Art
Best of 2015 – Sensitive Skin More Better Favorites
The Editors
This was so much fun last year, I thought we'd do it again. (Two of my favorite books of the year were ones I picked up from last year's list: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, recommended by Deborah Pintonelli, and ...
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Review
The Other Paris by Luc Sante – Review
Bernard Meisler
You're about the read what may be the strangest book review you've ever come across, because I'm going to admit up front that I haven't read the book I'm about to review. Actually, now that I think about it, I'm sure that ha...
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Our History
B. Kold
From the ashes of the Lower East Side...
It's all so hazy...trying to remember...
I started publishing Peau Sensible back in 1992, I think, when I was living on Suffolk St on the Lower East Side. The first issue ha...
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Review
All This Life: A Novel by Joshua Mohr – A Review
Bernard Meisler
The cover illustration for Joshua Mohr's terrific new novel, All This Life, offers a clue—no, more than that, a cipher—to the book's heart. It's subtle and you might not notice it, or give it much thought on first blush,...
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Events
Poetry Month Release Reading at Bowery Poetry Club, 5-17-15
The Editors
To celebrate the release of Sensitive Skin #12, the Poetry Month special, we had a reading at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC. About half of the published poets were able to make it. It was a lot of fun, but if you weren't the...
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Art
Sensitive Skin Most Best of 2014 More Favorites or Whenever
The Editors
I thought it would be fun to ask some Sensitive Skin editors and contributors what they thought was the best of 2014 - not necessarily the "best of" the year—what they liked best during the year, whenever it came out. So I...
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Readings
Sensitive Skin #11 Release Reading at Lit Crawl 2014 San Francisco
The Editors
We're very pleased to announce the release of our 11th issue, available in print and PDF format on October 15. As part of the celebration, we took part in Lit Crawl 2014 San Francisco, October 18, with a reading at Fellow Ba...
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Billy Bang, R.I.P.
Bernard Meisler
Billy Bang, the great jazz violinist, moved on to the next plane, April 11, 2011.
When I first came to New York, in the early 80s, Bang was the man in the LES jazz scene. Bang was born in Alabama as Billy Walker, but as a...
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Music
Timber, Released and Unreleased
Bernard Meisler
I ran into Jenny Wade on Avenue A, summer of 1993 I believe it was. Asked her where she was going, she said she was playing a gig at the Knitting Factory, so I asked if I could come along. She said nah, you won't like it, it...
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Events
Reading with Darius James, Patricia Eakins, Craig Clevenger, Heather Folsom & D. Scot Miller
The Editors
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for - Darius James reads a hilarious excerpt from his novel "Froggy Chocolates," a tender Xmas story for all the little boys and girls...wait, scratch that, nobody under 25 or so s...
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Events
A Tribute to John Coltrane
The Editors
In celebration of the birthday of John Coltrane, Sensitive Skin had its first reading in San Francisco, Thursday, September 23rd 2010 at:
The Luggage Store Gallery
Craig Clevenger reads from Dermaphoria, part 2
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Writing
Killing the Dogs of Kathmandu
Jason DeBoer
Killing the Dogs of Kathmandu, by Jason DeBoer
An excerpt from Annihilation Songs: Three Shakespeare Reintegrations, available now from Stalking Horse Press
Editor's Note: This is one of the more interesting pieces that...
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Essay
Unfinished – A New Translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Poem Fragment
Jenny Wade
Unfinished, a poem fragment by Vladimir Mayakovsky, discovered in M’s papers after his suicide in 1930.
Любит? не любит? Я руки ломаю
и пальцы разбрасываю разломавши
т�...
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Review
The Third Man – A Review
Franklin Mount
I hurried over to Film Forum the other day (first day of the run) to see the 4K restoration of The Third Man, the great 1949 film directed by Carol Reed.
Why rush to see a 65-year-old movie, especially one I’ve seen at ...
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Music
Nostalgia and Heartbreak in Kim Gordon’s ‘Girl In A Band’ – A Review
JC Gonzo
I began and finished Kim Gordon’s memoir in the NYC subway, catching glimpses of her life and self reflection between hectic transfers, rushing to make my next engagement. I missed a couple of stops, too focused to be bo...
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