Team Broke-Ass

24 May 2018

Secret Candlelight Storytelling in a Brooklyn Cemetery

There’s something pretty magical about sitting on those thrones especially because there was a time when women would have never been allowed in that room at all. It does kind of feel like a Skull and Bones society

Joe DeLong - NYC Editor 0
22 Aug 2017

We wanna send you and a friend to see author Michael Chabon!

I’m so excited to present this giveaway! Michael Chabon is the author of my one of my favorite books and all time favorite film adaptations, Wonder Boys. Seriously, I will fucking recite some of the dialogue from memory. “Do you know how many times I’ve boarded an airplane praying someone like her would sit down beside me?”

illyannam 0
10 Jul 2024

This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
01 Mar 2017

We wanna send you a copy of Judson Vereen’s ‘American Pleasure: A Psycho-Sexual Novel’

  American Pleasure is a psycho-sexual first person narrative by American artist Judson Vereen. Set in San Francisco, the work explores exactly one year of the writers various personal struggles within a rapidly changing city. Judson, the books author and narrator, is a high school drop out resigned to inner

illyannam 0
01 Nov 2011

Just shut up and write already! – National Novel Writing Month

By reading this site, you likely are always looking for awesome ways to live your life, so you have a story that needs to be told. But maybe you never imagined writing a book, or never thought you could. Listen, if Snooki can “write” a book, so can you. It

Robin Hardwick - Cost-Conscious Connoisseur 0
16 Aug 2011

Hide Ya Kids, Hide Ya Wife, and Let’s Talk about Senior Sex

Everyone else out of the room? It’s just you and me now, right? Okay, what I’m about to say might shock you, so sit down. Here it comes: Old people have sex. Did you just go vomit? Now that you’re back, I would like to tell you that senior sex

Sarah M. Smart - Red-Light Special 0
29 Jun 2011

FREE Word for Word Series at Bryant Park

Although it’s been around for a few years, I only got hip to Bryant Park’s free “Word for Word” series a few days ago. I also only found out a few days ago that you can expand the view finder on the Hipstamatic camera app, making it 1000x easier to

Jill S. 0
30 Jun 2010

FREE Underwater New York Reading

On Saturday, I biked from Williamsburg to the Intrepid, and I had to run through a nearby fountain as soon as I got to the boat so I could stop feeling like my skin was on fire. Even if you’re not doing cardio exercises outside, New York is approaching that

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher 0
07 Jun 2010

FREE Anthony Bourdain Book Signing

Anthony Bourdain is the kind of chef/TV show personality who will show you the Montana hotel room where a former director went on a coke and shooting binge, and then go downstairs to tell you about the buffalo meat something he’s eating. Then other nights he ends up in the

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher 0