Unsaid 5
The fifth issue of the always monolithic Unsaid Magazine is now available for preorder, shipping very soon and expected already to sell out. Years later, I am still rereading and recommending the first four issues to people like anthologies of the new: it does not age. #5 features new work by:
BRIAN KUBARYCZ/ANNE CARSON/JOE WENDEROTH/BLAKE BUTLER/JONATHAN CALLAHAN/ROBERT LOPEZ/MICHAEL KIMBALL/A. MINETTA GOULD/DAVID HOLLANDER/JENNY GROPP-HESS/GREG AMES/JOSEPH CELZIC…/ANNE VALENTE/ERIKA LORENTZSEN/DANIELLE BLAU/DAWN RAFFEL/TRENT ENGLAND/M.T. FALLON/BRIAN EVENSON/KIM CALDER/ROZALIA JOVANOVIC/LUKE GOEBEL/CATHERINE FOULKROD/A WOLFE/PETER MARKUS/KATY WYER/JASON SCHWARTZ/TOM MCCARTAN/SHANE FIREK/AMBER SPARKS/ROBERT KLOSS/ELIZABETH MIKESCH/PAMELA RYDER/LINCOLN MICHEL/MICHAEL COPPERMAN/LITO ELIO PORTO/ALEXIS ALMEIDA/MONICA HARHAS/EVELYN HAMPTON/SEAN PATRICK HILL/PAUL MALISZEWSKI/B.R. SMITH/JEFFREY LAMONDE/ALEXANDRA CHASIN/TOM LAVERTY/ANDY DEVINE/M SARKI/RICHARD ST. GERMAIN/ALLISON TITUS/KEITH NATHAN BROWN/LIAM O’BRIEN/MATT BELL/COOPER ESTEBAN/SCOTT GARSON/ERIKA MOYA/SASHA FLETCHER/JOSEPH SCAPELLATO/STEPHEN GROPP-HESS
To order, go to the Unsaid website and find the PURCHASE UNSAID button on the lefthand column side.
Sean Lovelace—
I go to the beach. I ask what you are reading, your ‘beach book.’ 99.4 % of the time it is a novel. Why?
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Object Press: An Interview with Richard di Santo
I discovered Object Press via this entry on Chad Post’s Three Percent blog, and Post’s enthusiasm for the press and its latest book, a reprint of Christian Oster’s In The Train, convinced me to contact Richard di Santo, the founder. He sent me review copies of the two books he’s published so far and agreed to answer a few questions by email, which you can read below this introduction.
Starcherone Prize 6 & 7
Sarah Falkner wins the 7th Starcherone Prize for her novel Animal Sanctuary, selected by Stacey Levine. It sounds quite look-forward-to.
Last year’s winner, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by our own radical Alissa Nutting, selected by Ben Marcus, is coming out October 1st! It’s going to eat your hair. You can preorder it now from Starcherone or wherever great books are. Here’s a taste, from Fence.
Everything Is Quietly Descriptive Love
Scrambler Books—which (like Flatmancrooked) manages to be awesome despite being based in turd-haven-of-a-city Sacramento—is releasing two upcoming books of poetry that I’m stoked about: Kendra Grant Malone’s Everything Is Quiet and Matthew Savoca’s long love poem with descriptive title. You can get these books separate or together, or together in a hardcover edition, which is pretty fancy for indie lit, right? Click here and here for sample poems from Malone and here and here for Savoca poems. These are sure to both be tender and exhausted collections that feel like drinking the wrong beverage at the wrong time and somehow having that be the only thing that makes you feel better. Can’t wait.
2 New from Keyhole: Bell & Burch
For a limited time only, Keyhole Press is offering both Matt Bell’s How They Were Found and Aaron Burch’s How To Predict the Weather in a package deal for $19.99 including shipping. Can’t wait to have these monsters in my hands.
Blake Butler—
Five Chapters is going the opposite direction of the current trend and expanding their electronic publishing module into print objects. They’ve just announced their first three titles, collections by Emma Straub and Jess Row, as well as an anthology. An interview with founder Dave Daley is up at Galley Cat, with his insight into sales #s and the logic of the shift.
AWESOME MACHINE PRESS
Adam Robinson is continuing to do good things. He recently started Awesome Machine Press, an imprint of Publishing Genius, which published Say Poem. Adam has really interesting plans.
Books are printed in one run of 125. 25 copies are for discussion (want one? Keep reading). 50 go to the author to sell and 50 are for sale from the press.
After the book sells out it will be available online and for the Kindle and probably the Nook later.
The entire point is fun. Fun writing, fun book making, fun reading, fun talking.
All the other stuff, like work, or caring about stuff, that is not a part of it.
Awesome Machine has fun fast and doesn’t accept submissions, though sometimes submissions through Publishing Genius will make it over to Awesome Machine, probably.
If you have any questions, or would like a discussion copy, contact adam at publishinggenius dot com. The first 25 people in the USA to request these copies will receive them as long as they have at least a blog or whatever to say something about the book or whatever at. (Sorry to people not in the USA. If you want one and want to Paypal about $6 USD for shipping, then all systems go.)
People who pre-order AMP books get free shipping. Then it will cost $1 extra to help defray shipping costs. . . .
You can read more details here. As if that wasn’t great enough, AMP’s next book is Orange Juice by Timothy Willis Sanders who is a great writer and an excellent person. Go, buy the book, tell your friends about it. Make them buy the book too.
The Coming Envelope
Compelling format from BookThug’s new literary journal, The Coming Envelope:
The Coming Envelope is BookThug’s new publication of experimental prose fiction edited and designed by Malcolm Sutton. Every issue features work from five writers. It accommodates hard-to-classify work by those already treading various precipices: uncomfortable here, courting the perverse, typographically observant, exposed to the elements, politically not unaware, falling alongside language.
Issue 1 features work by: Jacob Wren, Sheila Heti, Lily Hoang & Debra Di Blasi, John Goldbach, and Lee Henderson.
$10, on sale now.