Stories from the zine "Burn Collector" and "Why Things Burn": breaking up, dating Marilyn Monroe, and the awesome power of Journey. Read the full description.
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Al Burian reads two stories about Chicago from issue #12 of his personal zine Burn Collector. Al explains the name Burn Collector like this: "It's the idea that you're taking bad experiences that you'd ordinarily just tune out, and becoming like a wine taster for them, a connoisseur of the way it makes you feel. It's about the conceptual burn." Daphne Gottlieb is from San Francisco and is the first and only poet in the Invisible Ink roster. Not that I have anything against poets, mind you. Her work is amazing. Originally broadcast as Invisible Ink #9 on 03/02/03 on KALW in San Francisco.
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Originally broadcast as Invisible Ink #9 on 03/02/03 on KALW in San Francisco.
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Review of Invisible Ink: Burn
Al Burian's personal story of trying to break up with his girlfriend, deal with his mother, and make sense of his life, could be seen as darkly sarcastic by some, if they overlook the attention to detail with which he writes. The story is not nearly so much about what happens to his characters as it is commenting about the environment around him,the universality of desperation, and the beauty of the bizarre in life's circumstances.