Podcasts
Episode 7 – James Reich
Bernard Meisler
James Reich in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
James Reich is the author of the novels Soft Invasions, Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness, Bombshell, I, Judas and, most recently, the astonishing The Song ...
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Podcasts
Episode 6 – Rebecca Weiner Tompkins
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins is a fine poet. Her most excellent collection of poems, King of the Fireflies, was recently published by Sensitive Skin Books. Ad...
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Podcasts
Episode 5 – Chavisa Woods
Chavisa Woods
Chavisa Woods in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Chavisa Woods is a New York-based literary fiction author, and poet. She is the author of three books. The first, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, (2009) is bot...
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Podcasts
Episode 4 – Darius James
Darius James
Darius James in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Darius James (aka Dr. Snakeskin) is the author of That's Blaxploitation, a history of Black exploitation cinema, and the renowned cult classic Negrophobia, a raunchy ...
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Podcasts
Episode 3 – Patrick O’Neil
Patrick O'Neil
In conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Patrick O'Neil began his career as a visual artist, before getting involved with the San Francisco punk rock scene of the '70s and '80s. He worked as a roadie and road manager for the...
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Podcasts
Episode 2 – John S. Hall
John S. Hall
Hosted by Bernard Meisler.
John S. Hall is a poet, musician and lawyer. He's a fixture on the downtown NYC poetry scene, and achieved fame in the early '90s with the band he co-founded, King Missile (Jesus Was Way Coo...
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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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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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Review
The Bouncer by David Gordon – Review
Bernard Meisler
The Bouncer, a novel by David Gordon
The Mysterious Press, New York, 259 pages
Legend has it that when criminals and others in "the game" would read Elmore Leonard's novels, they always assumed he was a crook who had don...
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Review
Sensitive Skin Contributors 2016 Favorites – Books, Movies, TV, Art, Performance and Music – Reasons to Live
The Editors
Before we get on to the 2016 Favorites, first things first, I need to get this off my chest: Hey 2016 - go suck a bag of d***s, will ya?
OK, and now, without further ado, presented without rhyme or reason, here's our annu...
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Writing
Bob Dylan Deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature
Bernard Meisler
Bob Dylan just won the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature. Many are angry. But they're wrong. He deserves it.
Joni Mitchel says Dylan is a fake. I take her critique with a grain of salt. Certainly Dylan is a confabulist—in...
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Poem
Guardian Angels? & Other Poems
Gabor G Gyukics
guardian angels?
a pistol is held to your forehead
in a bosky alley of the night
you search for the face behind the hand
as you wait for the click of the trigger
instead you see
the hand holding the gun pull ...
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Music
Timber Live At Brownies, NYC, June 1, 1995
Timber
Here's a gem that just resurfaced, a video of the complete performance by Timber live at Brownies, NYC, June 1, 1995.
https://youtu.be/mRPQfvsUuq4
0:00 Let It Down
5:10 Jam/Belay That
10:47 Anti-Mother-In-Law Ca...
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