Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.
The Brian Evenson controversy at BYU in the mid-1990s is one of those Rorschach tests that almost invariably reveals more about yourself than about Evenson.
“Wo, wo is me, the mother of men; I am pained, I am weary, because of the wickedness of my children. When shall I rest, and be cleansed from the filthiness which is gone forth out of me?” -Moses 7:48
The first time I saw E.T. had become available on Netflix streaming, I realized I hadn’t seen it since I was Elliott’s age. That fact
The National Anthem
That apple you hold in your hand,
what is it? Envy? Jazz? Cosmic Crisp?
On the groanings beyond utterance (we promise to let this theme take a breather after this).
In 1965, Andy Warhol gave a tape-recorder to Odine–an actor, fixture at Warhol’s “Factory,” and dedicated amphetamine user–and asked him to carry it around recording his conversations over the course of a 24-hour period.
Just what are these lyrics anyways?!
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