Offal #2

OFFAL is a new independent journal of literary offcuts and artistic experiments, celebrating and shedding new light on the leftovers, scraps and experiments of the creative process. In honour of the cut-and-paste approach, Offal’s first zine has been designed by Richard Turley and Julia Schäfer using Microsoft Word.

Issue #2 features: 

OFFAL is back with its second issue, with another thrilling trip through literary leftovers, artistic experiments and found fragments. Highlights include author Richard Milward’s manifesto for living a ‘liberated lavvy’ (written in Polari, the almost-forgotten gay slang), a dialogue-free play by Tom McCarthy, an essay by Daniel Pinchbeck, plus fragments of fiction from Labeja Kodua Okullu, Kirsty Allison, Henderson Downing and Timothy J Jarvis.

Also featuring Offalism (A Manifesto), a guide to cooking the mythical Three-Angel Roast, a poem about Margate called ‘The only way to change things is to shoot men who curate things…’, and a 1953 speech by Allen Dulles, first director of the CIA, warning of Russian psy-op campaigns.

All watched over by Dr Smile, Offal’s AI recreation of a fictional construct from a novel by Philip K Dick – now in-house psychotherapist in a suitcase, and Synthetic Oversight Entity (Publishing).

London, United Kingdom; 145mm x 210mm; 160 pages