Futurist Letters

S2E1 - Back in Black

John Gu, Tasbeeh Herwees, and Russell Sprout kick the season off talking to Cairo and Lillian about alt lit and litstack developments.

Mar 11 • Cairo Smith, Lillian Wang Selonick, John Gu, tasbeeh herwees, and Russell Sprout

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1:35:15

The Acorn and the Twigs

A review of J David Osborne’s new novella, Berserker Club.

Mar 6 • W. G. Lloyd

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February 2026

The Censor and His Writer

Fiction: An author is investigated.

Feb 24 • Hyun Woo Kim

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A Horny Unkillable Shadow

How Worst Boyfriend Ever’s success was inevitable.

Feb 18 • km

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Scene Report from Echo Park

Or, Ross Barkan and the Performative Bell Jar

Feb 14 • Cairo Smith

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Imperial Flower Nails & Beauty

Fiction: A boy watches his mother at work.

Feb 4 • Lillian Wang Selonick

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January 2026

The Zoltar Scene from the Film Big

Fiction: A remix about an uncanny machine.

Jan 16 • Keith Vile

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Burn Zone

Fiction: The first chapter of the new novella from Cairo Smith.

Jan 3 • Cairo Smith

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Google Maps Tourism

Fiction: A runaway daydream.

Jan 1 • Grace Forrester-Young

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December 2025

State of the Journal V

News and reflections on Futurist Letters.

Dec 21, 2025 • Cairo Smith

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Vote in the 2025 Futurist Letters Awards

A prize in fiction and a prize in nonfiction.

Dec 11, 2025 • Cairo Smith

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A Mild European Avalanche

Fiction: Thoughts in a diary.

Dec 10, 2025 • Philip Traylen

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