When I was young my grandfather took me and my cousin on a trip. My father called it a vacation even though we were going to a ranch...
Plum EyesShe had purple sunglasses. She said she liked them because she couldn’t eat plums; they made her sick.The glasses let her enjoy purple without a stomachache. Burned Shades of OrangeI think you burned a cucumber-scented candle...
Below, you'll find a list Brian Alan Ellis's Amazing Hobbies:
—realizing that having hobbies/passions has pretty much ruined my life, so…
—fantasizing about someone playing a sick...
We got bombed out, and no one slept in New Orleans. There were options, some thirty-something couple with baking-soda aspirations and liquid expressions. They got us high, but...
The bouncer who stood blocking the door was a few inches taller and outweighed me by a hundred pounds. I had him sized up pretty good, gotten...
Talking Book is excited to announce the release of FOREST PRIMEVAL by Vievee Francis, read by the author herself.'A Song On The Ridge' read by Vievee Francis (Excerpt...
Welcome to part one in Sean Kilpatrick's ongoing series where the incomparable author offers us the 'skinny' one of many bat-shit crazy (and beloved) artists. Enjoy!
Egon predicted the...
The first time I allowed a stranger to photograph me naked, I was unemployed, weighed 140 pounds, and had really bad hair.
I had just...
(introduction by Jordan Castro, bracketed material by Sam Pink)PART I: INTRODUCTIONSam Pink is the author of 8 books, my favorites of which, and perhaps the most...
I first heard about Suicide Girls when I was in college. It was a much smaller community back then, only a few hundred ladies worldwide, but there was...
(Spoiler warning: This article discusses The Neon Demon in its entirety.)
Late in The Neon Demon, a snooty fashion designer named Robert declares, “Beauty isn’t everything,...
Below is part 4 of the original series 'Missed Connections' by Sean Kilpatrick. Check out the previous 3 here.
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from one wolf howl to another, aka luna loboshumming, a rippled moon imitates the pupil of her eye/cocooned it shinesdance the dervish, the dainty, the devil spin like spun like unravel...
in an undisclosed location, ancient family secrets are locked inside a vault named cynthia
cynthia was a hospice nurse six years ago and she knew...
Below is an excerpt from Mark de Silva's first novel Square Wave. It's one of our favorite titles of 2016. Go and buy it here or suffer...
The following is an excerpt from SOPHIA, the debut novel from Michael Bible (Melville House, 2016). A live reading with the author will take place at Firestorm...
You were ironically small because what an uncle had done to you held quotation marks around your entire adulthood and I was offering to hit him with a brick....
