Fun & Games
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Mortimer Altitude Banghead Network
Found written on the back of the packaging that contained an AOL CD ROM, “Mortimer Altitude Banghead Network” represents late Bean Newton at his most cogent. Interpolating e.e. cummings rolling on ecstasy, Newton asks us to consider both existential dread and Epicurean pleasures, even if of a minor sort. –EW Wilder subject portway throughnot the Continue reading
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Brue in Bean
In the end, I suppose, Bean Newton needed this, something of a prayer, something of a lament, something of a love poem. Battered, sick, saddled with student loan debt, Newton found himself, at the end of 1998, before he finally lost or cut contact with friends, acquaintances, and the outside world, settled into a sort Continue reading
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Character Names for Your Dark but Whimsical Dickensian YA Novel
As part of EastWesterly Review‘s mission, we are obligated to support preborn works of art by occasionally publishing story starters, challenges, and, in this case, random lists of character names. This is the latest in the series, free of AI interference, straight from the dusty attics of our misused minds. –EW Wilder Prancy Gütbukt Mortimer Continue reading
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Fascist-Friendly Names for Your Former DEI Program
For EWR, EW Wilder As diversity, equity, and inclusion programs continue to come under fire from the Trump administration, your college or university might be looking for ways to continue the work without drawing undue attention. To better serve you, our crack team of experienced committee-members and press-gang administrators put together the following list of Continue reading
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Story Starters
As part of the charter of EastWesterly Review, and in accord with the mission of Purewater University and its corporate underwriters, a certain number of “creativity-instigating” features are to be provided. Each year, the Department of Applied Textualization forms a Creativity Seed Committee, the work of which is to help fulfill this mandate. This year, Continue reading
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