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Let’s Keep Doing This: A Manifesto

12.18.13

Ryan Craig Bradford says literary readings don’t have to be a load of boring bullshit, and his suggestions range from performance coaching to just realizing you suck.

Rookie Yearbook Two (or Why You Should Stop Caring about the Haters and Obsess over Tavi Gevinson)

Kati Heng

12.12.13

Kati Heng writes about how Tavi Gevinson’s Rookie might be the best magazine not just for teen women but all women.

A Poet’s Review of Botox

Melissa Broder

12.09.13

Melissa Broder talks life, death, and three lines in the forehead in a dispatch from Los Angeles that glows like a gem.

A Depressed Person’s Failed Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color

Mira Gonzalez

12.03.13

Mira Gonzalez submits a highly personal, drug-laced, and digressively unbound response to Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest film, Blue Is the Warmest Color.

From November 5-November 18, Chelsea Martin and Elizabeth Ellen traveled across much of America on a book tour. Here’s Ellen’s take on the excursion, including diary entries and photographs of Tao Lin.

Tour Diary: Chelsea Martin

Chelsea Martin

11.26.13

From November 5-November 18, Chelsea Martin and Elizabeth Ellen traveled across much of America on a book tour. Here’s Martin’s take on the excursion, including diary excerpts and video footage that you’re probably included in.

Germ’s Grief and Black Metal’s Continued Exploration of Weirdness

Kaptain Carbon

11.25.13

PinPoint Music’s Kaptain Carbon stops by to review Grief, the latest album from black metal atmosphere-makers, Germ.

Best. Season. Ever. (The EPL Thus Far)

Pete Hausler

11.22.13

Pete Hausler provides a rundown of the 2013 Barclays Premier League season thus far, with analysis of every major team. Art by Danny Jock.

Let’s Not Do This Anymore: A Manifesto

Mike Ingram

11.21.13

Mike Ingram gets all Andy Rooney about boring literary readings, and suggests we quit all that white noise shit in favor of something else, something better.

FAME

Matthew Stokoe

11.20.13

In an extended look at the historical quality of celebrity, Matthew Stokoe exhumes what trivialities, gossip-mongering, and other monikers lurk in our contemporary understanding of what it means to be famous.

FANZINE