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On the eve of the publication of THIEVES: A NOVEL, author Valerie Werder and Fence Editorial Co-Director Jason Zuzga connected to discuss the origins and complex life of this work. JZ: You were working in the art world when you wrote Thieves—how did your experiences lead to the writing of the novel? VW: I wrote […]

Valerie is an art worker in the big city. Literally the product of an American childhood in a small place where she learned to value objects and their promise, Valerie now lives and works in a storm of things, many of which are commodities—including herself. While unhappily but compliantly selling paintings at a high-pressure art […]

This essay also appears in print on page 211 in the Forum pages of Issue #40.   There is a form, that is not form, and that can be found in many collections of American poetry. This not-form is the arrangement. Rooted in the Romantic fragment, French prose poetry, palimpsestic modernism, Benjamin’s Arcades, Queneau’s Cent […]

Including Essays by FENCE Editors and Selected Articles and Interviews   In 2009, FENCE published a two-volume anthology entitled A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS. They are available, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, through Small Press Distribution. The editors of FENCE up to that point in time contributed essays about their experiences working on the magazine, all of […]

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