The Answers

<h4>Joshua James Amberson is an arts and culture writer for The Portland Mercury and author of the long-running Basic Paper Airplane zine series. His personal essays, books reviews, and short prose have appeared in We’ll Never Have Paris, Electric Literature, and The Rumpus.</h4>

Joshua James Amberson

No Answers at All: The Futility of Love in Catherine Lacey’s “The Answers”

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

Fiction

Field Recordings from the Inside

Inner Soundtracks and Apparitions: Joe Bonomo’s Selected Work

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Joshua James Amberson is an arts and culture writer for The Portland Mercury and author of the long-running Basic Paper Airplane zine series. His personal essays, books reviews, and short prose have appeared in We’ll Never Have Paris, Electric Literature, and The Rumpus.