Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Ray Levy’s School: Form and Selfhood
by Charlene H. Caruthers Ray Levy’s novel School is notable for various reasons and what stands out is its experimental form. By intertwining an array of literary forms such as a dissertation manuscript influenced by Marquis de Sade, lectures on psychoanalysis, a review of a horror movie and YouTube video, and interviews, Levy provides a…
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A Review of Annell López’s I’ll Give You A Reason
by Rebecca Holcomb Annell López’s short story collection is nuanced and direct all at once, filled with characters that experience unique modern-day challenges, central to “American Society,” but that are more importantly, specific to Newark, NJ. The range of topics connected to the “Ironbound” López broaches are broad: gentrification, Dominican heritage, sexuality, racism, and immigration.…
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Cave by Matt Gulley
Doug was living in a cave when the end came, thunder wrestling through the sky. His cell phone lost service. It wouldn’t take much time for the party to really begin. Due to same lax oversight from NASA, hundreds of satellites were veering off path. Maybe that was uncharitable to NASA. Gravity had relaxed. In…
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The Frogs by Eleanor Levine
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Quit This Town (Ezekiel, Mississippi) by Mike Itaya
I live in this place where nobody acts right. We’re all bow-legged with bad love, down here. Last Sunday supper, my Pa got in a Tae Bo-tong fight, at Dong Dynasty Super Buffet, over quinoa fritters. And Mama makes whoopee with the Mayor behind Pa’s back. In Ezekiel, Mississippi, my family runs around town like…
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Night of Sound and Light by Claire Christine Sargenti
The air is thick tonight. Thicker than usual. It’s a realization that comes slowly, as if the normal rush of brain waves are somehow hindered by the swollen stickiness of the swamp in summertime. I press my body through the murkiness of night that awaits me as I exit the air conditioned palace of the…
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The Day Shift by Jeremy Tavares
When I was twenty-three years old, I sat at a card table in the back room of a business called Security Check. It was a collection agency in Oxford, Mississippi that specialized in over-due balances and checks returned for insufficient funds. I had a small computer in front of me with a black screen that…
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Dream Withdrawal by Chris Falite
I’m a fairly undramatic sleeper. I don’t snore unless I’m drunk. I barely move unless I’m horny. I don’t talk in my sleep and I hardly sweat. Women have joked that I look dead inside my own slumber. Testimonies which have all come in the years after I quit drugs, I should add. I don’t…
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Ash and Sweat by Giulio R. M. Maffii
Giulio R. M. Maffii was born in Florence (Italy). His studies are dedicated to poetry (linear-experimental-visual) and its diffusion. He wrote essays such as “Le mucche non leggono Montale” (2013) or “The feet forward: the long walk of anthropos and thanatos between poetry and similar vices” (2020). He wrote books of poetry like Misinabì…
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from See-Saws by Richard Kostelanetz
Richard Kostelanetz is a major figure in the New York City downtown literary and art scene, as well as a performer, critic, scholar, and an authority on concrete poetry.
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