Issue No. 7: QUAR + TIME Now available online!
Our first digital issue is designed to print-at-home so that you may display the zine in tiles, unbound, on your stay-at-home wall.
DIILAETD–Tributes to Aram Saroyan, by Daniel Austin Warren
This series of tributes come to you in advance of Aram Saroyan's "Complete Minimal Poems" reading at Alias Books this Sunday, May 25.
Text Message Interview with GIRLPOOL, by Chan Plett
A heatwave surfed through the landscape of a particularly warm Saturday, the 17th, delivering dreams scored to the sounds of a mango smoothie-filled pool and the pounding of a belly tom. The reverie raged on…carrying the wild shrieks and synched symphonies of a two-piece rock band that is presently (and very successfully) strumming their way through...
DUM DUM Serials: “Little Armenian Prowler” (Pt. 2) by Justin Maurer
DUM DUM Zine would like to welcome back Justin Maurer for the second serialization "Little Armenian Prowler" (read Pt. 1 here!). You may remember work from our past serials featuring Jessica Garrison's One Dollar Stories, and more recently, Kristen Felicetti's radio play, "The New York Crimes."
Devin’s Lost “LOST DOG” Poster by Kayla Pongrac
My name is Devin and I’m trying to locate a lost “Lost Dog” poster that I posted in my neighborhood earlier this week.
I made the poster on my mom’s computer, printed it out, walked...
“LOST & BOUND” at Stories Books & Café
Taking over Stories Books & Café for an evening was a blast! Thank you to all who joined us and indulged in some killer performances and mini Dum Dum Pop cupcakes (#dumcakes). If you couldn’t make it, we’ve got you covered: check out this sweet video of Daiana (Bloody Death Skull) performing a musical...
DUM DUM Serials: “Little Armenian Prowler” by Justin Maurer
DUM DUM Zine would like to welcome Justin Maurer, whose story "Little Armenian Prowler" we'll be serializing each week in May as the 3rd incarnation of our web serial tradition. You may remember work from our past serials featuring Jessica Garrison's One Dollar Stories, and more recently, Kristen Felicetti's radio play, "The New York...
GET LOST: in Words & Music from Issue No. 4
Your favorite DUMMIES are continuing our Issue No. 4 tour at Stories Books & Café! Featuring readings by:
Ian Dick Jones (VICE)
Chrysanthe Tan (Black Clock)
Nick Antosca ("The Girlfriend Game," NBC's "Believe")
Moneta Goldsmith (When in Drought)
Issue No. 4 PREVIEW: “Three Losses” by Olga Zilberbourg
Welcome to yet another sneak preview of Issue No. 4, LOST & BOUND: featuring a wonderful short story by Olga Zilberbourg, written in response to our headphones prompt. Considering the chaotic life Jeanne led as a jazz singer, a show every goddamn night, Syd drinking bourbon with anyone who praised his keyboard skills, then at dawn cajoling...
“Spring” by Mitchell Grabois
and the Earth is a child
who’s forgotten all the poems
he’s been forced to learn
and made to recite before
a contemptuous rabble
DUM REVIEW: “Remembering Priscilla Prescott” at Skylight Books, by Taylor Yates
Lead a modern girl to Hollywood, and she’ll strive to be a starlet. Lead Lenae Day to Hollywood, and she’ll school you on the history of a city steeped in decades of scandal—all while rocking a handmade wardrobe and a range of meticulously crafted characters. Ms. Day’s “Remembering Priscilla Prescott,” presented last Friday at Skylight...
Grand Park’s DOWNTOWN BOOKFEST in photos
Grand Park's DOWNTOWN BOOKFEST went down this Saturday with partners 826 LA, the Central Library, and Ryman Arts setting up shop throughout Grand Park's Performance Lawn all day long, while Writ Large and The Last Bookstore collaborated on a Pop-Up Bookstore featuring the best literature being put out by small presses today (cough cough: they...
RELOCATION by Alex Moore
We want people we will never meet,
something unknown,
once the known becomes a suit of normalcy.