Tag Archives: Public Pool

Bring a casserole and watch me lie to the people of Hamtramck this Saturday

By Mark | April 15, 2014

If you read this site with any regularity, you know my friend Steve. I’ve chatted with him here quite a few times in the past about his magazine, Stupor, and the art space he runs in Hamtramck, Public Pool. Well, he’s invited me to speak this Saturday at something called the Good Tyme Writers Buffet, […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit | Also tagged A Million Little Pieces, buffets, food allergies, Good Tyme Writers Buffet, Hamtramck, James Frey, Jim Carey, lies, lying, plagiarism, public speaking, Steve Hughes | 6 Comments

The Untold History of Zines…. Steve Hughes on Stupor

By Mark | December 27, 2013

Over the years I’ve mentioned my friend Steve Hughes and his zine Stupor several times on this site. I’ve shared videos of him reading at the Shadow Art Fair, and interviewed him about his various projects in Hamtramck, where he makes his home and runs an art space called Public Pool. To my knowledge, though, […]

Posted in Detroit, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bill Rohde, blood, Christianity, Clinton Snider, collaboration, DIY, Dorota Coy, eastern mich, EMU, Factsheet Five, Hamtramck, Hope College, horrifically sad stories, Hygienic Dress League, interviews, Janet Kauffman, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Kickstarter, Kresge Foundation, Linette, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Matthew Barney, Michael Jackman, mud, New Orleans, oral history, poison, rust, seedy, self-publishing, sex, Shadow Art Fair, Steve Coy, Stupor, The Untold History of Zines, toilet, true stories, truth, truthiness, University of New Orleans, zines, Zug Island | 14 Comments

Introducing “Stupor”… the book

By Mark | April 5, 2011

Two of my best friends are releasing books this week, and, in spite of the all-consuming jealousy that’s overtaken me, I’ve decided to help them promote their works here. The first book that I’d like to tell you about is by my blog-hijacking friend Steve Hughes, the publisher of the often recalled zine Stupor. Here’s […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Dreamland Tonight, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized | Also tagged A Hole for Brains and Candy, animal cruelty, animal torture, Art X, bed shitting, Book Beat, creative writing, Dances with Wolves, DIA, disappointment, do it yourself, drunkenness, dumb luck, flopping dicks, free beer, friends who do cooler stuff that I do, friends with books, Hamtramck, I'm a Spy, infidelity, jealousy, Jeff Kay, Jeff Kelly, Kresge Foundation, Kresge literary arts fellowship, Leopold's Books, Linette, Lynn Crawford, Mark's favorite authors, Microcosm, MOCAD, pant shitting, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Printed Matter, Quimby's, references to Mark's fat ass, self-publishing, Simply Separate People Two, Steve Hughes, Stupor, Temp Slave, Thomson Shore, West Virginia Surf Report, zine friends, zines | 4 Comments

Steve Hughes does good, gets year’s worth of beer money

By Mark | June 30, 2010

Last night, I got to spend some time with my friend Minal Hajratwala. Over beers, I told her what it was like to sit curled up behind a small stage, giving voice to a puppet, and she told me what it’s like to be a Fulbright Scholar working on a second book. Surprisingly, there’s not […]