Here comes the new issue of the NYC-based literary magazine Heavy Traffic ! You’re welcome to its Paris launch, with its editor Patrick McGraw.

This new issue features new fiction from Mark Leckey, Reinier de Graaf, Amalia Ulman, Lynne Tillman, Bud Smith, Hannah Regel, Ada Antoinette, Mark von Schlegell, Claude Balls, Riska Seval, and Sarah Thomas; it is designed by Richard Turley.

Available here.

“So much of the writing you see today – especially when you’re scrolling on Twitter, Instagram, or even looking at billboards – is just total gibberish. Part of that is the medium: when you scroll or flick through someone’s writing, you don’t really comprehend it, especially if there are images and videos. It turns into this huge blotch. So the language and design of Heavy Traffic is meant to represent that.
That said, I also think that language has become really important to people in another way, because we’re now, for the first time in a long time, turning away from the Enlightenment. We’re going back to superstitious, magical thinking. Part of that is because the only thing people have control over is their own narrative, or their persona and the curation of it, so the way they present themselves with language becomes very important.”
—Patrick McGraw in conversation with Dominique Sisley for Dazed