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.

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Naked Lunch: The First 50 Years

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Little House on the Bowery Reading

Dennis Cooper, James Greer, and Mark Gluth read at City Lights, March 16, 2010

Web Hype / 8 Comments
March 24th, 2010 / 8:49 am

Magic is tight

Winner of the Magic: The Designing Contest at Kitsune Noir, by Pedro Fernandes [via Clusterflock]

Any Magic freaks in the building? Wish I still had that shit. Like I wish I had my Dragonlance novels I sold in a lot on eBay. Worst move ever.

Web Hype / 30 Comments
March 24th, 2010 / 1:37 am

Live Giants #3, with Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Mark yr datething: the third Live Giants reading is scheduled for a week from today, Tuesday March 30 at 9 PM Eastern. Joshua Marie Wilkinson will read live here on HTMLG from his place in Chicago, from his most recent book Selenography, coming very soon from Sidebrow Books. Here’s a sample:

Author News / 10 Comments
March 23rd, 2010 / 4:49 pm

This is a Formica table

1. @ The Guardian, Twin Peaks celebrates its 20th anniversary.
2. An excerpt from Johannes Göransson’s recently completed novel, Haute Surveillance (which is fucking incredible), presented by Andrew Lundwall.
3. A trailer for Ben Mirov’s Ghost Machine, forthcoming from Caketrain:

Presses & Web Hype / 9 Comments
March 23rd, 2010 / 1:02 pm

Win Wells Tower’s Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

The fine folks at Macmillan have provided us with three copies of Wells Tower’s much talked about collection Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned to give away to readers. (Check out an excerpt at the link)

To enter, comment with answers to any of the following: What’s the best fire you ever saw? Best tower you ever saw? Best thing you ever burned?

Two winners will be selected for their elaboration, one will be selected at random. Entries end tomorrow evening.

Contests / 93 Comments
March 23rd, 2010 / 12:10 pm
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This book is just crushing, and so much.

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1. Heather Christle is doing a video challenge contest to win a copy of the new blue edition of her The Difficult Farm.
2. Keyhole just announced and is preselling a new minibook by William Walsh, Pathologies.
3. Tom Bissell writes for the Guardian about his addiction to Grand Theft Auto, a preview of his new book on video games, Extra Lives.

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What books have actually gotten you wet or given you an erection?

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1. Dan Hoy and Jon Leon in conversation at Fanzine.
2. Gisele Vienne’s Portraits at DC’s.
3. These brackets are wild.

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