Experiments & Disorders December 2026

Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers.

Ed Halter is the author of Lives of Eminent Sorcerers: And Other Readings. He is a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for cinema in Brooklyn, and teaches at Bard College. For over 20 years, his criticism has appeared in Artforum, 4Columns, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. Lives of Eminent Sorcerers is his first book of fiction.

Cassandra Neyenesch has written for The New Yorker, The Guardian, Art in America, Public Books, HuffPost, Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. Her novel A Little Bit Bad came out in May with Summit Books.

DL Alvarez has worked in the arts in various capacities: making zines, curating, mounting exhibitions, serving on the boards of non-profit arts spaces, participating in spoken word events, drag, and Poets Theater. Their writings have been widely published in journals and anthologies; their artwork is housed in such collections as SFMOMA, The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, the Met, Whitney, and MoMA in NYC. Their first book, guarded view, is the winner of the 2026 Bo Huston literary prize.