By Sam Lipsyte
The deli near Mediocre had a new wrap man. He rolled my order too tight. Turkey poked through the tan skin. I studied the damage through the translucent lid of the container. It was a bad way to begin my first day at my old job.
I rode the elevator up with Dean Cooley.
“A [...]

By Strawberry Saroyan
Alan is the sort of guy who is a an embarrassment in many situations — an investment banker/aspiring poet, he’s been known to bellow, apropos of, say, a Ponzi scheme, Ginsberg’s preamble to “Howl” – “I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed starving hysterical naked!” But this was new. He was … [...]

By John Haskell
In the brief, but wonderfully removed moments of unconsciousness I dreamed of love, of lying on a large bed with the man of my dreams — not Glen, oddly enough, but another man, a shorter man, and this dream might have gone on to its logical and possibly orgasmic conclusion had I not, [...]

By Jerry Stahl
“There she is!” It was a security guard. His name-tag said HEBBENS. He was a burly, exploding capillaried ex-linebacker type, Dick Butkus with a hair-weave and shiny Chiclet teeth, wrapped with sartorial menace in black suit, white shirt, blue shirt and ear-piece with the little wire running down under his collar. All eyes [...]

By Matthew Specktor
Of course, I was doing something wrong.  I was always doing something wrong, whether in the eyes of my boyfriend, my family or myself.  I knew enough to be blithe, in the last instance, especially.
“Have you seen Bruce?”
Oliver shook his head.  “He won’t come out of his office.”
“Why not?”
This was rhetorical.  Bruce had [...]

By Katherine Taylor
“What do you want to hear first?” I ran into my little brother Oliver in the plush, bordello-red lobby of the Encore, lugging my roller bag behind me.
“There was no traffic,” I said.  “Your sweater looks very festive.”
“How much can you take before a drink?” he said.
I was in a good mood.  I’d [...]

Saturday, December 19: We Happy Few by David Gordon
Sunday, December 20: Milkdud by Dawn Ryan
Monday, December 21: Crutch by Jami Attenberg
Tuesday, December 22: Deliquesce by Marisa Matarazzo
Wednesday, December 23: Lys by Paul Yoon
Thursday, December 24: The Gift of the Jedi by Brent Krammes
Friday, December 25: new poems by Priscilla Becker
Saturday, December 26: The Moonlighter by [...]

Monday, August 24: Swimming by Lauren Grodstein
Tuesday, August 25: And Down We Went by Lori Ostlund
Wednesday, August 26: Dear Doris by Adam Davies
Thursday, August 27: Drift by Jennine Capó Crucet
Friday, August 28: Super King by Samantha Peale
Saturday, August 29: H.S.S.H by Victor Lodato
Sunday, August 30: Hortense by Tania James
Monday, August 31: Butter Face by Joe [...]