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Stewart Home’s “Mandy Charlie & Mary Jane” – an Anti-Novel Review

Barbara Adair

Mandy Charlie & Mary Jane: A Novel by Stewart Home (Penny Ante Editions, Los Angeles, 2013) Read an excerpt from Mandy Charlie & Mary Jane. Who reads Stewart Home? Home will say “very few, people are cowed by the male...

Beer Mystic Burp #19: Beer in Times of Distillation

bart plantenga

“glory wreathes, flutes” • Karen Garthe, “Buckle Up, Sweetie” bart plantenga I buy beer when other purchasing behavior fails. I drink beer to slow down the ridiculous spin of this earth & defuse those who...

Herbert Huncke: Letter to Dad

Herbert Huncke

Editor’s Note: This letter from Herbert Huncke to his Dad was first published in Peau Sensible, the print precursor to Sensitive Skin, in the summer of 1992. The issue also contained work by Joel Rose, Jack Micheline, Dari...

Beer Mystic Burp #18: The Long Windy Road to a Closed Bar

bart plantenga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqEeL1QzGsc BEER MYSTIC: Read Beer Drink Novel: I thought by serving words in the name of beer & side effect mysticism would be repaid in not only the enchantment of words & the jo...

THE THIRLWELL EFFECT

Díre McCain

Genuine virtuosos are a rare breed. They defy categorization simply by existing. Their visionary ingenuity radiates from their work in spades, and effortlessly so. It can come at a price, in terms of their creations being lo...

Beer Mystic Burp #17: Beer Party Trumps Tea Party Any Day

bart plantenga

A discussion with activist cartoonist and BEER MYSTIC host, Ken Avidor [here posed as Greek God of Mini-Golf, Nkolfus, in Asbury Park, c. 1984]. I knew Ken [aka Weiner] for many years in NYC, during its – or was it jus...

In-depth observations on eye floaters – a challenge to ophthalmology

Floco Tausin

For centuries, scholars try to find an explanation for the mobile, scattered and transparent spheres and strings in our visual field. Early on in ophthalmological tradition, the origin was thought to be in the eye. The pheno...

Beer Mystic Burp #16: Books – Increasingly Illegal Intoxicants?

bart plantenga

An interview with Karen Lillis When I was just beginning high school I was one scared, miffed, gawky, pimply kid, unlike the rest of the kids somehow. But what kid of 13 didn’t feel that way? (photo: Karen in the ...

Barefoot in the Heart

Keshav Das

"Drugs," an excerpt from Barefoot in the Heart “Muktananda, Shirdi Sai Baba and Hari Das Baba would never take LSD.” A certain pattern had evolved wherein Maharajji frequently called upon myself and a couple of oth...

Online Magazines Versus Status Quo

Mark McCawley

The dilemma with writing anything edgy or transgressive in Canada, isn't that it is all too often written from the margins, or by choice or circumstance — it comes down to the harsh reality that edgy, transgressive writing...