The Ship: Behind the bar is a small window, and behind the window, a small room. On the left side, stacked within metal lattices, are wooden barrels tilted on their sides and filled with unknown
Easy Rider perfectly displays the counter-culture rebellion of the 1960s. Two hippie bros, Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), ride their motorcycles from Los Angeles to New Orleans in
It’s a different gator every year, but we talk like it’s the same one.
The night needed a push. I was the only customer in the place, this small dark place called Barely Legal with just one stage and a handful of circle tables and red candles. I’d run out of money
In the back of my fridge, behind the bottles of Boulevard Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale and cans of Good People IPA and bottles of Lipton Green Tea with Citrus and assorted bottles of water, there’s a bottle of blue pop.
In 2010, Michael Martone began conducting a series of interviews. Each of these interviews was written under the pen name Matthew Baker, each of these interviews was titled “An Interview with
Okay, so the trailer makes Dark Horse seem like a fun, silly comedy about a man who might not be the most mature guy ever, but seems really likable. About twenty minutes into the film, however, I
Doesn’t it always begin with a contraction, a fluttering musclequake, birding in your heart?
I remember one robot was called a SENTRY and it guarded the door...
"I think I'm just trying to be a good listener."
It’s 10:57 Albuquerque time, eight minutes before kickoff, and I’m already flustered. I hosted a party last night, which means I woke up this morning with a clogged kitchen drain and beer bottles
A true bourbon is a bourbon with a story worth remembering. It doesn’t have to be a good bourbon, but then a true story doesn’t have to be a good story.
I was twenty-two the year I realized I was scared of everything.
The monkey breeder interviews her suitability over the phone.
"...the activity is difficult and risky and can be the source of great dissonance if it reaches the point of cognition."
First a note about what I’m doing here: talking to people who consider themselves non-readers.
Welcome to Camp Bread Loaf. Put your apron on.
A little man in a boat paddles laps around a toilet bowl.
Elizabeth Ellen looks back at Tao Lin's "The Novelist" from Hobart, Aug./Sept. '04.
Matthew Simmons looks back at Amy Minton's "Overhanded" from Hobart, May '07, and also her interviews, and just her awesomeness in general.
Jac Jemc looks back at Spencer Dew's "The Exit Colony" from Hobart October '04.
Jensen Beach looks back at Glen Pourciau's "Belly" from Hobart October '08.
Aaron Burch looks back at two Aaron Gwyn shorts from Hobart, early 2002.
An interview with Ted Sanders, author of No Animals We Could Name.
"She had lost something, but she was not sure what."
"It was terrible the way we were fighting, Janine saying how many other girlfriends of yours are going to call me, pulling out the ashtray and stubbing her Doral cigarette..."
"We go to the golf course with a case of Busch and two deep-sea fishing rods fitted with steel leaders."
