Magazine. Essays. Fiction. Poetry. Edited by Bradford Morrow. Published in the Spring and Fall of each year by Bard College. The forty-eighth issue of CONJUNCTIONS celebrates that yearning which bends the soul out of its original shape-desire-in all its forms, all its hostile and gentle multiplicities. Featuring the work of Mary Gaitskill, H.C. Carrillo, Joyce Carol Oates, David Shields, Anne Tardos, Robert Kelly, Elizabeth Hand, Aimee Bender, Robert Olen Butler, Cole Swensen, Shena McAuliffe, Luc Sante, Devin Magee, Mary Caponegro, Reginald Shepherd, John D'Agata, Siri Hustvedt, Johnathan Lethem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Will Self, Eleni Sikelianos, Lewis Warsh, Michael White, Rikki Ducornet, Andrew Mossin, Mei-me-Burssenbrugge, Paul West, Susan Steinberg, Donald Revell, Rebecca Seiferle, Tova Reich, Juliana Leslie, S.G. Miller, Brian Evanson, Carol Maso, and Frederic Tuten.

Conjunctions 48: Faces of Desire

Arts & Photography

Joyce Carol Oates

Robert Olen Butler

MARY GAITSKILL

WILL SELF

Brian Evenson

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Mary Caponegro

Carole Maso

Donald Revell

H.G. Carrillo

History & Criticism

Bard College

The Brotherhood of Mutilation

Earthling Publications

Push Comes to Shove

ABOUT THIS BOOK<\/b>\nPrisms are instruments, mirrors, metaphors, gateways humankind must pass through in order to achieve, to overcome, to realize, to become. Contained herein are nineteen transformative tales from some of speculative fiction’s most brilliant minds. So open your eyes and let the light pass through . . . 
<\/p>\nTABLE OF CONTENTS<\/b>\nWE COME IN THREES – B.E. Scully\nENCORE FOR AN EMPTY SKY – Lynda E. Rucker\nTHE GIRL WITH BLACK FINGERS – Roberta Lannes\nTHE SHIMMERING WALL – Brian Evenson\nIN THIS, THERE IS NO STING – Kristi DeMeester\nTHE BIRTH OF VENUS – Ian Watson\nFIFTY SUPER\-SAD MAD DOG SUI\-HOMICIDAL SELF\-SIBS, ALL IN A LEAKY TIN CAN HEAD – Paul Di Filippo\nRIVERGRACE – E. Catherine Tobler\nSAUDADE – Richard Thomas\nTHERE IS NOTHING LOST – Erinn L Kemper\nTHIS HEIGHT AND FIERY SPEED – A.C. Wise\nTHE MOTEL BUSINESS – Michael Marshall Smith\nEVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IS ALSO A LIE – Damien Angelica Walters\nTHE GEARBOX – Paul Meloy\nDISTRICT TO CERVIX: THE TIME BEFORE WE WERE BORN – Tlotlo Tsamaase\nHERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW – Chaz Brenchley\nTHE SECRETS OF MY PRISON HOUSE – J. Lincoln Fenn\nA LUTA CONTINUA – Nadia Bulkin\nI SHALL BUT LOVE THEE BETTER – Scott Edelman 
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Prisms

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH

Ian WATSON

Scott Edelman

Paul Di Filippo

Kristi DeMeester

Lynda E. Rucker

Roberta Lannes

Michael Bailey

Darren Speegle

B.E. Scully

PS Publishing

This second instalment of S. T. Joshi s critically acclaimed Black Wings series contains eighteen stories by leading contemporary writers, all drawing upon themes, images, and ideas from the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft. Caitlín R. Kiernan has written a poetic reinterpretation of The Hound, while Nicholas Royle plays a fascinating riff on the existential horror of The Outsider. Three separate tales, by Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, and Jonathan Thomas, ring changes on Lovecraft s seminal story, The Call of Cthulhu. Nick Mamatas writes an ingenious elaboration of The Whisperer in Darkness. The cosmic indifferentism that is the core of Lovecraft s fiction is treated in various ways by John Langan, Melanie Tem, Tom Fletcher, Darrell Schweitzer, and Richard Gavin. The archaeological horror that we find in some of Lovecraft s most powerful tales is revivified by Donald Tyson, while Lovecraft s media presence is made the subject of half-comic, half-horrific tales by Don Webb and Chet Williamson. John Shirley, Rick Dakan, and Jason V Brock use Lovecraft s life and outlook as springboards for imaginative tales of psychological and supernatural horror. All in all, Black Wings II affords a rich feast of terror inspired by the twentieth century s greatest writer of the supernatural.

Black Wings II [jhc]

JOHN LANGAN

Don Webb

Nicholas Royle

Steve Rasnic Tem

John Shirley

Tom Fletcher

Donald Tyson

Darrell Schweitzer

Jonathan Thomas

Nick Mamatas

Richard Gavin

Melanie Tem

Jason C. Eckhardt

Rick Dakan

Jason V Brock

Caitlin, R., Kiernan

Children of the New Flesh is a wide-ranging compendium of reflections on the enduring impact of David Cronenberg, one of the most significant filmmakers of all time. Focusing on a series of short films that Cronenberg directed in the 1960s and 70s, many of which have rarely been seen, this book considers the legacy of these works in their own right, as well as their relationship to future masterpieces like Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, and eXistenZ.\nMuch more than a work of tribute, Children of the New Flesh is a meditation on the nature of influence itself. It teases out the undercurrents in Cronenberg's films, obsessed as they are with secret signals, sinister experiments, and mental viruses, and shows how these ideas resonate in our own paranoid, sickened, hyper-networked times.\nFeaturing original fiction and essays from luminaries such as Brian Evenson, Blake Butler, Michael Cisco, Graham Rae, Joe Koch, Gary J. Shipley, Tobias Carroll, and Charlene Elsby, and interviews with figures such as Kathe Koja, Patrick McGrath, Tim Lucas, and Bruce Wagner-not to mention an exclusive interview with Cronenberg himself-this book is at once a study and a living example of the singular power of hybrid forms. It's an invitation to seek undead materials in the dark recesses of the past, and to use them as a means of tuning into the freakish wavelengths of the present.\n"NEW AND LONGTIME CRONENBERG FANS WILL DEVOUR THIS INTELLIGENT, EARNEST, AND COMPREHENSIVE TRIBUTE." - KIRKUS REVIEWS\n"CHILDREN OF THE NEW FLESH IS A MUST-READ FOR FILM FANATICS AND FANS OF DAVID CRONENBERG. - BRANDON HOBSON, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND AUTHOR OF THE REMOVED\n"THE LIVING LEGEND OF ECCENTRIC CINEMA BEGETS WEIRD NEW PROGENY IN CHILDREN OF THE NEW FLESH" - RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE\n"DO NOT OVEREMPHASIZE CRONENBERG'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE PHYSICAL BODY; THAT DOES A DISSERVICE TO HIS DEEP, ABIDING, PASSIONATE INTEREST IN THE ENERGY BODY, THE ETHEREAL BODY, THE BODY DOUBLE, THE COSMIC BODY. IN THE END, HE IS A CONSUMMATE PHILOSOPHER OF THE SPIRIT." - BRUCE WAGNER, AUTHOR OF DEAD STARS, MAPS TO THE STARS, AND THE MARVEL UNIVERSE

Children of the New Flesh The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg

Literature & Fiction

Stephen R. Bissette

Blake Butler

john-reed

Graham, Rae

Tobias Carroll

Jonathan Greenaway

Joe Koch

Gary J. Shipley

Brian Alessandro

Evan Isoline

Tom Over

David Roden

Short Stories & Anthologies

11:11 Press

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