Cover art from the Twenty Heads series by Matt Leines. Image copyright © Matt Leines; all rights reserved by the artist.
Riveted: The Obsession Issue
Forthcoming Spring 2012
Edited by Bradford Morrow
Subscribe to Conjunctions here. Or to receive notifications of updates to the issue-in-progress, information on the themes of upcoming issues, and announcements when we post full texts from our forthcoming issue, join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.Mesmerists and hoarders. Conspiracy theorists and martyrs. Fetishists and addicts. Saints and sinners. Riveted explores the idea of obsession, the world of fixation, the idée fixe.
Urs Allemann, Jo’s Murder Game, translated by Patrick Greaney
Andrew Mossin, I Get Her Up in Daylight
Martine Bellen, Two Poems
Adam Weinstein, Some Remarks on Teeth
Chinelo Okparanta, Story, Story!
Bernadette Esposito, Speck of Light
Ryan Ruby, That Obscure Object of Desire
Robert Fernandez, Eight Poems
Nicholas Grider, Misadventure
Shena McAuliffe, The Healing Machine
Gabriel Blackwell, The Last Film of Alan Smithee
Karen Donovan, Parts List Counted in Ogham
Sigrid Nunez, Philosophers
Karen Lepri, The Thief
Jonathan Carroll, The Woman Who Married a Cloud
Christopher Sorrentino, The Cursed
Joyce Carol Oates, The Flatbed
Fiona Maazel, Clear over Target, the Whole Town in Flames
Julia Elliott, The End of the World
Stephen O’Connor, I Would Never Do These Things
Michael Sheehan, Proposals for the Recovery of the Apparently Drowned
Elizabeth Robinson, On Repetition
As well as new work by Lyn Hejinian, Cole Swensen, Peter Gizzi, and many others.
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