Category: Books
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Zines I’ve read in 2022 (May)
Originally posted on Echo Zines: Welcome to my monthly zine recommendations aka the list of zines I read in the past month! This time I found reading pleasure in publications about gardening, Star Trek, mental health, witchery, the pandemic, and more… Let’s start with Laura-Marie’s zines. She’s such a prolific writer, both for her zines…
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MANIFEST (zine): Endemic
On May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers, and wounded seventeen other people, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The victims were Makenna Lee Elrod, 10, Layla Salazar, 11, Maranda Mathis, 11, Nevaeh Bravo, 10, Jose Manuel Flores Jr., 10, Xavier Lopez, 10, Tess…
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Huzzah! Broken Pencil!
HUZZAH! BROKEN PENCIL! Broken Pencil Magazine has been supporting zine culture and independent creative action for more than 25 years. Published four times a year, each issue of Broken Pencil features reviews of hundreds of zines and small press books, plus comics, excerpts from the best of the underground press, interviews, original fiction and commentary…
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It’s a Collaborative Effort, Really
MANIFEST (zine) #7: Water The water and its shoreline has been home to all of the creative people you are about to meet in this issue of MANIFEST [zine]. The theme – Water – was inspired by the release of Water Under the Bridge: A Sort-of Love Story by Jen Payne, and is a collaborative…
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Author reaches out to old love online, writes about it in new novel
by Susan Braden, CT Insider/Shoreline Times, February 4, 2022 Reconnecting with a long-lost love online is not a new story — but it’s one that still captures the imagination of many people. What if? — that’s the big question that Branford writer Jen Payne aims to answer in her new novel, Water Under The Bridge:…
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Zoom in!
ZOOM IN! In his clever, colorful book Zoom, illustrator Istvan Banyai invites the reader to see the bigger picture. Zoom in, zoom out – what do you see? what do you think you see? what are you really looking at? What are we really looking at in these warped and ever-changing days? Come along as…
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MANIFEST (zine): Zoom Zoom Zoom!
Manifest (zine) #6 – Lexicon Zoom What I love most about MANIFEST (zine) is how each issue takes me — and ultimately you — on a journey of connected thoughts, images, and ideas. Thank you for joining me as we explore topics like change and transition, solitude, time, storytelling, and finding refuge in these turbulent…



