Writer's Block #3 (Summer 1988)

from Silent Command

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14 pages, 8x11 photocopy, black and white, stapled top left corner.

The first two WBs had been edited as a collective of sorts. By 1988, however, everyone else either graduated, started working, or otherwise drifted away. I wanted to do my own zine anyway; it was impossible to get the five of us to agree on anything. So after spotting a good deal at the local Kinko's, I decided to revive the name as a solo project.

For the first issue in two years, I had one of the first Pixies interviews outside of New England; an interview with Haledon/Feelies associates Speed The Plough; and a bunch of record and live reviews I knocked off within a week or two. Still very, very much a work in progress, but the overall quality represented a big step forward. I'd now had several years of writing under my belt, and I was just coming off a semester as the music editor for Rutgers' college paper, the Daily Targum, so the whole presentation was better. I even started getting good reviews for the first time. I just kept going with it, ultimately publishing seven issues of Writer's Block by the end of 1991.

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