Long awaited issue 5 is finally here. Let us know what you think and share with friends and family. Issue 5

  The remarkable and often spectacular music career of Bob Dylan is now in its 55th year. That in itself is stunning. He is one of very few artists in modern music history where the term icon somehow seems inadequate. His 36th release, Shadows in the Night, is the follow up to last year’s Tempest from 2012 that arguably features some of his sharpest songwriting in years. Oddly, Shadows in the…

Here is the 4th issue of Control Lit! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted and all our readers.

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Control Lit Mag Issue 4

  I once had a friend describe the Flaming Lips as a band whose concerts made you feel in harmony with the rest of the world. I didn’t leave feeling the same way—that hamster ball mainly left me afraid for Wayne’s safety—but I do think that’s a great description of She and Him. Something about the combination of Zooey Deschanel, M. Ward, and their throwback sound leaves you wanting to make…

Here is the third issue of the lit mag. I hope you enjoy it. Let us know what you think.

  Unbeknown to me, 58,000 people were waiting and ready to pick up copies of the self-titled debut album from Hozier in its first week. The album began at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and No. 1 on their list of Top Rock Albums. Now in its second week it sits at No. 12 on the 200 list up with the likes of Florida Georgia Line, Bob Seger, Barbara Streisand, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga and fellow…

  Apocryphal, Lisa Marie Basile’s first full length book of poetry, opens with an epigraph from Anais Nin’s shory story, “Mathilde” – a story that interrogates sex, violence, exoticism, and eroticism. A story in which a woman thinks she’s safe in the arms of men but at the end is shown how her “little wound” compels men to wound her further. Like “Mathilde,” Lisa Marie’s collection interrogates…

For years Leighton Meester has been known for playing the infamous and delightfully devilish Blair Waldorf on the teen soap Gossip Girl, so it might be news to some that she also has a résumé in music. What started out as a career of lending her voice to soundtracks of various projects she was involved in, eventually led to a recording contract with Universal Republic. In 2009 she shared the…

by Allen Salerno

From the title alone, a reader would expect Saeed Jone’s Prelude to Bruiseto revel in the jagged and interruptive. But this is not a collection where words do their painful work with only a localized accuracy–the blow of a fist, the puncture of an awl–but rather, like an eroding tide, with something altogether more constant and cumulative. At once deeply personal and painfully…

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Among hip-hop heads, if an MC has a penchant for delivering clever, complex rhymes, people will often say “[insert name]’s got bars.” Well, after reading through Nate Marshall’s latest chapbook, Blood Percussion, it’s obvious that this poet most certainly has bars. My use of that phrase to describe the work is relevant for a few reasons: (1) Nate Marshall is a talented rapper as well as a…