The Rape Poems

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<h4>Brian Gresko is an essayist, short story author, and the editor of the anthology When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood. His work has appeared on Salon, The Atlantic, VICE, and in many other places. He lives in Brooklyn.</h4>

Brian Gresko

The Poetics of Trauma and Life After Rape: A Profile of Frances Driscoll

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

A Masculine Instagram, No Filter: Adelle Waldman’s Portrait of a Guy 

The Author Looks Inward: A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem

Lee Konstantinou is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He wrote the novel Pop Apocalypse (2009) and the literary history Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction (2016). With Samuel Cohen, he co-edited The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (2012). He is currently completing a study of Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai.

Lee Konstantinou

Jonathan Lethem: An Interview and a Review

All That Is

Dated on Arrival: James Salter’s “All That Is”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Brian Gresko is an essayist, short story author, and the editor of the anthology When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood. His work has appeared on Salon, The Atlantic, VICE, and in many other places. He lives in Brooklyn.