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Featuring interviews with Deb Olin Unferth, Ben Marcus, and Mike Birbiglia; a new erasure poetry series by Mary Ruefle; three essays on Louis C.K. by Andrew Marantz and others; featured artist Fabian Ciraolo.
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The Music Issue: Featuring interviews with Michael Gregory of the Gregory Brothers and noise princess EMA; fiction by Das Racist's Victor Vazquez; an essay on surviving rap's malignant future.
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Interviews with Sam Lipsyte and Wayne Koestenbaum; a collection of interdimensional poems by Annie Christain; John Bresland’s video essays “The Seinfeld Analog”; winners of the Wag’s winter contest.
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Conversations with Alison Bechdel and Anthony Doerr; a zodiac of forgotten constellations by Travis Smith; an essay on Joaquin Phoenix by Lucas Mann; new movies by EveryNone; and haunting fiction by John Dermot Woods.
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Features interviews with Gary Lutz and Pulitzer-winner Paul Harding; an alphabetized version of George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech; “The Destined,” a memoir by Jen Percy about cults and obsessive compulsion; and new fiction by David Brent and Mitch Salm.
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Subtitled “Truthiness”, the issue features interviews with David Shields (Reality Hunger: A Manifesto),
Lauren Slater (Opening Skinner’s Box) and the ultimate wag, Steven T. Colbert; a rebuttal “Some Thoughts on Araki Yasusada and the Author”
by Kent Johnson; Tony Tulathimutte; Vanessa Place; and more.
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Wag’s first anniversary issue featuring: “Hotel Coover”, an unprecedented hypertext profile of
fiction great Robert Coover by Robert Moor; an interview with memoir writer Nick Flynn; a hilarious exposé “Google
is Butchering the Written Word” by fiction editor William Litton; Raymond Queneau’s endlessly generating series
of “100 Trillion Poems”; and more.
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A conversation with David Rakoff
of This American Life fame as well as Chicago's best improvisers, TJ and Dave;
Julia Alter’s haiku series “Color
Theories”; Lucas Mann’s essay
on the Glee phenomenon; Ben
Rogers’ ingenious story “Mayfly”;
and more.
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An interview with fiction master
George Saunders; John D’Agata and Lee Gutkind weigh-in on the state of nonfiction; an interactive
electronic translation of Cuban
poet Rogelio Saunders by Sara
Gilmore; a graphic essay by
Dayna Tortorici on the nature of
memory; “Laura, Linda, Sweetie
Pie,” a short story by Daniel
Wallace, writer of Big Fish; and more.
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A conversation with T.C. Boyle; flarf poetry by K. Silem Mohamad,
Kenneth Goldsmith and Matthias Svalnia’s screenshot epic
“I am Extremely Terrified of Chinese People”; winners of the
inaugural Wag’s Revue’s writers contest,
Lindsey Baggette, Lili Wright and Lauren Lovett; and more.
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Interviews with Dave Eggers, n+1’s Mark Greif and new master of the
short story, Wells Tower; photograph-inspired fiction by Brian Evenson in
collaboration with Peter Sellakaers; an essay by Rob Moor “On Douchebags”;
Wag’s bombastic founding manifesto, and more.
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