• Social Media Meets the Anti-Social Novelist
  Dislocate Literary Journal

  by Kevin Fenton

  You could argue that nothing has changed.
  
  You could argue that Addison and Steele and Samuel Johnson were ur-bloggers. After all, the first magazines--The Rambler, The Spectator--were not magazines in the modern sense. Rather, they were short personal essays published a couple of times a week by guys who spent too much time in coffee houses.

  [read]March 17th, 2010

• Social Media Meets the Anti-Social Novelist
  Dislocate Literary Journal

  by Kevin Fenton

  You could argue that nothing has changed.
  
  You could argue that Addison and Steele and Samuel Johnson were ur-bloggers. After all, the first magazines--The Rambler, The Spectator--were not magazines in the modern sense. Rather, they were short personal essays published a couple of times a week by guys who spent too much time in coffee houses.

  [read]March 17th, 2010

• Mapping the Unseen: An Interview with Adriane Colburn
  Dislocate Literary Journal

  by J. Lee Morsell

  San-Francisco-based artist Adriane Colburn is working on a series of installations and maps that seek to organize and chart changes in the natural and urban landscape. She recently attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in the wake of research trips to the Arctic and the Amazon.
  
  Colburn seeks through her artwork to visualize the unseen, to depict frontiers of geography, politics and history--to reveal. "Apocalypse" is Greek for "revelation," or "unveiling." Upon meeting her in California this January, I mentioned that her work qualifies as apocalyptic, which led to the following conversation.

  [read]March 15th, 2010

• Notes for New Editors: An Interview with Adam Hochschild
  Dislocate Literary Journal

  A companion to "The Art of Moral History: An Interview with Adam Hochschild," in dislocate #6.

  by J. Lee Morsell

  Adam Hochschild is the author of six books. His latest, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award.
  
  He has been a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and an editor at Mother Jones and Ramparts magazines. He is currently working on a book about World War I. We interviewed Adam Hochschild in November 2009 for the upcoming dislocate #6, and discussed topics ranging from politics and literature to the joys and perils of research. In the following excerpt, we discussed globalization, the impact of the Internet on journalism, and what he has learned as an editor.

  [read]March 12th, 2010

• Welcome note from the Editor-in-Chief
  Dislocate Literary Journal

  by Colleen Coyne

  Welcome to the new dislocate online!

  We've been hearing it for years: the publishing world is undergoing significant changes, and literature as we know it--both its material form and its content--will never be the same. This news is both exhilarating and slightly terrifying to most literary-minded folks, us included.

  [read]March 11th, 2010

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