Poetry

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No Comments 14 July 2010

A poem by Olly Bryan

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Fiction

The Tooth Fetishist

No Comments 06 July 2010

A dominatrix working near Ground Zero receives a ghastly request from a tooth fetishist. A short story by Scarlet Cohen

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Tolstoy in his deathbed.

Fiction

Tolstoy Would Have Loved Me

No Comments 30 June 2010

A short story with some Tolstoy, Russian fiends, breasts, and that beloved craze called Lost. By Brigit Kelly Young

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NonFiction

Days or Weeks or Years Later

4 Comments 15 June 2010

"I am fourteen again. I like the taste of what tastes like the mouth of an older man. Cigarettes and metal and Listerine." By Melissa Petro

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Just sayin...

NonFiction

I Used to Get High

No Comments 19 May 2010

The title says it all. A short piece about a boring night with a book and a drug that won't shut up. By anonymous

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The green press room on North 6th St.

NonFiction

The Anniversary Issue: L Magazine’s Northside Festival 2009

1 Comment 18 May 2010

The musical story behind the story of the Northside Festival review, which took place in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn. By Carlos Detres.

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An advertizement for a brothel, from the original Blue Book, which was distributed throughout New Orleans in the Storyville days.

Literature, Selections

Selection for Week of 5/14/10: The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld by Herbert Asbury

No Comments 14 May 2010

Billed as the sequel to Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York, this book contains vivid and lurid accounts of the The Vieux Carré pre-1930's.

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Man Ray

Fiction

Sweet Mary

1 Comment 13 May 2010

As the short story's author described, "A piece of literary filth if you want it." Religious eroticism in the vein of classical surrealism. By David Henry Sterry

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NonFiction

Anniversary Stories: The Movie Will Begin in Five Moments

No Comments 05 May 2010

One of our first reviews was of Graham Reznick's film, I Can See You. Here's the story behind the story by Carlos Detres.

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NonFiction

Anniversary Stories: Cutting Formalities

No Comments 04 May 2010

Ellen Donbeck's recollections, on this anniversary month, of her beginnings as a writer to present day, working with The Whiskey Dregs.

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