Interview: Comedian Paul Gilmartin
“I’ll probably ruminate for about two hours over what I did wrong.”
Interview: Comedian Chris Fairbanks
“I nailed it for a week in New York, doing 12 gigs in 7 days.”
Interview: Comedian Kurt Braunohler
“In LA, there’s fucking fruit hanging on every street corner.”
Phosphorescent at the Doug Fir, Portland, Oregon
“It is hard for me to separate spectacle from substance”
Book Review: Dog Days by Gene Gregorits
“He’s prone to castigating the present literary generation’s hipster-laden irony”
AIDS as Monster: Kevin Killian's Argento Series
“The particular horror of slasher films offers us an erotic and organic status quo”
Interview: Comedian Emily Heller
“Um, excuse me… but, like, would you mind going and fucking yourself?”
Interview: Comedian Katie Rose Leon
“I can talk to people, in like, human sentences, and not just like, throw up all over myself.”
College by Robyn Bateman
Remember the first person you fell in love with while at college? Blech.
Bubble Cats "Hiss, Mews, Purr" Review
“The sky is an aluminum landscape of purple balloons and streamers”
Poetry Suite by Sean Patrick Mulroy
“to miss the field of yellow flowers
for the venom of its bees”
Interview: Writer Donald Ray Pollock
“Because the threat of violence was always nearby, I paid a lot of attention to it.”
Highway to Animal Heaven by Brendan Hall
Seeing beauty where beauty is usually overlooked…