The Minus Times Collected: Twenty Years / Thirty Issues (1992–2012)
The Minus Times Collected: Twenty Years / Thirty Issues (1992–2012)
edited by Hunter Kennedy
Intro by Patrick deWitt! For twenty years, The Minus Times has been the most elusive literary magazine in America—and definitely the only one to be composed on a Royal Standard typewriter. Begun as an open letter to strangers and fellow misfits, it grew to become the breeding ground for the next generation of American fiction. Contributors include Sam Lipsyte, David Berman, Jeff Rotter, and Wells Tower, with illustrations by David Eggers and Brad Neely as well as interviews with Dan Clowes, Barry Hannah, and a yet-to-be-famous Stephen Colbert. With sly humor and striking illustrations, The Minus Times has earned a fervent following as much for its lack of literary pretension as its sporadic appearances on the newsstand. All thirty of the nearly-impossible-to-find issues of this improvised literary almanac are now assembled for the first time, typos and all. Drag City is teaming up with featherproof to publish this over-sized coffee-table-crackin' collection.
Excerpt coming soon
Size: 11"x8.5"
Pages: 434
ISBN: 9780983186328
Publication date: September 10, 2012
Praise for The Minus Times
“The Minus Times is the only magazine that I would pay to appear in.”
More reviews coming soon
About the editor
Editor Hunter Kennedy graduated from the University of Virginia in 1992, the same year he began publishing The Minus Times. Over the past 20 years, he has worked in cabinetry shops, magazines, architecture firms and a foundry to pay for typing ribbons. His writing has appeared in Open City, The Baffler, Vice, T Magazine, Garden & Gun, and J&L Illustrated #1. Kennedy lives on the fringes of a popular lifestyle community in South Carolina.
