2 New from Keyhole: Bell & Burch
For a limited time only, Keyhole Press is offering both Matt Bell’s How They Were Found and Aaron Burch’s How To Predict the Weather in a package deal for $19.99 including shipping. Can’t wait to have these monsters in my hands.
How soon one discovers that, however much one is in the ordinary sense ‘interested in other people,’ this interest has left one far short of possessing the knowledge required to create a character who is not oneself. — Iris Murdoch (1919 – 1999)
As evasive her “one” pronoun dance is, Murdoch rings clear a concern and problem for many writers (concern for the cognizant, problem for the oblivious), that the writer, at the height of their creation, is not creating, but merely transcribing their experience veiled as character.
Blake Butler—
Christian Lorentzen profiles Tao Lin for the New York Observer, writing in a ‘parody of his style.’ What do you think, did he nail it?
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The Best Music Books?
Last month I initiated a discussion about film books. Now I’m wondering about music books. Following the template of the question from last time:
Which are the most inspirational five books about music ever written?
Here are my four — sadly, the scope of music books I’ve read and really enjoyed is so limited I haven’t got five that I can think of — so I’m super thrilled to get recommendations from you:
Michael Nyman – Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond
Alex Ross – The Rest is Noise
Paul D. Miller, ed. – Sound Unbound
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman – No One Here Gets Out Alive
Blake Butler—
Which writer would you most like to read a memoir from who hasn’t done it yet and maybe probably won’t?
“My heart is like a silken sponge that calls saliva love,” or, God still appears to hate us.
Let us now acknowledge the passing of Ralph Records, home of The Residents who, in secret, have been the greatest band on the planet(tm).
Someone break out the Duck Stab. And the Eskimo. And Songs for Swinging Larvae. And Amerikka Stands Tall. And some Snakefinger. Scour the rekkid stores. BUY OR DIE!
Alternative Magazine Covers
As Jonathan Franzen solemnly graces the cover of TIME magazine, we got to thinking who of his peers were also deserving of a cover on other magazines, and what those magazines might be. Here are our top picks:
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August 17th, 2010 / 4:17 pm
August 17th, 2010 / 4:17 pm
$20,333.08
$20,333.08. That’s how much money I’ve spent on Publishing Genius since January 17, 2008. This includes printing books, marketing, shipping, and numerous miscellaneous fees. (To give an idea of operating costs, deduct the cost of printing from that number. Printing spend is $12,916.51.)
$13,640.24. That’s how much I’ve taken in from direct sales, Amazon payments, bookstores, sale of rights and so on. Both of these numbers astound me.
$6692.84 is the difference.
For that much money, I could have made the movie “Clerks.” READ MORE >
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August 17th, 2010 / 3:15 pm
August 17th, 2010 / 3:15 pm
Catalog Colony Box
1. @ Thought Catalog, Brandon Scott Gorrell interviewed me about HTMLGIANT and online networking.
2. I put up a preview of the final issue of Lamination Colony, in the form of Christopher Higgs’s “Sometimes I Feel Like Punching Someone In The Face Until They Can’t Breathe Anymore And That’s The End Of It,” more is on its way.
3. Weescoosa posted the entirety of the Merzbox, dang.