By Tony Wolk
Notes on Sam Greenlee.
Chester Himes
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Chester Himes.
Alex Haley
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Alex Haley.
John A. Williams
By Tony Wolk
Notes on John A. Williams.
Bobby Seale
By Tony Wolk
Notes on Bobby Seale.
The Most Intimate Act of Reading
By Joshua Pollock
Jeannine Marie Pitas on translation, influence, and work still to do.
Five Poems by Romina Freschi
By Romina Freschi
Poems from Echo of the Park, originally published as Eco del parque in 2016 and forthcoming in English from Pittsburgh-based Eulalia Books.
An Unbroken Chain
By Joshua Pollock
Jeannine Marie Pitas talks about how forwarded paperwork, an influential teacher, and time in a library all played a role in her becoming a translator of Uruguayan poetry.
Five Poems by Selva Casal
By Selva Casal
Poems from No vivimos en vano (We do not live in vain) by Uruguayan poet Selva Casal, originally published in 1975, in new translations by Jeannine Marie Pitas.
Long Days, Cheap Ham Sandwiches
Propeller Q&A
Aaron Gilbreath on This Is and Everything We Don’t Know.
How Do We Get Out of This World?
By Alex Behr
Desire and its suppression in the stories of Kimberly King Parsons, whose debut collection, “Black Light,” is one of ten books on the Longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.
Very Clearly Visible
By Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
After “for all mankind,” it was straight to work.
The Government is a Computer
By Connor Jones
In Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard turned a 1960 computer into a disorienting vision of the future.
No Impeccable Self to Reach
By Catherine Johnson
In The Collected Schizophrenias, Esmé Weijun Wang challenges readers not only to participate in recreating how our culture treats and understands mental illness, but to explore some of our most basic assumptions about identity and suffering.
Ultraman
By Alex Behr
The only ways in which my girlfriends liked sci-fi were if they could boyfriend the main character: Kirk; Spock—what was the option in Ultraman?
Dan DeWeese Makes Absurd Argument Connecting Willie Nelson, Travis Scott, George Frideric Handel
On the radio program The Steer, Propeller Books editor Dan DeWeese chats with hosts Jeff Alessandrelli and Sunny Bleckinger about connections between music from Willie Nelson, Pink Floyd, Sade, George Michael, Travis Scott, and George Frideric Handel.
The Tripods
By Rachel Greben
Science fiction at its best presents a heightened state of human possibility and peril, and reading it as a child provided architecture for my soul, along with a promise that growing up would be harrowing and fraught with danger.
Homunculi of the Mind
By Lucas Bernhardt
When Paul Linebarger wasn’t busy practicing psychological warfare, he wrote fiction under the name Cordwainer Smith—much of it set in a far, far future he may or may not have believed he’d visited.
Bud
By Matthew Hein
Bud Harrelson’s Mets kept showing up.
Circles Don’t Have Sides
By Pete Tothero
Circles don’t have sides, and Michael Lind’s review of Jill Lepore’s This America is beyond the pale.