March 17th, 2009 / 5:56 pm
 Author News

Harper Perennial and Congrats to DearLeader

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Fifty-Two Stories with Cal Morgan is a ‘New Delivery Service’ from Harper Perennial intent on publishing a short story a week for an entire year. Of the site, Cal Morgan writes:

This year we’re celebrating the thriving art of the story by sharing a new one every week: most of them new, a few of them classics, from authors you know and some you don’t, each of them treasurable in its language or wit or human insight.

This week, Morgan has posted ‘The Copy Family’ by our own Blake Butler.

About the story, Morgan writes:

Here’s the first story we’ve selected from the wide array of submissions from our readers. Blake Butler writes to say that “The Copy Family” is from a book he’s just completed, not yet published. It reminded me of some of Poe’s comic stories, or of Tom Neely’s graphic novel “The Blot.” Could I describe exactly what it’s about? I’m not sure I could do this odd family story justice. But it will stay with me for a long time.

Click on over to have a read, everyone, and good work, Blake Butler.

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20 Comments

  1. March 17th, 2009 / 10:26 pm pr—

      YEAH BLAKE! I am soo happy for you. What a great thing.

  2. March 17th, 2009 / 6:26 pm pr—

      YEAH BLAKE! I am soo happy for you. What a great thing.

  3. March 17th, 2009 / 10:28 pm Jimmy Chen—

      blake’s on fire. scary actually..

  4. March 17th, 2009 / 6:28 pm Jimmy Chen—

      blake’s on fire. scary actually..

  5. March 18th, 2009 / 12:55 am Steven Trull—

      Blake? I read your thing in 1111 and I really liked it. And that was before I started doing things. So, it is really nice to know that I wasn’t the only one who liked your stuff. There seems to be a lot of people who like it. And that’s nice!

  6. March 17th, 2009 / 8:55 pm Steven Trull—

      Blake? I read your thing in 1111 and I really liked it. And that was before I started doing things. So, it is really nice to know that I wasn’t the only one who liked your stuff. There seems to be a lot of people who like it. And that’s nice!

  7. March 18th, 2009 / 12:58 am Ken Baumann—

      Yes.

  8. March 17th, 2009 / 8:58 pm Ken Baumann—

      Yes.

  9. March 18th, 2009 / 1:12 am Blake Butler—

      hi Steven, thanks man, you are kind.

  10. March 18th, 2009 / 1:12 am Blake Butler—

      thank you other friends as well :)

  11. March 17th, 2009 / 9:12 pm Blake Butler—

      hi Steven, thanks man, you are kind.

  12. March 17th, 2009 / 9:12 pm Blake Butler—

      thank you other friends as well :)

  13. March 18th, 2009 / 2:42 am Nathan Tyree—

      sweet. Conrats man.

  14. March 17th, 2009 / 10:42 pm Nathan Tyree—

      sweet. Conrats man.

  15. March 18th, 2009 / 4:43 am KevinS—

      Blake is great and so is Harper Perennial! How much longer do you think it’ll be before BB joins their growing mob?! Or will he be like Fugazi and be Indie forever?

  16. March 18th, 2009 / 12:43 am KevinS—

      Blake is great and so is Harper Perennial! How much longer do you think it’ll be before BB joins their growing mob?! Or will he be like Fugazi and be Indie forever?

  17. March 18th, 2009 / 5:40 am david E—

      kudos, Blake, damn.

  18. March 18th, 2009 / 1:40 am david E—

      kudos, Blake, damn.

  19. March 18th, 2009 / 5:19 pm Alicia—

      L-L-L-L-Loved this story and kudos on Harper P. for 52 stories!

  20. March 18th, 2009 / 1:19 pm Alicia—

      L-L-L-L-Loved this story and kudos on Harper P. for 52 stories!