Aesthetic Drift
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Aesthetic Drift #14: I Read Ethan Frome Every January
Aesthetic Drift #14 by Scott Hoffman I Read Ethan Frome Every January For the past decade or so, I’ve read Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome every January. I’m still trying to figure out why. The story is simple. (I suppose I should announce “spoilers alert!” here, but we’re all adults.) Ethan is a hard-scrabble farmer trapped… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #13: Young Kid in a Voting Booth
Aesthetic Drift #13 by Brett Pribble Young Kid in a Voting Booth Alone in my college apartment, satirical versions of Al Gore and George Bush reenacted the first debate of the 2000 election on Saturday Night Live. Will Farrell played Bush as a clueless redneck, and Darrel Hammond’s take on Gore was rude and robotic.… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #12: A Letter from Henry Hughes
Aesthetic Drift #12 A Letter from Henry Hughes July 7, 2016 Dear John, It’s great to hear from you. I remember the excellent work you did editing the Sycamore Review when I was last at Purdue at the turn of our new century. And I listen to The Drunken Odyssey when I can—great stuff, man.… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #11: Notes on The Pink Fire Revue
Aesthetic Drift #11 by Jared Silvia Notes on The Pink Fire Revue We knew, first off, that we wanted the event to be part concert, part reading, part projector art show. Whenever you start with the idea of creating a mutant, you have a relatively good chance of succeeding. Whether its destiny is to dwell… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #10: Why I Go to AWP
Aesthetic Drift #10 by Shawn McKee Why I Go to AWP Los Angeles is a metropolis unlike any other. After I got kicked out of a bar for allegedly being too drunk, I could have been back home in Orlando for all I knew. But I wasn’t in Orlando, I was somewhere else—a magical land of… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #9: Dramatic Stakes, and Why Dawn of Justice Will Likely Suck
Aesthetic Drift #9 by John King Dramatic Stakes, and Why Dawn of Justice Will Likely Suck Thirty years ago when Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns series appeared, this epic of what would happen to superheroes in the future changed the culture of comic books. Miller introduced an expressionistic art style that could be crude… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #8: Literary Austin
Aesthetic Drift #8 by Scott Gilman Literary Austin What do Lord Byron, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, John Keats, the Bronte sisters, D. H. Lawrence, Don DeLillo, John Fowles, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, James Salter and David Foster Wallace all have in common? Either their manuscripts, collections, or personal libraries reside in… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #7: The Ten Best Films of 2015
Aesthetic Drift #7 by Brett Pribble The Ten Best Films of 2015 With the Oscars dropping on Sunday night, I’ve decided to hurl out my own opinion about the best films of the Trumpian Year of the Pig: 2015. I didn’t include documentaries or foreign films because I didn’t have time to watch enough of… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #6: Psych Yourselves Up, Fellow Writers—NaNoWriMo is Almost Over!
Aesthetic Drift #6 by Lisa Martens Psych Yourselves Up, Fellow Writers—NaNoWriMo is almost over! Like many self-loathing, procrastinating writers who fear of dying before the world discovers their geniuses, I am participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). For those of you with self-respect (to quote Louis CK), I will explain: During the month of… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #5: What It’s Really Like Owning a Writing Center
Aesthetic Drift #5 by Racquel Henry What It’s Really Like Owning a Writing Center Writer’s Atelier at One Year For years I have admired creative writing centers like The Center for Fiction in New York, Grub Street in Boston, The Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, and The Porch in Tennessee, just to name a few. These centers balance… Continue reading
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