On this issue’s blatantly self-dealing front cover, John Patrick Higgins’ “Literary Quandary” pays tribute to a moving scene from Executive Editor’s Guillermo Stitch’s new novel The Coast of Everything, in which the hungover ghost of Charles Dickens eats cornflakes. (Flake of the dog.) Don’t forget to flip it over, because on the back is Tyler C. Gore’s matching ad for “Little Dorrits” cereal. Once sated, open to discover Jake Goldsmith on Luddism, Alan McCormick on the fate of bullies, Kevin Boniface on his Big Day, Kurt Luchs on James Tate (among other things), John Patrick Higgins’s Zen tips, Thomas Walton’s ever more unsavory thoughts, Philip Terry’s new translations from Charles Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen, Carl Landauer on Z, Toby Litt on QEII, a wealth of Pony Expressionism from the prolific Mike Silverton, David Rose’s AMERIKA, Christopher Boucher’s CLAMGRAM, and much more from Jesi Bender, Israel Bonilla, Yuan Changming, Marvin Cohen, Rory Doherty, Colin Gee, Will Grice, Ellen Harold, Ernest Hilbert, Charles Holdefer, Ty Holter, Anthony Howell, Devin Jacobsen, Colin James, Leena Joshi, Paul Kavanagh, Alvin Krinst, Carl Landauer, Kate Macolini, Tracy Morin, Martina Reisz Newberry, Christopher Phelps, Simon Ravenscroft, Joseph D. Reich, Juliana Rosati, Lucian Staiano-Daniels, Stephen Sunderland, and Marcia Yudkin.
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