2020 | issue 3.0
Table of Contents
“hi”
Sam Vernon
CATEGORIES
Creative Prose
Interviews
It was not without unpleasantness that I answered the first phone call from a tabloid. They wanted to know what I...
Long Island Rescue
My mother was sick, “sick unto death,” as Poe wrote. With my beleaguered father unable to work as an accountant and look...
Unpatriotic
Nina Salas was six years old when she was branded unpatriotic by school officials. The frazzled principal Mr. Kirk, her...
Searching for Solstice
The buzz of the world enters her dream before she knows she’s waking up. A low flying police helicopter. The irregular...
Crash
Clark heard the car six seconds before it popped into view. The noise was dull. Just a low thud like a garbage truck. But...
Essays
Fleeing Backwards: The Problematic Present in Medieval Studies
When and how do we talk about the attitudes of an entire field? These conversations often occur in office hours, not in...
Notes From a Saint
Life lessons have the tendency to sneak up on us. Often, we’re going about our business, doing what we do, and a message...
Nesting
For years, we had cats. Gigantic rescue cats, retrieved from a Philadelphia parking lot when they were only a pair of gray...
Challenging Patriarchy in María de Zayas’s “Novelas”
The virtual archival exhibit Wise and Valiant: Women and Writing in the Spanish Golden Age, curated by Ana M....
Lessons Learned from a Self-Plagiarist
This past year, writer’s block hit me more acutely than ever. Time I had blocked off to write became day-long reading...
Pilgrims at the Plantation
“The moment you’ve been waiting for!” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Aaron Burr announces in Act I of Hamilton. “The pride of Mount...
REVELATIONS in Isolation
In late March, faced with the new shelter-in-place order and only a faint understanding of the damage COVID-19 was to...
Sacrificial Motherhood and Bodily Autonomy
Deolinda Correa trudged across the arid Cuyo Valley in search of her husband, her infant son in tow. While her initial goal...
Science Fiction as an Abolitionist Tool
While accepting the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014, Ursula K....
The Limits of Urbanism
Some books are published at the wrong time. Richard Sennett’s and Pablo Sendra’s Designing Disorder: Experiments and...
Poetry
Terrene
That dirty smellthat rises off my skinas the hotwaterhitsis a smell I quietlyrejoicein.That smell that saysI’ve spent the...
on fish
he is my father’s son —my father, in the name of tall horses snake killermy father, in the name of lavender doves ...
Christchurch
CHRISTCHURCH, MARCH 15th 2019I. “Hello, Brother. Welcome,”Daud Nabi greeted the refugeesfrom far-flung places in the Middle...
Psalm 137: Reimagined
Lucía Pizarro is the founding Spiritual Director at the Jewish Liberation Theology Institute in Hamilton, Ontario. She is...
Visiting Hours
General population But you’re not.Not anymoreNow you are an inmate of the state of CaliforniaA transformation lauded as...
An Account of These Two Years
you see, I wouldn’t call myself a poetas I have not thought poetically in some timelike a flower is petals, stem, and...
Inquiry in Verse (or) the Magic of Writing
introduction: on the academy and it’s desires How do I write all that I want to write while reading all that I must read...
Visual Arts
Elaine Sanders Portfolio
PROLOGUE digital image | 2020IN MEDIAS RES digital image | 2020RESOLUTION digital image | 2020 TABLE OF THE TRAGEDIAN ...
Bushmama Africa Portfolio
NKISI 4000 digital collage | 2020 | 20×28 The Nkisi 4000 piece was inspired by Nkisi (or Nkishi) which refers to...
shah noor hussein Portfolio
Black GRRRL Rising: A Multimedia Cultural Archive of Diaspora AL KUBRI // THE BRIDGE 35 mm film | 2017 | 30 x 20 in AL BAIT...
Sam Vernon Portfolio
hi pen and ink xerox | 2011 | 8.5 x 11 inches gossip pen and ink xerox | 2011 | 8.5 x 11 inches legs pen and ink xerox |...
Nachiket Prakash Portfolio
Artist Statement Dance of Fire Digital | 2018 | 1000 x 1000...
Mary Alvarez Art Porfolio
Juxtaposing Realities: Structure, Ruin, & Fluidity Garden of Consciousness: Moment of Rupture Mixed Media Collage |...
Masthead
EDITORIAL ESSAY
| Bryce Becker Alexander Billet Fabiola Carranza Stephanie Cuepo Wobby Shweta Deshpande Daniel Dominguez Madison Felman-Panagotacos Ksenia Firsova Emily Forney Kersti Francis Jeanny Fuentes Anthony Graham Jonathan Helm shah noor hussein Olivia Joyce |
Katie Lally |
EDITORIAL FICTION
Joelena Despard
Jeanny Fuentes
Julissa Guerrero Iniguez
Manon Hakem-Lemaire
Kaity Lindgren-Hansen
Anny L. Mogollón
Luz Jiménez Ruvalcaba
Bassam Sidiki
Kristen Simental
Jake Soule
Arielle Stambler
Charlotte Taylor
COPYEDITING
| Kelly Alblinger Bryce Becker Daniel Dominguez Madison Felman-Panagotacos Emily Forney Kersti Francis Jeanny Fuentes Michelle Garcia Illianna Gonzalez-Soto Anthony Graham Julissa Guerrero Iniguez Olivia Joyce Kaity Lindgren-Hansen |
Ruddy Lopez |
ART DIRECTION
Fabiola Carranza
Shweta Deshpande
Joelena Despard
Manon Hakem-Lemaire
Mary Huber
shah noor hussein
Marissa Mika
Anny L. Mogollón
Kortney Morrow
Luz Jiménez Ruvalcaba
Kristen Simental
Hannah Standley
PRODUCTION
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Kelly Alblinger |
Ruddy Lopez |
SOCIAL MEDIA
Ksenia Firsova
Illianna Gonzalez-Soto
shah noor hussein
Anny L. Mogollón
Hannah Standley
Stephanie Cuepo Wobby
Justine Yan
ADVISORS
MEDAYA OCHER, PUBLAB EDITORIAL ADVISOR
KATELYN KEATING, PUBLAB WEB ADVISOR
PUBLAB ISSUE 3.0 IS A PRODUCTION OF THE 2020 LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS PUBLISHING WORKSHOP