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The Fiction Issue 2008

Les Krims
These manipulated Polaroids were originally published in the 1975 book, Fictcryptokrimsographs: A Book-Work by Les Krims (Humpy Press).
Les Krims
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Harry Crews
Harry Crews had just about every job a man might have to take in his lifetime—from working in a cigar factory all the way up (or maybe down) to teaching creative writing.
Jesse Pearson, Portrait: Tara Sinn, Photo: John Zeu
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Intelligence
Everything becomes 100 percent better when you come across something like what Seth sent us.
Seth Fried
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Obscenity, Who Really Cares? John Calder Keeps on Keeping on
It’s telling that Calder decided to name the company after himself as his endearing willfulness made him one of the most litigated-against publishers of the mid-20th century.
Huw Nesbitt; Portrait: Tara Sinn, Photo: Ben Rayn
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Science Fiction's Hidden Hero
Screw Ray Bradbury and all his Midwestern sci-fi fame and glory. It's great that he gets all moony over rolling fields of grass, and sure he's a jolly read, but his characters never really tickle danger.
Liz Armstrong, Photo: Andrea Bauer
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Ivor Cutler
In a perfect world everyone’s grandfather would be a kindly yet razor-sharp old goof just like Ivor Cutler (and we’d also be able to fly).
Ivor Cutler
12.2.08
The VICE Guide to Sex

Imbalu: Circumcision Party
We take a look at Imbalu, the (sort of) ancient Ugandan practice of mass teenage circumcision.
VICE Staff
12.2.08
The VICE Guide to Sex

Imbalu: Circumcision Party
Meet the team of crack Imbalu surgeons, sworn under oath never to circumsize a corpse.
VICE Staff
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Lessons From the Learned
Jim Shepard is the author of six novels and three collections of stories, the latest of which, the jaw-dropping Like You’d Understand, Anyway, won the Story Prize and was a National Book Award finalist.
Jim Shepard, Mary Gaitskill, Rivka Galchen
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Sad Stories of the Death of Kings
It's no wonder that David Lynch made two of his best films when he adapted Barry Gifford's 'Wild at Heart' and then asked him to cowrite the script for Lost Highway.
Barry Gifford
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Six Stories
Gangemi is the author of The Volcanoes From Puebla, a criminally underappreciated title that critics like to label “transfiction” when really it’s just a damn good book.
Kenneth Gangemi
12.2.08
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CANADA - A COALITION OF LOSERS
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12.1.08
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