All of the articles from the past month for people who like to savor their magpies’ tidings as an issue.
February Issue, 2024
Magpies
I am a filmmaker, illustrator, graphic designer and copy editor.
Letter from the Editor: February 2024
Some thoughts on a broken clock.
An Anchored Friendship
Listen to this neo-noir short story that features the Iowa State Police, a displaced bounty hunter, a broken farmer, and his local cop acquaintance caught in a Mexican stand-off in a gasoline-soaked corn field.
Magpies Mix Tape: Wha’ppen?
Wha, man? Wha’ppen?
Female
Some thoughts on Female, a pre-code film starring Ruth Chatterton.
Inside the Camera Obscura: An Interview with Michele FariNelly
“It’s art to cook, garden, dance, sing, play an instrument, and compose music. It’s art to create clothes from a piece of fabric or to “see” a piece of furniture within a pile of wood. If we have the chance to imprint our stylistic signature in what we do, we are present in the works produced, despite our absence.”
My Shadow is Freezing: Winter Poems from Matsuo Basho
these cold winter days
on horseback
— my shadow is frozen
January Issue, 2024
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
January Letter From the Editor: What the Thunder Said
GOOD MORNING!
Magpies’ Mix Tape: Magpies’ Best Songs of 2023
Here is some joyful music to help you usher in the new year, with fondness and best wishes from the Mapgies. May you all have a year full of creativity, kindness, happiness, and peace peace peace.
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