Eileen Myles, Suara Welitoff, Michael McInnis, Rick Moody, Laurie Weeks
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Book by Welitoff, Suara, Moody, Rick, McInnis, Michael, Myles, Eileen, Weeks, Laurie
Review
Primal's contribution to this task
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of teaching hipsters how to read is the 5x5 Singles Club, a series of pocket-sized journals where the talent is thankfully topnotch and consistently arresting. The first volume features a wonderfully twisted short from Rick Moody, easily one of the most exciting young fiction writers out there. . . . The next time you see someone under thirty sporting a John Grisham paperback, you can slip this to them instead. --
Cleveland Free Times, May 6-12, 1998
The design is adorable; the writing isn't meant to be. "They're short stories by and about . . . the beautiful losers with bad teeth and bad attitudes, dirty knees and even dirtier hair," reads Primal's manifestolike press statement. --
New York Times Magazine, February 22, 1998
You can stick this cool little book in the tiniest of bags and then whip it out to read while you're supposed to be recommending stocks or whatever. --
Jane Magazine, April, 1998
From the Back Cover
5x5 Singles Club are the stories we were always looking for but rarely found, stories about people we all know living lives of not-so-quiet desperation. They're short stories by and about the pissed off and pissed on, the beautiful losers with bad teeth and bad attitudes, dirty knees and even dirtier hair. We longed to read and publish stories that appreciated the simple beauty of sex, drugs and rock and roll. No more apologizing for our fascination with a hazy politically incorrect world in which the violence isn't gratuitous -- it just seems to happen -- and the sex is occasionally transcendent, but usually just annoying.
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