Podcasts
Episode 1 – Peter Blauner
Peter Blauner
In conversation with Bernard Meisler
Greetings humans and welcome to the very first Sensitive Skin Magazine Podcast! Our format is simple - your host, Bernard Meisler, will have a 45-minute-or-so conversation with a guest...
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Review
Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World – Review
Marc Olmsted
Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World
By Tosh Berman
City Lights Books
$17.95
reviewed by Marc Olmsted
I first came across Wallace Berman's artwork in an underground newspaper in the late '60s - I can no long...
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Essay
Matty Jankowski, RIP
Ron Kolm
There was a posting on Facebook on Saturday, January 12th, by Joe Maynard, an old friend, saying that a buddy of ours, Matty Jankowski, had just passed away in Florida. It was a very moving tribute, and it also contained a l...
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Poem
A Kind Of Love Story
Jennifer Juneau
A Kind Of Love Story
Walking along Avenue A I was kind of drunk
It was kind of desolate and kind of late
All the stores were kind of closed
And there was this guy who kind of looked like you
He kind of smiled
I kind ...
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Poem
THE COMPUTER ARCANE
Jack Hirschman
1.
To have this at one’s fingertips,
the whole world before one
and it not be zero—,
that’s the humbling meaning
of this revolution one’s a part of
and one’s been party to
for a long time now, at firs...
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Story
Fourth of July in Gotham City
Maria Koby
I had a tradition of celebrating the Independence Day with a twist. It’d start as the typical celebration - hot dogs, BBQ meat skewers and corn with cheap lager and wine at a friend's backyard or rooftop, discussing how ma...
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Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy ‘70s Suburbia & the City – Photographs by Meryl Meisler
Franklin Mount
Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy ‘70s Suburbia & the City
Meryl Meisler, Bizarre Publishing, 2016
Do you remember New York before Reagan and the cult of the Free Market? Before it became Singapore on the Hudson? Meryl Meisl...
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Story
The King’s Hashish – 1971
Tsaurah Litzky
You pack twenty bricks of black hashish from Lebanon in an empty air canister as part of your scuba diving equipment. We call it the King’s Hashish because every brick is stamped with a gold crown. You ship your diving equ...
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Story
Number 109
David Huberman
I would never admit to being interested in sexual conquests for the sake of showing off. But I was indeed part of the First Wave of 'wide eyed men’ of the James Bond Generation, who desired wickedly beautiful and sexy wom...
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Story
Drunken Turkey
Marc Olmsted
We got along and loved each other the way people do who share an interest in drugs and alcohol and sex. We loved each other in an animal way.
We never got married but were together a total of 7 years until it finally f...
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Poem
school of night 19
Bruce Weber
the monsters have taken over the house
they’re crawling through the refuse
of broken trays of paint
walls and temporary screens
they’re delegating authority
passing their power on to the masks
who remove me from th...
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Story
The Auctioneer
Bernard Meisler
My wife showed me the back of a circular, junk mail. There was an ad for an auction the next day. A police auction, items confiscated from felons. Jewelry, artwork, gold coins and such. It was at the community center, right ...
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Book
King of the Fireflies
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins
Sensitive Skin is proud to present King of the Fireflies, acclaimed writer and musician Rebecca Weiner Tompkins’s first full-length collection of poetry.
The poems in Rebecca Weiner Tompkins’s King of the Fireflies le...
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