Age As Disease: Nick Haymes’s Gabe
Thomas Moore08.07.12
Thomas Moore’s visceral reaction to the entropy of Gabe, a new book of photography by Nick Haymes. The nexus of exploitation, complicity, and friendship.
A Conversation with Amy Gerstler
Amy Herschleb08.02.12
In which Fanzine has a conversation with poet Amy Gerstler about the accessibility of language, the relative usefulness of education, the state of the arts, and monsters.
I Did Not Pee on R. Kelly’s Soulacoaster
Blake Butler08.01.12
Blake Butler sleeps with Soulacoaster under his pillow so the rest of us don’t have to: “in its wake the world is safe, if somehow at the same time that much closer to destruction.”
Psycho Moto Fanzine
Amy Herschleb07.26.12
A tribute to DIY culture that brought us the zine. Video by Ethan Minsker of Antagovision.
See Jayne Sleep With Dogs
Jane Connor07.25.12
See Jayne go on dates with her ideal man, she’s floating on air, it’s heavenly. In similar fashion, the most succinct poem ever written was about Paradise, “Fleas.” Adam / Had ’em. Art by Danny Jock.
How I Fell in Love with Sparks, & Myself (Again?)
Laura Jane Faulds07.24.12
Beginning with the death of her beloved grandfather and culminating in her favorite band of all time: the epic love affair between Laura Jane, the abyss, and Sparks. Art by Jen May.
The Love That Inspired ‘Hate Tweets to Frank Ocean’
Christina Lee07.19.12
Social media as a force for good: Christina Lee interviews the Swedish design team behind Hate Tweets to Frank Ocean––a site that automatically responds with a message of love and acceptance.
My Kingdom for a Sexologist
Michael Thomsen07.16.12
Does a little online chicanery a sexpert make? Or is there a legitimate borderland between science and the philosopher’s albatross? Michael Thomsen searches among manifold claims to authority for a legitimate sexologist. Art by Danny Jock.
I May Or May Not Have Interviewed Eric Andre
Amy Herschleb07.15.12
It was the most daunting interview ever: going head to head with professionally bad interviewer Eric Andre. And then it didn’t record. Thank God, because it was a terrible interview.
NEW EVIDENCE OF THE KINGS COUNTY SASQUATCH
Tobias Carroll07.13.12
A thrilling new chapter in the annals of cryptozoology: the origin story of the Urban Sasquatch comes to light. Brooklynite reveals lurid details of his descent down the evolutionary chain! Story by Tobias Carroll. Art by Danny Jock.
