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Brushes With Fame

Bernard Meisler

When I lived in New York City, I frequently had brief, meaningless encounters with celebrities. I used to have a place on 6th Street between 2nd and 3rd. One time I was at my front door and a limo pulled to a stop ri...

Overtime

Glenn Russell

For many years Neal Merman commuted back and forth to his place of work like countless others. Neal performed the job of an everyday clerk in an insurance office; a room with blank walls, linoleum floor and forty desks under...

Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #12 – Suzi Kaplan Olmsted, Carl Watson, Arthur Nersesian

Suzi Kaplan Olmsted

Quarantine is effectively over (for now...) so this is the final Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading! We go out with a bang! This week features: - Suzie Kaplan Olmsted (5:40) - Carl Watson (23:40) - Arthur Nersesian (38:5...

Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #11 – William Considine, Maggie Dubris and Andrei Codrescu

William Considine

Another in our virtual(ly) endless series of online Beer Virus readings during quarantine! The smart reading series with the stupid name! This week, June 4, 2020, features: - William Considine (3:22) - Maggie Dubris (18:...

What Will Come of It All

Ron Kolm

I’m sitting In the Parkside Lounge With a good friend, drinking Too many White Russians And bemoaning The state of the world. “What’s going to happen?” I ask her. “Well,” she says, “There wi...

The National Guard Have Been Deployed

Patrick O'Neil

Sirens fill the warm night air. A helicopter hovers. Then disappears behind a plume of black smoke—its spotlight strafing the crowded streets of downtown Los Angeles. “Protestors are being removed from Whole Foods.” Th...

Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #10 – Peter Bushyeager, Patricia Carragon and George Wallace

Peter Bushyeager

Sensitive Skin magazine presents yet another in our seemingly endless series of online readings during quarantine! This week's show, recorded live via Zoom on May 28, 2020, features: - Peter Bushyeager (0:00) - Patricia...

DAVID BYRNE

Dean Kostos

From a series of digital portraits by Lucas Samaras, Poses. The Pace Gallery, New York, 2010 Your face: invitation to gray fire, dissolving was, will be. Photographed black & white, your head is a George Hurrell ...

Cabaret Wuhan 2020

Julia Kissina

Steve Horowitz- Duets Volume 1

Steve Horowitz

DOUBLE DOUBLE, the 24th album by composer/bassist Steve Horowitz. “Double Double conjures up musical magic that is quite celestial and yet strangely grounded.” —Daniel Lutz, Creative Strategist, Amsterdam T...

No Pictures at the Exhibition Please

Omer Wissman

A man and a woman sit on a museum bench staring at a Malevich. Simultaneously they wonder what would happen should they both have the same thought at a same time. The woman, Sara, answers anything at all, the man, Abby, repl...

Beer Virus Reading #9 – John Macon King, Francine Witte and Ron Kolm

The Editors

Sensitive Skin magazine presents Beer Virus Reading #9, featuring work by: - J. Macon King (SF) 2:45 - Francine Witte (NYC) 19:29 - Ron Kolm (NYC) 35:58 Subscribe to our YouTube channel SenstiveSkinTV today and check...

You Said a Mouthful

David Huberman

The first time a woman told me she actually ate feces, we were both in our twenties. She was a Jewish blonde with that sexy Gloria Steinem look and that Jewish American Princess attitude. When we were introduced to each ot...

Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #8 – Kristin Mathis, Drew Hubner, Gregory Pardlo

The Editors

The eighth in the Sensitive Skin magazine series of Zoom quarantine readings, featuring: - Kristin Mathis (Brooklyn!) - 2:35 - Drew Hubner (Brooklyn!!) - 14:35 - Gregory Pardlo (Brooklyn!!!) - 32:08 Subscribe to our ...

Dumbfound

Kristin Mathis

Let me write about all the ways I have no more words. You do that to me: extract incoherent sounds that mean more than this poem could ever say. Sometimes I wake up and think: nothing. Not in the way I used to—blank ...