Matthew Simmons
Matthew Simmons lives in Seattle.
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Power Quote: John Berryman
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
—John Berryman, October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972
Writing Prompt: Holy Shit! CHUD Penguins!
Graham Racher
Nicholson Baker wrote a horror story about potatoes. Penguins live in the sewers of Cape Town, South Africa.
Potatoes are a part of the family of plants sometimes called the nightshades. People refer to penguins as “nature’s clowns.”
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HTML Giant @ AWP: We Global
Here I will attempt to give readers a list of the HTML Giant-related AWP readings. (AWP is in Denver, April 7 – 10.)
Wednesday, April 7:
We arrive. We wait.
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March was small press month. Here’s my haul.
How was your Small Press Month? I got a bunch of books:
Adam Robison and Other Poems by Adam Robinson
In This Alone Impulse by Shya Scanlon
The Failure by James Greer
Iowa by Travis Nichols
Stories II by Scott McClanahan
The Awful Possibilities by Christian TeBordo
Imago Bird by Nicholas Mosley
The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney, a novel by Christopher Higgs
The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis by Mark Gluth
Misadventure by Millard Kaufman (galley)
Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder by Travis Nichols (galley)
Hiding Out by Jonathan Messinger
Sons of the Rapture by Todd Dills
Boring boring boring etc, by Zach Plague
OK, Goodnight by Emily Kendal Frey and Zachary Schomburg
How to Take Yourself Apart, How to Make Yourself Anew by Aaron Burch
What I Want and What I Want by Chelsea Martin
How about you?
Jay-Z may not be the best rapper, but…
…he’s apparently a big fan of eating under a picture of Proust. And, he’s a Satan-worshiping member of the Illuminati. So, big up to Brooklyn.
Matthew Simmons—
You can read with Sam Lipsyte at a Rumpus event. All you have to do is write a piece of prose that uses a sentence from Sam’s new—completely awesome—novel, The Ask.