mid-october late feature: papercuts and promises by alli
Papercuts and Promises feels like a first zine project but has more to say than the usual #1's. Alli writes about her history with typewriters, missed friendship, and feminism including a well researched paper on immigrant women in America. There are very poetic prose pieces that were well written and enjoyable to read. Her style is serious and a little melancholy, and though I've read these subjects many times I still liked her take on them. I also was unsure about the layout. It was the neatest and cleanest cut and paste zine I've seen, but it was so sparse - "lean" comes to mind - that I think it would have been much better in a quarter-sized format rather than half. The airy space didn't fit with the density of the work. I can appreciate the minimalism but it's something I can't help but focus on. That aside this was an excellent first effort and I'd like to see Alli's future projects.

Issue one: 32 half-sized pages
Cost: $2
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