To Limit Is to Define

To Limit Is to Define

To Limit Is to Define Mario Aquilina’s New Anthology The Essay at the Limits: Poetics, Politics and FormBy Marion Aquilina264 pp. Bloomsbury Academic, $39.95Released April 2021 If, as Oscar Wilde’s aphorism goes, to define is to limit, then it follows that every...
A Full Embrace of the Wandering Mind

A Full Embrace of the Wandering Mind

A Full Embrace of the Wandering Mind On Rick Bailey’s Essays Get Thee to a Bakery: EssaysBy Rick Bailey228 pp. University of Nebraska Press, $19.95Released March 2021 I’ve often heard that a good writer can write about anything and make it interesting for a...
Watch This

Watch This

Watch This Finalist of the 2021 Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize Jason Sepac Jay is a writer from Pittsburgh, PA. His visual essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Kenyon Review Online, and The Rumpus. He is currently an MFA candidate in nonfiction at Oregon State...
Autofiction: A Visual Essay

Autofiction: A Visual Essay

Autofiction Finalist of the 2021 Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize Frances Cannon Frances Cannon is the Managing Director of Sundog Poetry, as well as a writer, artist, and instructor, currently teaching creative writing and literature courses at the Vermont College...
A Bind

A Bind

.. By Nora Seilheimer From Fourth Genre 22.2 If you travel with a fear of flying, mental health experts recommend that you hold fast to the facts. Remind yourself of statistics that show that the most dangerous part of your travel day is the car ride to or from the...