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.
Tyrant 7 Tyrant Books Throwdown + Baby Leg
If you are in New York and miss this, you’re nuts: This Saturday (November 21st) starting at 9:00 at Fontana’s Bar (Eldridge between Broome and Grand), a party for the new 7th issue of New York Tyrant, as well as the release of the first edition in Tyrant Books, a limited edition hardback book called Baby Leg, by the master Brian Evenson. Hardback, linen cover with bronze emboss and Brian has also dipped his hands in blood and fingerprinted the covers.
If that wasn’t enough, there is an open Bar (tequila and beer), plus two bands (Doppelganger and Dead Sparrows).
Blake Butler—
Mark Baumer is doing a Brown MFA tumblr about his times at Brown. It’s pretty funny. Like this:
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Blake Butler—
New Brian Evenson story “Windeye” (which he read this year at &Now) is available in the new Pen America, both in print and online. It’s a killer, as usual.
Crunk-okov
Life posted a bunch of photos of Nabokov goobin’ around back in the day. [via Rake’s Progress] Seems like a guy worth hanging around.
For some reason all I see is Jimmy Chen.
Hopefully this comparison will encourage Jimmy to parody the pictures by getting his partner to snap some shots of him in action. It’d be something to live for. Jimmy?
Jimmy?
Blake Butler—
A node has been added to Ander Monson’s site with new corollary info and text for his apparently next forthcoming book Vanishing Point (Graywolf, April 2010). Lots to read and sneak through, I think he is even calling them e-galleys. I now have a new supreme text anticipation.
Blake Butler—
The magnificent Ninth Letter is running a holiday special for subscriptions, and $5 back issues, bam!
Blake Butler—
Unfriend is the New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year: “Novelty words making the shortlist were “deleb,” meaning a dead celebrity, and “tramp stamp,” referring to a tattoo on the lower back, usually on a woman.” [via clusterflock]
Blake Butler—
For Amber: Has anyone had experiences as a student of the online workshops at Zoetrope or Gotham Writers Workshop? Or any other online writing seminar? Would you recommend, not recommend, etc.?
Examining the Ruth Lilly $$$ (1) A Guest Note from Joseph Goosey
In response to my call for “close reads” on the Ruth Lilly fellows earlier today, Joseph Goosey sends us some examinations of the phrases used in this bit by a dude by the tag of Joseph Spece.
Among Elks
BY JOSEPH SPECEWoke in the brume,
lilacs like turf stars.The late fawn
standing in his syrups;bucks down the swale
chewing sedge.We move south
to slopes of sleeping poppy,past the white alder,
bending heads to scentof calx—in natural dark
a man tries his handat belonging. He
with greave of hide, a bornhood, lay with three
spikes in the clay, greenpeak in the breeze.
He whose breathingwrongs the still.
You stir now to mend,to redress?
To be one of us, after all this?
Take a word on this from Joseph after the break.