the Brazenhead Review

Brazenhead No. 4. In the light and in the dark.

Alex Dimitrov ~ And this is the light that arrives / despite everything. It is the most light. / It will happen more often than you expect.

Scott Fitzgerald at Juan-les-pins, French Riviera

“The conditions for serendipity, like those for biodiversity, are rarely the best for the short-term bottom line.” newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

This was fun! Stellar readings. Attentive audience. Beautiful issue. Thank you @brazenheadrev editors!

📣 The application period for the 2024 FSG Writer’s Fellowship is now open! The FSG Writer’s Fellowship is a year-long program designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing.

@BrandonMH You don't think she grows out of it, eh?

Anna Paquin's Lisa Cohen in Ken Lonergan's MARGARET (2011) is the Karen anti-hero of our age; she definitely grows up to be Elise Stefanik.

you can’t have a parasocial relationship w someone you know. Or can you

Filly Sanders.

No. 5 hath launched 🙏 to all who made it out last night, esp our readers, incl @michaelLdon @mchangpoet @Skye_Cleary @peelijay Amber Noel & Blake Z Rong. Find the new issue here, w work by those above + @BrandonMH, Emily Simon, Bo Lewis & more --> brazenheadreview.company.site/products/Braze…

Saturday mood: George Harrison hosting a luncheon party at Friar Park, Champagne detail, portrait by his good friend Barry Feinstein.

A recap of Cannes with Manon Kerjean of “lost in frenchlation” worldradioparis.podbean.com/e/lost-in-fren…

While a well done presentation of "today's situation", essays like this legitimize & reinforce the existing paradigm--leading to more of the same--rather than raise any real issues about it, or the corporatization & commodification of both authors & books esquire.com/entertainment/…

She's out on the town............ She's making friends........................... Changing lives....... maybe. (You gotta believe.)

One more time from the top..... Please join us next Sat., June 1st for our "hard" laun—no, make that our Black Spring launch. w @peelijay @mchangpoet @Skye_Cleary @michaelLdon & more

We regret to announce that, in the process of assembling the new issue, our editor-in-chief has contracted a rare case of "pink thumb"... We are beside ourselves with anomie. Scanning the horizon for answers. No one can say what will help. But everybody has a theory.