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I studied your pictures for hours. Hours over weeks, because it took that long to arrange a date. Not because of you, because of me—in the aftermath of my breakup, I spent long days on worthless magazine pitches: tired ones about California cuisine, unhinged ones about the erotics of wildfire. Work was the only way to forget Elena. But I was forcing myself to date, at least once, at least to try. I’d clear the air, open myself to possibility. In your only picture not taken from suspiciously … [Read more...] about Sorry About the Wolf

EOY APPEAL We are writing to you at a time of great uncertainty amidst the ongoing cuts to federal arts funding and other threats to artistic and intellectual freedom. Today, we are asking you to consider donating and helping ASF in reaching our $30,000 campaign goal to sustain our work. At an issue launch event for ASF 81 at the Austin Film Society, Coeditor Rebecca Markovits spoke of guest Fernando A. Flores's tenacity and outspokenness about the importance of storytelling, borrowing a … [Read more...] about The Battlefield of the Imagination

I had not been inside since they added automatic doors and turned the Town Food into a Food Town, preferring to drive fifteen minutes to the Shop Best where I was guaranteed to run into no one and where every aisle smelled like the meat counter. For whatever reason, the parking lot of Shop Best was strewn with straw—people tracked it onto the linoleum, strands pasting around the wheels of the shopping carts—and I’d often find it in bed when I woke up in the mornings, flattened between the … [Read more...] about So Long