July 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Read Ben & Nathan’s Collaborative Essay: The 32 Most Rockin’ Songs in the History of Rock ‘n’ Roll Benjamin LeRoy Benjamin LeRoy is the Lowlife of Record at Bleak House Books, a publisher of crime and dark literary fiction headquartered in Madison, WI. He is currently at work on a novel, The Fringes, set in his spiritual home along the swamps and rivers of northern Florida. You can visit his website at www.benjaminleroy.com Nathan Singer Nathan Singer is a novelist, playwright, composer,... [Read the full story]
July 5, 2008 · 1 Comment
Brad Evans Bio details/Publishing history: Brad Evans was born in Sydney, 1971. He was placed into various educational institutions for twenty years, finally escaping in 1997 when poetry became too influential in his life. His first full-length book of poems, ‘and them and the jackals and the night’, was privately published in March 2001. Check out a recent review by Victor Schwartzman here. Brad is also the founder and editor of the print and online journal, Red Lamp, a journal that publishes realist, socialist... [Read the full story]
July 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The Long Hitch A short tale By David Rasey I finish my coffee, pay my check, and leave fifty cents for the waitress before ducking into the truck-stop men’s room. I wash my face, use wetted paper towels to swab under my arms, glide on some of the deodorant I carry in my bag, and comb my hair. Trust me, it’s much easier to get rides if you don’t look or smell like a bum. I check my clothes and decide they’ll pass. Time to hit the road again. The waitress smiles at me as I go out. After all the time I’ve spent on... [Read the full story]
July 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Poems A Past Shaped like a Starfish Petty and Profitless Crime A Past Shaped like a Starfish On this windy morning of trees about to topple, I’m dense as the one universal atom before the Big Bang. I dreamt that a famous historian lectured on the latest methods of configuring a past shaped like a starfish or chrysanthemum. His study of ritual suicide in the foothills of the Andes not as anthropology but a factor in the failure of government in four small nations won him prizes, plus lovers riper than breadfruit.... [Read the full story]
Tanya Pshenychny is a self-taught artist and illustrator residing in the Midwest. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine and migrated to the U.S. with gamily at age 9. She drew her way... [Read more]
Primarily self taught, Jennifer grew up in an artistic environment. Shadowing her mother, who is also an artist, she developed her own personality in art, which continues to... [Read more]
Memory & Movement with Photography “Perhaps when push comes to shove, one is compelled to fall down. Within reason of course. Just like when there is a picture to... [Read more]
Making Art Personal An Interview with Saul Zanolari: Master of the Mouse By Kristie Langone Saul Zanolari is a multi-faceted artist who is satisfied with the notion that certain... [Read more]