Charactered and Vain make for great reading
Vain Magazine could claim more ancestral lit zine origins than most. They have the staple bound 
cover of an indie mashup, the forward thinking mindset of an east coast glossy, the strong literary content of small press chap network, and the design sensibilities of art school college grad with trust fund comfort to keep his ideals high and his being higher.
Writer, editor, designer, and 1000 more -ers, Richard Thomas, turned me on to Vain Magazine last year when his story, “Underground Wonderbound” graced its pages. I was impressed, not only with his story, but with the overall aesthetic appeal of the magazine. Too often, hand-stapled, small print magazines get the scoff. This one deserves some praise.
Now, after all that build up, I’m here to let the ego shine. My story, “Charactered Pieces,” appears in the new issue, #7, right now. I wrote the original version of this story in college, and it has been sweating since. The Vain Magazine version is a much better, much more mature version, but still has all the underdeveloped Siamese twin left leg goodness of the original.
August 17th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
congratulations caleb, can’t wait to see this issue, and glad that you could add your considerable talent to this visually stunning publication – and thanks for the kinds words, i’m so glad that you and vain worked out, very cool all around
peace,
richard
August 18th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Congrats, Caleb, that’s a great mag. I had an audio chapter of Full Of It as part of an issue last year but nothing in the print version, to my regret