VOLUME 1: ISSUE 1
MARCH/APRIL 2022

Fiction

Redneck Lives Matter

The writer and critic Chris Kraus (I Love Dick, Social Practices, After Kathy Acker, et al.) lived part-time on northern Minnesota’s Iron Range for seven years (2013– 2020), researching The Four Spent the Day Together, a novel inspired by a series of violent methamphetamine crimes involving teenagers. The narrative is intercut with police reports, court documents, text messages, interviews, and monologues.

This piece is one of several studies culled from social media accounts and conversa- tions with the book’s minor characters. Kraus takes the title from a provocative slogan . . .


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