Fringe 10: Live!

Our new issue is live and kicking on the site, and chock full of fine writing.
Aside from our anniversary issue, we seldom solicit work surrounding a single theme, although happy accidents do arise. The pieces in this issue employ alienation, either at the formal or topical level to expose a greater personal truth.
*There is [...]

Travelling Friends

Heather’s post yesterday got me thinking about travel what it means to be open to new experiences. I spent the academic year of 2000-2001 abroad in England, and during that time I made several trips.
Perhaps the best trip I took was to Ireland, with a close friend who was also abroad on the same [...]

And this one time, at band camp…

Imagine yourself happily packing a backpack, stuffing only the essentials (including two “Do not open until May 24th!!!” cards and a mysteriously wrapped gift) inside, passport in hand, ready to depart for your four day birthday vacation to Madrid. It’s your 33rd, so naturally it feels like a big deal. And though you’re slightly bothered [...]

The House of the Spirits

The last few weeks of my life have been tumultuous and so I found myself trying to escape my thoughts, to simply not harp on what plagued me 24/7. I decided a novel was just the thing to help me out, and after a trip to the bookstore, I selected Isabel Allende’s The House [...]

My First Review Copy

About six weeks ago I returned home from a long day of thesis work to find Stacey Richter’s Twin Study in my mailbox. It was my very first review copy, and its receipt made me feel like I am a real publisher, a feeling I don’t have often due to the surreality of printing [...]

A two-bride bachelorette party

As little sister, it’s my RIGHT to plan my older sister’s bachelorette party, agreed?
Well in my case, it’s not so easy. This wedding has two brides, and I just wasn’t sure how to work it. Does my sister get her own bachelorette party? After all, this is the one day where the bride can be [...]

Reading at Grub Street

Last night Fringe, Quick Fiction, Redivider, and Black Ocean held a reading in Boston at Grub Street. The reading, hosted by Redivider, was the second in a series of seasonal readings put on by the Boston-based journals and presses.
The reading’s theme was “Spring Fever” and all four readers delivered. Elisa Gabbert went first, [...]

Fringe Feminist of the Month

I hereby dub French President Nicolas Sarkozy Fringe Feminist of the Month. I learned of Mr. Sarkozy from this Washington Post article.
A conservative party member, Sarkozy defeated Socialist female Segolene Royal, who was blasted for her moralizing by french feminists according to this Free Republic article.
So why am I dubbing her male competitor feminist [...]

International Feminism?

In this Advice Goddess blog, Amy Alkon discusses a piece by Christina Hoff Sommers from the Weekly Standard. The Sommers piece beats the old horse, stating that American feminists have blinders on when it comes to helping out women in foreign countries. As the article points out and Alkon foregrounds, it is tempting for American [...]

The Veil Has Been Lifted

I’m not sure when it first hit me: the moment my professor announced that she agreed that Muslim women in the UK should have to remove their veils, or later, when she looked directly at me and told me that postmodernism doesn’t exist—that my American education had essentially mislead me down a path of ignorance. [...]