Toast Retrospective: Thursday, September 17, 2015

Here is your Toast Retrospective for Thursday, September 17, 2015, delicious Toasties!

• Link Roundup!  by Nicole Cliffe
• Women Trying To Say “No” Politely In Western Art History  by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
• How to Tell If You’re in a Milan Kundera Novel  by J.E. Reich: “The concepts of lightness and weight are very important to you. You refuse to buy a scale. // Every time you have sex in a bowler hat — which is often — you are struck with nostalgia concerning your Bohemian grandfather, who was also a mayor before the war. (Which war? THE War, of course.)”
• Signs The Vaguely-Named Building In Your Local Strip Mall Is Actually A Church And Not A Coffeeshop-slash-Art Space  by Daniel Mallory Ortberg in Advice: “You’re a wise and experienced person of the world; you already know what to expect if you drive past a nondescript sandstone building named anything like “Living Water” or “Faith Accompli” or something in Greek when you’re not in the Greek part of town. But sometimes you have to ask yourself: is the vaguely-named building at the end of this strip mall a church? If it’s named anything like the following, it probably is: Cornerstone…”
• “Myth is the only way I have to self-identify”: An Interview with Matthew Salesses  by Karissa Chen: “The first time I read Matthew Salesses’ work was five years ago, when we were published together in a (now-defunct) online literary journal, Pindeldyboz. Matt’s flash fiction story, one of several that would eventually form his chapbook collection Our Island of Epidemics, blew me away for its mingling of lyricism, surprise, myth, and human longing. After I reached out to tell him I admired his work, we became friends, and since then I’ve followed his career…”
• Erotica Written By An Alien Pretending Not To Be Horrified By The Human Body  by Daniel Mallory Ortberg in Writing: “The latter inserted fluid into the former; some of which was absorbed into the softer tissues and membranes, the remainder left to seep back into the open air.” // “One of them allowed a set of fingers, nails and all, to enter its most vulnerable hollow.” // “The integrity of both cavities was breached.”
• Malena Magnolia’s Eco-Friendly Street Art and Activism  by Michelle Delgado in Interviews: “Malena Magnolia was sitting at a table with her best friend, Harley, waiting to pick up a pizza to go, when a stranger approached them. “This dude is talking to us and saying all this vulgar stuff,” Malena recalls. The two did their best to ignore him, but he was persistent, trying to provoke a response. Harley remembers watching her best friend. She could sense Malena’s frustration boiling. Finally, Malena turned and looked…”

(All Retrospectives.)

 

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