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On the eve of the national party conventions at the end of this summer, the ninth edition of the acclaimed literary journal Black Clock should be on newsstands, just in time for the Fourth of July. The issue includes political allegory, subversive satire and secret presidential histories by Jonathan Lethem, Lynne Tillman, Brian Evenson, Jeff VanderMeer, Ben Ehrenreich, Stanley Crawford, Seth Greenland and Janet Sarbanes, among others, including Rick Moody’s log of the Republican primary race earlier this year, an email debate between Michael Ventura and Black Clock editor Steve Erickson on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and a mysterious, unsigned missive written at the end of the world by Marilyn Monroe’s former bodyguard.

Black Clock is published semi-annually by the CalArts MFA Writing Program.

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