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IT'S THE VICE FICTION ISSUE 2010!

Once a year, Vice Magazine assembles the foremost literary talent from around the world to encapsulate in one document the general mood and emotional undercurrents on the world of letters at this precise--OK, kidding, we aren't going to talk like that. This year's Fiction Issue features new stories by the likes of

Deb Olin Unferth
Sam McPheeters (he's got two of them this year)

Terry Southern
Jim Tully
Patrick deWitt
Gina Berriault

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In addition to interviews with bright lights like
arch comics artist Charles Burns
arch last-half-of-the-20th-century-but-still-going playwright Edward Albee
arch grammarian Bryan Gardner
arch female teenographer Mary Karr
arch short story writer Amy Hempel
arch lionizer of shlubby males Sam Lipsyte
and the author of the most important book about queer hustlers in the 1960s American underworld, John Rechy.

There's also a bunch of richly-colored photo portraits of modernist greats by Gisèle Freund, an extemporaneous-feeling meditation on existentialism by Clancy Martin, a short series of new work by Roe Ethridge, a bunch of different li'l Andy Capps by Torbjørn Rødland, a new comic by Johnny Ryan, and one of the most comprehensive lists of literary ass kickings we've ever had the honor of printing.

And that's it. At least for now. As in years past there will be audio readings of all or most of the short stories on the blog and very likely some other stuff cropping up when you least expect it (early morning). If you're itching for a hard copy of the magazine--and of all issues this is the one you should definitely try to snag--go here and find the closest drop spot on our distributors' map.

Happy reading,
VICE