alexandra reale

In this second annual Editors’ Choice issue, we look back on the past year’s issues of SixByEight Press and reflect on our favorite pieces as editors. Each of these pieces…

ALEXANDRA REALE & NATALIE GALLAGHER In many contexts, we consider attention as an interpersonal reality — who’s watching my LinkedIn? Why won’t my classroom listen to me? Are they just…

ALEXANDRA REALE In this issue, we talk to poet Emily Dauer, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a wearer of many literary and theatrical hats. She tells us…

In this issue, we explore and imagine what it means to be truly attentive (in both performative and non-performative terms) and how might our assumptions of which behaviors signal attention…

ALEXANDRA REALE In this issue, we talk to New York-based photographer and computer scientist Daisy Chaussée about the strange and capricious world of Instagram fame. Daisy’s Instagram mosaic is a dreamy study…

In this issue, we ask the question: how do we as a society handle fame and celebrity culture, both as active & inactive participants in this phenomenon? We’re interested in…

ALEXANDRA REALE It was a chilly March evening in San Francisco, the coalescing Victorians of Duboce Triangle screened ghoulishly by the irrepressible fog. The hushed street saw occasional cars, out…

In this issue, we ask the question of what are the various ways in which color — remembered, perceived, or imagined — perform the construction of meaning, experience, and ideology?…

For most of my life, I’ve been an athlete. A not negligible portion of my high school and college years were spent inside a gym, the high-pitched squeaks of sneakers…

In this issue, we look back on over 30 issues of SixByEight Press and reflect on our favorite pieces as editors. While some works are recent and some are older,…