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Recommended by Ken Baumann

Zona Motel

Zona Motel is a web space and Brotherhood that exists to support good literature.

I review books for Zona Motel, the only literary website that is a BROTHERHOOD with stunning and delicious values.

- Ken Baumann

Special Cup!

By Garri Saganenko

The Essays, Poems, and Podcast of Garri Saganenko

My good friend Garri writes essays and poetry that are simultaneously oblique and direct. They're cool; he's cool.

- Ken Baumann

Rhystic Studies Substack

magic the gathering history and culture

Sam is one of my favorite living scholars and video makers. He writes often about Magic: The Gathering. He's also a paisan.

- Ken Baumann

1st Responder

By Eric Raymond

Eric Raymond's San Francisco notebook. Found under Sutro Tower for the city beneath the bridge. Ghost sightings, graffiti, familiars & emergencies.

Eric has tremendous discipline as a writer. I published his first novel. No one gets San Francisco like Eric gets San Francisco.

- Ken Baumann

Opaque Hourglass

By Mark Leidner

Mark is one of my favorite living poets. I published his book of aphorisms. He will make you laugh (if he doesn't, I'll mail you money).

- Ken Baumann

Untitled Thought Project

By Catherine Lacey

144-word essays, book stuff, writing stuff, etc.

Catherine is a contemporary master of concision. I really enjoy her (super) short stories, public letters, and thoughts on literature.

- Ken Baumann

Dividual

By Blake Butler

Thoughts about books I read, the work of writing and publishing, and life

Blake is my oldest co-conspirator and friend. He's a brilliant writer, ambitious, brave, and committed to the new.

- Ken Baumann

Brad Phillips

I'm the author of Essays & Fictions. I have published writing in many, many places. I'm an artist who has shown his work a lot, and I design t-shirts and baby onesies.

A painter and writer with a laconic yet delicious sense of the real. Come for the watercolors, stay for the analyses of art and politics (and for the watercolors).

- Ken Baumann

Mental Hellth

By P.E. Moskowitz

You're not crazy, the world is.

P.E. Moskowitz writes brilliantly about the confluence of mental health, capitalism, fascism, and pleasure.

- Ken Baumann