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  • I bet, if you played the first side anywhere at a loud volume, people would say “What the f– is going on?” I can guarantee that. It’s not music that makes you want to change the world, because when we were making it, the world changed! When you’re watching the world change, you don’t make…

  • Vineland is probably my favourite Pynchon novel, so I was mostly interested in finding out how faithful One Battle After Another might be to that book’s storyline.

  • I’m happy to announce that Cordite Publishing Inc., through its poetry imprint Cordite Books, will publish my third full-length collection, Transition Vamps, in 2026.

  • On 9 August 1945, US forces detonated a second atomic bomb over Japan, destroying the city of Nagasaki, killing around eighty-thousand people and injuring many more. The first bomb, which had levelled Hiroshima three days earlier, was not sufficient to prompt Japan to capitulate. Six days after the destruction of Nagasaki, however, and following Russia’s…

  • The trucking film genre is apparently vast, although I suspect a great deal of the canon (I use this term verrrry loosely) suffers from the ‘straight-to-late-night-television’ effect and remains largely unwatched today. Last night I was doing some trucking research for my novel-in-progress when I came across an online reference to the 1975 song “Convoy”…

  • “Lazy Highways, that was our Australiana record, I suppose.”–Andrew Cox, The Fauves My contribution to this episode of Fauves Are the Best People was recorded in February 2025, in the depths of Dutch winter. I may have been experiencing some kind of down-vibe during the recording process. So, I thought I’d harness yet again the…

  • It’s been a long time in the making but I’m very happy to announce that the latest issue of Prairie Schooner, a literary magazine produced by the English department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, features selections from the Digital Schooner Global Fusion series, including the first ‘Fusion’ co-feature, between Prairie Schooner and Cordite Poetry Review!…