(A special announcement!)
My interests in fragments, incompleteness, and the problems of truth-telling might be familiar to those of you who have read this Skeleton a while. None of those items are new concerns, either to me, or to any individual or society that has ever tried to join in the business of making meaning across time.
However, for the past couple of years I have felt that the forms necessary for exploring some of these ideas were not best served by blog form. That is – what form is “correct” for subjects that can’t be truthfully explored in a traditional linear argument or narrative?
Beyond the pieces showcased in Skeleton At The Feast, therefore, I have been building a practice of hybrid writing. LIT Magazine’s Charlotte Slivka defines this notoriously anti-definition genre as “the creativity of necessity.” That is, pieces built to specifically evade or confront constrictions; pieces that take a form required by the material and its pressures, rather than the forms usually associated with the established divisions between genres.
I am very excited to share that one of these writings has now found a home. LIT Magazine published my piece Three Models of a Completely Empty Notebook in the Hybrid section of Issue 43.
A viewing note: The piece uses a three-column layout that does not display well on phones. For the intended reading experience, please open it on a computer or tablet.
Read “Three Models of a Completely Empty Notebook” in Lit Magazine
The piece wrangles with problems of language, versus the chaos that language is tasked with containing. I hope you will take a look – and I look forward to whatever thoughts you might wish to share in the comments here!
Skeleton At The Feast 