Volume 16 Issue 12
Berkeley Breathed
For those of us who grew up as weird kids in the 1980s, the work of Berkeley Breathed was as important as those twin eternal pillars of weird-kid-dom: Monty Python and Mad magazine.
Reading List
I read the milk container while drinking orange juice out of the bottle, holding the refrigerator door open with my body. A better thing to read about while drinking orange juice would be oranges, or sunshine, or even lemons.
Peter Owen
For nearly 60 years Peter Owen has been an iconoclast within British publishing, pioneering the publication of some of the most revered and controversial authors of the last half-century.
“A Passage to India”
Allen Pearl was the founding editor and publisher of Pearl Files, an exclusive e-newsletter distributed to several thousand media insiders, Golden Circle and average alike.
From “Nocturama”
Brooklynite Skaggs Bernstein (26, self-loathing, recently dumped by his girlfriend, Meghan) has returned home to Vermont to live with his mother.
“Mankind Through the Ages”
Ever since awakening to this strange and forbidding dream called the 21st century, Og had been feeling crucially displaced and lonesome.
“List of Scenes of My Childhood to be Written”
1. Scene describing how my uncle Leon planted a tree in the courtyard of our building.