Blake Butler
http://www.gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com/
Blake Butler lives in Atlanta. His third book, There Is No Year, is forthcoming April 2011 from Harper Perennial.
Malone & Savoca Week (1): Everything is Quiet
This week we’re going to be highlighting a new pair of poetry releases from Scrambler Books, now available for order: Kendra Grant Malone’s Everything is Quiet and Matthew Savoca’s long love poem with descriptive title. They are $12 each, or $20 together, and both available in limited hardback.
To kick off with K, you can read some of the poems from her book at Bear Creek Feed and via her blog, Tricoteuse.
Blake Butler—
“From the very first chapter, I declared it a tour de force,” Oprah said modestly in Friday’s announcement. [via Shane Jones]
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Lynch LSD Walks Sprawl Tour
Our #3 face is sexy, we are almost 3. That's close to 7.
1. @ Montevidayo, Johannes Göransson posted an excellent consideration of Nathan Lee’s consideration of a few books on David Lynch’s work.
2. @ DC’s, Dennis Cooper posted an excellent roundup of fun and interesting oddity, including re: Drawing on LSD, Kathy Acker’s last work, an Urs Alleman interview, and lots of else.
3. @ Thought Catalog, Franklin Bruno wrote up a thoughtful consideration on Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch’s fantastic Ten Walks/Two Talks.
4. Next Friday, September 24, if you are in Chicago there is a launch party for Danielle Dutton’s brilliant new novel Sprawl, 7:30 PM at the Women and Children First Bookstore, also featuring Kate Zambreno.
5. In celebration of their about to be released second issue, Artifice Magazine is going on tour! A magazine on tour seems amazing.
Mark Borchardt & Mike Schank on Influence
Mark: Hey, man, you ripped that one song off, I hate to tell you, from Black Sabbath.
Mike: I didn’t. I wrote all the words.
Mark: Yeah, but, dude, I’m saying there’s an unconscious influence.
Mike: Yeah, but all your ideas come from somewhere else, Mark. You can’t make up an idea by yourself.
Mark: No, dude.
Mike: It’s gotta come from somewhere.
Mark: Yeah, but… Have you listened to the tune? That’s an exact copy.
Mike: No, it’s not though.
Mark: You changed one word.
Mike: I changed all… I used one word. I used the word “insane,” and that’s it.
[noise occurs off camera in the house]
Mike: What’s that?
Mark: The Ghost of Christmas Past.
Mike: …
Mark: You have to whisper, okay?
Mike: All right.
Mark: ‘Cause otherwise, we’ll get into trouble.
[from American Movie, 1999]
Blake Butler—
What’s the maddest you ever got at a book, either for how it resolved, or what it said, or what its author did or said?
Paris Review Blog 404
This is why I like the internet somewhat: Joyce typos caused by quick updates even from the glossies.
Or maybe it’s no typo? Maybe “momentairly” is a more beautiful way to remind you that on the internet part of the fun is the making of whoompers, and sometimes whoompers are the charm.
Anyway, in however long it takes a momentairly to pass (perhaps it is over by the time you are reading this, realtime, shooing this icon to the PR web fodder bin), the Paris Review blog will return with a two week series of guest posts featuring Lydai Davis considering the act of translation, which we could surely use some help with anytime.
Trash Humpers on DVD & VHS
Following up on my post about how much I liked Korine’s latest, Trash Humpers is now about to be released on September 21st on DVD, VHS (in limited edition of 300, handmade cases by Korine), and on 35mm (in an edition of 5). Pick up yours here.
Here’s a sample of one of the original VHS cases:
Random Live Broadcast of Recent Books I Like 2
The live reading is over but you can play back my live reading of recent and upcoming new books I am excited about here:
Featuring excerpts from:
The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
Daddy’s by Lindsay Hunter
Thin Kimono by Michael Earl Craig
Money Poems by James Gendron
Coma by Pierre Guyotat
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Sprawl by Danielle Dutton
David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King 4/15/11
Wallace’s unfinished novel The Pale King gets a cover and a release date: April 15, 2011. [via NY Times]
Bataille’s Lone TV Interview: On Lit & Evil (1958)
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September 14th, 2010 / 2:05 pm
September 14th, 2010 / 2:05 pm