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The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Cary Grant On Lsd
Cary Grant had the persona of a happy-go-lucky guy, but as a human being he must've had conflicts. He said as much when he started taking LSD. This was in the late 1950s, when his acting career had already peaked, his marriages hadn't worked out, and
John Haskell
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

In Cretaceous Seas
I tend to flip from OK insomnia to bad insomnia depending on how things in my life are going, and this story came out of a stretch of insomnia as bad as I've had in a while. I'd been struggling with another story for some months by that point, and woke...
Jim Shepard
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Dennis Cooper On Zine Days (they Were Good) And Transgressive Blogs (there Is Such A Thing)
If you rated magazines on a scale of 100 for megasellers to 0 for practically shunned, poetry journals would barely register in the high minuses. Who exactly is the itsy
Steve Lafreniere
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Vice Comics
OH BOY ANOTHER LIL CINDY ADVENTURE
Laura Park
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Trailer
Noir is a short novel starring you as Philip M. Noir, Private Investigator. It began as a story about a dockside detective in pursuit of something-like truth or beauty, the ineffable-and became over the course of its writing a kind of...
Robert Coover
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

vice Presents The People's Lists
HONORÉ DE BALZAC (1799-1850)Balzac, one of the supreme writers of realistic fiction, was, in his own life, a man of gross appetites and pretensions as well as of gargantuan genius and accomplishment
David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Vice Comics
THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER
Johnny Ryan
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Orgy
There's a famous line from the movie The Wild Ones. Marlon Brando, playing the part of a motorcycle rebel, has rolled into town, and when a townsperson asks him, "What are you protesting against," he says, "Wha'd ya got?" Although Brando was...
John Haskell
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Scratch - Excerpt From A Novel In Progress
I have been working on this novel for more than ten years. During those years, I have written and published other books, but this one remains unfinished. I have come to realize that this is because it is a work that comes forth from me only when...
Nick Tosches
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Voice Of America
While growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, my father converted to an American brand of Christianity that has its roots somewhere in rural Pennsylvania. A fallout of his new faith was that-unlike in other homes in Nigeria where allegiance was to the former...
E.c. Osondu
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Night Shift
Before the low-cost German supermarkets Aldi and Lidl came over in the late 1990s, the UK had its own homegrown "subprime" supermarket chain, Kwik Save. It grew up in North Wales near where I grew up and it pioneered the margin-boosting tactics of...
Jesse Armstrong
12.1.07
The Second Annual Fiction Issue

Women Holding Strange Creatures
These drawings grew from a set of pictures that I did a few years ago of children talking to strange creatures on beaches. They were a bit like illustrations to unwritten stories by E. Nesbit. Then when I revisited them more recently I discovered that...
Quentin Blake
12.1.07
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