Some Neat


David NeSmith has epublished a new haiku thing, from his El Greed comics. He’s taking comics and haiku off the page. He’s putting wardrobes on the page. I don’t know, you figure it out.

It’s been up for a bit, but Maureen Thorson’s review of Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (Airport Novel Musical Poem Painting Film Photo Hallucination Landscape) is so good that I read it and immediately bought the book. Now the book has arrived, and I’m trying to like it as much as I like the review. It’s ambitious in its extratextuality. Its beautiful in its conception. But its wtf in its words. I don’t know, you figure it out.

Gee whiz, here’s an exhaustingive Bookslut interview with Dorothea Lasky.

Karen Lillis on working at St. Marks Bookshop.

Don’t forget: Telephone Journal giveaway ends tomorrow. Leave a comment, win a book.

Roundup / 9 Comments
September 16th, 2010 / 11:29 am

Troyan, Cassandra & Cody. Big Bill and the Lonely Nation (2010)

cover art by Sara Drake

The chapbook itself includes:

-eenui! -anti-nationalism! -apocalypse theory! -aristocrats (not cats)! -slime! -culture! -thomas jefferson! -french dames! -ostriches! -insomnia! -papsmearz! -drunkenness! -sea turtles! -humping! -circle-jerks! -cheeseburgers! -desperation! -outsourcing! -federally-funded infrastructure! -10 year-old girls! -consumerism! -capitalism! -minimalism! -maximalism! -marx(imal)ism!

Official release date, September 17th, 2010
Only $4
Pre-order your copy now!

The release of the chapbook is also the beginning of a reading series called EAR EATER that will happen at Cassandra’s apartment and other spaces in Chicago throughout the year.

Author Spotlight / 7 Comments
September 16th, 2010 / 10:57 am

Stunning new issue: LIES/ISLE

Issue 4 of the now-outdoing-its-own-beauty LIES/ISLE is live and full of local names and weird & warping prose. The contributors: Kimberly Keith, Thomas Kendall, Christof Pryor, Nikolina Nedeljkov, Shome Dasgupta, Merzmench, S.J. Christmass, Arkava Das, Emily Walden, Brenna Murphy, Mitch Patrick, Richard Ferber, Michael Leong. Curated, designed & published by J. Tian and Mike Kitchell, who does astounding work.

Web Hype / 8 Comments
September 15th, 2010 / 10:47 pm

Paris Review Blog 404

This is why I like the internet somewhat: Joyce typos caused by quick updates even from the glossies.

Or maybe it’s no typo? Maybe “momentairly” is a more beautiful way to remind you that on the internet part of the fun is the making of whoompers, and sometimes whoompers are the charm.

Anyway, in however long it takes a momentairly to pass (perhaps it is over by the time you are reading this, realtime, shooing this icon to the PR web fodder bin), the Paris Review blog will return with a two week series of guest posts featuring Lydai Davis considering the act of translation, which we could surely use some help with anytime.

Behind the Scenes / 27 Comments
September 15th, 2010 / 2:31 pm

Trash Humpers on DVD & VHS

Following up on my post about how much I liked Korine’s latest, Trash Humpers is now about to be released on September 21st on DVD, VHS (in limited edition of 300, handmade cases by Korine), and on 35mm (in an edition of 5). Pick up yours here.

Here’s a sample of one of the original VHS cases:

Film / 13 Comments
September 15th, 2010 / 1:11 pm

I like this poem “The Rumored Existence of Other People” by Timothy Donnelly. It showed up to me via Swindle. The poem is about audaciously thinking in very reasonable and terrifying ways.

Random Live Broadcast of Recent Books I Like 2

The live reading is over but you can play back my live reading of recent and upcoming new books I am excited about here:

Featuring excerpts from:

The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
Daddy’s by Lindsay Hunter
Thin Kimono by Michael Earl Craig
Money Poems by James Gendron
Coma by Pierre Guyotat
&
Sprawl by Danielle Dutton

Behind the Scenes / 70 Comments
September 14th, 2010 / 9:48 pm

David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King 4/15/11

Wallace’s unfinished novel The Pale King gets a cover and a release date: April 15, 2011. [via NY Times]

Author News / 41 Comments
September 14th, 2010 / 7:28 pm

Moby Lives seems to agree with Criswell.

I Like What The Hell Is Going On Over Here

Mark Newgarden (Click through for to make bigger)

Jean-Luc Godard just might accept//that fucking Oscar//after all.

You need to go outside, says Lapham’s — they says a lot of good things to say.

Reading back issues of the NY Times, found this great little Glenn gem.

Who doesn’t believe in intellectual property? Jean-Luc Godard.

Roundup / 63 Comments
September 14th, 2010 / 3:36 pm