COVER: ANDREW HARPER
Who Is RANK!? (painting)
INTERVIEW: Alyssa Laurent & Caleb Asymov
CALEB ASYMOV (essay) Why There’s Defense for Taking Offense
CALEB ASYMOV (journalism) Fear & Loathing in Huntington Beach
ALEC V. BAYMOS / TERRENCE WINTHROP (poem) The Touch Stone, Parts I–V
TANNER BUCKLEY (fiction) Kangaroo Court: An Albert Kay Reading
JAYDE COLERIDGE (fiction) The Anomic or Welcome to Patagonia!
ANDERS H. R. DROOPER (collage series)
FRANKLIN FRADTNER Dr. Bonga’s Brain Games
ANDREW HARPER (painting series)
La Trahison de Byrne
La Trahison de Harper
La Trahison de l’Art
ANDREW HARPER (collage) What the…
ANDREW HARPER (sculptures)
ANDREW HARPER (rectified readymade) Dear Mer Apes
DAVID JENSEN (fiction) And It Must Be Kept or “J'espère que ce n'est pas ce que j'ai déjà vu”
ALYSSA LAURENT
SABRINA LOPEZ’S SCIENCE PAGE: Prisms: Refraction and Chromatic Dispersion
BRIN MORRIS (photo series) Roads to Freedom
Meditation 4
Meditation 5
TIMOTHY SYNCLAIR (novella series)
The Synesthete vs. the Asymbolic
CARLOS TYPHOON (flash fiction)
It Was the Eyes
Now That I’ve Found Someone
SOLOMON WEST (essay series) Letters to an American Friend
Fourth Letter
ANAIS YOSSARIAN (fiction) Janie Jones
Andrew Harper is a Venice-based artist practiced in a vast array of mediums, from paint to digital to the written word. His works often involve complex constructions, and routinely incite the observer to question the nature of identity and/or reality.
The history of this particular issue of the magazine is fraught with adversity and controversy, from the comical to the frustratingly severe. It starts with RANK! owner/editor Caleb Asymov’s pitch to get me to do the cover, and it concludes with a prison sentence…