Story
AS HE TOLD IT (In Kitchens)
Bonny Finberg
Love, built on mutual fantasy in order to fortify against loneliness, eventually becomes a prison.
I approach the beginning of the end never really having had love that doesn't feel like a betrayal.
Anyone I have ever...
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Podcasts
S02E08 – Arthur Nersesian
Bernard Meisler
Novelist, playwright and poet Arthur Nersesian in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Arthur Nersesian, photograph by David Shankbone
Arthur Nersesian is the author of nine books, including the classic novels The Fuck-U...
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Story
Confessions of a Bad Boy: An Act in Fore Plays
J. K.
Play One
Hot car and hot girl after two hot nights. Pushing the pedal, I sped my new girlfriend’s blue Mustang down the Bay Area Autobahn. I could hurtle for miles at a buck twenty—if it wasn’t for the CHP. San Fran...
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Story
Two Micro Stories by Roberta Allen
Roberta Allen
THE DYING MAN
The dying man just told the barmaid and two customers that he is dying. The two men stare at their drinks. The barmaid washes glasses so she doesn’t have to look at the dying man. “I’m so sorry,”...
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Podcasts
S02E06 – Puma Perl
Bernard Meisler
NYC poet and impresario Puma Perla in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
photograph of Puma Perl by Len DeLessio
I've never met Puma Perl in real life. That is, I don't recall having done so. But it seems as if we must...
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Marcus Leatherdale: Photographs New York City 1980-1992
Franklin Mount
Out of the Shadows: Marcus Leatherdale: Photographs New York City 1980-1992
Exhibition: Throckmorton Fine Art, through January 25, 2020.
It’s terribly difficult to photograph a famous person and then actually produce a...
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Podcasts
S02E05 – David West
Bernard Meisler
Paris-based painter David West in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Some new paintings by David West
I met David West at the Pink Pony in NYC, back in 1994 or thereabouts. David was the "bartender" and I used to go th...
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Podcasts
S02E04 – Eve Packer
Bernard Meisler
NYC poet Eve Packer in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Eve Packer
Great NYC poet Eve Packer and I spoke about the loss of our dear friend Steve Cannon, Jeffrey Epstein (Note: this was recorded in mid-July), her own ...
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Writing
Mulberry and Mott
Mia Hansford
You ask me why I want to stop here but I didn’t say
because that truck is dropping a load of steel through
a graffitied plywood door and that’s the sound of a city
turning corners. Didn’t say because this bench s...
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Podcasts
S02E03 – Sensitive Skin Live At San Francisco LitCrawl
Bernard Meisler
Sensitive Skin live at LitCrawl, recorded at the Valencia Room, San Francisco.
Instead of the usual conversation, why not give a listen to last week's Sensitive Skin reading at LitCrawl, live from San Francisco? Reade...
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Interview
An Interview with John Giorno
Thaddeus Rutkowski
First published in Terminal! magazine, No. 14 (Philadelphia, ca. 1982)
Conducted in Giorno’s home, in the building on the Bowery, Manhattan, where William S. Burroughs had his Bunker, by Thaddeus Rutkowski.
TR: To an...
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Podcasts
S02E02 – Gerald Nicosia
Bernard Meisler
Gerald Nicosia in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Gerald Nicosia
An absolute must-listen for all fans of Jack Kerouac and the Beats. Gerry and I spoke about his role as an advisor to the film version of "On The Road...
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Book
There’s Never Been A Better Time To Die
Bernard Meisler
Sensitive Skin Books is proud to present THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO DIE, a noir/mystery/crime novel/comedy/satire of late-stage capitalism, as seen through the eyes of a real estate agent in Marin County, who accidentally becomes a hard-boiled detective.
The novel takes place in Marin County, CA, 2008, just before the bubble burst. Once the home to the Grateful Dead, Gary Snyder and Sam Shepard, the newer demographic tends toward hedge fund managers, dotcom millionaires and trophy wives, where people, without any sense of irony, paste "Keep Tahoe Blue" bumper stickers on their gigantic SUVs. Despite widespread affluence, conspicuous consumption and a massive sense of entitlement, there is an undercurrent of fear among the residents—of a downturn causing them to lose it all, their kids drinking or taking drugs (or murdering an Italian policeman while on vacation in Europe), of falling behind their neighbors, of getting foun...
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Book
The Last Poet of the Village
Sergei Yesenin
Sensitive Skin is proud to present The Last Poet of the Village, a bilingual (Russian/English) edition of selected poems by the perhaps the greatest 20th-century Russian poet, Sergei Yesenin, translated by acclaimed Russian-American poet Anton Yakovlev, with prefaces by Yakovlev and Donald Zirilli.
Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925), whose distinctive lyricism and lush rural imagery have indelibly imprinted themselves into the Russian consciousness, is second in popularity among Russian speakers only to Alexander Pushkin. Sadly, 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.
Four sample poems from the book are now ...
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Poem
Four New Translations of Sergei Yesenin – translated by Anton Yakovlev
Anton Yakovlev
Please enjoy these four poems from The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems of Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton Yakovlev, now available in print and Kindle format from Amazon. Or ask for it from your local bookstore or...
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