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April 18, 2025
Socrates on the Beach Issue 12
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Patrick Autréaux — Excerpt from the novel Pussyboy (translated by Tobias Ryan)
Cynthia Buchanan — Excerpt from the novel Maiden
Brian Patrick Eha — Contra Sartre: Proust and Other People (essay)
Katherine Everitt — A Throw of the Dice through Space (essay)
R.K. Hegelman — Vertebrae of the Century (On Osip Mandelstam) (essay)
Adam Kosan — A Small Part of Recent Time (essay)
David Kuhnlein — Four Stories
Michelle Latiolais — Opaline (fiction)
Steven Moore — Rescuing Cynthia Buchanan’s Maiden (essay)
Mikra Namani — Van Gogh: A Portrait of Missing Thoughts (fiction)
Nick Norton — Certain Drolls After Certainty (essay)
Eric T. Racher — Epithalamion: Pound, Milton, Music, Poetry (essay)
Patrick Autréaux — Excerpt from the novel Pussyboy (translated by Tobias Ryan)
Cynthia Buchanan — Excerpt from the novel Maiden
Brian Patrick Eha — Contra Sartre: Proust and Other People (essay)
Katherine Everitt — A Throw of the Dice through Space (essay)
R.K. Hegelman — Vertebrae of the Century (On Osip Mandelstam) (essay)
Adam Kosan — A Small Part of Recent Time (essay)
David Kuhnlein — Four Stories
Michelle Latiolais — Opaline (fiction)
Steven Moore — Rescuing Cynthia Buchanan’s Maiden (essay)
Mikra Namani — Van Gogh: A Portrait of Missing Thoughts (fiction)
Nick Norton — Certain Drolls After Certainty (essay)
Eric T. Racher — Epithalamion: Pound, Milton, Music, Poetry (essay)
Published on April 18, 2025 12:58
September 6, 2023
Socrates on the Beach - Issue 9
Issue Nine
Patrick Autréaux — A School of Life (essay—translated by Tobias Ryan)
Devyn Defoe — We Are All Alone Here And We Are Dead (fiction)
Jacqueline Feldman — The New Naturists (fiction)
Jack Houghteling — Excerpt from the novel Sunnyside
Steven Moore — Wild Talents: Pynchon, Gaddis, and Charles Fort (essay)
Hugh Sheehy — Above and Below (fiction)
Christina Tudor-Sideri — Our Daily Drowning (Fragments on Elias Canetti, Krzysztof Zanussi, and the Question of Meaning) (essay)
Tor Ulven — Gold, Winter (fiction—translated by Jordan Barger)
Patrick Autréaux — A School of Life (essay—translated by Tobias Ryan)
Devyn Defoe — We Are All Alone Here And We Are Dead (fiction)
Jacqueline Feldman — The New Naturists (fiction)
Jack Houghteling — Excerpt from the novel Sunnyside
Steven Moore — Wild Talents: Pynchon, Gaddis, and Charles Fort (essay)
Hugh Sheehy — Above and Below (fiction)
Christina Tudor-Sideri — Our Daily Drowning (Fragments on Elias Canetti, Krzysztof Zanussi, and the Question of Meaning) (essay)
Tor Ulven — Gold, Winter (fiction—translated by Jordan Barger)
Published on September 06, 2023 03:53
March 17, 2023
Socrates on the Beach - Issue 8
Issue Eight
Gabriel Blackwell — Four Essays
Alex Cocotas — An Introduction to “Me Watching You Watching Me” (fiction)
Garielle Lutz — Leveling (From a Notebook) (fiction)
Roderick Moody-Corbett — Which Might Contain Such Liquors As They Often Buried (fiction)
Xiao Yue Shan — I Have Seen My Country in the Most Outside of Places (essay)
Paul Valéry — Excerpt from Monsieur Teste (translated by Charlotte Mandell) (fiction)
Gabriel Blackwell — Four Essays
Alex Cocotas — An Introduction to “Me Watching You Watching Me” (fiction)
Garielle Lutz — Leveling (From a Notebook) (fiction)
Roderick Moody-Corbett — Which Might Contain Such Liquors As They Often Buried (fiction)
Xiao Yue Shan — I Have Seen My Country in the Most Outside of Places (essay)
Paul Valéry — Excerpt from Monsieur Teste (translated by Charlotte Mandell) (fiction)
Published on March 17, 2023 11:20
December 9, 2022
Best Reading Experiences of the Year - 21 books
Published on December 09, 2022 05:55
March 15, 2022
Socrates on the Beach - Issue 4
link: Issue Four
Editor’s Note
Anna DeForest — “Family Meeting” (story)
Zack Finch — “The History of a Jump” (essay)
William H. Gass — Excerpt from Baroque Prose
Emily Hall — Excerpt from the novel The Longcut
John Haskell — “Five Miles High” (essay)
Grant Maierhofer — Excerpt from Sentence-Making “Notes on the Act of Writing”
Editor’s Note
Anna DeForest — “Family Meeting” (story)
Zack Finch — “The History of a Jump” (essay)
William H. Gass — Excerpt from Baroque Prose
Emily Hall — Excerpt from the novel The Longcut
John Haskell — “Five Miles High” (essay)
Grant Maierhofer — Excerpt from Sentence-Making “Notes on the Act of Writing”
Published on March 15, 2022 07:55
December 14, 2021
Socrates on the Beach - Issue 3
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Issue Three
Gabriel Blackwell — Excerpt from the novel Doom Town
Alex Cocotas — Excerpt from the novel Liebendigo
Angelo Hernandez-Sias — “Heart Reacts” (fiction)
Sean Hooks — “And There Will Be Conflagration: Grandeur and Empathy in A.S. Byatt’s Possession and the Films of Terrence Malick” (essay)
David Nutt — “Theories for the Eternal Dog” (fiction)
Pamela Ryder — Excerpts from the novel The Lists of Billy the Kid
Christina Tudor-Sideri — “Against the Skin” (essay)
Issue Three
Gabriel Blackwell — Excerpt from the novel Doom Town
Alex Cocotas — Excerpt from the novel Liebendigo
Angelo Hernandez-Sias — “Heart Reacts” (fiction)
Sean Hooks — “And There Will Be Conflagration: Grandeur and Empathy in A.S. Byatt’s Possession and the Films of Terrence Malick” (essay)
David Nutt — “Theories for the Eternal Dog” (fiction)
Pamela Ryder — Excerpts from the novel The Lists of Billy the Kid
Christina Tudor-Sideri — “Against the Skin” (essay)
Published on December 14, 2021 11:22
September 20, 2021
Socrates on the Beach - Issue 2
Issue Two
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Steve Barbaro — “Celestial Camo” (fiction)
Mauro Javier Cárdenas — “(Not) Roberto Bolaño” (fiction)
Patrick Farmer — A Tinnital Imagination (essay)
Jacqueline Feldman — “Milena” (fiction)
Vi Khi Nao — Three Stories: “64 Chromosomes,” “Minky Mupha,” and “Deleted Scenes from Fish In Exile”
Lance Olsen — “Absolute Away” (fiction)
Rebecca Ariel Porte — A Late Quartet (for Henry James) (essay)
Matthew Spencer — High on the Chalk (Kleist, Goethe, and Friedrich) (essay)
https://socratesonthebeach.com/
Steve Barbaro — “Celestial Camo” (fiction)
Mauro Javier Cárdenas — “(Not) Roberto Bolaño” (fiction)
Patrick Farmer — A Tinnital Imagination (essay)
Jacqueline Feldman — “Milena” (fiction)
Vi Khi Nao — Three Stories: “64 Chromosomes,” “Minky Mupha,” and “Deleted Scenes from Fish In Exile”
Lance Olsen — “Absolute Away” (fiction)
Rebecca Ariel Porte — A Late Quartet (for Henry James) (essay)
Matthew Spencer — High on the Chalk (Kleist, Goethe, and Friedrich) (essay)
Published on September 20, 2021 08:51
June 9, 2021
New Internet Journal
https://socratesonthebeach.com/
First Issue coming in July
Contributors:
Jen Craig
Genese Grill
Tomoé Hill
Garielle Lutz
Joseph McElroy
Alexander Theroux
First Issue coming in July
Contributors:
Jen Craig
Genese Grill
Tomoé Hill
Garielle Lutz
Joseph McElroy
Alexander Theroux
Published on June 09, 2021 07:09


