All This Could Be Different

Rafael Frumkin’s fiction, nonfiction, journalism, and criticism have appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Washington Post, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of three books: The Comedown (2018), Confidence (forthcoming in 2023), and Bugsy (forthcoming in 2024). He lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where he is an assistant professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University.

Rafael Frumkin

Love and Friendship Under Late-Stage Capitalism: On Sarah Thankam Mathews’s “All This Could Be Different”

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

Fiction

A groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction, KINK (Simon &amp; Schuster; February 9, 2021), is edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell and featuring previously and never-before published works by a who’s who cast of contributors including Roxane Gay, Alexander Chee, Brandon Taylor, Carmen Maria Machado, Kim Fu, Callum Angus, Vanessa Clark, Melissa Febos, Zeyn Joukhadar, Chris Kraus, Peter Mountford, Larissa Pham, and Cara Hoffman.

Dynamic and imaginative, KINK ventures into the frontiers of boundary-pushing desires while upholding literary excellence. These fifteen short stories explore love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum—it is a loud and proud celebration of themes sometimes deemed too taboo for public consumption. There is profound intimacy, whips and chains, and even a Victorian-era sex theater, but the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful, moving dispatches from the darkest chambers of the heart and mind. This bold anthology provides a fictional window into the possibilities of sexual desire from some of the most exciting writers at work today.

Kink

Flavors of Freak

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Rafael Frumkin’s fiction, nonfiction, journalism, and criticism have appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Washington Post, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of three books: The Comedown (2018), Confidence (forthcoming in 2023), and Bugsy (forthcoming in 2024). He lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where he is an assistant professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University.