March 5th, 2009 / 2:51 pm
Author News & Web Journals
Crystal Gavel, New Lights Press, Michael Kimball don’t ever change (your jacket)
Sean Lovelace turned me on to his new Ander Monson-inspired journal, The Crystal Gavel (v1). This first issue features new work from Ander Monson, Darby Larson, Daniel Bailey, yours truly and more. Not just anyone can get published there, though: Amazon is handling the rejections.
This is an important idea, really. Fight absurdity because it is yours to defeat. I am excited to see what’ll happen in issue 2.
So what else is new?
Aaron Cohick of New Lights Press, the wizard that brought us the $400 Brian Evenson book (no shit, $400 – I offered Cohick $200 cash on the spot for a copy and he declined — what an ethos! Eat it, JA Tyler and your $2 Evensons [do we need a link?]!) is looking for writers who want to work with him on an artist book version of their work. Check out the press, consider it carefully, see what happens.
Also, I really, really like this video about Michael Kimball and his book Dear Everybody (which, though it’s a pretty high-ranking book, has only half the reviews that the crystal gavel has) (eat it, Michael Kimball). Michael Kimball once published a poem in The Quarterly that went like this: Now Do You Remember?
This concludes my first ever HTML Giant mamma-jamma (sp?).
Tags: michael kimball, New Lights Press, Sean Lovelace
haha, it took me awhile to ‘get it.’
the crystal gavel is a great idea.
reminds me of the ben marcus inspired ‘nonbook’ reviews:
http://www.believermag.com/nonbookreviews/
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Good first post. APPROVED.
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Those are greatly written. I think the thing with the Amazon thing isn’t so much the writing but the location. (Or if it is the writing, it’s how closely they match the inanity of the typical Web 2.0 review.)
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Thanks Ken! Wiping sweat from my brow.
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Adam, good to see you posting for HTMLG!
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March 5th, 2009 / 5:14 pmBlake Butler—
will crystal gavel be publishing book length manuscripts?
i have a flashfiction encyclopedia about a whore named randy that is just dying to be on a big dot com journal as such mmmm
adam rulez
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Rejection Report. Amazon rejected my review. Crappy.
I think they rejected it because I used the word “crappy.” I should have crappy saved my crappy review. Too crappy bad. All I crappy remember is I called it “My Menagerie of a (crappy) Marriage,” and the crappy reviewer’s a husband whose crappy wife has the entire crappy Godinger figurines collection, crappy, which he intended to smash crappy to crappy smithereens with his crappy Godinger gavel, but when it crappy arrived it was broken. Crappy.
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March 5th, 2009 / 10:23 pmTim Jones-Yelvington—
You got rejected for crappy, yet I got away with implied analingus, erection and anal insertion of the gavel.
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Sounds good.
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No, no, clearly crappy.
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I’d like to see some more submissions, people. I need a variety for the Pushcarts, Best of Web, etc.
There will be a volume two soon, but now’s your chance to publish along Ander Monson who is a god and also I beat his ass in disc golf and slept on his futon a lot, but not with him, just near. Darn.
Sean
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March 5th, 2009 / 10:21 pmTim Jones-Yelvington—
I submitted.
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hi i bought the new manifesto of the new lights press at codex last month. i would like to buy another one , could you tell me how buy another. thanks bp
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I keep listening to the news speak about getting free online grant applications so I have been looking around for the best site to get one.
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