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Hospitality

By Adam Rothstein
 
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I can’t help but lie on my stomach on the carpet.
I dig my chin into the floor in a way that makes my jaw hurt. Rolling to [...]

Fresh

By Adam Rothstein
 
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I could not tell you what he was thinking when he reached to pull the pear from the tree branch. He stood and reached upward with a [...]

Cannibalism

Cannibalism
a novella by Adam Rothstein
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The Plot

By Adam Rothstein
 
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The Plot

First, The Prayer
Oh father whose art is now showing in heaven, whom I never knew outside of the endless inculcations of the hollywood movies and washed [...]

We Write Manifestos Together

By Adam Rothstein
 
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We Write Manifestos Together
Oh, it is time!
So many years I have turned the knob between my fingers.
I adjust; I listen again. Once more I twist; I open [...]

Atemporality and Marx’s World-History

Atemporality and Marx’s World-History
By Adam Rothstein
Published in The Brutalitarian, by Brute Press
Oct.1st, 2009
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“No matter whose books we’ve read, we’re the children of capital; the love of speed is ingrained in us.”
- N+1
Certain things are [...]

Letters to the Past

Letters to the Past
By Adam Rothstein
Published in The Brutalitarian, by Brute Press
Oct.1st, 2009
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Dear 1959 (or thereabouts),
Somewhere across the limited expanse of your body, the poet Jack Spicer was mailing and receiving letters with James [...]

On Fire

By Adam Rothstein
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On Fire
As it streaks I wish it was on fire with a certain part of my mind. It’s the part of my imagination that wishes for everything [...]

As the Man Said

By Adam Rothstein
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As the Man Said
At the park there is a bit of a hill, one side quite steep. This is where they sit, just over the lip, legs [...]

The Sci-Fi Speculum

The Sci-Fi Speculum
By Adam Rothstein
Published in The Brutalitarian, by Brute Press
July 15, 2009
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Today I had a vision—in it, Sci-Fi was dead.
Alright, so I’m feeling a strange essay coming on. It’s still a little hot [...]