J.W. McCormack
J.W. MCCORMACK’s work has appeared in Bookforum, the New Inquiry, Tin House, N1FR, Publishers Weekly, and Conjunctions, where he is a senior editor. He currently teaches at Columbia University.
HEIDE HATRY:
Material Reality III
By J.W. McCormack
Heide Hatry’s art investigates matter and the decay of matter—more specifically, the corporality of the human and nonhuman dead. While her medium consists of flesh, meat, and ash, there is another essential component of her work that has not received recognition: the books she makes for each project, each of which are integral, not supplemental, to her larger oeuvre.
FICTION: Who Is She?
By J.W. McCormackThe Chinese storyteller Can Xue (“Dirty Snow”) has written many justly celebrated stories about magic mountains, disappearing shoes, perceptive cats and dead uncles, but in Five Spice Street, her first novel to be translated into English, she has written a social novel about a street that survives on daydreams.
Lyrics for Love and Loss
By J.W. McCormackI would like to attempt a transparent approach to a mysterious subject.
Fiction: Greater World Systems
By J.W. McCormackBooks draw on books to get themselves written and this can be a problem.
