Of all the unlikely evergreen subjects, famous serial killers might seem the most unlikely, yet there are new media about the big ones—and Ted Bundy certainly is one of those—every year. With The Bundy Archive: Genealogies of White Masculinity (University Press of Mississippi, 2026), Bryan J. McCann has exhumed Bundy to explain the relationship between… Continue reading Bryan J. McCann: Tending the Bundy Archive
Peter Relic and I were rivals. Unbeknownst to him, for decades, we were arch rivals. Coming out of high school and coming out of undergrad, I wanted to be working in magazines. My heroes — Andy Jenkins, Mark Lewman, and Spike Jonze — all worked in magazines — the coolest magazines. When I was in… Continue reading Peter Relic: Bust a Move
British author Steve Aylett’s writing has been described as “dreampunk,” “slipstream,” “bizarro,” “cyberpunk,” and “new weird,” among other things. I once wordily described it as follows: “He breaks down the myriad structures of the day, rearranges them into heretofore unseen configurations, and then describes the action along all-new interstices.” His books, which usually get stuck… Continue reading Steve Aylett: Vernacular Homicide
Afterword, by David Markson by [Name of Author] (Inside the Castle, 2025) is an odd little book at best. David Markson, one of my all-time favorite authors, passed away in 2010, so I was confused, but intrigued. Clearly Markson had not written a new book, so someone was channeling him. I love this particularly postmodern… Continue reading Afterword: An Interview with [Name of Author]
McKenzie Wark opens her book Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (Verso, 2019) with an epigraph from Kathy Acker: “Post-capitalists’ general strategy right now is to render language (all that which signifies) abstract therefore easily manipulable.”1 Acker goes on, in her book, Literal Madness, In the case of language and of economy the signified… Continue reading Capitalist Surrealism
