One of our featured EM illustrator, Carson Mell, written and directed this terrific short entitled, Bobby Bird: The Devil in Denim. It showed at the 2007 Sundance Festival and was also featured in the third issue of Wholphin , a DVD magazine that focuses on independent and experimental short films and distributed where any McSweeney’s or Believer magazine can be found. This clever film shortly thereafter became a pictorial novella he wrote called, Saguaro. →

Theme Magazine continues to up the bar with each issue. For their latest installment, themed as the Beijing Olympics issue, coverage of residents of Beijing as well as notable artists such as Cai Guo-Qiang is generously discussed. We particularly enjoyed the piece on conversations with Beijing’s taxi drivers as well as the well designed graphic chart of Olympic factoids. A very comprehensive read that gives you great context of the cultural backdrop that is Beijing.

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Netherlands based Fantastic Man is the quintessential read for the fashion conscious gentleman. The magazine is a bi-annual publication and they certainly do not disappoint in their editorial coverage ranging from noted fashion designers, to contemporary thinkers, to clever economic methods of packing one’s bag for travel. In their current issue No. 7, I particularly enjoyed →

Arkitip’s latest issue is proud to present: Tommy Guerrero. This issue edition will serve as a virtual scrap book; a sentimental gathering of images from past and present. We were lucky enough to be granted access to Tommy’s vault of uncommon memorabilia, private photographs, and to be able to share it with you. It also includes many essays from friends and peers →

Photo credit: © (copyright) Yoichi Nagano

Proceeding the 90’s Free Paper era, Seoul’s mainstream publication houses were primarily focusing their attention on numerous domestic magazines and licensed magazines from abroad. →

While the aspiring Apatows and Reitmans of the world have YouTube, and the blogosphere is often used as platform for self proclaimed “celebrity experts” to comment on everything from Lindsay’s latest DUI to Mischa’s cellulite, there is no place in the vast forest of the internet for the fledgling fiction writer to tell their version of Once Upon a Time. Well, there was no such place, until we created our ideal short storybook hero, SneakyUncle. →

Interview with T. C. Boyle
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For many a novelist, personal geography can be an unwanted poetry. Suffused with lived-in details, sensorial charm, and familiar beauty, localism bears a wealth →