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

Soho

Review

Max Sees Red by Martha King – Review

Jim Feast

Martha King, Max Sees Red (New York: Spuyten Duvvil, 2019) One of the greatest mysteries of Martha King’s brilliant new novel Max Sees Red does not appear in the narrative itself but in the author’s bio at the end. It reads, “Martha King has never lived in the Hudson Valley or in Soho where this story takes place.” The mystery is that this story, set in those two locales in 1978, paints such a vivid and detailed portrait, one with the ring of authenticity, so that until hitting this end note the reader thinks the author is using materials drawn from her own life. For instance, look at this this sharply etched description of the changing face of Hudson Valley: As Max turned the car from the parkway … he noticed the contrast between the first two houses [he saw]. The nearest … was roofed with rusted tin. Its wooden sides were faced with odd sections of black tar paper, and shiny greenish vinyl. .. The next ho...
More...

Sensitive Skin Books

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

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

King of the Fireflies

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

A journey through landscapes: urban; rural; mythological; emotional; erotic; cultural; political; and spiritual.
Buy it on Amazon

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 9

Fred Frith, Samuel R. Delaney, John Lurie, JD King, Vladimir Mayakovsky/Jenny Wade, Justine Frischmann, Chris Bava, Doug Rice, Marty Thau, more.
Buy it on Amazon Buy the PDF

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 13

The crime issue, w/ criminally insane artists and writers like Peter Blauner, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Catherine Texier, Jonathan Shaw, Ron Kolm, Stewart Home, Julia Kissina, Alex Katz, many more.
Buy it on Amazon Buy the PDF
Previously, on Sensitive Skin!
Silent Calls: Short Poems from Sparrow
Sparrow
Silent Calls You know how sometimes the phone rings and when you answer it no one’s there? Many of those calls are made by cats. Science Virgin “I’m ...
More...
Post Pic
Mercury
Craig Clevenger
Lyle let his engine rattle for a ten count before he killed the ignition and stepped out. The snuffed porch light and the blanket nailed across the apartment window served as warni...
More...
John S. Hall at the Bowery Poetry Club
John S. Hall
April 30, 2012 (or thereabouts), Sensitive Skin celebrated the release of its 8th issue with a mondo reading at the Bowery Poetry Club. Essentially everybody who'd been in the maga...
More...
What Friends Say
Pete Simonelli
Jason moved across the floor on his hands and knees, I see him this way constantly, in that scooting motion, making his way to the records lined against the other wall. Dawn is ...
More...
Chelsea Hotel, photograph by Chris Goldberg
Chuck
Vincent Zangrillo
Gregory loved Peggy Biderman who lived at the Chelsea Hotel. Peggy, she was probably around 55, even older than Gregory (who was twice as old as me) but younger than I am now. I’...
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