Disclaimer: I'm an editor and occasional contributor to
Sensitive Skin Magazine.
As one of the editors, I'm thrilled beyond sanity and pants to report that Issue #8 is now inflicting its wrath upon
the web and
your local bookstore (yes, the one you own)! May its treble entendres singe your pelvic eyebrows! It features a
rare interview with William Burroughs conducted by Allen Ginsberg; previously unpublished photos of W.B., Sid Vicious and stately punks o' yore by ReSEARCH photographer
Ruby Ray; and snappy writing and artwork by a propinquity of begetters. Though we've tastefully omitted references to the William Tell Overture in this issue, we've crafted this special cover to hint at the explosive chortles that await those (and I mean yous) who happen to crack it.
Here was the beauty part for that mien of misery, Prestidigitweeze: Actually editing the interview with Burroughs, as well as the previously unpublished passages from Allen Ginsberg's journals.
Also featured: Neo-noir fiction by
James Greer from Guided by Voices, and the visceral
Mike Hudson, as well as a Victorian horror variation by
Rob Hardin. This issue, I'm especially happy to have gotten to know the writing of
Thaddeus Rutkowski (author of
Teched (yes, that's the way it's spelled) and
Roughhouse) and
Chavisa Woods, an intricate yet colloquial new writer with novels from Autonomedia and Fly by Night, and another due next fall from Westgate Press.