New from Fence BOOKS
Phantom Captain
by Kim Rosenfield
Selected for the 2023 Ottoline Prize
- " . . . what does it mean that I can't take a lifetime
- in this aggravating acceleration
- to say what I must"
New from Fence BOOKS
Thieves: A Novel
by Valerie Werder
Listen to the author read from the opening pages:
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Fence magazine Issue #41 is nearly ready and will be shipping this winter. Subscribe to receive yours in the mail and receive access to the entire Fence magazine digital archive.
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The 2023 Fence / Rae Armantrout T-shirt
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From And Yet by Jeff AlessandrellI
Introduction: Claire Donato | April 19, 2024
“When Jeff Alessandrelli handed me a copy of And Yet, which was reissued by Future Tense Books in April 2024, he noted the book was a work of speculative fiction. I recently described it to someone as Boy Bluets. When a digital editor at Fence read an excerpt he said: ‘I love this. Is he for real?’ …. These questions are less interesting to me than the question as to whether all romantic relationships are speculative fictions, and whether the experience of romance—‘oftentimes [a] vast [source] of alienation and oppression for both those invested in [its] illusion and the wider world at large’ (Alessandrelli)—is always ungrounded in reality. Or, to quote one of Jenny Holzer’s Truisms: ROMANTIC LOVE WAS INVENTED TO MANIPULATE WOMEN. And us all. And yet.” — Claire Donato, Amtrak Quiet Car to WAS via NYP, 4/28/2022, and Brooklyn, NY, 4/17/2024
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