Action, Please
Action Books releases Don Mee Choi’s first book, The Morning News is Exciting. What a title, what a cover, I’m really looking forward to reading this book.
Also, according to Johannes Goransson’s blog, Action Books is looking at submissions from June 1-July 15. You have ten days to get that ms polished! Go!
Alternative Values in Small Press Culture from AD Jameson
Wonderfully lucid and idea-rich post by AD Jameson at Big Other: Alternative Values in Small Press Culture. This is one for bookmarking. Jameson looks at three values that small press culture inherits somewhat lazily, Jameson claims, from culture-at-large: celebrity, youth, and money. Then he says: “What values might replace these? What else could writers and presses be prioritizing, and pursuing? And what would that look like?” In answering these questions, Jameson throws out a ton of practical and exciting suggestions. Cool stuff.
2 from Octopus Books
When I showed you about the best chapbooks I bought in Denver I wanted to show you HOW, but couldn’t.
Now I can.
How by Emily Pettit
Staple-bound
Edition of 200
26 pages
$8 (includes shipping)
The Best Chapbooks I bought in Denver
In thought of the upcoming Chapbook Festival, I want to tell you about a few great little books that have come to be.
DoubleCross Press, run by MC Hyland, makes her own damn paper and has a bunch of new releases you should eyeball, including this one –
Museum Armor by Lily Brown.
Letterpress printed pamphlet on khadi and frankfurt white papers. $7
Get it here
3 New Fence Titles
Dead Ahead, by Ben Doller
The Sore Throat, by Aaron Kunin
Living Must Bury, by Josie Sigler, 2010 Motherwell Prize
Right now, subscribe for two years and get a free copy of A Best of Fence, volume of choice. Magic win!
2 new from Brave Men
Wantttttt…
Now Available for purchase from Brave Men Press
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THE BLACK EYE
Brian FoleyBrian Foley has had poems appear or are forthcoming in Typo, Fou, Glitterpony, No Tell Motel, Sixth Finch, and others. He edits SIR! Magazine and was recently selected by Pam Rehm for the Academy of American Poets prize. He lives in Massachusetts where he attends the MFA for Poets and Writers at Umass Amherst.
Cover is letterpressed with black ink on red paper.
Printed in a limited edition of 150.
22 pages.$9
Book Giveaway: Ric Royer’s She Saw Ghosts He Saw Bodies
We were sitting around a campfire, trying with our hearts to tell ghost stories. Someone kept rambling on and on. I did the one about the guy with the bloody finger. The best one was when someone said, “Once there BOO” which, awesome, was short.
No one can tell ghost stories anymore. Can you?
My labelmate, Ric Royer, can. Dude’s a trip. His new book She Saw Ghosts He Saw Bodies, just out from Narrow House, is an eerie thing, a creepy, eerie thing. And each copy has a hand-drawn cover by Jackie Milad.
So here’s their giveaway part: whoever comments HERE with the shortest and scariest story will win a copy of not just creepy, eerie, hand-drawn She Saw Ghosts He Saw Bodies, but also Ric’s other book things, including Time Machine and There Were One and It Was Two and the weather not the weather. Also, apparently, some other stuff. Freaky. Go here to enter.
I want to see some scary. I thought the movie The Ring was scary.
Blake Butler—
Three new titles out now from FC2: The Fixed Stars by Brian Conn; In the House by Lynn K. Kilpatrick; Passes Through by Rob Stephenson.
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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: