X-R-A-Y Specs: THE PLUMBER (1979)
March 22, 2024
I don’t think Max’s colonization of the bathroom is an accident. It’s a place where we feel vulnerable, and many times we attach a lock to the door to prevent others from walking in unannounced.
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THE CABIN by Meg Favreau
March 18, 2024
But today there was a cabin. A small, rough thing. Caked in leaves. Inside, they found old cans and an old bed and an old table. Inside, they found a calendar stuck on July 1992.
THE STUYVESANT BEE 225 by Mike Topp
March 17, 2024
I found a wallet today that contained $200, some credit cards, and some family pictures—my family now.
WHAT TO DO WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO DO by John King
March 14, 2024
I’ve just vomited into my mother’s coffin. The pallbearers rush me out of the parlor. The funeral home director eyes me fiercely. He isn’t wrong.
OUT FROM UNDER THE BRIDGE: ON DAVE FITZGERALD by K Hank Jost
March 12, 2024
To refer back to Jeanette’s advice again for a second, it’s not just that no one will care if you don’t do it. In a lot of cases, it’s that no one will even know if you don’t do it. For me, ‘doing the thing’ has changed my life.
QUESTIONS FOR THE ALIEN WHO LISTENED TO THE VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORD by John Waddy Bullion
March 11, 2024
In your mind, is there nothing better than coming home after a punishing day in the asteroid mines, firing up a space joint, and taking a blissful sound bath in the pure vibes pouring forth from your carefully curated LP collection?
THE STUYVESANT BEE 224 by Mike Topp
March 10, 2024
For decades The Stuyvesant Bee has been a password known only to the LITERARY ELITE, whispered at CIA-sponsored cocktail parties, discussed in zoom meetings hosted by Paris Review interns, loudly recited at salons & saloons around the reading world.
Transmissions: The Book Chemist
March 8, 2024
What I never do is read a book with the specific intent to review it (e.g., because I think it will be popular on the channel). It would take all the fun out of reading!
POSSESSION IN THE GAME: An Interview with Thomas Kendall
March 6, 2024
There is this un-healable division between the physical and the mental within capitalist ‘culture.’ I do feel that we are losing the world and that begins with an alienation from the body.