Black Clock 9 — forged in the heat and glare of the 2008 election season — features political allegory, subversive satire, and secret histories. By turns scrambled, confounding, uproarious and poignant, here are pieces that simultaneously address the national conscience and insinuate their way into the American unconscious.
Singular, idiosyncratic and a little mysterious, Black Clock is one of America's leading literary journals.
Issue— #9
- Steve EricksonThree Characters In Search Of An Election
- Seth GreenlandAl Agonistes
- George MelrodMy Favorite President
- Rick MoodyPrimary Notes 2008: The Republican Diaries
- Lynne TillmanMadame Realism's Conscience
- Ben EhrenreichThe Coup
- Janet SarbanesThe Adventures Of The President's Daughter
- T. S. CookThe Space At The Center Of The World
- Becca KlaverPost-911
- Anthony MillerI Get A Kick From Campaigns: A Reading List
- Sean HoweHaldeman Agonistes
- Brian EvensonThe Body Politic
- Paul MaliszewskiSix Letters To The President
- Michael Ventura / Steve EricksonPrimary Notes 2008: The Hillary-Barack Emails
- David L. UlinOne On One
- Jonathan LethemPrimary Notes 2008: The Letter
- Jeff VandermeerGoat Variations Redux
- Stanley CrawfordTrillion Dollar Baby