Zach Issenberg

Writer of Miami!

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

I've a ton of new followers recently, so I'd like to say: Hello! I'm a writer, editor, and educator who believes that experimental literature can be as fun as it's demanding. If you're ever looking for book recs -or even my own work- check out my website!

https://t.co/x8GlzWRjX8

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

From science fiction blurring realities and fabulist, arcane novels, to a harrowing novel about rock climbing, M. John Harrison's ouevre has wonderfully flitting range.

@MinorLits' editor Cristina interviewed Harrison before his Booker win; here's your chance to discover him!

[Tobias Ryan @TobiasvRyan]

congrats to M. John Harrison! as good a time as any to revisit @MinorLits' interview with him ...

https://t.co/Nnk6LN8GLi

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

@ryanhasbadtaste Time for a Disco playthrough! It's what the end of Autumn is for.

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

Also try my Miami Gothic story, Aventura, a story told by an acerbic savant child with a death drive. His recollection of Miami is a fever, a violence revolving between and around people, until it takes the form of a murderous ape rushing towards you.

https://t.co/u1wmkLYtkN

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

Happy Halloween to all! In the spirit of the holiday, I'd like to share two horror stories that I've published.

If you're looking for something terrifying and strange to celebrate the day, try these.

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

Try my cybergothic horror story, SLIP SLOP. It's a nightmarish tale about a debt collector who harvests organs from people who fall into extreme poverty, paid in turn with amphetamines. Graphic novelist Henry Crane even drew art for the piece!

https://t.co/8cvVq3N8fM

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

@AdamsOrArdor has begun a new platform to share writing and it looks delightful!

While I'm in the busiest period of my work year, I still took time to set up and explore this bookworm haven. Maybe I'll see you there?

[Ada(ms) or Ardor @AdamsOrArdor]

I love great writing and hate how it's treated on the internet. So I built something to try to fix that.

If you wish there were a better place to share your writing, to discover new work, to talk culture and books, then I invite you to read—and to join me.

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

@AdamsOrArdor This looks great, Austin! I'll come try out and wish you the best in this endeavor.

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

It was well worth the wait! Season 2 of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a City of God-esque recording of a few people dammed to die and in search of meaning. The dub cast performed wonderfully.

It's the closest the genre has felt to Delany's short stories, melancholic and meditative.

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

It's the month of Halloween, my favorite holiday! I love the return of Fall with its transformative, melancholic moods and the lurking chance of terror. Every October, I try to reread, rewatch, replay, and relisten to select spooky works.

Maybe you might enjoy trying them too?

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

@salem_zarir For me, that series of passages where Honda studies reincarnation, weaving philosophical traditions and interpretations, only for him to surface at the conclusion of the war was a huge "eureka!" moment for me. The act of reading as analogue and response to history was brilliant.

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

If I had to pick my most personal nine novels, I'd have to frame it around those novels which either provided a vocabluary for how I thought, or such violent "eureka!" moments that radically transformed my approach to writing.

How wonderful that such lists continue to change.

[Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke]

idk something like this

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

@brianonhere 1. Aye... and Gomorrah by Samuel Delany
2. Family Game by Nicholas Mosley
3. The Dead by James Joyce!

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

Just 9 albums was too cruel! I simply needed to expand the list a little more.

Depending on the time of year, any one of these could be in heavier circulation than first set of essentials.

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

Another weekend begun with my top 9! Since I first heard album, they've remained requirements on my every mp3 player.

And specifically France The Mute's Japanese pressing, which includes its titular track.

[Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke]

tried to cover my entire life, I swear I am fun at parties

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

@nickgreergkcin BUT I SAW YOU LEAVE
AND CRAWL INTO A BED OF BROKEN WINDOWS!!!

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

@caringerel Congratulations!

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

... and if I had the chance to expand that list further, I would! My artistic education has always been modular and multimedia.

As our lives and experiences grow more complex, I appreciate an art form that comprehends our world in fantastical, ruthilarious fashion.

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

Picking my top nine games is much harder than choosing among my favorite books! But if I had to curate, I would do so based on those games which I try to return to at least once each year.

So many hours spent in simulations which draw further satisfaction from me each time.

[Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke]

can't possibly narrow down to 9 games from over the course of my life so here are 9 that I have played with my fiancee that we both love

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

While such a course was a singular experience, its lessons are still available! Throughout this thread are links to the lectures and works that filled the semester.

Such experiences are invaluable, those that encourage transformation and play to find and recall community.

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

I've been asked a few times in the last month about books I've read and their context. Friends found it interesting, so I thought others might too.

I'd like to talk about the best college class I ever took: The Blues Odyssey!

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

@EmmettStinson What a book! While not itself a secondary text, I found Paul Carter Harrison's The Drama of Nommo a great primer for Divine Days' narrative structure. The novel's language play was a delight, but reading narratology and performance as part of the novel gifted layers of payoff.

[Zach Issenberg @ZIssenberg]

The course clearly meant a lot to me! Taken in my freshman year, such lessons informed my own writing, the poems and fictions I wrote and the theories which invigorated me.

The course taught me how to travel the world and listen in order to write my honors thesis.