ZINES

Last year, Andi Zeisler—like so many other twenty- and thirty-something creative types these days—decided to move to Portland. Zeisler, co-founder of the famed feminist quarterly Bitch, figured she’d telecommute, and continue as the editorial director of the nonprofit magazine, while her colleagues stayed in the Bay Area. Fast forward a few months, and Zeisler and […]

DAVY ROTHBART builds documents of America. His Found magazine and book series, now in its fifth year, publishes discarded letters, Post-it Notes, photographs, drawings—you name it—and creates a crowded, alive-feeling thing that’s chillingly voyeuristic, hilarious, and—quite often—crushingly heartbreaking. Built upon submissions from all over the US, the recently released second Found book is a dizzying […]

Portland Zine Symposium July 13-15 Portland State University DIY: Do it yourself. It’s the most important philosophy of the 21st Century. To some, it might conjure shallow associations with crusty vegans, or scarlet-letter “anarchists,” or ratty-tatty, pedal-pushing bike punks. But if you examine the idea of DIY more deeply, you’ll see that it’s an alternative […]

Steve Earle Arlene Schnitzer Hall Sun July 15 Steve Earle Doghouse Roses (Houghton Mifflin) This is a review of Steve Earle’s very fine book of stories by someone who thinks pop songs are the greatest achievement of our time. Suddenly I was in Puebla, Mexico without having finished this review. Puebla is thick with radios […]