Issue Three
Contents
Jordan Savage
Feet! Feet!
For dancing’smy soul delight (Feet! Feet!)- Frank O’Hara. Beginning Stories start at the end of things. The Odyssey began at the end of the Trojan War. This morning snuck up before I’d quite s… Read article
James Purdon
Castles in the Air
In a university town on the west coast of America, tents are floating in the sky. First one, then another is lofted into the air, each held up by its own rig of white balloons. In front of of the plaz… Read article
Crystal Whitaker
Prishtina Streets
Eyes to the ground. Each step brings a new texture, mostly curious, sometimes treacherous. It may be the relentless subzero temperatures striving to shear layers of stone from the bedrock of paving sl… Read article
Toby Ferris
Slow Work and Plain Chant – An Apology for the Failed Life
‘I am groping for clarity and coming up with something else, as if the object I wished to grasp, to hold up, rotate, study, understand is not after all susceptible of direct observation. The big thi… Read article
Thomas Marks
An A to Z of Coach Drivers
Axel had been a gendarme for thirty years, including a stint during the late ’80s when he’d been seconded as a bodyguard to François Mitterrand. He was a short, golden-skinned Breto… Read article
Kristen Treen
Print Culture
When I talk about what I do, the index finger of my right hand automatically enacts a scrolling motion. The finger bends into a hook; it straightens; it repeats, a mid-air gesticulation. Each time t… Read article
John Gallagher
Language Turned Convict
Heere I set before thee (good Reader) the lewd lowsie language of these loytering lusks, and laysie lorels, wherewith they buy and sell the common people as they passe through the countrey. – Thoma… Read article
Arthur House
Before the Thaw
At Yaroslavl, looking east on a bend in the frozen Volga, river, land, and sky merge into a white vagueness in the middle distance. The Volga seems like a boundary at the end of the earth, but somewhe… Read article
Peter Scott
Smoking Ban
This is not a confession. This is not a story or a parable, a manifesto or a warning, a love letter or a fantasy, self-help or recruitment drive. If it mattered when I first tried a cigarette, I coul… Read article
Olivia Laing
The Lonely City
There’s a painting halfway up the pristine snail shell of the Guggenheim Museum in New York of a - but already I’m beginning to fumble. There’s a painting halfway up the pristine snail shell of … Read article
Editor’s Note
List of Contributors
Toby Ferris
Toby Ferris is responsible for the Anatomy of Norbiton and its counterpart on The Dabbler blog, Atlas of Norbiton. @AnatomyNorbiton
John Gallagher
John Gallagher is working on a doctorate about language-learning in the early modern period. He once did stand-up comedy in front of Ian Paisley. @earlymodernjohn
Arthur House
Arthur House is a writer based in London. @arthur_house
Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. She's the author of To the River (Canongate) and is currently working on The Trip to Echo Spring, a liquid history of the relationships between writers and alcohol. She lives between Brighton and New York. @olivialanguage
Thomas Marks
Thomas Marks is a writer, editor, and recovering academic. @Tomwmarks
James Purdon
James Purdon is a founding editor of The Junket. He teaches Modern and Contemporary literature at the University of St Andr @jamespurdonJordan Savage
Jordan Savage is a PhD student at the University of Essex, specialising in eco-crticism and psychogeography in modern American poetry. @JKSavage
Peter Scott
Peter Scott is a magazine publisher who lives in London. @PeteJRScott
Kristen Treen
Kristen Treen is working on a doctoral thesis about American Civil War literature and material culture at the University of Cambridge. @MissTreen
Crystal Whitaker
Crystal Whitaker is an architectural and urban designer currently working in Kosovo. @urbantooling