Empty Mirror: Beat Generation, Arts & Literary Magazine

Pagan Days

Prayers are face down and descend in stoic gloom …what goes up is methane and all of the other various fume and gas which punctuate a tired pain made of a planets sheer exhaust while glaciers cause the plants to bloom like ice cubes melting in a glass near the bed where I lie down

…a victim!, and a ghoulish clown. ...{read more}

Book Review – Alex Preston’s In Love and War.

In Love and War is the third novel from Alex Preston, following 2010′s This Bleeding City – which won The Edinburgh International Book Festival Readers’ First Book Award, and was chosen as one of Waterstones’ New Voices of 2010 – and its follow-up, The Revelations, which was released in 2012 to much critical acclaim. ...{read more}

Is Andy Kaufman Still Alive? The Evidence

My name is Jack Bristow — AKA, the guy who was interviewed by the Huffington Post about Andy Kaufman being alive and well in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ...{read more}

Cities of the Imagination

Artist’s statement: I am hitting my stride after a long process of learning how to paint my way, growing beyond the obvious influences and entering my own world. ...{read more}

Book Review – Vacant Lot by Oliver Rohe (trans. Laird Hunt)

Vacant Lot by Oliver Rohe, translated by Laird Hunt. Counterpath Press, 2011.

“Then I was king and now I’m no more than a ghost,” says the narrator in Oliver Rohe’s novel Vacant Lot. ...{read more}

elegy by bruno neiva

noir coffee spilled over the newspaper we talked for hours, jobless hours

about borders, coups and the icelandic landscape jef costello was brought into the conversation,

combed hair and smart suit – holding a gun, bluish stare over greyish glare

the talk went on at full tilt, it was writ large all over us

that old films and faraway countries wouldn’t bring us any new prospects

(though there’s no denying that hugo barrett has set a table before us sometime in 63) ...{read more}