Mike Topp

Mike Topp was born in Washington, D.C., and currently lives in New York City unless he has died or moved. Recent publications include American Air (X-R-A-Y, 2024, with drawings by William Wegman) and The Frontier Index (Hanuman Editions, 2024, co-written with Raymond Pettibon with art by Pettibon). He is currently working on a zine with Raymond Pettibon called The Circle Club, to be published by Karma Publications.

THE STUYVESANT BEE 215

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?

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THE STUYVESANT BEE 224 by Mike Topp

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.

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