its launch in the summer of 2012, this unique indie publishing venture has survived hand-to-mouth. Now we need your help to keep the […]
The Puritan guest blog
The Puritan Senior Editors The Benefits of Entering a Writing Contest The Puritan Senior Editors For every literary magazine, a prize. Our lit culture’s thick with them. Whether you’re an ardent submitter, see them as a necessary evil to keep literary ships afloat, or you love to hate them, writing contests can often feel more […]
Event Review: Sacred Geography: Dispatches from India by Harold Jaffe
by Erica Spriggs It is a Friday evening at the San Diego Theosophy Center, and few people are talking. The room is warm despite the open window. Professor Harold Jaffe is wearing black, a a mandarin-collar shirt, sunglasses, slacks. He approaches the podium gradually, watching for the sudden movement of extended legs as people settle […]
Autre Review of Harold Jaffe’s Death Café
[BOOK REVIEW] SUSAN GRACE REVIEWS HAROLD JAFFE’S NEW BOOK, DEATH CAFÉ April 14, 2016 Harold Jaffe, progressive, social activist, and author of 24 innovative books, including Othello Blues, Revolutionary Brain, Anti-Twitter, and Induced Coma, has planted another mine in the minds of readers worldwide with his latest work, Death Café. The title alone, Death Café, […]
Provisional Notes on Art Brut.
by Erica Spriggs Art brut, also known as outsider art, is not merely an expression of “madness.” It goes beyond the constructs of language into a deeper realm of consciousness. It disobeys the formula of lines, color, and composition; it becomes itself as it deconstructs itself, as the audience attempts to find a reference that […]
Harold Jaffe’s Sacred Geography in NEW ORLEANS REVIEW
Ganges Dawn Predawn, everyone’s awake, Kashi’s jumping. Excluding the homeless thousands who are unawake. I’m walking cautiously to the ghats in the semi-dark through littered streets, trying to distinguish trash from cardboard and newspaper humps of low-castes sleeping, groaning while sleeping. Do they dream while they sleep? Is it a collective dream? Has their 2000 […]
Harold Jaffe’s Dispatches from India – December 18, 2015
Caste Cannibal A newlywed couple from Varanasi were arrested over claims they dined on the Genitals of the woman’s alleged rapist after her husband murdered the alleged rapist and excised his privates. The victim’s mutilated body was found in a burnt-out tuk-tuk on a Varanasi sidestreet after the revenge attack, sparked by claims the new […]
Harold Jaffe’s Dispatches from India – December 18, 2015
Saint Mother Pope Francis has endorsed a second medical miracle attributed to the late Mother Teresa, clearing the path for the beloved nun to be elevated to sainthood next year, the online Roman Catholic newspaper Avvenire reported Thursday. Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II in a fast-tracked ceremony in 2003, in the […]