I would never insult someone by reviewing his book, but writing like this must be talked about: You fuck a lot of women up the arse? Yeah. Gross. It’s not really. It’s […]
Elevator Pitch: 92 in the Shade by Thomas McGuane
Imagine Batman vs. the Joker except less self-righteous and without merch or fast-food tie-ins. Or imagine Wall Street in a subtropical paradise except no one is rich or powerful, and no pointed […]
Throwing a Punch in the Marketplace of Ideas
“Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.” — Michael Parenti. In his book, Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media, well-known and well-regarded leftist scholar and cultural […]
Elevator Pitch: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Imagine Don Quixote as an overweight, unemployed thirty-year-old who lives on soda and Doris Day movies–and who lives off of his mother–running around The Big Easy quoting Boethius while vocally condemning the […]
I Went to Book Club and a Fight Broke Out
What is PunchRiot?PunchRiot is an arena. A coliseum. It’s not a safe space.It’s that little island a bit too far from the boat but worth swimming to.It’s mental pleasure with a masculine […]
PunchRiot: Literary, not Pretentious
Welcome to PunchRiot, our newly-launched platform and subscription-based literary magazine promoting the written word and authors–especially new and indie authors with a masculine (or feminine) edge. What’s the difference between the website […]
Sample Issue Now Available
The Punch Riot – Sample Edition is now available. It features writing and art offering what we think are fresh takes on what it means to be human in the 21st Century, […]
