Eric Paul has been writing since his days as singer for the celebrated noise-rock band Arab on Radar. The Providence-based poet recently released his latest book A Popular Place to Explode to critical acclaim on Heartworm Press, run by Wesley Eisold of Cold Cave and the hardcore band American Nightmare. The New York release party for this is on Saturday at Over the Eight in Brooklyn. I asked Paul questions over email about absurdity and being mentored by writers you […]
A Year of Favorites: Eric Nelson
Everything is My Favorite: 2013 in Review On the morning following Valentine’s Day this year, I sat scrolling through my Tumblr feed and stumbled upon a reblogged photo of two guys with big smiles holding paperbacks surrounded by walls of displayed books. The caption read “We got small press books. We got beer. We open 2/12/13” and another image announcing “GRAND OPENING- Mellow Pages Public Library & Reading Room.”
“Discontent is a Great Hobby”: Charles Bronson’s Mark McCoy on Art, Hardcore, and Insularity
From the inception of pioneering powerviolence band Charles Bronson to numerous musical projects and publishing art books, Mark McCoy is now as soft and slow as a bullet train. A graduate of the Masters of Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts and currently based out of Brooklyn, I reached out to ask him a few questions about running a punk label in 2013 and meeting challenges in both visual art and music.