October 7th, 2009 / 11:40 am
Presses
Kristina Born’s One Hour of Television
Year of the Liquidator, the press Shane Jones and I started earlier this year, will release its first title, Kristina Born’s One Hour of Television, on Halloween.
Designed to run as a series, the books, as we hopefully put out more, will form a continuum of design, like a little freakhouse on your nightstand.
People have already said nice things:
To read One Hour of Television is to flip channels between a 50’s science film on the joys of nuclear prowess and a heist-driven road movie set in a late-imperialist apocalypse. In Born’s hands, all social code is a recipe for deadpan horror. Strained domestic tableaus are intimately wedded to carpet bombings and crowd control, and our best chances at intimacy arrive via gruesome medical emergencies. This book is in revolt against language as an anesthesia machine. It’s in revolt against an empire in which any vote you cast necessarily ends up as a vote for genocide.
- Lara Glenum, author of Maximum GagaOne Hour of Television’s recurring headwounds make an apt symbol for the work as a whole; urgent and insistent, the oozing gauze on an otherwise lovely skull. Would that all flash fiction be this deadly.
- Amelia Gray, author of AM/PM
You can read an excerpt and preorder One Hour of Television now for $10.
You can also add the book on Goodreads.
Thanks!
Tags: kristina born, year of the liquidator
mad excited for this and others to come
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people should buy this. read some shitstank in unsaid and no colony and enjoyed it.
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Congratulations Blake (and Kristina). Powerful excerpt. Crap, I may have to buy this. I am so broke. Well, what was I going to do with that $10 anyway, eat lunch?
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I’m looking forward to getting this.
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thanks everybody
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errrbody in da club
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The excerpt just sounds like she has Wernicke’s aphasia (so much of what is ever praised on here just sounds like the by-product of that aphasia). Is that what “fucked language” is? Or “shitstank?” Is that a viable aesthetic stance? You all should sign anyone who gets a concussion, just in case they can consequently hear/write “fucked language.”
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October 8th, 2009 / 11:17 pmBlake Butler—
seems like a compliment
you got a pretty mouth
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