Adrian Todd Zuniga's Books
Jun.01.2009
Stories
Daniel Handler
William Giraldi
Mary Miller
Christopher Kennedy
Daniel Grandbois
Shya Scanlon
Sarah Wang
Alan Michael Parker
Jessy Randall
Poetry
Graham Romieu
Joel Priddy
Bernie Mireault
Corrine Mucha
Jacob Chabot
Jamil Mani
Bernie McGovern
Dan Golden
CM Evans...
May.10.2008
Featuring stories by Aimee Bender, Aaron Garretson and Thomas Cooper, non-fiction by Benjamin Percy, an interview with Amanda Lear, poetry by Robin Beth Schaer and Seth Perlow, our Best of Sweet Fancy Moses (.com) tribute, and the winner of the Bookmark Contest, this is one of the more oddball issues to date. Plus, we poke fun at "going green" all while going green (this...
Oct.12.2007
Our original theme for Opium5 was Famous Dead Authors. We were aiming to pretend that our authors were dead, and that it was only post mortem in Opium that their work was being lionized. But the more we thought about it, the more the celebrated-in-death concept seemed antiquated. Now no one has to wait for celebrity anymore. These days, one need only streak the White House lawn,...
Sep.23.2007
Opium recently had a sit-down with a book agent. Wetried, unsuccessfully, to spark unpretentious chatter about thestate of modern literature. The agent politely listened as weprattled on about podcasts, literary death matches, and estimatedreading times in our willfully ADD nation. When we finallypaused for air, the agent leaned over her chocolate mint espressoand looked at us hard...
Feb.23.2007
AFTER THE LAUNCH of Opium3, we left New York. We were tired of drinking too much, of staying up too late, of consuming endless quantities of Original Ray’s Pizza and peach-flavored Chupa Chups. Our sleep was jittery, our mornings achy and muddy-minded, our moods a far cry from steady. Opium was getting a short shrift. Of course, we blamed New York City for all of this.
WE THOUGHT...
About Adrian
Adrian Todd Zuniga is the founding editor of Opium Magazine and a co-founder of the Literary Death Match reading series. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his fiction has appeared most recently in Canteen, and online at Lost Magazine. With his second novel recently...