Empty Mirror: Beat Generation, Arts & Literary Magazine

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Calling on Paul Bowles
Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

”There it is,” someone says, and in the darkness, in the distance, you can see Tangier sprawled across several hills, a white …{read more}

Three poems by P R Kargaard

False Bay, San Juan Island

In the autumn morning, the high thirds
of the trees I know
have vanished. Obscured by a sleepy fog.
It is a way of being
…{read more}

Book Review – IR 30: Indigenous Visions In Dub

I guess it’s appropriate that blockades have gone up again on the Tyndengia Mohawk reservation in South Eastern Ontario Canada as I begin to write this review. Here in Canada …{read more}

Poems by Sam Silva: “Long Before the Peaceful Song” and “Hell as an Institution”

LONG BEFORE THE PEACEFUL SONG

Sick in the dark
before dawn irrupts
shedding light on the need to sleep

the dead like me
pondering their being
against that sole thing …{read more}

10 places to find reviewers for your self-published book

Self-publishing is a great way to get your book into the world. But when you self-publish, you take on all the responsibilities that a traditional publisher usually would, including marketing …{read more}

The Opening Line – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”

And so begins the first sentence to Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal 1971 …{read more}