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:
Mike Young and Rachel B. Glaser, talking
Mike and Rachel met in 2007 in the popular Northampton hangout “Hugo’s.” They were both friends with the charismatic Chris Cheney and all three were enrolled in the Umass-Amherst MFA program. One year Rachel lived with Cheney and a bunch of troubled cats. Mike lived really far away. The next year Rachel lived with Mike in a clean looking apartment (like repainted recently and tastefully and blandly) that they kept pretty messy. Then Rachel moved to a big polluted fancy loft space and Mike stayed in his collapsed book palace. Then they got their books (Pee On Water and We Are All Good if They Try Hard Enough) published by Publishing Genius as part of Publishing Genius’s ‘platonic friends publishing plan.’
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Rachel: Why didn’t we hang anything in our apartment?
Mike: hahaha i am not sure, i thought we did
we hung that poster behind the TV
i feel like there was at least one painting in our living room
Rachel: The ‘painting’ you are referring to, is this switch plate cover that my cousin made that was instead of a normal light switch cover.
Mike: ah yes!
that was it
Mike: hmm ok let me think of a question READ MORE >
Nerds In A Van
East of the Mississippi? You won’t want to miss the Glaser/Lyalin/Young tour that’s ravaging the right side of the map.
6/16 – Philly
6/17 – DC
6/18 – Richmond
6/21 – Atlanta
6/22 – Durham
6/24 – BaltimoreGet all the dates and links and stuff from Mike’s blog.
That DC reading is an exciting one – it will be the first in the new series from Barrelhouse. The concept is to feature presses/journals, not just individual writers. That is a sensible way to create a good reading; if the publisher has a good aesthetic, the reading will showcase their authors and the event will make good flow. Future presses with Barrelhouse readings coming up include Dzanc, Rose Metal, and Artifice. This one on June 17 (this Thursday) features Publishing Genius and, now in their 7th year, Narrow House (click for a SICK 7th year special offer — 7 things for the price of 1).
FREE Glaser or Leidner chapbook: snow cancelled in Brooklyn, SUPERMACHINE not
An outpost from the brave folks of Outpost Lounge, 1014 Fulton St:
Just wanted you all to know that our reading absolutely STILL ON for tonight.
After a bit of witchcraft and snow cursing we have a 100% confirmed lineup!Matthew Yaeger
Holly Melgard
Michelle Taransky
Ryan Doyle May
Joey Yearous-AlgozinTo reward your dedication to the art of language we offer the promise of coffee/wine/beer/maximum love vibes and a basketload of karma. SEE YOU SOON!
Anyone who storms the snow for this gets a free minutes BOOK with mention of this post. Choose from Rachel B. Glaser’s Heroes are so long and Mark Leidner’s Willie, shipping soon, complete with snow blank covers to make your own tracks in, like so: 
or so 
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Poet of the weekend Michelle Taransky, who’s treking north with Lauren Ireland (add Absent and Sixth Finch to the list in the last post) to read in the also not cancelled notnostrums/Noö/SIR! reading tomorrow night at 7 at the Montague Bookmill, will be taking names, but you can pre-claim by adding your address below or send it to minutesbooks AT gmail DOT com.
NOÖ 9 is righteous like Psalm 69, believe that
New NOÖ for 09, ladies n gentz. Get at it:
Welcome to 2009. To celebrate, NOÖ [9] is now out: noojournal.com. New features: Ryan Call as Associate Editor, handkerchiefs, reviews, a blog (noojournal.blogspot.com), and sleep sounds.
The new issue features prose, poems, art, and otherwise from: Nick Antosca, Deborah Blakely, Vic Cavalli, John Casey, Jimmy Chen, Christopher Cheney, Tanya Chernov, Jack Christian, Bryan Coffelt, Brooklyn Copeland, Michael DeForge, Gabe Durham, Rachel B. Glaser, Evelyn Hampton, Kyle Hemmings, Michael Hsiung Grace Jamison, Mike Jauchen, Greg Lytle, Erika Mikkalo,, Patricia Parkinson, Adam Peterson, Ashley Reaks, Bradley Sands, Peter Jay Shippy, Randy Thurman, Jono Tosch, and Rebecca Volinsky.
Thanks for reading. Print copies coming in ~3 weeks. Let us know if there’s any good spot near you to distribute free literature.
Also be sure to check out Magic Helicopter Press (http://www.magichelicopterpress.com). There are chapbooks from Mary Miller and Benjamin Buchholz available.
We’re going to be sharing a table at AWP Chicago in February with Publishing Genius and Lamination Colony. We’ll have an RC helicopter. Literature of shenanigans. Maybe we’ll see you there.
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January 2nd, 2009 / 2:06 am
January 2nd, 2009 / 2:06 am
In Profile: Rachel B. Glaser
Kelly Spitzer’s ongoing writers in profile project is always a fun one: this week she tackles the badass Ms. Rachel B. Glaser, who if I continue to harp on about how good her PEE ON WATER story in the new New York Tyrant is, somebody will probably think I’m obsessed.
My PEE ON WATER tattoo is on my ass specifically so no one but the real reals get to see it. And whoever’s at the bar when I get happy.
I like Rachel’s attitude about messing around with people in writing, and so forth. Her blog has some archived writing and etc. Do it.
Rachel B Glaser
Rising literary fiction star and sinus headache Cheerios consumer Rachel B Glaser has started a new blog. Currently up are two stories previously published in Columbia and [sic]: “Michael Jordan, in general” and “The Sad Girlfriend.” Soon Glaser will be interviewed by all-star Kelly Spitzer. She also has stories recent or forthcoming in New York Tyrant, Barrelhouse, and American Short Fiction.
Asked for a quote, Glaser said: “It smells weird because I just turned on the oven then I turned it off.”
