Skip to content

Paul Maliszewski

Paul Malisewski is the author of Fakers, a book of essays, and Prayer and Parable, a collection of stories. “Bcc: Dridge,” a story written with J. Wagner, appeared in The Baffler no. 24.

For Yama Is the Lord of Death

A: Because I guess my overall numbers are not where they should be? That’s what Rhimst said. He had the numbers all printed out. Numbers for the month, the quarter, the year, and then the projections. The projections, I think, did not look good. At least that was the feeling I ...
Illustration by Jonathon Rosen.

Bcc: Dridge

B: There’s an asp. A: I follow you. B: You knew? A: No. B: But you follow; you do follow. A: Yes, now. B: I see. A: I failed to mention that reportedly there was some mix-up. Maybe I should have said this in the meeting just now, to everyone. It’s nothing to concern yourself ...

The Flight of the Creative Class

Dear Mayor Billings: Provo needs a premier literary magazine. In order to succeed in the twenty-first century and flourish economically, cities today must attract and retain the vital group of individuals that experts call “cultural creatives.” Only by doing so can cities ...