Farrago's Wainscot

“Wasp Light,” by Bruce Boston and Lee Ballentine (FW 10), will appear in the forthcoming The Anthology of Dark Wisdom. Why not preorder a copy of the book?

The recession is over! Break out the champagne and the credit cards—it’s time to get back to normal! Five More Banks Fail. 2009 total: 120 (to date) 2008 total: 25 2007 total: 2 200

Noise is coming … Salvage Country will teach you to raise a new nation state. Hint: It’s a novel forthcoming from Farrago founder Darin Bradley.

As the battle of writers vs. readers wages on, Farrago spouse, power drunkard and eclectic academic Rima Abunasser has some thoughts on why she chose a spot amongst the elite of the reading class, and what exactly that means...

“Enough said.”

Farrago friend and contributor Mark Teppo may have qualms about self-promotion in this space, so this unsanctioned post will give him some plausible deniability...

Farrago, maybe, idles. Firstly, modern instrumentation frames moribund introspection. Farrago, mayhap, indulges. Frequently, mischievous incidents...

The final issue of Farrago’s Wainscot is now live. This issue featurs fiction by, Rae Bryant, Becca De La Rosa, Paul Jessup, Eden Robins, S. Boyd Taylor, and Jonathan Wood. Poets this month include Jared Walls, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Lynn Pattison, and Bruce Boston. ...

Farrago’s Wainscot will cease operations following the release of its twelfth issue (the final issue of our third year) on October 1. We will close to submissions on September 1. Those of us behind Farrago’s Wainscot wish to thank our many contributors for sharing their work with us. Fu...

Farrago’s Wainscot contributor Jeffrey Barnes (issue 1 and issue 10) appears in Ann Zimmerman’s article “‘Twas 147 Shopping Days Before Christmas …” (The Wall Street Journal). Meanwhile, he continues to be existential about anagrams (The Anagram Times.

We’re still working on the best way to archive and present these events. ...

Chicago’s street art fails to inspire as much as Iran’s. At least in the downtown area, where I saw surprisingly little of it in my short stay. Maybe I was just unobservant. The only tag I found that seemed to have any point at all is reproduced below. If...

Tales from the Slushfiles #3: Keep ‘em Coming! NOTE: The previous Tales from the Slushfiles post originated from these two LiveJournal entries: selfavowedgeek.livejournal.com/104576.html and selfavowedgeek.livejournal.com/107466.html . ...