Esopus Issue 23

Esopus 23 (Spring 2016) opens with Karl Ove Knausgaard's essay "On the Value of Literature" and carries six artists' projects.

The projects are by Marilyn Minter, Mickalene Thomas, Chuck Kelton, Karo Akpokiere, Jody Wood and Stefan Kürten. The 100 Frames series reproduces stills from Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed, introduced by John Canemaker, and Modern Artifacts 16, introduced by Michelle Elligott, is titled The Living Garden. Other contents include found objects from the collection of Peter Cohen, an interview with the game designer Raphael van Lierop about The Long Dark, George Cochrane's Lost in Music, film treatments by Hampton Fancher for a subscriber invitational and the seventh Guarded Opinions. The CD is Close Calls. The print run at the Prolific Group in Winnipeg took four days and 72 press checks, a record for the magazine.

Esopus was founded in New York in 2003 by Tod Lippy, who edited and designed every issue for the nonprofit Esopus Foundation. It carried no advertising. Publication stopped in 2018 after twenty-five issues.