my anxiety is that i get labeled

i love frequent Atlantic contributor Sandra Tsing Loh. She has the uncanny ability to nail, succinctly, the slices of the pie that make up our culture. This is from her “Classed Dismissed” [...]

900 block

The beat cop leans down to the driver’s side window of the squad car. The noise coming off of Market Street is making it hard to hear what the two in the black and white are saying. [...]

bird attack

I smoked a cigarette down to my knuckles keeled against the dumpster; she never came out. Probably she still had [...]

reading dates

I’ve got a bunch of reading dates coming up, let me hit you with just the first few.

This Friday, June 19th at the Knockout on Mission. Starts at 7pm.

Tuesday, June 230th, at the Blue Macaw on Mission. Starts at 7pm.

the master at work

Call me a sucker. A rube. But, I just love it when Hemingway gets [...]

A Partial List of People to Bleach

Gary Lutz, one of our favorite authors, is back with a new book. This is a short one, mixed with new stuff and older, rare stories. [...]

A Real Ass Ringer

so you want to be published? bestselling author, Kemble Scott, explains how he had to stop writing to become [...]