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. “From the beginning,” writes editor Steve Erickson in Black Clock 13‘s introduction, “this is a magazine that has sought to define itself by its voices, and to that end, this particular issue means not to be a ‘best-of’ but an autobiographical document of what the magazine has been so far.” 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.
In Black Clock 13, we are pleased to bring you work by the following authors:
AIMEE BENDER On a Saturday Afternoon
TOM CARSON Katmandu
SAMUEL R. DELANY A Conversation
DON DELILLO Woman in the Distance
ROBERT EISELE Threnodies
STEVE ERICKSON The Art of the Mix-Tape
BRIAN EVENSON Invisible Box
MONICA FERRELL The Third One
JANET FITCH Room 721
ANDREW HULTKRANS Revolution Blues
SHELLEY JACKSON Here is the Church
HEIDI JULAVITS The Eternal Helen
JONATHAN LETHEM Monster Eyes
GREIL MARCUS This is How the Past Turns Up
LOU MATHEWS The Moon Reaches Down for Me Like the Fist in a Siqueiros Painting
JOSEPH MCELROY Annals of Plagiary
ANGE MLINKO Art Hotels and the Global Café
ALBERT MOBILIO Emergency Ruin
RICK MOODY The Republican Diaries
REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN The Afterlife of Skeptics
GEOFF NICHOLSON A Walk Around the World
ROBERT POLITO Paris Hilton Calls on Jesus
RICHARD POWERS Over the Limit
NINA REVOYR Charlie and Me
HOWARD A. RODMAN The Double-Goer
JOANNA SCOTT The Sting of Irrelevancy
DARCEY STEINKE Milk
SUSAN STRAIGHT Her Royal Highness
LISA TEASLEY Joie de Vivre
LYNNE TILLMAN Later
MICHAEL VENTURA A Strange Up-Flinging
DIANA WAGMAN The Five Elements of Noir
EMILY WHITE The Romance
Black Clock is published semi-annually by the CalArts MFA Writing Program. One-year subscription (2 issues): $20. Single issue cover price:$13. To subscribe, consult Black Clock‘s subscription agent fictionondemand.com or write to [email protected]. For more information see blackclock.org.
