Archive for category: Love and Heartbreak

Interview with Farley Katz

Farley Katz is from Texas originally but has been living in NYC since 2007. His cartoons appear in The New Yorker magazine. He also writes and draws the web cartoon Kids Are Dumb This is his submission to PenTales Love and Heartbreak. PenTales: What are the ingredients of a good […]

Interview with Adolfo Doring

Adolfo Doring is a New York-based filmmaker, photographer, and artist. His debut feature film “Metro” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Currently, he is working on a photography book titled Nomenclature and the release of his narrative feature, Thinly Veiled. This is his take on Love and Heartbreak for PenTales. […]

Interview with Stephanie Yee

Interview with Stephanie Yee

Stephanie Yee contributed an illustration to our open call for stories on Love and Heartbreak. Check out more of her work here. PenTales: What are the ingredients of a good illustration? Stephanie: I have no idea. And by that I mean that my favorite drawings are usually the ones that […]

S. C. Whiddon

SC Whiddon is a NY based illustrator and children’s book writer. This is her contribution to our Love and Heartbreak open call. PenTales: What are the ingredients of a good comedy? Sofia: I think a story that is relatable to people and honest. Also, witty dialogue helps. PenTales: Tell us […]

Interview with Photographer Sean Conaty

Interview with Photographer Sean Conaty

Sean Conaty is a cinematographer and photographer based in Los Angeles. He still shoots on his father’s Nikon and singlehandedly keeps Ilford in business. Check out his work at www.sean.conaty.net. He contributed this to our Love and Heartbreak open call. PenTales: What are the ingredients of a good photograph? Sean: […]

“Red Stem” by Steve Clark, NYC

“Red Stem” by Steve Clark, NYC

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: ILLUSTRATION

“Lazy Sunday” by Douglas Jessup, Venice, CA

“Lazy Sunday” by Douglas Jessup, Venice, CA

“Revisions of a Letter to my Daughter” Annalise Hagen, NYC

I remember you singing to yourself in the kitchen, notes over cut fruit, pretending yourself some one else in need of amusement. Boredom was dangerous for you there. The fruit was not fresh, it was frozen. Its seeds were pale things that fit under your thumbnail. You couldn’t throw away […]

“Lunch Break” by Mary Kate Burke, NYC

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT It always smelt like some kind of Greek diner cum protein shake joint. In that building on 72nd—off Broadway. Something very Upper West Side. But then again, wasn’t my new extracurricular apropos to the hood? The contemporary equivalent of a 17th Century fashion for […]