April 20th, 2011 / 8:32 am
Author News

Lotsa Action

HEY, there’s a new jubilat website! Heather Christle tricked it out with all kinds of good, including stuff from the archives, an A/V closet, and a wack index.

Excellent Dark Sky Magazine is doing a give for the excellent Brian Allen Carr’s excellent Short Bus. Yarta goget tha buk. On the now.

At Full Stop, David Backer points to Buzz Mauro’s Everyday Genius story and says that “dressed up with a few offhand observations, whimsical musings and flourishes of free association, ‘Delicious Noodles’ asserts itself as a convincing self-contained whole.” Then Backer points to a story by Matt Bell, from Conjunctions, that I overheard Matt talking about in a bar in DC on Saturday. “You’re supposed to do whatever you want with it,” he said (paraphrase).

Gabe Durham’s Fun Camp book will be out from Mud Luscious in 2013. If you’re an online literature reader, you’ve probably seen a piece from this here or there cuz they been everywhere man.

Also in new books: Publishers Weekly announces Melissa Broder’s Meat Heart, forthcoming from PGP in February. Also in PGP: Chris Toll’s The Disinformation Phase is now available for pre-order.

Also also: congratulations to Stephanie Barber, announced yesterday as a finalist for the Sondheim Prize.

At Tyrant Books, pre-orders are open for Michael Kimball’s renewed novel, Us, too.

And Dzanc just nabbed three by Stephen Graham Jones.

I feel like these roundups are of limited value. Is anyone still with me? There’s more goodness.

Like life. Ariana Reines remembers Paul Violi in a personal post that really blew me away.

If you’re not reading Bill Knott’s cranky blog, you don’t know what the Internet is.

What is the poetic equivalent of this throw from SS (Alexi Casilla, 4/18/11)? In what journal would it appear?

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6 Comments

  1. Mark Folse

      Bill Knotts is fabulous. He reminds me of a certain character at a local reading series who is always last on the open mic, usually rants about something while looking at a handful of crumple scribbles and will follow you out to your car if you dare engage him in conversation afterwards. And I always stay for his performance with the same gleeful pleasure with which we all idle past the scene of the accident.

  2. Sean

      “You’re supposed to do whatever you want with it,” he said.

      I wish more writers would let their work into the world with this exact attitude.

  3. Sean

      “You’re supposed to do whatever you want with it,” he said.

      I wish more writers would let their work into the world with this exact attitude.

  4. Scott mcclanahan

      This was a great round up. Seriously.

  5. bobby

      And thanks for the Bill Knott news; I didn’t know he was still working on his blog and haven’t checked it in years.

  6. Anonymous