March 2, 2013
It’s funny: chapbooks and zines form a kind of Venn Diagram, the difference (broadly) being that chapbooks are sometimes fancy and/or expensive—and hold higher editing standards— while zines are almost always cheap self-produced projects, making good use of a photocopier. Chapbook: “a small book or pamphlet of popular tales, ballads, etc.” The term derives from chapmen, a type of peddler in the 19th century, [...]
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January 31, 2013
I’ve been writing for weeks now about pain, and I’m tired of it. Personal writing can have therapeutic benefits—resolving conflict, healing trauma—but it isn’t helping me now. And more importantly, it will only be helpful (for myself and for others) if I find a way out of cynicism; right now this project is just spinning [...]
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