COLUMNS
Ben Arnold
7 People Who Should Die in 2006
01.05.06
Okay, so this is satire. Fanzine does not want to get sued and die itself in 2006 before it goes BIG TIME commercial. All pics grabbed from Google Images. So sue them, they have more money. WE LOVE ALL OF HUMANITY...
Brandon Stosuy
Sasha Grey: Dawn of Porn Star (interview)
09.22.06
Brandon Stosuy debuts his porn column with a revealing interview with one of the industry's brightest (and youngest) stars - Sasha Grey, an uninhibited entrepreneur who plays left-handed guitar, appreciates a fine single malt, and experimental fiction from Burroughs to Mark Danielewski. (Note: some links not suitable for those under 18... if you are under 18 don't click further.)
Derek McCormack
Vera West
07.21.05
Author Derek McCormack begins his fashion column with a piece on a tragic costume designer from Hollywood's past, Vera Miles.
Dodie Bellamy
Intr. Dodie Bellamy's Pink Steam: The Column
07.21.05
Author Dodie Bellamy takes Martha Stewart to task as Fanzine's representative hearth warming "seeker," looking for good food, exercise and all the other trimmings. The column's title is from her novel, Pink Steam. Her first piece: "What Are We Fighting For? Yoga and the Raw Foods Restaurant with Tariq Alvi"
Jaime Clarke
Talk Show 2: with Steve Almond, Emily Franklin, Lydia Millet, and Neal Pollack
09.06.07
In the second episode of Talk Show, the monthly Fanzine feature where writers talk about anything except for writing, our guests discuss movies they would like to remake. Illustrations by Danny Jock.
Jennifer Blowdryer
86'd Stories: Sammy Reid and Jeff Dickinson
10.17.09
Over the last several years, Jennifer Blowdryer has been conducting an oral history project of friends and acquaintances who have been 86'd -- kicked out and never allowed to return -- from various places: restaurants, bars, apartments, houses of celebrities, computer hardware stores and others. In this first of three installments Sammy Reid talks about one of his many evictions and Jeff Dickinson tells a tale of lost shoes, stolen gas masks and the Bellevue psychiatric ward.
Larry O'Connor
The Spot
07.04.08
In France they celebrate Bastille Day, in O.N.A.N. they recognize Interdependence Day, and in America we toast the Fourth of July. For your holiday viewing, Larry O'Connor delivers a wry song of himself and the nation. And Larry's car. Art by Danny Jock.
Lorenzo de Los Angeles
10 Places Gone From Old New York
04.16.06
As New York rapidly changes, artists Lorenzo de Los Angeles and Adam Putnam lament the passing of a few of their favorite places. Text by Los Angeles, photos by Putnam.
Michael Louie
Bill O'Reilly's Great Fast Forward
10.17.06
I feel one attempt at my own preemption is validated in the face of all the bad news in the world about North Korea testing nuclear bombs and an impotent U.N. standing by with sanctions they cannot hope to enforce. Speaking of preemption, with mid-term elections three weeks away, Republicans are already refining various conspiracy theories in the event they lose the House and Senate. Bill O'Reilly says it's North Korea's fault. -MKL
Nick Sylvester
No Pomp Just Circumstance: Notes on Two Weeks of Croatian Dining
08.28.07
Nick Sylvester travels to Croatia, wines and dines on squid (complete with ink), pasta and fresh sea bass - what the locals call branzin, and ultimately makes all our stomachs growl with envy.
Pete Hausler
Riding the Hoboken Ferry
09.03.09
When the world you live in is a world that's constantly shifting (i.e. New York City) it's good to have an anchoring voice that grounds you back in the ways that things once were before the hipsters started taking over and changing the landscape. Pete Hausler waxes a nostalgia of sorts, riding the Hoboken Ferry from the city back to the Mile Square City, home of The Feelies and Maxwell's, remembers times when he was just a young'un picking up girls and feeling a little Kerouacian on his lunch break from work. Hausler meanders between Kerouac and Blaise Cendrars in the piece, melding his own writing style with theirs while conjuring up some terrific scenery of times past, and wraps it all into a seemingly innocuous and everyday break from his day job. Art by Danny Jock.
Scott Bradfield
Letter from London
08.12.07
Like Henry James, another American novelist who never felt at home in the New World, Scott Bradfield decided to move to London. After three decades there, he can tell you exactly what he loves and doesn't love about his adopted city. We're honored to welcome one of our greatest living writers to Fanzine—a national treasure even if he doesn't want us.
Simona Schneider
The Chopstick Diet
03.28.06
Try eating a pint of Chunky Monkey with a couple of wooden sticks. Think about it.
Tim Kabara
The War on Christmas: A Report from the Trenches
12.14.05
Maybe this is beating a dead horse, after all that has been said about the issue by journalists like Bill O'Reilly and Stephen Colbert, but after sitting on this piece long enough Fanzine has decided to let one of its more conservative thinkers give his three cents. Seems these days liberals have Santa on the run, and he's running by every means necessary (even by skateboard). It's a dirty shame.