I recently had the rather odd experience of sitting down with a German grad student named Lasse who is getting the equivalent of his master's degree in, as best I could understand it, American pop culture. He said that the other students in his class were all writing their theses on things like Buffy the Vampire Slayer as new model for feminism and things like that. Lasse was writing on, of all things, American zine culture and was focussing specifically on New Orleans zine culture. He'd read my zines, and Stories Care Forgot, the anthology of New Orleans zines that I put together just after the storm. It was crazy meeting someone so well versed in, well, my life. As we talked,
by Sam Winston
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