Mike Topp was born in Washington, D.C., and currently lives in New York City unless he has died or moved. Mike Topp is releasing two books this year; The Frontier Index, written with Raymond Pettibon. You can order it here. The other new book is American Air, from X-R-A-Y Books, which has a cover by Aram Saroyan and some drawings by William Wegman. You can order that here. Find him on twitter @MikeTopp.
My friend from Waffle House says if you stacked all the sausage patties they serve in one day, it would reach the top of the Empire State Building. I say, why bother?
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.