Radio Silence

"This Bay Area journal is something people have been waiting for for fifty years, whether they knew it or not."
-Greil Marcus in the Believer

Radio Silence is a creative community focused on literature and rock & roll, manifested in an innovative digital edition, a signature print magazine, and special live events. We also raise money to buy books and musical instruments for kids.

In each volume of the magazine, you’ll find a collection of interviews, fiction, poetry, essays, films, and audio from a line-up of literary and musical talent. Our contributors include Lucinda Williams, Dashiell Hammett, Carrie Brownstein, Tobias Wolff, Bruce Springsteen, Pico Iyer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ian MacKaye, and many more.

As for recent accolades, Radio Silence was awarded "One of the Ten Best New Magazines in the Country" by Library Journal. San Francisco Magazine named us "Best of 2012." Jim White's "Superwhite," found in Volume V, won a Pushcart Prize.

Radio Silence is free to download and includes a sample issue. After that you can subscribe at $2.99 per month or $29.99 for a yearlong subscription. To read issues from before your subscription began, you must pay for them individually at $2.99 per issue.

When you become a subscriber, you can download any issue published while your subscription is active. If your subscription lapses, you will still be able to read the issues published while you were an active subscriber. Tap the “Restore” button to make previously purchased issues available on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad. You can update or cancel your subscription in your iTunes Store account settings.