Two Serious Ladies
Lauren Spohrer, associate editor of NOON, has just launched Two Serious Ladies which has Diana Hamilton and Catherine Lacey (or Roxane Gay and Heidi Julavits), for example.
Rachel B. Glaser was the first to tell me about Jane Bowles’ Two Serious Ladies; the first thing I read in Lauren Spohrer’s Two Serious Ladies was by Lesley Yalen. Today’s Lesley’s birthday and tonight Rachel and Lauren Spohrer and Lawrence Giffin and Diane Williams are going to read at Flying Object. You should arrive sharply at 8.
Lauren Spohrer wrote Happy Birthday and Natalie Lyalin published it. That’s serious. I’ve never met Lauren Spohrer but she’ll be here any minute I just met Lauren Spohrer and Lawrence Giffin who wrote “It is now 01:23:34 AM on October 28, 2011.” in Ex Tempore (Troll Thread)
Lauren Spohrer and Lawrence Giffin wrote a dos-a-dos chapbook from Agnes Fox Press, Just Kids. It’s just out but it just won the National Book Award. Here are two serious pictures of Lesley Yalen holding Just Kids, and one just kids one:
WHOASHIPPING
is the code you can use until midnight today to get free shipping on Tyoyeu. What is Tyoyeu? “Tyoyeu by Seths in Poetry.” is the Book of 2007-2011. You can get it today, truly at cost, because shipping its 466 pages will cost you nothing. Keep in mind: ”Our manufacturing process precedes shipping.” (Know too: 2012 not included.) Two copies of Tyoyeu came in the mail today having been shipped expediently, with extra not free shipping. When you have Tyoyeu you will see who needs WHOASHIPPING. Also today: two copies of What Is Amazing arrived, delivered on foot by the author. The author is a fan of Tyoyeu. Fans of the author are fans of what is amazing. Now I’m going to play basketball with Rachel B. Glaser and John Maradik and then I’m going to eat the rest of this pizza
and watch basketball with Emily Pettit while typing words from the six books pictured (Berlin Stories by Robert Walser translated by Susan Bernofsky, TYOYEU by Seths, What Is Amazing by Heather Christle, TYOYEU by Seths, What Is Amazing by Heather Christle, and Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch with a cover by Maira Kalman) in the comments. Whoever is the first to BOTH take a picture of themselves reading both Tyoyeu and What Is Amazing AND correctly match all the words with the correct book (in the comments), that person will receive (either via expedited shipping or delivered on foot by the author of this post) six machines:
- the only copy of a book written just for that person (either OUR THE ROBERT WALSER or NANCY KÖF’S BÖK MADE OUT OF WORDS™ or RODNEY GRAHAM’S MACHINE FOR READING LENZ)
- Matvei Yankelevich’s Bending at the Elbow (trade edition, pictured below)
- Taryn Andrews’ Clouds Can Trees
- Lesley Yalen‘s The Beginning In (watch Lesley read on a Seth’s Divine Magnet)
- Just Kids by Lawrence Giffin and Lauren Spohrer
- This Is What We Are Up Against by Ben Hersey, who is what what is and will be touring with Heather Christle in March and April.
