Steve Lafreniere

  • Hard-Boiled Hollywood

    I’m generally not thrilled when friends push books on me. “You have to read this. Here, take my copy,” they’ll say, and then try to extract progress reports the next five times I talk to them. But when someone slipped me John Gilmore’s Laid Bare some...

  • Ryan Trecartin

    First of all, let’s say it would be hard to find a sleeker art-world hot rod than Ryan Trecartin. In the four years since his feature-length candy-flip earthquake of a video A Family Finds Entertainment was shown at the 2006 Whitney...

  • 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

  • Do The Hustle

    Hey, fellas. Fancy a career in male-prostitution?