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Apples & Oranges reprinted by Seven Stories Press

September 21, 2017 By Jan Clausen

Seven Stories Press, 2017 Nonfiction. 256 pp, paperback ISBN: 9781609807498 Order from Seven Stories Press Sexuality and identity are the twin goddesses that lend Jan Clausen’s Apples & Oranges its grace and urgency. In the late 1980s, after more than a … [Read more...]

Narrative Permission Slip

March 9, 2015 By Jan Clausen

Here's one reason I don't blog on this site more often: I'm fulfilling requests for posts on other sites. Check out: My recent Tarpaulin Sky interview "Narrative Permission Slip," my new blog post for The Writer in the World. … [Read more...]

Tagged With: confession, history, Lucrecia Martel, narrative, persona, Samuel Richardson

Nobody Leaves

October 21, 2014 By Jan Clausen

“I, of course, saw my death before I died, though by then it is true, I could not stop it, I’d already walked into the accident knowingly, but, by the time it was about to happen, I and the others had completely set our course; there was no outcome other than my … [Read more...]

Tagged With: apocalypse chic, harm reduction, human nature, killing the world

Great Moloch, Grant Us…

October 1, 2014 By Jan Clausen

I wrote these lyrics in the waning months of the George W. Bush presidency. Ricky Riot composed a tune and performed it in a few venues around NYC. In light of the so-called reluctant warrior's new crusade against the latest great satan (I refer, of course, to the … [Read more...]

Tagged With: bloodbath, empire, gender, peace, war

Everybody Wants Good Things

September 22, 2014 By Jan Clausen

"What if we understand the death drive not only as manifested within the individual psyche, or in terms of group psychology, but as something that takes hold of institutions and guides their aims, sometimes with furtive tenacity?"--Judith Butler, review of Jacques … [Read more...]

Tagged With: climate change, death drive, nukespeak, Obama

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