Ashley Yang-Thompson in Conversation With Sarah Shay Mirk

Ashley Yang-Thompson’s Still Worm (Bateau Press) is flesh and blood, blood and guts — gutty, guttural, grotesque. An archive of ephemera, diary entries, philosophical fragments, letters, lists, assignments, confessions, catechism, parodies, and positive exorcisms of poop shame, Still Worm is a stream-of-conscious display of the artist's peregrinations on the page. The culture is on the cusp of change, big change, epochal change, and Yang-Thompson is the wild-eyed prophet come from the desert to make public new takes on stories we need to [...]