Slake

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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Tommy Crow – LA Times

January 13, 2011

Slake’s second issue –delayed for gay sexual content — coming soon January 12, 2011 |  7:32 am After a hitch in its printing schedule because of a story with explicit sexual content, the second issue of Los Angeles-based literary journal Slake is expected to reach bookstores in February. During the early stages of printing the issue, someone at [...]

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Tommy Crow – Fishbowl LA

January 13, 2011

Sam Slovick on the Homophobia that Threatened Slake’s Second Issue By Matthew Fleischer January 12, 2011 2:15 PM Yesterday, Fishbowl LA reported that the upcoming issue of Slake had been delayed by two to three weeks because various printers across the United States refused to publish the book–citing “explicit material” from Sam Slovick‘s story “Tommy [...]

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Huffington Post

July 4, 2010

Me getting some love in the Huffington Post from SLAKE magazine editor Joe Donnelly JULY 6, 2010 … I never got to work with Joe (Donnelly), who earlier in his career edited the avant surf punk magazine Bikini. His groundbreaking work on Sam Slovick’s Skid Row series might be the finest example of his editing skills… [...]

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