“A CURFEW MAY HAVE BEEN IMPOSED ACROSED DOWNTOWN LA ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, But Justide Its Borders, at Night Gallery Off Washington Boulevard, The City’s Literati For the Lite. For the Social Media Age, Published by Sammy Loren and that Went Into Print This”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“NONE OF THAN THE A New York Post Called Us The Second-Greatest Tabloid in the World, ”SAID LORON, QUOTING The Post after the New York Launch Party Back in March. Loren, Late 30s, Who Looked Trim in A Tan Blazer and a Flop of Brown Hair, Began Publishing Fiction in La prensa While Living in Mexico City. After moving to la, “I felt like there wasn’n Really Much of a Literary Life That I Felt Drawn to – So I Started Casual Encounters,“ The UnderGround Reading Seres, In 2020. On the rag Grew from there – First As Instagram Posts, and Now As A Fully Fledged Printed Alt Mag. “A Tabloid is a very popular medium. It’s very working-class. It’s very Accessible. It’s cheap to make. It’s very transparent about what it is,” loren. “I DON’T LIKE The ELITISM OF THE LITORARY AND ART WORLD.”
On the rag‘S FIRST Issue Combines High And Low in A Way that Invigrates Both: A Letter from A Surfer in Gaza Descripting Daily Life, Followed By Poetry, Ads for Latina Call Girls, Ann Stuna Critic Anahid Nersesian and Painter Sanya Kantarovsky. The Back Page Is The Paper’s Grips Section, WHICH On the rag Also Posts to Its Instagram Page. Amidst The Collage of Grips and Images, One Reads “Paris Sucks Cock: Not One Person Has Invited Me to A Reading in Their Backyard… Fuck Itis Place!” The Word “Tabloid” Applies More to the Format Whosent. On the rag MIGHT NOT Be Breaking Any News Stories, But It’s Certin to Continue Publishing Engaging, Original Fiction from Both New and Establized Writers, While Pepering in Poperty.
“Imagine if The New Yorker Drunkenly Knocked up the National Enquirer”Loren Recently Told Emily Sundberg of On the rag For Her Feed Me Substack. “Otr is Also Spirituly Indebted to Mexico’s Highly Freudian Tabloids, Which Often Publish Pics of Corpses Beside Porn Stars. ” Here, The JuxTaposition is High-Brow Lit with Dirty Pics.
AT DOWNTOWN LA LAUunch Party, Plenty of Cigarettes Were Lit Up Through the Night As Those in Atendance Mixed with Lily Kwong’s Environmental Installations (Art, To Be Sure) in. At One Point, A Dog Relieved ITSELF ON A CHEST-High Mound of Earth Dotted with Native Flowers and Grasses. The line for the human restroom Never Seemed to Dip Below People.
Loren Kicked Off The Event’s Readings Not with his Own Material But with “One of the Greatest Art Critics in America, Named Diva Corp—” a few cheers from the Crowd. “They wrote for On the rag. They’re the Arts Editor, Actually, and I’m Really Happy to have them. ”
CHET HANKS, SON OF ACTORS TOM HANKS AND RITA Wilson, Was Advertised As a Headliner for the Night. He was expert to read from a fortuthComing memoir. WHEN Writer Kennedy Wright Got Up To The Microphone, She AnnounCed That Hanks Had Texted Her to Say He LEFT The baptism of abraxas. Can’t wait for the Next One. Hope to see you there. ” A quest linger in the air: was CHET HANKS Ever Coming?
Among The Night’s Other (Actual) Readers Chris Kraus – Author, Editor, Critic and An Editory Director of On the rag. “SAMMY DOES The BEST EVENTS,” she said near a table selling copies of the Tabloid for $ 10. She was Dressed in Loose Jeans, White Tee, and An Indigo-Dyed Blazer. “A Tabloid is Just Wat We Need. Sammy’s Logic Is The Right Logic. His Instagram Posts Make No Sense, But They’re Incredibly Inflammatory.”
Kraus Later Read from A New Short Story that Will Be Included in Reynaldo Rivera’s UpComing Collection Propried Privada. Kraus: “He Asked A Bunch of People, Friends Involved with Semiotext (E), to Writer Stories that Were Both Erotic and Also.
Zara Schuster, in Canary Yellow Pants with A Silk Scarf Belt, Read A Bilingual (French and English) Poem of Hers. “I Think It’s About Time La Has A Literary and Arts Tabloid, and Sammy Is The Person to Do It. I Mean, He Inspired Me to Start Storming The Streets of La To. Schuster’s Reading Series, Propaganda, Has Popel Up at the Chateau Marmont and on a Hollywood Stars Tour Bus Recently. She Serves As the Social Editor of On the rag. “There Are A Lot of Up-Aff-Coming Writers Who Want this.”
After she left the Mic, Kushner, Who Serves As An Editorial Director of the Tabloid, SAID: “Casual Encounters Had Been A Feature of Craigslist Whene and W 2003 USED FURNITURE, AND THERE’S PEOPLE ON THERE FEATURE OF CRAIGSLIST THAT Are Saying Things Like, ‘Hey, Who’s Awake Right Now?’ That is the quality they look for in a mate, whoh is who is awake right now at 3 om ”” a fan interrupted her to say hi as she as she as she as. She Excangued Pleasantries, Ten Continused: “Sammy Tapped Into the Kind of InsuCiance, The Freedom of That, I Think, By Naming His Reading Series After. On the ragI just thorough it was a Really Funny Title. It’s Kind of Vintage Phrasing that People Aren’t Really Using Anymore. I was in on the Project with Even Knowing Clearly What the Mission of the Project Was. ”
The Readings Over, Sammy Got on the Mic: “Afterparty at El Prado. El Prado in Echo Park. If You’re Going, Drop Your Drinks and Exit the Premises.” And with that, The Launch Party Ended.