Ubu Editions publishes the unpublishable. Invited authors were asked what makes something unpublishable, these are their responses. Works range ”from an 1018-page manuscript (unpublishable due to its length) to a volume of romantic high school poems written by a now-respected innovative poet.”
The intelligence factory: How America makes its enemies disappear. The story of Aafia Siddiqui and the disappearing prisoners of the global war on terror. Via Harper’s.
Paul Theroux reads ‘The Gospel According to Mark’ by Jorge Luis Borges. The story is wonderful in every sense of the word. From The New Yorker‘s Chapter and Verse podcast series of a few years back.
Why do rappers hold their guns sideways? Slate explains, because you asked.
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I LOVE the irony of that Ubu project – by invitation only – so you can’t even get your unpublishables published unless you know thet right people. There’s a beautiful piece of irony in there somewhere
It is ironic. There is something sad about it too.
The works themselves are interesting, however, and worth sifting through.