Slake

kickstart SLAKE

December 21, 2011

click here to kickstart SLAKE SLAKE is a new literary journal out of Los Angeles that has recently resuscitated a form that was essentially left for dead in these parts. Slake accesses the best writers in LA. featuring writing, design, editing, art, photography, deeply reported narrative journalism, literary essay, memoir, interviews, fiction and poetry. I have a [...]

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SLAKE / WeHo Book Fair

September 30, 2011

Slake at the WeHo Book Fair Sunday, October 02 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Get Directions The final reader at our WEST HOLLYWOOD BOOK FAIR booth on Sunday, SAM SLOVICK, made his name as an L.A. journalist by covering Skid Row with a visceral, raw voice for the L.A. Weekly. He brought that same depth to his first [...]

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It Started With A Kiss

April 15, 2011

Here’s ex-LA Weekly  editor Joe Donnelly giving me some love in print;   It Started With a Kiss: Finding Shelter Among the Stray Cats What news of a murdered girlfriend triggers A A AComments (1)By Joe Donnelly Wednesday, Dec 3 2008 Contributor 1996-2002 Deputy editor 2002-2008   excerpt: In my time as deputy editor of L.A. Weekly, I [...]

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Off Ramp/ Tommy Crow / Slake

March 28, 2011

Here’s me on Off Ramp with John Rabe talking about Tommy Crow, the story I  Published in SLAKE that was banned by the oppressive Christian print mafia in the Bible Belt; click below to listen to the broadcast: OFF RAMP

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Stone-walled in the Bible Belt

January 18, 2011

CHERRY POP Slake publishes my first fiction, Tommy Crow in there second issue, Crossing Over. “Slake No. 2 was delayed when presses in Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri refused to print the book over concerns about Sam Slovick’s short story “Tommy Crow,” which includes a brief sex scene between two gay teenagers. Slake’s print broker, Four Colour USA, [...]

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