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Amanda Plumb understands that it takes a year before anyone likes living in New York, but after over 2.5 years, New York still does not feel like home to her. And frankly, she’s not sure if she wants it to. Amanda’s zine, I HEART NYC, well, not really, but I’m trying, is part visitor guide and part perzine. While it’s geared towards other transplants who are similarly struggling in the city, she’s confident that even New York natives will learn a thing or two about their fair city by reading her zine.

This is Amanda’s first zine. In 2007, she wrote an article about work zines,"Zines from the Shop Floor,” for the journal New Labor Forum. Amanda hails from the Palmetto State and is really happy that she used her own images in the zine.

Captain Joyce has seen the dark heart of Canada. It is filled with bar-fighting oil drillers and gluttonous truck driving monsters. It is blackened by burnt coffee, public defecation, and bad luck.  The End of a Perfect Day #11: The Trans-Canadian Nightmare is a tale of hope and disillusionment when train-hopping adventure turns to hitchhiking debacle. The story ends triumphantly in New York fuckin’ City, the wayfaring Captain’s adopted and beloved home.  He has been doing zines for over ten years on such topics as carwashes, bicycle gangs, Turkish anarchists, and Puerto Rico.  Feed the Captain beer and he will tell you stories.

Jessica Max Stein takes walks. Really long walks. Then she writes about them. Tonight she will unveil a teaser from her upcoming Erie Canal zine, tentatively titled *Canalworld. Her signature zine, The Long Walk Back to Myself, is available from Microcosm Publishing, as is her zine Mad Love , about being queer and crazy (same difference). She has won awards for her poetry (Amy Award 2007) and journalism (Independent Press Association Award 2003), but her favorite award is still Charlie Chrysanthemum, the stuffed bear she found on the street two years ago on Yom Kippur.