yo, dicks, fence is open for submissions.

GIANT matthew simmons got did on michael kimball’s “Life on a Postcard” website.

But no, really: why submit to magazines you don’t read? Are you a prostitute? What will it gain you in the end?

Evolutionary (and writerly) advantages of depression?

Unfortunately, making physically nice books will only be a niche within a niche. Publishers are more likely to resort to expedients like selling autographed copies, or editions with the buyer’s picture on the cover.

from Post-Medium Publishing.

Thoughts?

An excerpt of Eugene Marten’s next novel, Firework, forthcoming 2010 from Tyrant Books, is up now at the Brooklyn Rail.

Checked in with the Faster Times Books Page lately?

Clancy Martin has been writing a column about love and lying.

Lincoln Michel will add monsters to any classic novel or novels of your choice, if you are willing to pay him to do it.

And Rozi Jovanovic has interviewed J.A. Tyler of Mud Luscious press.

‘experimental’ is often overused and really doesn’t mean much to readers / writers anymore because of its constant use. for me, it means something that I haven’t seen before, something that hits me as profoundly different – that is why I tend towards describing our work as violent / beautiful / pulsing – I want a text that shatters, that buries me in its lines. and I suppose too that I use ‘experimental’ or sometimes ‘innovative’ in order to scare away the exposition-heavy writers, those who spoon-feed actions / events as if readers are not smart enough to discover what a text is doing. I look to the work of james chapman as well as his fugue state books, jesse ball and blake butler, those writers who aren’t afraid to omit the narrative details in favor of descriptive tones and overall voice, those works that reach into me without pandering, hand-holding, without guiding me as if I am blind.

Big fun. Don’t miss it.

Inspired by 300+ comments thread on Blake Butler’s now-infamous “James Joyce Does Not Exist” post, Kyle Minor and I had a critical conversation about Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others. It’s up at the Rumpus as of this morning.

Minor: Reading A Heaven of Others, I felt […] there was that same kind of shock one gets when entering into certain works of Faulkner or Woolf or Joyce, where you simultaneously are thrilled and a little intimidated by the surface, but it doesn’t take long to just fall into it, since the text is teaching you how to read the text. It’s been so long since I’ve discovered a book like that, it feels new, but then one realizes that it’s also old-fashioned, and mourns that it’s old-fashioned.

HTML conceptual art. “…color is a not ready-made object found in a paint set or machine, but rather it is an experience that results from a complex process of light interacting with the retina and human nervous system.”

nicolle elizabeth has two new shits up at wigleaf.  i like them both with all my heart. 

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