My (non)fiction, "Latitude 33° 11' North, Longitude 40° 28' West," about the Teignmouth Electron and its helmsman, Donald Crowhurst (and featuring my rendering of one iteration of John Conway's Game of Life) is in the issue, too. Here's the opening:
The frangibility of all arrangements, first to nth is ab initio, innate; still, some initial arrangements achieve persistence, seem to promise a kind of permanence. The Teignmouth Electron, for instance:
My thanks to Ander Monson, Sarah Blackman, and all at DIAGRAM for including my work in their exceptional magazine. I always look forward to a new DIAGRAM, and it was a special treat to find my own work in this latest issue.