Oct 01
ADVICE FOR A LONELY FRIEND, NURSING A COLD Better to take the aspirin and blow your nose into a thousand different tissues than to fuck your own ass with your ex-wife’s dildo. Dave Newman is the author of eleven books, including Dope and Vodka and Cigarettes, and Not Shaving Her Legs (Roadside, 2026), Better Than the Best American …
Sep 25
THE WORLD AND HOW TO SURVIVE IT He said “Great pain brings great art” and I said “I don’t know, maybe.” But I hope not. He was a twat who talked a lot about creation but seldom created. His mom owned a small bank. I didn’t even know people owned banks. I seldom talked but …
Jul 02
Dope and Vodka and Cigarettes, and Not Shaving Her Legs by Dave Newman from Roadside Press Dave Newman’s Dope and Vodka and Cigarettes, and Not Shaving Her Legs is a devastating, funny, and deeply humane novel about addiction, poverty, family loyalty, and the complicated ways love survives inside dysfunction. Told through a series of short, …
Sep 19
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MASSAGE PARLOR OPEN AT 2AM AND AN ACUPUNCTURE PLACE OPEN AT 2AM IN LAWRENCEVILLE Thank god the massage parlor doesn’t put needles in your dick but, then again, the acupuncture place doesn’t give handjobs. Dave Newman, a recent Pushcart winner for fiction, is the author of ten books, including Better Than …
Sep 12
BODIES INSIDE BODIES The job started at 6AM so I needed to be up at 5 to shower and shave and make the commute to the aluminum shed where we decided which tools to pack. It was a landscaping gig and we sweated all day endlessly bending to the grass then reaching for the trees …
Sep 05
A GRADUATION POEM Tonight my son graduates from high school and the last year has floated between sadness and misery with a pile of shit grades and complaints about teachers and very little acceptance of responsibility or acknowledgment that you need to work to succeed and work before you complain about the oppressors the bosses …
