identitytheory.com
a literary website

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• fiction
• essays
• music
• film
• books
• visuals
• poetry
• social justice
• blogs

 

Recent features

I Was 16. --As a teenager, Sean Christopher Lewis was quoting Heathers and idolizing John Elway while Emery was surviving genocide in Rwanda.

Election. --Fiction by Bezalel Stern.

Random Truths About...Sarah Jaffe. --Anna-Lynne Williams interviews singer-songwriter (The Way Sound Leaves a Room).

Robert Birnbaum interviews Pete Hamill. --Long-form chat with writer of Tabloid City.

David Foster Wallace and The Velveteen Rabbit. --Essay on DFW's characters, by James Warner.

No Gold Rush. --Fiction by Alta Ifland.

5 Questions: Summer Block. --On editing The Foghorn, a humor magazine.

Author Interview: Daniel Okrent. --Robert Birnbaum with author of Last Call re: Prohibition and the Future of Newspapers.

The Art of Dying. --Interview with hip hop's Sadistik on collaboration with Chicago artist Kid Called Computer. Plus, a related film interview.

 

Bloggish

What We're Reading: December. [What We're Reading]

Monday's Margins: Remnick on Havel; Christopher Hitchens; Gifts for Writers and Readers [Book Rate]

Black Death, Lost in its Own Darkness [Side Shots]

Why Can't Amazon and the Indies Just Get Along? [Editors' Blog]

"Serpents" by Sharon Van Etten: Song of the Month for December [Music]

Browse Our Blogs...

Editors' Blog. Book Rate. Side Shots Film Blog. Music Blog. Tourist Information.

 

Notes from the Editors

R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens.

We have updated our submissions guidelines.

We are in the process of revamping our website. Contact us if you have suggestions.

You should edit fiction for us.

 

Exit music

• Song of the Month: Sharon Van Etten - "Serpents"