East of Bowery began as a collaborative web project between writer Drew Hubner (American by Blood, We Pierce) and photographer Ted Barron in 2008. It was subsequently performed as a multi-media performance with live musical accompaniment at The Gershwin Hotel and The Bowery Poetry Club. This is the first print publication of the project. "Drew Hubner's prose and Ted Barron's photos are kin, at once raw and lyrical, grit and grace, which is what the city was like back then. The combination is magic, the essence of the time and place." - Luc Sante, author of Low Life and Kill All Your Darlings "East of Bowery is a sharply-focused, street-level view of Downtown before the real estate agents started renaming everything."  - Steve Earle, author of Doghouse Roses and I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive "Drew Hubner writes like people used to." - William Georgiades, New York Magazine "The voice is loose, jazzy, and fast, the memories liquid and hot, avoiding the romance of macho drug memoirs with black humor, verisimilitude and a knack for the absurd..." - Kate Christensen, author of In the Drink and The Astral

East of Bowery

Literature & Fiction

Hubner, Drew

Contemporary

Sensitive Skin Books

The 8th issue of Sensitive Skin, a journal of post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing, music and whatnot, features a rare interview with William S. Burroughs, by Allen Ginsberg, from the early 90s, with previously unpublished photographs of Burroughs by Ruby Ray, as well as her photos from the original SF punk scene, including shots of X, The Dead Kennedys, and Sid Vicious. We’re also proud to present writing by: • Mike Hudson, founder and lead singer of seminal seventies punk rock band The Pagans;. • James Greer, author of the novels Artificial Light, The Failure and the non-fiction book Guided By Voices: A Brief History, a biography of a band for which he played bass guitar; • Thaddeus Rutkowski, the author of the innovative novels Haywire, Tetched and Roughhouse; • Karen Lillis (aka Karen the Small Press Librarian), author of Watch the Doors as They Close; • Chavisa Woods, whose debut collection of short stories, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind was a Lambda Literary Award finalist; • Jim Feast, a founding member of the Unbearables writers group; • Rob Hardin, author of Distorture, winner of the Firecracker Award; • and Mark McCawley, editor of the Canadian litzine Urban Graffiti. • Todd Colby, who has published four books of poetry: Ripsnort, Cush, Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Writings, and Tremble & Shine, all by Soft Skull Press. Colby has been broadcast nationally on PBS, MTV and NPR for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. Plus music from: • contemporary jazz combo The New Monsters, featuring Steve Horowitz, Dan Plonsey, Scott Looney, Steve Adams and Jim Bove. And artwork from: • Tom McGlynn, whose work is represented the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. • Justine Frischmann, former front woman and guitarist for iconic ’90s brit-pop band Elastica • James Romberger, artist for the critically acclaimed Seven Miles A Second, in collaboration with David Wojnarowicz. Plus more fiction, poetry, photographs and illustrations from Ray Jicha, Su Byron, Jennifer Adams, David West, Les Bridges, Chris Bava, Jeff Spirer, Charlie Homo, Cédric Monot, Kym Ghee, Ted Barron and Marcin Owczarek. Sensitive Skin magazine began as a print venture from New York’s Lower East Side in the 1990s, and published such literary luminaries as Richard Hell, Jack Micheline, Penny Arcade, Eileen Myles, Lynne Tillman, Patrick McGrath, Bob Holman, Maggie Estep, Emily XYZ, Herbert Huncke and Joel Rose, with art by Andres Serrano, Ari Marcopolis, Andrew Castrucci and James Romberger, to name but a few…. Sensitive Skin was reborn in the summer of 2010, and has already presented work by such esteemed artists as Justine Frischmann (Elastica), Craig Clevenger (The Contortionist’s Handbook), Darius James (Negrophobia), Stewart Home (Pure Mania), Michael A. Gonzales (Vibe magazine regular), Drew Hubner (American By Blood), Jonathan Shaw (Narcissa), Melissa Febos (Whip Smart), Max Blagg (Bald Ego), Patricia Eakins (The Hungry Girls), Díre McCain (publisher, Paraphilia Magazine), Rob Roberge (Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life), Kurt Wolf (Pussy Galore), Erika Schickel (You’re Not the Boss of Me: Adventures of a Modern Mom), John S. Hall (King Missile), Kevin Rafferty (Atomic Café), and downtown NYC avant-garde music legend Elliott Sharp.

Sensitive Skin #8

Woods, Chavisa

Hudson, Mike

Romberger, James

Greer, James

Kold, B.

Feast, Jim

Lessard, William

Bridges, Les

Hardin, Rob

McCawley, Mark

Sensitive Skin #9 features an exclusive interview with, and music by, seminal guitarist Fred Frith (Henry Cow), the missing chapter from the latest novel by science fiction legend Samuel R. Delaney, a portfolio of paintings from actor (Stranger Than Paradise) and musician (Lounge Lizards) John Lurie, a memoir by Marty Thau, former manager of Suicide and The New York Dolls, a new translation of poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky, photographs of the seamy side of Tijuana by Chris Bava and an interview with Darius James conducted by Ghazi Barakat, about his new documentary, 'The United States of Hoodoo.' The front cover is by illustrator J.D. King, and the back cover features a comic written and drawn by James Romberger. There's more writing, by Doug Rice, Susan Scutti, Larissa Shmailo, Bradley Spinelli, Anna Mockler, Jesus Angel Garcia, and Aman Sabet, as well as art by Ha Young Kim, Marcin Owczarek, John Griffin, David West and Justine Frischmann, and photographs by Ted Barron, Ruby Ray, Hal Hirshorn, N.D. Koster and Geoffrey Ithen. Sensitive Skin, an anthology of post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing, music and whatnot, features work by both world-famous and new-and-emerging artists, writers, and musicians from around the globe.

Sensitive Skin #9: post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing and music

James, Darius

DELANY, Samuel

Thau, Marty

Frith, Fred

Literary

Sensitive Skin #13 features writing by Stewart Home, Peter Blauner, Hal Sirowitz, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Erik Noonan, Robert C. Hardin, D. James Smith, Carl Watson, Matt McClaren, Christopher Romero, Max Blagg, B. Kold, Hilary Holladay, Jonathan Shaw, Ron Kolm and Patrick O'Neil, with art by David de Biasio, Justin Clifford Rhody, Julia Kissina, Alex Katz, Samoa and more.

Sensitive Skin #13: Art & Literature for and by the Criminally Insane

BLAUNER, Peter

Watson, Carl

Rutkowski, Thaddeus

Home, Stewart

Meisler, Bernard

Blagg, Max

Hardin, Robert C.

It is difficult to find a Russian person who doesn't know by heart at least one poem by Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925), whose distinctive lyricism and lush rural imagery have indelibly imprinted themselves into the Russian consciousness. Second in popularity among Russian speakers only to Alexander Pushkin, Yesenin has received surprisingly little attention abroad, where he is best known for his brief marriage to Isadora Duncan. This bilingual edition (original Russian side-by-side with translation by Anton Yakovlev) is an attempt to rectify the relative scarcity of Yesenin's English translations and to introduce English speakers to many of his most beloved and iconic poems.

The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton Yakovlev

Yesenin, Sergei

History & Criticism

A collection of stories, poems and essays originally published online at sensitiveskinmagazine.com, between 2016 and 2019.

Sensitive Skin: Selected Writing: 2016-2018

Short Stories & Anthologies

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