Margarita Shalina
MARGARITA SHALINA is a writer and translator who lives in New York.
Joe McVie & the End of the Mayan Calendar
by Margarita ShalinaMAR 2015 | Fiction
“Joe’s coming to town.” “Junky Joe or Joey Pony?” “Junky Joe.” “Ooh… here we go.” Chris and I smile big, like it’s some inside joke, like we’re suddenly sitting in a cellar waiting for the tornado to hit but kind of happy that it’s going to hit regardless.
No One Ever Interrupted Me: Jim Carroll & The Petting Zoo
by Margarita ShalinaNOV 2010 | Fiction
Elizabeth and I had cut class one autumn morning circa 1986. We’re LES kids and we don’t behave properly.
GG Allin Gets Trapped in America, Sends Word to the Empire
by Margarita ShalinaNOV 2013 | Music
I never attended a GG Allin show because I’m not into poo. It was a realistic possibility in the late 1980s and early ’90s to see GG play with the Murder Junkies on the heroin-saturated Lower East Side, which was about to begin its decade-long transformation into a place that GG neither could afford nor would be especially welcome in.
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