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About Alex Lanz

Alex Lanz grew up in a suburb in Oregon and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. His essays have appeared in the Atticus Review, Entropy, and other venues. His website is secondslope.wordpress.com.

A Wreath for William H. Gass

Alex Lanz

A Wreath for William H. Gass by Alex Lanz

William H. Gass wrote books that were saturated with signs. Even the one-word sentences, and he wrote a lot of them, seem charged with stylistic and rhetorical shaping. It was arguably overloaded and … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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