Good for Mark Leyner getting some cover copy from John Cusack and Todd Solondz, among others. It belies a bit of back-room schmoozability, or what some might call aloofness, and it’s precisely this that carries over into The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, Leyner’s latest and greatest. It’s meta-hip, packed with italics and bold phrases and bold italic phrases and […]
Forget Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Skip Fox’s Sheer Indefinite reveals that our day’s poets are, rather, the computer programmers of the universe. If our universe is indeed a virtual simulation, like so many Hollywood movies and conspiracy theorists posit, Skip Fox’s Sheer Indefinite is the reference manual to its sublime syntax. And […]
Kyle LaMere shoots rock stars. And with the money he raises by doing this, he goes to Ethiopia, where he works at the Awassa Children’s Center. A simple set up, which requires hard work and empathy—increasingly rare traits. We recently sat down with Kyle to learn more about the business of shooting rock stars, and […]
Germanic stoner rock celebrating a Chicago week that’s hot as a womb.
[Part 1 / Part 2] Once again before I knew it, Time—apparently the only thing on my side—passed by. By the time my associate’s ginger beer had turned ice cubes and a lemon wedge in a red plastic cup, the stage had dimmed considerably. Everything was becoming more Godspeedian. New instruments were being carried out, moved […]
