The Unbearables

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The Unbearables are a loose collective of noir humorists, beer mystics, anarchists, neophobes and passionate debunkers.

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Coming soon: The Worst Book I Ever Read

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

The Unbearables have taken potshots at their literary Fathers, the Beats (Crimes of the Beats), and trashed the entire genre of Self-Help books (which they probably should have read first), in Help Yourself! Now, in their fourth anthology, they aim their finely-honed wrecking ball at the tottering edifice of ‘Contemporary Lit,’ […]

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Monday, April 16th, 2007

 

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Up is Up But So Is Down

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Many of the Unbearables had their work anthologized in the beautifully produced oversized volumn entitled Up Is Up But So Is Down. What follows is a review of that book by Anitta Santiago.

Up Is Up But So Is Down, Ed. Brandon Stosuy, New York, NY: New York University Press, 2006. $29.95

Up Is Up But […]

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Welcome to the Unbearables website

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

The Unbearables are a loose collective of noir humorists, beer mystics, anarchists, neophobes and passionate debunkers.
 

Farewell party for bart plantenga.

The Unbearables hoist a few at the old Knitting Factory. 
 

Ur-Unbearable Rollo Whitehead’s final resting place 

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