Winner Independent Publisher Book Award 2011 and Nominated Best New Publication 2009

     
 

 

SUBMISSIONS go to the OPEN FACE SANDWICH dot ORG

THE OPEN FACE SANDWICH, Vol. 2 is a smörgåsbord of the ecstatic and deviant with a dollop of blood pudding on top. In it we serve up work by award-winning playwright Young Jean Lee along side the surreal dreams of a precocious nine-year-old, and step by step instructions on how to kill a mountain lion. It offers post-apocalyptic maternity woes from Blake Butler and pre-apocalyptic maternity woes from our Swedish correspondent, Agnes Gerner. It presents true visions of Neptune-blue gods in Iraq and demonstrates the tricky logistics of photographing bloated flesh. It deconstructs suicide with Gregory Sherl, spotlights children's drawings of prostitutes and male pattern baldness, and brazenly lets Jim Meirose put his rare meat in the blender, all while giving forum to Karen Tauches's visually stunning interrogations of permanence and solidity in a rapidly disappearing world.


- paint-outs by Karen Tauches

 

 

The Open Face Sandwich Vol. 1 is a journal of uncommon prose.Volume One presents the latest from Deb Olin Unferth. It provides vital hilarity from the most cynical second-grader we've ever known. It offers cutting new work from 80-year-old former member of The Living Theater, and of the Paul Bowles expat circle, Mel Clay. Within it, award-winning poet Ariana Reines dips prose in tears and cummy vomit. It reproduces novel excerpts stolen from reclusive expatriate Hortense Caruthers. And it serves you several very lovely literary debuts (Uppsala, Amsterdam, New York, Atlanta.) All this notwithstanding delicious full-color fold-outs of animals brutally murdered by automobiles and photographed.




-photos Meshakai Wolf

 

Utne Reader nominates the Open Face Sandwich for "Best New Publication."
Read the press release.

Review from Buffy the Bullshit Dectector.

Some words on the launch event from Jerry Cullum.

The Open Face Sandwich will be available at the AWP Bookfair in New York thanks to Small Press Distribution, January 30 - February 2, 2008.

The book launch on January 17, 2008 was a spectacular perfomance art and literary event w/ Mel Clay inspirations, spicy sandwich buffet, and a stifling reading in Decatur later, the same weekend. Thanks to everyone who participated.









































 

 

 

THE OPEN FACE SANDWICH, VOL 2
a literary annual
Alan Bajandas and Benjamin Solomon, Editors
ISBN 978-1880855-18-8
Pub date: 2010

 

 

 


THE OPEN FACE SANDWICH, VOL 1
a literary annual
Alan Bajandas and Benjamin Solomon, Editors
ISBN 978-1880855-15-7
Pub date: Jan 17, 2008

 

trembling ladders
a nod to the poetry annual from FPP