Singular, idiosyncratic and a little mysterious, Black Clock is one of America's leading literary journals.

Issue— #13

Issue No. 13

A good mix-tape isn’t a collection of greatest hits. Rather it provides the revelation of familiar work placed in different contexts and thereby rendered new. Black Clock’s biggest issue yet, lucky number 13 is a self-portrait, amassing from the previous twelve issues more than thirty visions and sensibilities representing the magazine’s constant evolution since its inception in 2004.

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  • Steve EricksonThe Art of the Mix-Tape
  • Jonathan LethemMonster Eyes
  • Aimee BenderOn a Saturday Afternoon
  • Joanna ScottThe Sting of Irrelevancy
  • Lynne TillmanLater
  • Shelley JacksonHere is the Church
  • Andrew HultkransRevolution Blues
  • Darcey SteinkeMilk
  • Brian EvensonInvisible Box
  • Howard A. RodmanThe Double-Goer
  • Emily WhiteThe Romance
  • Heidi JulavitsThe Eternal Helen
  • Nina RevoyrCharlie and Me
  • Janet FitchRoom 721
  • Rebecca Newberger GoldsteinThe Afterlife of Skeptics
  • Lisa TeasleyJoie de Vivre
  • Diana WagmanThe Five Elements of Noir
  • Ange MlinkoArt Hotels and the Global Café
  • Robert PolitoParis Hilton Calls on Jesus
  • Monica FerrellThe Third One
  • Albert MobilioEmergency Ruin
  • Robert EiseleThrenodies
  • Rick MoodyThe Republican Diaries
  • Greil MarcusThis is How the Past Turns Up
  • Tom CarsonKatmandu
  • Michael VenturaA Strange Up-Flinging
  • Richard PowersOver the Limit
  • Joseph McElroyAnnals of Plagiary
  • Don DeLilloWoman in the Distance
  • Samuel R. DelanyA Conversation
  • Lou MathewsThe Moon Reaches Down for Me Like the Fist in a Siqueiros Painting
  • Susan StraightHer Royal Highness
  • Geoff NicholsonA Walk Around the World