COVER: CHARLIE McPHERSON
The Legend of Everything (painting)
INTERVIEW: Marvin Farmer
CALEB ASYMOV (novella) Receiver of Wreck: Lagan
ALEC V. BAYMOS (poem) The Love Song of a Common Prostitute
DILLINGER BOOTH (2 fumage series)
Smoke & Smears, 1–6
Smoke & Tears, 1–6
MARVIN FARMER (essay) ETHICS: Why I’m Not a Consequentialist
FRANKLIN FRADTNER Deacon Dodgs on “The Game of Logic”
AZEEN KAZEMI (fiction) You’re What I Couldn’t Find
ALYSSA LAURENT (poem) A Mutual Mistake
BERT LAWRENCE (fiction) The Anatomy of Tristram Shandy
SABRINA LOPEZ'S SCIENCE PAGE: Superconductivity
ROGER LOUTTIK (fiction) The Pan-Galactic Brunch
CHARLIE McPHERSON (painting series) The Bird, the Hand, and the Bush: A Lesson in Contraposition—Case Studies 1–5
CHARLIE McPHERSON (paintings)
Walling Fodder
The Jerk and the Quagmire
Grieves, Alas
CHARLIE McPHERSON (sculptures)
Shelly Says She Sells Down by the Street-Whores
How Much Would Woody Lift His Luck If He Would and Could Suck Dick
BILL MURRAY Bons Mots
TIMOTHY SYNCLAIR (fiction) A Good Old-Fashioned Bridge Burning
TANYA TRAPANI (layered-paper reliefs)
A Bleeder’s Realization
This Is My Road to Joy: Make Some Noise!
GOD: The Invisible Pink Unicorn in My Sock Drawer
A Promise with a Catch
A Man Obsessed
I Need Satan More Than He Needs Me
My Brain, Hanging Upside Down
They’re All for You, Dear
Space, Not Just a Place for Stars
Laughing, Till It Doesn’t Hurt
Charlie McPherson is a Brooklyn-based artist, whose thought-provoking and reality-bending paintings and sculptures have been wowing the New York art scene for years.
My introduction to the RANK! family was through Delia Sanders and her Los Angeles art gallery s a l o (o) n. And I sincerely mean it when I describe RANK! as a family. The magazine became like a second home to me. I fell in love with the spirit, the people, the ideas it spread, and the ideals it aimed for. To this day, some of my closest friends are people I met through RANK!. My inclusion in this issue…
