James Franco Review

“frank ocean and all black things that disappear on their own”: A Conversation with Jonathan Jacob Moore
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“frank ocean and all black things that disappear on their own”: A Conversation with Jonathan Jacob Moore

ByJohn Rufo

A discussion with Jonathan Jacob Moore regarding Frank Ocean, blackness, queerness, presence/absence, music, and Moore’s recent poem “frank ocean and all black things that disappear on their own.”

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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “The Matchmaker” by Karen Palmer

ByRoss McMeekin

In “The Matchmaker” (James Franco Review), Karen Palmer stays tight to her characters’ moment-by-moment experiences, which helps the potentially polarizing events of the story elude simple definitions. What’s revealed is the tragedy of a mental institution unable to adequately serve the population it’s responsible for. In the opening few paragraphs, we discover that the first…