PROTEINS
for issue 2
1. LAY YOUR CHEEK ON THE CENTURY'S EDGE!
2. CULTURE ITS BACILLI!
3. INJECT THEM WITH FORCE!
More concretely: The Amenia Free Review seeks original works of fiction / poetry / nonfiction and art,
as well as should-be canonical reprints (critical or creative), interviews with militants (artistic or otherwise), and Moderately Sized Reviews.
We delight in translations. All submissions should be sent to ameniafreereview@gmail.com.
Plenty of contemporary literature gives voice to the apocalyptic little weaknesses acceding to capital and doom or enclaves of self-preservation.
The Amenia Free Review exists to cultivate expression of struggle against this, towards explicitly socialist ends.
With that said, we also think like Leila Khaled: "I have learned that a woman can be a fighter...and still fall in love and be loved.
She can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life in all its forms." We thus find struggle to include plenty of sex, comedy,
minutiae, antisocial people, love, and wasted time.
All who have for too long been excluded due to their race, gender, or sexuality, or who have faced state repression or incarceration, are
especially encouraged to submit. The press has told us that such statements may also encourage woke jihadis, trans athletes, and antifa sleeper cells––we look forward to hearing from you.
Please do not send: tired forms, Woke 1 Stuff, or lightly repackaged State Department ideologies.
As for instructions:
- Please at least consider our Purpose.
- Then, for Nonfiction, Interviews, New Canon, and Moderately Sized Reviews, please send a pitch.
- Interviews and New Canon pitches should briefly describe the subject's relevance to revolutionary/cultural struggle.
- Moderately Sized Reviews can be many things, but are always around 1,000 words. We welcome traditional reviews of recently released books / films / exhibits, but hope you think beyond it.
Review a factory, a court case, a protest, a workplace; an exhibit, a field, an internet psychotic. Pitches should include 2-4 sentences on the underlying work(s)
and your argument regarding them.
We want to pay people. We can't really, but we're gathering funds to cover reporting expenses. Let us know what you need, knowing we are all-volunteer, non-non-profit, and Soros has stopped
handing out cash, which we probably couldn't get if we wanted it. Please bear these factors in mind and know that contributors are always welcome
for dinner.
For the sake of greater clarity we offer the editors' interests, with the caveat that all of us enjoy reading beyond them, and being surprised, and probably have them imperfectly defined.
C.R.: Domestic labor, reproductive rights and their constant crumbling, love, violence, children, care, and freedom. Children’s profound capacity for love and viciousness. Society’s proclaimed love for and yet profound capacity for viciousness toward children. Non-sequiturs, in fiction. Grace Paley, Dewey Dell, and Alices Neel and Notley.
A.D.: Historical memory and historiography, first-person reportage and oral histories on contemporary struggles, critical reappraisals of literature, television and film criticism, formally-inventive nonfiction, writing on bureaucracies, materialist ethics and morals, food and drinking (their making and consumption), crafts, the artistic industries
J.A.B.:
RE:POETRY: Mayakovsky, Cesaire, Joyelle McSweeney, Trakl, Cole Swensen, Whitman, Dickinson, Blake. idk. Laughter + inflection b/w eros and deathdrive
RE:CRITICISM: interrelation of aesthetics / ideology / political activity: Fanon, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall. but keep it breezy, baby
RE:FICTION: revolutionaries in stained glass. or anything in stained glass. or revolutionaries. Meridel Le Sueur, Victor Serge, Joseph Andras on one hand; on the other Anne Carson, Cormac McCarthy, George Elliot, Wilson Bueno, Barry Hannah, DeLillo, Toni M, Faulkner
RE:NONFICTION: strongly voiced first-person reporting, esp. of labor upheaval or struggle
RE:RE: joan of arc; racingsport; nail; China; Algerian revolution; Yemen; scams; biting