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FORTH Magazine in Los Angeles displays fiction from both prominent, nationally-acclaimed writers as well as young, up-and-coming writers from Los Angeles and beyond. Forth displays not only traditional fiction, but also experimental fiction, including genres that work with new media, video, and other digital components.
IS THE (WINE) GLASS HALF FULL? Interview with Rex Pickett… by Marco Mannone
Thursday, 11 Nov, 2010 – 18:49 | 6 Comments

Bravely dipping a pen in the ink of his own soul, Pickett’s novels chart a winding path from divorced, struggling writer in the throes of an existential crises, to celebrated author.

“LESS” WAS MORE: Bret Easton Ellis’ “Imperial Bedrooms” Review… by Marco Mannone
Wednesday, 4 Aug, 2010 – 20:50 | One Comment

As per usual with most of his novels, there’s a rash of disappearing characters, cryptic threats, violent snuff films, grotesque sexual abuse and a total lack of any positive emotion within the narrator (yawn).

WOULD YOU LET YOUR DOG SUFFER THIS LONG? A Cultural Analysis of The Lohan Syndrome… by Marco Mannone
Thursday, 15 Jul, 2010 – 19:58 | No Comment

Maybe we enjoy the secret thrill of watching a once-cute child actress blossom into a buxom sex-symbol only to get bloated on whiskey and cocaine and her own radioactive ego, left to crash and burn like a kamikaze bisexual and flush what’s left of her toxic soul down a shit-stained toilet. Maybe… but then again maybe not.

CALIFORNICATION IS A STATE OF MIND: Interview With “God Hates Us All” Author Jonathan Grotenstein… by Marco Mannone
Thursday, 10 Jun, 2010 – 20:04 | 4 Comments

That’s right. You can now purchase and read the book that put Hank on the map, with his very name on the cover and a brief bio on the back. And it’s not only a bona fide work of fiction, but a damn good one at that.

“The Photograph” an excerpt from Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming
Sunday, 18 Apr, 2010 – 16:28 | No Comment

Chapter 1
THE PHOTOGRAPH

WHETHER BEAUTIFUL OR TERRIBLE, THE PAST IS ALWAYS A RUIN.

When I look back on my childhood, my earliest memories seemlike artifacts from a lost civilization: half-understood fragments behind museum glass. I remember the spherical alcohol lamp that glowed like a tiny ghost, ringed with dancing blue flames, which hung over the dining room table of the house where I grew up. I remember the sweet, oily smell of coal smoke, and the creaking of horse-drawn carriages on the dirt road outside. Most of all I remember
the summer twilight over the mountains and how, on certain evenings, just before the sun sank below the horizon, it cast rays so luminous and golden that they felt like a solid, enveloping close into which a small boy could simply disappear. An intensity no light today seems to match.