TOUCH THE EVIDENCE
Nothing happened. That is exactly what it wants you to think.
Small Press Alert: Margin Notes Press
They publish only what fits in the white space around somebody else’s argument.
PRESS FOR REASSURANCE
Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.
MARGIN NOTES PRESS has a rule: no submission may be wider than two inches.
Poems, stories, arguments, drawings, and confessions are printed vertically in the margins of discarded textbooks.
Issue Three reportedly appears around the edges of a 1998 accounting manual.
The editors say the format encourages brevity and “healthy resentment toward the main text.”
Contributors receive one copy, a pencil, and permission to write back.
We have seen worse business models.
Several of them have venture funding.
SAM ROOK
Sam Rook keeps an eye on tiny presses, strange publications, Xerox economies, and editorial projects held together by staples and nerve.
Push something. The magazine is poorly supervised.
PUSH THE WEIRD BUTTON
A small bureaucrat somewhere just stamped APPROVED FOR NONSENSE.