About the Work: Andrea England In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Andrea England 's work in SER Vol. 43.2. “ Self Portrait as a Wind Turbine Blade in the Midwest ” Personal geographies figure heavily in my work, and “Self Portrait as a Wind Turbine Blade in the Midwest” is no different. In 2016, wind turbines were erected on our family farm, surrounding the town where I grew up....

About the Work: Ben Peled In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina asks recent contributors for insight into their writing or for current sources of inspiration. Read Ben Peled's work in SER Vol. 43.2. “ The Mathematician Presents ” Years ago, during Glenn Beck's heyday on Fox, Jon Stewart used to do a parody of his show. Donning a pair of fake glasses, he would stand at a board stabbing out lines of chalk to connect the most insanely disparate ideas. That sketch is where this story...

Painting (The Circus Horse) (1927), Joan Miró The, Like, Fortification of Asgard So, the Norse gods built a city on the hill all gleaming and shit, but these gods weren’t exactly… apex. There were giants and whatever all over, and apparently they were badasses and could kill gods so the Aesir wanted a safe space to do god stuff. Aesir is like their club. Anyway, they were scared shitless that their city would be trashed so they jumped when some traveling smith chump boasted he could...