Gonzo!

You may have noticed a few changes around here. The most noticeable change, of course, is that the magazine is now longer being published or distributed by Passage Press.

The entire editorial team at MAN’S WORLD—yes, that’s me, me, me, me and me; oh yeah, and me too—are very grateful to Passage Press for their support in our little experiment over the last year and a half. It didn’t really work out quite as planned, but that’s life. We gave it our best shot. If you didn’t get your hands on issues 13-15, you can still go to passage.press and get them there.

Now the magazine is back in my hands, it’s full steam ahead. Here are some of the most important things we’ve got planned for the coming weeks, months and years ahead.

First of all, you won’t need a subscription to buy the magazine henceforth; although you will be able to sign up for one if you want. We’re also going to offer multiple versions of each issue to suit every price point. Most exciting of all, I think, we’re going to offer physical versions of issues 1-12, which have never been printed thus far, and we’ll be offering a series of best-of retrospectives covering the magazine’s entire history: MAN’S WORLD: The Essays, MAN’S WORLD: The Stories, MAN’S WORLD: The Interviews and maybe even MAN’S WORLD: The Memes. Look for the first of those next year.

So what’s in store for Issue 16?

Well, we’ve got the three tremendous winners of the MAN’S WORLD Gonzo Prize: STEPHEN PIMENTL, MR MANNISON and TYLER BASS. Honestly, this is writing of the highest quality, and further vindication of the prize model we started with the Pulp Fiction Prize.

We’ve got ROBERT E. HOWARD’s classic Conan tale, “Gods of the Earth,” with exclusive new artwork; a stirring COUNTERBLAST essay from SEBASTIAN MORELLO on how to train like a modern-day crusader; NATIONALIST GEOGRAPHIC takes us back in time to the American frontier and then into the dark recesses of neolithic Europe, in a fascinating investigation of primitive bull rituals; MAN’S WORLD NOSH has you covered for covfefe, including my personal recipe for the ultimate affogato; everyone; JONAH HOWELL returns with more Redneck Wisdom; there are multiple interviews—and more.