Who is your favorite author, living or dead, from the mid 20th century to 2015? Roxanne Gay? Jonathan Lentham? Anne Waldman?

Think hard. Part of their bodies (of work) are in the corpse.

Founded by Andrei in 1981, The Exquisite Corpse was, for many decades, a singular gathering place for writers and artists who wanted to disrupt gentle tea parties and crack readers' heads wide open.

In print at first, then in a webzine format throughout the late 90s and early 2000s, EC continuously set new boundaries for what is allowed, celebrated, and absolutely expected for art to do.

Now, thanks to the engineer-genius of Plamen Arnaudov, its once again legible, accessible and very much alive.