Review
Duchamp et Moi – review of the short story collection by Jill Rapaport
Jim Feast
I think Jill Rapaport’s new collection of short stories, Duchamp et Moi, has been praised for the wrong reasons, talk of “individual sentences shimmering,” and so on. This has been said in the mistaken impression that ...
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Sensitive Skin 6 and 7
B. Kold
Sensitive Skin 6 and 7, released spring and fall 2011. Two issues combined into one, now available in print!
From Sensitive Skin 6:
Short stories from Max Blagg, Mike DeCapite, jennifer jazz and Bonny Finberg.
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Literary Outlaws, Bad Asses & Underground Writers
Mark McCawley
“…true Unbearables realize that there is nothing to sell out other than that
overstocked warehouse of lost dreams we’ve all been carrying on
our backs for so long they’ve taken on the aura of that immortal
5000-po...
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Story
Botanical Man
Bonny Finberg
I'm sure there was a moment when I realized it was about to happen. But I can't remember it. It snuck up on me, like snake bite—sending you into a delirium, and just when you realize what's happening you’re dead. It was...
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NEW
I FEEL STUPID AND CONTAGIOUS
Excerpt from "Kali's Day."
Stella
“Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello...pass that, will you?”
I fake inhale, not sure what’s supposed to happen now. This wack crowd of question marks, the total opposite of the void, ready to spend the rest of my life ...
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TOOLS FOR STALKERS & HATERS: The Honesty Box, Brought 2 U By FB
Bonny Finberg
TOOLS FOR STALKERS & HATERS:
The Honesty Box, Brought 2 U By FB
Sometimes, while surfing the web, I discover things by accident. Web surfing for me is never something I set out to do on purpose. I don’t sit down at my ...
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OH MAMA WHY’D I EVER GIVE UP THE CLARINET?
Bonny Finberg
Because all we ever did in Junior High was play Toonerville Trolley and a couple of other lame things that might have been turned into something interesting at a kindergarten version of the Bang On A Can Festival.
I liste...
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Publisher's Letter
B. Kold
Sensitive Skin #8, April 29, 2012
15 years in the making, it's finally here - we're proud to present the "lost" interview with William S. Burroughs, conducted by Allen Ginsberg, from 1992. The two old friends go to a swea...
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NEW
THE RAPTURE: JUST ANOTHER PR HYPE FOR CHRISTIAN GUILT? Or, God’s away on business.
Bonny Finberg
6:30 PM THE END OF THE WORLD -- late by 1/2 hour. God either overslept or isn’t really interested. A pint of cold beer on a rooftop terrace overlooking the canal, uninterrupted. Animated, bare-chested men sit in the s...
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