It’s been literal years since I posted anything on this here blog, but since both Annalee and Charlie have been hellaciously busy with all kinds of exciting top-secret life stuff, I offered to resurrect my beloved persona here (ha) and mention that Other 13, the Dead Magazines Issue, is finally available online and at all your favorite indie bookstores here in SF and probably elsewhere as well. City Lights and Dog Eared Books and Modern Times all have stacks ready to go!

Within its beautiful covers, you will find the following:

Joel Schalit gives a great remembrance of Punk Planet. Legendary zinesters Lynn Peril (author of Pink Think, one of my favorite books) and John Marr (of the always thought provoking Murder Can Be Fun) both eulogize favorite magazines that have gone to the great beyond: “Bitch, The Women’s Rock Newsletter With Bite” and “True Detective”, respectively.

Suzanne Kleid (uh, me) interviews the editors of five recently and not-so-recently defunct print publications about what went right and what went wrong and who threw glass bottles at who during the release parties.

Plus you’ve got amazing art, reviews, articles about theatre and serial catalogging (sp?) and the Athenian, an 18th century magazine of reader-generated content, perhaps, dare we say, the Ur-Blog?

And how could I forget Sacha Arnold’s HYSTERICAL memoir of a career in indie bookstores? As one who toils in those trenches myself, it almost killed me. I’ve been quoting it to my coworkers for two weeks.

Soon we’ll have an image of the cover to post, but in the meantime you’ll just have to truist us when we say that it’s the prettiest and best designed issue we’ve ever done.

In closing: go and buy it. Thanks.