In a retrospective mood, I just want to draw your attention the contributions of Brianna Berbenuik, a young contrarian writer who turned out to be one of the sassiest, most surprising discoveries I made while publishing the magazine. Brianna blazed onto our pages with an irreverent and delightfully enthusiastic essay on shooting guns in Las Vegas,
Shooting Guns | Essay — Brianna Berbenuik
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then carved out a niche for herself with an essay on Post Empire and Bret Easton Ellis (which became one of our all time most read texts — Ellis himself commented on Twitter).
In Hell We All Burn Brightly | Essay — Brianna Berbenuik
And still later she returned to our pages with a startlingly bleak and violent piece of fiction.
Case Notes | Fiction — Brianna Berbenuik
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