LONG STORY SHORT | Twice Monthly

In his bi-weekly column, this Brooklyn-based design professional and weekly self-documenter picks at culture like loose threads on a jacket.

Born and raised in Troy, Ohio, Josh Livingston graduated from Ohio State University before attending Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. He currently works in the fashion industry. Aside from a wayward Honors Thesis, he writes the Livingston Chronicle, a weekly, true-life glimpse at love, work, sex and making good in the big city. To browse Josh’s columns, search “long story short.” Go to Josh’s page

IN THE WRITER’S WORLD | Monthly

To this writer consciousness is its own reward, and he’s been pulling paintings, poems, plays, novels, essays, pornographic musings, and cooking and dating tips out of his own consciousness since a time when the Internet was only a seashell’s distant sigh in God’s ear.

Poet/novelist Perry Brass has published 14 books through his small press, Belhue Press; his latest is Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Future–”one of the most unusual novels I’ve read in years,” said Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco. He is currently working on a new novel, The Membrane of Doubt, about the nature of God in search for love. He has been included in 25 anthologies, and has had 50 poems set to music, including “The Restless Yearning Towards My Self,” a 28-minute work for counter tenor and string quartet. He lives in the cultural and literary epicenter of New York, the Bronx, where he reads, writes, and watches the Hudson River. To browse Perry’s columns, search “in the writer’s world.” Go to Perry’s page

MIKEROSCOPIC | Monthly | Begins June 24!

This writer is dedicated to looking at things unseen: the artists, books, fanzines, website, and bands that move like invisible molecules in the lacunae of mass culture. Like molecules, they penetrate everywhere. Like molecules, they are visible only under magnification. This column is an attempt, by definition incomplete, at being a microscope.

Michael Lindgren is a former editor and bookseller whose reviews and essays have appeared in The L Magazine, No Depression, Rain Taxi, American Book Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. A musician, poet, and painter, he divides his time between Manhattan and Pennsylvania. To browse Michael’s columns, search “mikeroscopic.” Go to Michael’s page

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