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READ covers fiction, fanzines, zines with no fans except for us, websites, blogs, magazines, artist's books and other independent releases. Chances are, if it's been published then we know about it and chances are, if it's not in TwoThousand, then we didn't like it. READ is for people who were born with ink in their veins and a fat balding critic on their shoulder. READ has also created more best-sellers than Oprah's Book Club and more wannabe to be writers than Hunter S Thompson.
The New Order magazine issue 03
The first two issues of NZ based street culture magazine The New Order were wildly ambitious affairs, squeezing every hip name imaginable in between the covers from Ian Astbury to VisVim. The results were overwhelming and a little boring, akin to skim-reading a google search for 'cool'.
The third issue is different.
Weekly zine review #2 - Comic of Smallness
For those who know that Less is More, feel that the 50c coin is way oversized and get frustrated with the clunkiness of mobile phones these days, Green Comix presents to you the Comic of Smallness. Nanotechnology is finally here and it's 32 miniature pages where the only thing oversized is the staple holding it together and the dandy dog character's earplugs.
Relfections of a Solitary Hamster
For me, some French picture books form the "Triumvirate of Utilité". They are charming, fable-like, ostensibly for kids (a niece perhaps) and can double as 'uplifting gift for pal in break-up hell', or triple as a 'de facto love letter to your new crush'. I used to keep a mint copy of Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince for said purpose/s.
Weekly zine review #1 - 'Astrobabble: the zine for astrology nerds'
Zines are awesome. They're just small photocopied low-fi mags and often targeted at a niche group of nobodies. Robot nerds. Nerf nerds. Articulate shoplifters. Those with a penchant for drawings of toasters. And so forth. Well, here's a zine "for astrology nerds" but it deserves a much broader audience.
This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks
With the blindness-inducing years of my sexual awakening sitting pretty much parallel to the introduction of the internet to the mainstream market, I've seen more cum-drenched faces and boys with daddy issues than you can shake a dick at. Now suitably jaded and pushing 30, it's gotten to the point where it takes an amputee midget sitting front row centre at a bukkake party to raise an eyebrow.
The Lifted Brow issue #6, ATLAS
Ronnie Scott has been manning the guns at bi-annual attack journal The Lifted Brow for a few years now and he's launching issue #6 this week. We asked him what it took to make one of the best editions of a literary journal we ever set our cloudy retinas upon.
Penny Modra: Let's cut to the chase, Ronnie.
Iron Curtain Issue #1
You're crouched behind the signal box. You watch the 11.47 roll in through the neck of your t-shirt that you've pulled up like a balaclava. The guard steps onto the platform, you can feel your heartbeat in your throat. You look down at your tins, labelled 'backy', 'fill', 'outline' and 'key'. The guard is out of sight and you've heard no warning from your sub on the platform.
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