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.
“Mound, the Second” by Nanor Abkarian
Nanor Lara Abkarian earned her MFA from Mills College and has worked as a teacher, tutor, production manager, and 30-second actress in a feature film. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.
Get DUM at our next showcase November 18 @ Ham & Eggs Tavern!
Get DUM at our next event with Shana Falana (on your from New York!), your Editor-in-Chief Taleen Kali playing solo tunes,The Tissues, and French Vanilla at Ham & Eggs Tavern Nov 18th. RSVP here.
Text Message Interview with The Regrettes by Julia Gibson
Welcome back to Text Message Interviews! This month we interviewed local LA band The Regrettes as they get ready to bring their sweet, smart, and spunky #DUMjams to venues all along the West Coast during the month of November.
“I put on your old jacket and walked” by Thomas Davis
Thomas Davis is a full time scientist and part time writer who's currently working on developing more poetry concerning life from a scientist's perspective.
Text Message Interview with Michelle Tea by Rosa Quezada
Welcome back to DUM DUM Zine’s Text Message Interviews! This month we interview Michelle Tea, founder of Sister Spit, one of our DUM role models and author of so many novels we stopped counting and decided to ask her if we could text!
“Solo Hollywood” by Russell Bennetts
Russell Bennetts is the editor of Berfrois. His books include Relentless (2014) and Poets for Corbyn (2015).
Zine on the Scene: Record Club LA by Julia Gibson
Welcome to DUM DUM Zine's spankin new feature, "Zine on the Scene" wherein we cover live events in L.A. and beyond. For our inaugural feature we snapped photos of Record Clubbers and asked them to tell us which #DUMjams they brought and why. Scroll through for their record recs and #GetDUM!
“Epilogue” by Korey Hurni
Korey Hurni was born and raised in Lansing, MI, and recently earned his MFA at Western Michigan University where he served as Poetry Editor for Third Coast.
Text Message Interview with J Ryan Stradal by Ian Dick Jones
Welcome back to DUM DUM Zine’s Text Message Interviews! This month we interview J Ryan Stradal, one of our favorites here in the L.A. lit scene and DUM veteran, who who debuted his first novel, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, last summer.
“The time I realized I wasn’t white” by María Cristina Hall
María Cristina Hall writes poetry and edits for the literary magazines Mexico City Lit and La Cigarra. She is currently a professor of English at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City. Her work can be found in Apogee Journal, New Poetry, Surgam, Registro MX, and mcristinafernandez.net.
Skinny Chai Iced Light Ice, by Chris Barton
Chris Barton’s work has appeared in Hobart, Funhouse, Entropy, Word Riot, Metatron, and Potluck Mag. He did a project on George Washington Carver in the 5th grade. He enjoys Frank O’hara, Lydia Davis, and Osamu Dazai books. He sometimes uses twitter: @chrisnbarton. A thousand hugs.
“Thoughts” by Oliver Zarandi
Oliver Zarandi is an editor and writer. His latest stories appear in Hobart, Vol 1 Brooklyn and Witchcraft Magazine. He is working on his novel, Bodies, which is about bodies. Contact him on @funhousemag