A double whammy on 3am magazine.

An excerpt from my novella MUEUM, just as it’s amazingly been shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness prize, https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/outside-the-first-museum/ this section is taken from the front of the book.

And then an in depth and brilliantly complex interview with Dominic Jaeckle, by Daniel Davis Wood. Dominic’s work as publisher of the novella, with Tenement, has been one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. He’s remarkable. https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/qa-dominic-jaeckle-tenement-press/

“In my first encounter with MUEUM, I was reminded of a line from his 2017 collection, The Wrestlers: ‘Diogenes the Cynic said nothing upon hearing Zeno’s arguments, but stood up and walked in order to demonstrate the falsity of Zeno’s conclusions.’ That “standing and walking” work as quite a beautiful means of thinking through the varied emphases of Fowler’s playful and prolific productivity as a poet is true, to my mind. However, MUEUM represented a study of the ways in which certain things inhibit our gait, our capacity for independent thought, our ability to freewheel through the corridors and wings of such an imagined glasshouse as Fowler’s “museum.” Rather than an imago of any free agent aiming defiantly to walk on, their strident sense of self intact, MUEUM—with Buster Keaton’s acuity and a brand of Bernhardian savagery—musters a picture of the ways in which the world (or a city, and its various ecosystems) interrupts any capacity to stride on freely. It’s a banana peel of a novella, and it’s that precise quality of Steve’s writing which first drew me to the project.”