{"product_id":"astra-magazine-filthisbn-9781662619015","title":"Astra Magazine, Filth","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAstra Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAstra Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore and beyond. Each issue contains prose, poetry, art and comics, artfully produced on silky smooth paper with luxurious French flaps. It's the most covetable accessory of the fall —  dark and playful, pretty and smart. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eFilth\u003c\/i\u003e issue features work by Elif Batuman, Sheila Heti, Raven Leilani, Aracelis Girmay, Samuel R. Delany, Brontez Purnell, Wayne Koestenbaum, Clarice Lispector, McKenzie Wark, Mariana Enríquez, Safiya Sinclair, Maggie Millner, and many more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a moral element to filth. It is both what we have been taught to hide, and the subversive pleasure in revealing it. Many of the writers in this issue are queer or trans or otherwise outsiders. When you are taught that an intrinsic part of you is shameful, you find power in that shame. All that filth, compressed by the pressure, sparkles like diamonds when it is let it into the light. Have you ever felt the relief of telling your own secrets? There’s a reason why people revel in their own filth. 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It’s full of stunning work from a broad range of voices, a magazine both intimate and universal, in the way all good writing is.\"\u003cbr\u003e— \u003cb\u003eNATHAN ENGLANDER\u003c\/b\u003e, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of \u003ci\u003eFor the Relief of Unbearable Urges\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“As a writer whose work is often difficult to classify, I am attracted to Astra Magazine’s agenda of publishing writers who exist in the ”inter,” whose writing defies neat categorization. The debut ”Ecstasy” issue is stirring in its international orientation \u0026amp; ambitious in its scope and content. ”\u003cbr\u003e— \u003cb\u003eLAURA LINDSTEDT,\u003c\/b\u003e Finlandia Prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eOneiron\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Friend Natalia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAstra Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e is vital. As an American citizen born outside the US, I am especially attracted to their idea of publishing writing that rejects borders, and that a writer should not, can not, represent an entire country. The first issue allows space for each extraordinary writer to speak only for themselves.”\u003cbr\u003e— \u003cb\u003eIMBOLO MBUE\u003c\/b\u003e, Bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Behold the Dreamers \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e How Beautiful We Were\u003c\/i\u003eNadja Spiegelman is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eI'm Supposed to Protect You From All This\u003c\/i\u003e and several award-winning comics for children, as well as the co-editor of the 2016 project \u003ci\u003eResist!\u003c\/i\u003e a free publication of women's comics and graphics. 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