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Dry Spell is the Graphic Novel You’ll Love to Hate

Dry Spell is the Graphic Novel You’ll Love to Hate

Writer and artist Ken Krekeler's second book is not a story that cares if you like it. It’s a story that wants to make you recoil inside, and, in so doing, examine the very things that repel you.

News from the Literary Underground: Indie culture, Bizarro fiction and a Thanksgiving Pol Pot Luck

Mainstream publishing represents merely a portion of what goes on in literature today. Xenith plumbs the depths of a thriving literary underground to bring you the latest news and events.

Weekly Spotlight: “Snow”

This week, a single piece. One that can stand alone in the spotlight.

Weekly Spotlight: Meat, Arms and Produce

The selected writing pieces from our community for the week ending May 1, 2010.

Weekly Spotlight: An introduction to our better half

All week long, you read the magazine's latest content, but what of our community? If you're missing that, you're missing fully half of what we're about. These new weekly notes are a glimpse into the best of our community. Every week, we'll spotlight the strongest poetry and prose, the best blog posts and our most...
Ken Krekeler on Writing and the Creative Process

Ken Krekeler on Writing and the Creative Process

Most Xenith readers are familiar with Ken Krekeler through his webcomic My Nemesis. My Nemesis has been on hiatus for more than a year, however, and during that time Mr. Krekeler has been working a massive undertaking--the creation of a graphic novel called "The Colodin Project." In the first part of this interview, Ken talks...

A generational change (as above, so below).

I have decided that it is time for me to move on from Xenith, in a lot of ways, by making a change in my relationship to it. Patrick will be taking on my most visible tasks–including running the forums and assuming the role of Editor of Xenith’s ‘zine issues. All submissions to the magazine...

Issue #43 released

Xenith’s first issue in over four years serves as both a return to form and the harbinger of a new era. Accordingly, several pieces in this issue deal with loss, transformation and new beginnings. We’ve collected writing from some of our finest authors and present them here, to you, as an introduction to that inimitable...