A PERFECT PAIR

How do you know when a pairing is perfect? For me, not only should both individual elements be strong on their own, but together, they should enhance one another. The art of recommendation is built on this idea, that having consumed one body of work; a song, movie, book, et cetera, you now carry that with you into the next. These experiences impact each other, and ideally, you’re able to get more out of the both of them from their relationship. Here, I have compiled the specific reasons that you might enjoy some of the works selected in issue 48, that apply to my recommendations as well. Maybe something unexpected will check a few boxes, so consider checking them out!

IF YOU ENJOYED: Prescribed Burn by Megan Callahan 

▢ lighting a cigarette and watching it burn

▢ is living the same as a natural disaster?

▢ art about art is the best art

▢ the sound of a really loud amp at a basement show

▢ doesn’t everybody write about their childhood…

CHECK OUT: M Train by Patti Smith

IF YOU ENJOYED: Variations on Weights and Measures by Dominique Russell, translated from Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

▢ refuse to choose between style and form

▢ 3 am rabbit-hole enthusiast

▢ same words new meaning

▢ the world feels so big how could you feel big too

▢ love for a blank new page

CHECK OUT: Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau 

IF YOU ENJOYED: In Absence Of  by Sophie Hoss

▢ does “can’t teach an old dog new tricks” apply to my mental health?

▢ on edge with beautiful language

▢ smile-cringe while men talk

▢ infinite ways to write about rabbits

▢ creation as a burden, but not in a sad way

CHECK OUT: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado 

IF YOU ENJOYED: Song for Maud by Elliott Gish

▢ maybe it isn’t so crazy to have a baby

▢ you are stronger than you know

▢ letting go of what your mother wanted you to be

▢ people can look like ghosts

▢ avid fan of reading a conversation

CHECK OUT: A Natural History of Transition by Callum Angus

IF YOU ENJOYED: BONE-EATING SNOT FLOWER by Erin Robinsong

▢ queer as in monstrous, monstrous as in powerful

▢ wetness and the ocean

▢ prefer scientific names to colloquialisms

▢ if you shouldn’t exist, why are you here?

▢ words that feel like waves

 CHECK OUT: Tentacle by Rita Indiana