Join our mailing list

Subscribe to our mailing list

We'll send you an email once a month about all the articles we've published, plus occasional emails about our latest issues, books and upcoming events, as well as discount coupons.

* indicates required
Consent
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Music
  • Reviews
  • Books
  • Issues
  • Podcasts
  • Videos

Story

Fat Wallet

Díre McCain

As luck would have it, Tecate Flats turned out to be a goldmine. Throughout the duration of my addiction, I had a fortuitous knack for attracting people—more specifically, men—who not only facilitated my habit, b...
More...
Essay

Beer Mystic Burp #12: Stroh’s Cans to the Head

bart plantenga

I suddenly have vivid memories of survival in Flint, Michigan, Motor City Jr., birthplace of GM. I was a stranger here because I rode a bike with books of poetry in my back pocket and some locals could smell this alienness ...
More...
Music

Don’t Miss Fred Frith, Live in Downtown Berkeley, this Saturday night!

Fluffy Schwartz

I am not joking when I say that in my mind, Mr. Frith is one of the most important guitar players in the history of the instrument. For me, it goes like this, Jimi Hendrix then Fred Frith in terms of people who have expanded...
More...
Music

Mr. Adams Live

Fluffy Schwartz

Steve Adams is playing at the Berkeley Arts Festival this Thursday night, run don't walk to hear him play! Steve is the real deal and a local gem. he will be appearing with Lisa Mezzacappa - bass, John Hanes - electronics ...
More...

Where the Exiles Go — The Canadian Literary Outlaw in a Conformist Culture

Mark McCawley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkoByHco_Ig&feature=related For as long as I've been writing and publishing in Canada, the concept of a Canadian Literary Outlaw has always been something of a contradiction. Not that ...
More...

What I Did Today, Carl Watson's Issue

Ron Kolm

After contributing to an earlier issue of What I Did Today, Carl Watson collected three two-thousand word essays to go along with his already published one, to complete his own follow-up issue. Here’s Michael Randall’s ...
More...
Music

Mississippi Muck!

Fluffy Schwartz

Ok, went to see Hank III, huge dis-appointment. Sorry to say, the band was great but, the mix was so loud & terrible that it was worse then a trip to the dentist for a root canal. After about an hour of trying every corn...
More...
Music

Ralph Carney’s Serious Jass Project

Fluffy Schwartz

You may remember the feature piece Sensitive Skin did on Ralph Carney last year - good news! The one and only Ralph has a new album out! Smog Veil Records announces Ralph Carney's new Serious Jass Project album titled, Se...
More...
Art

For Rent & Smokestacks – Photographs by Danny Kolm

Danny Kolm

Two photographs from Danny Kolm, "Smokestacks" and "For Rent."
More...
Music

Back to School

Fluffy Schwartz

Working on an amazing project with musical legend Fred Frith and the Berkeley High School orchestra conducted by the talented Karen Wells. Today was our first full rehearsal and run thru and it was a blast. The whole thing i...
More...
Music

Mississippi Mudd

Fluffy Schwartz

Did I tell you that I absolutely love Hank Williams. He has written some of my favorite songs ever. So a little while back I was with my son in a pizza place and they were playing some cool stuff and it turned out to be Hank...
More...

Sadie and Della

Michael Aanavi

"What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said. —Isaac Bas...
More...
Essay

Beer Burp #11: Obsolete Drunken Nirvana

bart plantenga

Rich Dana, is not just the editor of the retro-future activist aesthetics journal Obsolete but also a guy doing battle – and making his own peace – with the various seemingly overwhelming forces of displacement, corpo...
More...

Library of Sean

Sean Flaherty

"We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal." - Tennessee Williams I don’t loan books: as a rule it removes the awkward event of returning the book. You begged to borrow it, charmed me with yo...
More...
Art

Dessins Quotidiennes (Daily Drawings)

David West

Drawings by David West, for Sensitive Skin magazine. David is an artist and painter now residing in Paris, France.
More...
« previous 1 … 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 … 60 next »

Sensitive Skin Books

The Last Poet of the Village

A bilingual (Russian/English) edition of selected poems by Sergei Yesenin, translated by acclaimed Russian-American poet Anton Yakovlev.
Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Kindle

Mayakovsky Maximum Access

Jenny Wade

24 selected poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated and with commentary by Jenny Wade
Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Kindle

There’s Never Been A Better Time To Die

Bernard Meisler

A neo-noir meta satire of late-stage capitalism in Marin County featuring a hard-boiled realtor.
Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Kindle

Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018

A selection of short stories, poems and essays published online from 2016-2018.
Buy it on Amazon Buy it on Kindle

Print Issues

Sensitive Skin 11

Featuring Arthur Nersesian, Celia Farber, Maggie Estep, Joshua Mohr, Marc Olmsted, Stephen Lack, Evelyn Bencicova, Sun Ra, Dîre McCain, many more.
Buy it on Amazon Buy the PDF

Sensitive Skin 12

April 2015 Poetry Special, featuring John S. Hall, Max Blagg, Emily XYZ, David Rattray, Jack Micheline, John Farris, Taylor Mead, Julie Torres, Winston Smith, Jean-Christian Bourcart, many more.
Buy it on Amazon Buy the PDF

Sensitive Skin 8

William S. Burroughs interview by Allen Ginsberg, James Greer, Chavisa Woods, Ruby Ray, James Romberger, Tom McGlynn, Rob Hardin, more.
Buy it on Amazon Buy the PDF
Previously, on Sensitive Skin!
Photograph by Dennis Gordon
Dennis Gordon – Photographs
Dennis Gordon
I’ve been drawn to abandoned buildings all my life. When I was a boy, the allure was breaking into forbidden places without getting caught, the adventure of making new discoverie...
More...
the perfect child
steve dalachinsky
i am a descendant of those that have survived for centuries & my mother wanted me to be the perfect child i am still amazed that people know how to make doors their ingenuity ba...
More...
savannah photograph Ted Barron
Maupin Row
Ron Kolm
We were totally unprepared for the winter of 1968; it was bleak and cold, and it seemed to last forever. My wife and I were from the North -- Reading, Pennsylvania -- and we had j...
More...
David West white ink black paper 21
David West – White Ink on Black Paper
David West
I started doing these drawings in April 2017 around the time of the French national election. I continued making them until approximately July 2108. So some of them were done in Ve...
More...
Steve Adams – Triskotronica
Steve Adams
Listen to the second release from Sensitive Skin Music: Steve Adams' Triskotronica. If you like it, buy it from iTunes or Amazon. In a world that values the familiar, Steve Adam...
More...
Magazine

Editor-In-Chief: Bernard Meisler

Associate Editors: Rob Hardin and B. Kold

Music Editor: Steve Horowitz

Contributing Editors:Ron Kolm,
Franklin Mount, Patrick O'Neil

Contact

For general inquiry:

Follow us:

Home | About | Submissions
Print Issues | Peau Sensible | Books |
Purchase History | Privacy Policy


Copyright ©  Sensitive Skin Magazine.
All Rights Reserved.

Join our mailing list

We'll send you info about our latest issues, books and upcoming events, as well as discount coupons.

* indicates required
Consent
We use cookies for analytics, advertising and to improve our site. You agree to our use of cookies by closing this message box or continuing to use our site. Accept Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy
Necessary
Always Enabled