Happy to be a stockist of The Improbable, second issue from @sigliopress / a free newspaper investigating the rich & varied space between art & literature. In this issue: pieces by Nicole Rudick (on Niki de Saint Phalle), Anaïs Duplan (on the Black Avant-Garde), Shiv Kotecha (on Nicholas Moufarrege), J. Mae Barizo (on colonialism & archives), Douglas Kearney (on sonic & visual frequencies), Amaranth Borsuk (on Barbara Stauffacher Solomon), Clive Phillpot (on the Flat Time House), & Rachel Valinsky (on Chantal Ackerman & Hanne Darboven). A stack soon at @lump_raleigh too / shipping out free with web orders !
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Local Distributor for Slingshot
Finally & proudly now a local distributor for Slingshot, the independent, radical & free quarterly newspaper from the East Bay in California. In operation since 1988, the newspaper is still created with a hand-done layout method by the Slingshot Collective, a loose group of volunteer members. Slingshot is also well-known for the pocket calendar called The Organizer they come out with every year since 1995. Slingshot issues will be available while supplies last for free at Lump in Raleigh and at Attic 506.
Contempo, a leftist leaning literary newspaper from Chapel Hill, 1931-1934
The rare book collection at Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill has most, if not all issues of Contempo, a literary newspaper that was published in Chapel Hill from 1931-1934. The beautifully designed, and provocative newspaper was founded and published by Milton A. Abernathy and Anthony Buttitta in their dorm room at UNC, along with fellow students Shirley Carter, Phil Liskin and Vincent Garoffolo. The "little magazine" was a literary and social commentary newspaper that included book reviews, poetry, community news, and articles on social issues like injustice, racism, censorship, sex and morality. It leaned toward anarchism, socialism & communism in its tone. The short-lived newspaper included articles and poetry by some big names in writing at the time as well, like William Faulkner (even a whole issue by him), Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, D.H. Lawrence, Samuel Beckett, E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair & more.
Interestingly too, the founders of the paper founded the Intimate Bookshop in their dorm room which subsequently moved to East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill and lived there for close to 60 years with a rich history all its own.
Scroll through some snapshots of the paper:
