Recently, some cool poets visited our city of Asheville, NC from Baltimore, Knoxville and Oakland. We convinced them to stop by the studio on their way out of town and record some work....
Official Apocrypha: or, Sifting Through Static — The Foreword Before. By Ben Tyler Elliott. A Reader's Companion to the new audiobook SIFTING THROUGH STATIC by Ben Tyler Elliott....
Welcome to part two in Sean Kilpatrick’s ongoing series on bat-shit crazy artists.
Congested by his rank into a delinquent calf at the altar of the state, Jack Henry...
WITH AUDIO NARRATED BY BUD SMITH. BONUS! Hobbies include... —ignoring the huge life mistakes I’ve made by obsessing over the tiny editorial mistakes I’ve made. —cancelling plans based on the unreasonable...
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...
(introduction by Jordan Castro, bracketed material by Sam Pink) PART I: INTRODUCTION Sam Pink is the author of 8 books, my favorites of which, and perhaps the most...
from one wolf howl to another, aka luna lobos humming, a rippled moon imitates the pupil of her eye/cocooned it shines dance the dervish, the dainty, the devil spin like spun like unravel...
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...
Small white lights are strung across the walls in a rough and worn looking garage. Blurred photographs of trains traveling at night hang on the walls....
TALKING BOOK's FIRST PROMOTIONAL VIDEO by artist Keegan Grandbois
https://vimeo.com/161654719 The Talking Book Gang has teamed up with renowned video artist Keegan Grandbois to produce something truly unique...The following is the third installment of many kickass excerpts from Brian Alan Ellis’s new book A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar POEM FOR CHANNING TATUM When...
Sperm ricochet guaranteed to pale its purse, vile keepsake authorizing likenesses till handkerchiefs everywhere stood tall in their verse, spawned under court order direct from Satan’s lap, knotting the...
FORWARD EXPLAINING A TRUTH YOU ALREADY KNOW BUT SPEND EVERY MINUTE OF LIFE AVOIDING LIKE THE TERRIFIED ANIMAL YOU ACTUALLY ARE Forward by Jereme Dean Dear Reader, There’s a strong possibility you’re...
THE TALKING BOOK is a literary venture dedicated to promoting thoughtful discussions on the subjects of books, art, culture and the beautiful absurdity of existence. We believe literature is...
The sun machine is coming down, and we’re gonna have a party.
In astrophysics, the black star, of semiclassical gravity theory, is an alternative to the...
Life's a fucking mess.
My resolutions this year are about being more relaxed and in tune with my body and mind, as I’m told they possess all...
It wasn’t long after midnight on New Year’s Eve, 1974, that Patti Smith turned to Lenny Kaye and repeated the words of her mother: “So as...
