March 18, 2009
Coming in May: The Minus Times
Putting the “Great” back in Depression, the latest Minus Times is a seventy-two page double issue starring Dave Eggers, Sam Lipsyte, and David Berman. Issue #29 draws a bead on the pimp and protector of America’s imagination: Hollywood. Featuring confessions from screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis (High Fideility, Grosse Point Blank) and director Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julian Donkey-Boy) along with a crew of talented extras, the Minus Times subverts and celebrates this billion-dollar dreamworld that we rent by the hour.
An open casting call brought in a cross-section of American talent: rock & rollers Sam Beam, Will Oldham, Colin Gagon, Neil Michael Hagerty; artists Harrison Haynes, Hope Gangloff, Forest Juziuk, and Steve Keene; cartoonist and animator Brad Neely; filmmakers Kathy Egan and Andrew Pope; poets Joe Wenderoth and Mike Topp; photographer Michael McLeod; ad executive Austin McKenna; along with writers Brian Howe, Theodore McDermott, Patrick deWitt, Wells Tower, Brent Van Daley, Mike Laus, and Jeff Johnson. Handsomely weathered scene-stealers one and all.
Since 1997, the Minus Times has consistently delivered emerging American talent in a hand-typed literary almanac alternately referrred to as “Harper’s Magazine on methadone” and “a 34-page ransom note.” Edited by Hunter Kennedy. Published by Drag City.
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