“[I]f publishers don’t seem to fit into the other-than-codex world of job printing, neither exactly do readers. Who ever really reads receipts, bills, tickets, bonds, or certificates? …Notably, whatever reading is entailed by genres like bills of lading and stock … Continue reading →

As I was reading Jessica Isaac’s piece about adolescent editors and “editresses,” I found myself experiencing some very weird déjà vu. And then I realized what I was thinking of. This is a map from Carpatho-Russian Echoes, an independent paper that … Continue reading →

Over the summer I acquired a black tin cash box of my paternal great-grandmother’s effects—interesting word—that had been sitting under a pile of scrapbooks in a closet in my grandparents’ house for decades.  At some point in the box’s life, … Continue reading →

In the Nineties Kinkos was actually a cool place to hang out– like, every slightly punk rock girl in Minneapolis had a crush on someone who worked at Kinkos. They were open twenty-four hours and we’d go in late at … Continue reading →

        A slave pass signed by Samuel Grove, permits “the Boy Barney” to pass and repass to Columbia, MO from the first to the fourth of June for this date in 1852. This pass is a complicated … Continue reading →

I know typography isn’t quite on our radar yet, but we’re close.  I stumbled upon this, a look at the typography of 2001: A Space Odyssey via the Paris Review tumblr, and I wanted to share it before it disappears into the … Continue reading →

As I was doing the readings for class – especially the excerpt from The Nature of the Book – I started thinking about one of my favorite novels. (I’m a fiction MFA, so that’s really just typical. Literally everything reminds me of … Continue reading →

My first thought when this signment was signed in class was: do something with highlighters.  I don’t have highlighters anymore, so that idea didn’t get expanded on.  But I did do something that involved literalness.  I did get to use … Continue reading →

For this week’s signment I decided to pick materials that would make writing difficult, in addition to emphasizing their materiality.  I was thinking about how often writing utensils fail me ( I usually use cheap, found pens and pencils) and … Continue reading →

So I’ve been reading Ana Božičević religiously (which coincidentally means choosing poems randomly from her BOOK! over and over), and trying to do the thing that she does with her language. The poems I linked to come from EOAGH’s Queering … Continue reading →