Blake Butler
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Blake Butler lives in Atlanta. His third book, There Is No Year, is forthcoming April 2011 from Harper Perennial.
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Evelyn Hampton posted a behind-the-scenes recounting of her process of learning and moving in the inauguration of her new print journal, Dewclaw, including searching for printers, reading subs, costs, and etc. A great set of observations for those interested in how building a magazine goes. Support her, Preorder the issue!
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More Evenson (I can’t help myself): an excellent republished article of his from 2005 on Sunn 0))) and Earth in Arthur.
Brian Evenson reads ‘Younger’ for Apostrophe Cast
This week on Apostrophe Cast is no other than Brian Evenson, reading from the leadoff story in his collection Fugue State, due out July 1 from Coffee House.
If you haven’t spent some time with the AC archives, they’ve got a backlog just waiting for you, recently including William Walsh, Shane Jones, Matthew Kirkpatrick, Sam Lipsyte, Michael Kimball, myself, and scads others. Check it.
After hearing ‘Younger,’ you can check out my review response to the story here, if you haven’t yet, in my story by story reviewing of all of Fugue State.
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TIGHT: Dzanc Books announces new web based journal THE COLLAGIST, submissions open now
Semiserious to Probably Unserious Q
What are 3 literary journals that you feel would “change your life” if you were published in them? Do you believe your life could be changed by publishing a writing? Does it matter?
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June 9th, 2009 / 11:20 pm
June 9th, 2009 / 11:20 pm
“What a Wonderful World”: a guest post by Reynard Seifert
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It all started when my girlfriend read this East Bay Express review:
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June 9th, 2009 / 7:22 pm
June 9th, 2009 / 7:22 pm
Matt Bell’s ‘A certain number of bedrooms, a certain number of baths’
I remember the first time I read this story in Caketrain 4, I read it in the bathtub with some awareness of who Matt Bell was but not fully yet having found. By the end of it I remember going, “Oh, shit, this guy knows what is what and who is who.” I was right to go that, because since then Matt has only continue to slay and slay and slay, and yet this story, in all that time, in comparison to so much wonderful work he’s since published, has not lost an inch of its fine luster.
Herein Matt Bell demonstrates his amazing ability to meld the unknown and the curiously black with the most identifiable of human moments, without the baggage of sentimental cheese that often crops up in making something seem ‘human.’
List of Literary Events Not To Be Missed This Week In Atlanta
1. Walk through the magazine racks at Borders, that one section of one kiosk that sometimes has random cool magazines but mostly not, not anymore
2. Look through the window of that bookstore in Decatur that just went out of business and breathe on the glass and pretend like that’s you in there looking at the books that you didn’t buy because you went home instead and bought them on Amazon for less money
3. Read a book and pretend in your head that that author is reading it to you, in the way you think their voice is, without the witty asides or the host between people (you can add the host if you want)
4. Secretly cherish that there aren’t that many lit events here so you don’t have to feel obligated to attend them when it’s, like, your friend and stuff
5. Look at the internet some more
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Issue 9 of Robot Melon is live with many crazies including Jamie Iredell, Sean Lovelace, Justin Dobbs, Mike Young, Peter Berghoef, Ani Smith, my review of another Evenson story, and lots o more.
Andrew Zornoza’s ‘Where I Stay’
The ‘road novel’ might be one of the most maligned forms in storytelling, in that for a mold that by in proper handling could be kinetic, shapeshifting, and packed with an uncontainable kind of light found only in certain kinds of travel, too many books get caught up in minutiae and joking, leaving out the language and the true moving meat.
Thankfully, Andrew Zornoza’s Where I Stay, just out from Tarpaulin Sky Press, manages to not only wield that rare light while avoiding those common pitfalls, but to do so in a refreshing, pitch-perfect kind of steering that is innovative not only for the genre it might get called into, but for experiential and language-focused texts of every stripe.
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June 6th, 2009 / 4:16 pm
June 6th, 2009 / 4:16 pm