Story
The Minor Outsider
He was 29 and he liked to watch people shoot drugs into their arms on YouTube while he ate the Safeway version of Cheerios. He believed this had something to do with being afraid of, but interested in, death. He’d never done heroin. He was a coward.
The Forgetful Ghost
If you claim to like books and reading and don't know who William T. Vollmann is by now, there is even less hope for this thing we call humanity than what can be gleaned from his prose. Bill sent us this great story about an amnesiac spirit which is...
Real Life War Stories Aren't Very Heartwarming
Transcripts from interviews with Rwandan child soldiers and ex-IDF veterans.
Mike Daisey, Kony and the Ecstasy and the Agony of Infotainment
Daisey’s partly fabricated story slipped in, and managed to slip past a fact checking gauntlet.
Amy Hempel
Together with writers like Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, and Mary Robison, Hempel has been canonized both into the “golden age” of the short story and as a minimalist writer.
Mary Karr
Karr handles gruesome experiences with such compassion, charm, lyricism, vividness, and mordant comedy that the work transcends mere horror story or freak show. Her storytelling melds scrappy Texas slang with poetic precision and is totally addictive.
The Sisters Brothers
I was sitting outside the Commodore’s mansion, waiting for my brother Charlie to come out with news of the job. It was threatening to snow and I was cold and for want of something to do I studied Charlie’s new horse Nimble. My new horse was called Tub.
Hey Rube!
There were some people with Cameron’s Circus whom the corrosion of years could not rob of fine qualities. But the greater number were thieves, liars and embryo eggs. Desperadoes known as “cannons,” “dips” and “guns” followed us to every town.
Vice Fashion - 5 Photographers, 5 Stories
Photos by Emma Arvida, Maciek Pozoga, Harley Weir, Jonnie Craig & Ben Rayner
Missionary Style
I grew up in an evangelical Christian church where my father was a reverend and my mom taught Sunday school. Evangelical Christians are those real pushy Christians who think that everyone else but them are going to hell, even Catholics and Jews.