UPDATE: Didn’t really do any research on this, and probably should have. Middle finger is photoshopped. The real image is this:
Let’s call the first image, then, an expression of collective desire.
Blake Butler—
Harp & Altar #7 is now available — with fantastic poetry and fiction by Cynthia Arrieu-King, Ana Božičević, Matthew Klane, Michael O’Brien, Alejandra Pizarnik translated by Jason Stumpf, Brett Price, Jared White, Edmond Caldwell, Susan Daitch, Luca Dipierro, Craig Foltz, A.D. Jameson, Matthew Kirkpatrick, and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. Also: Farrah Field on Julia Cohen; Patrick Morrissey on Joshua Harmon and Rob Schlegel; Michael Newton’s gallery reviews; and art by Brandon Downing. | | | See also: the Harp & Altar anthology, featuring the first few years of the journal, in print, coming in June.
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BOARDWALK PLEASINGNESS / THE HOME OF LONG-FORM STORYTELLING
And here’s the glorious second, extended trailer. I may be more excited to see this than I am to see almost anything else on the horizon.
I don’t think it’s at all a stretch to argue that since the early part of the past decade, dramatic television has been the healthiest artistic medium around. READ MORE >
Brian Evenson’s &NOW Reading
Please enjoy this three part video of Brian Evenson reading at &NOW last fall. He read “South of the Beast,” a story he says he wrote in his late twenties, as well as “Windeye,” published in PEN America 11, and then “A Pursuit” and “Invisible Box,” both from Fugue State.
(via @Caketrain)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhiOKyBwNUA
Parts 2 and 3 after the break.
Ken Baumann—
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The brilliant Noah Cicero and the brilliant Evan Lavender-Smith both have new books out. Check out (the long awaited) The Insurgent and (the massively praised) From Old Notebooks.
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Meat, Church, and Vaseline(s)
For all you writers out there with kids, or are kids, or just eat like kids: Mom buys Happy Meal and puts it on a shelf in her office to see how long it will take to decay. It doesn’t. Ever. Decay. “Happy Birthday to My Happy Meal” by Nonna Joann at Babybites.
And via Phil Campbell’s facebook- The Beliefnet blog takes a look at some ugly churches.
Here’s “Rory Ride Me Raw” by the Vaselines, performed live in-studio at KEXP last May.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyjraokQy9E
Ryan Call—
Everyone, NOÖ 11 is here! Please enjoy and have a good day! I am in a really good mood today!
The Bugs Are Real
Check out the new issue of Guernica, guest edited by Brenda Wineapple, who selected three lovely essays all by women. In a collagistic tour-de-force called “Bohemian Rhapsody,” nonfiction czarista Sara Faye Lieber* reminds us that the bugs–bedbugs–are very real, and they pose a threat to nothing so much as–get this–our books. Find out why, and much else besides, in the essay.
You’ll also find out why I did not choose a close-up photo of a bedbug, and why even the one I selected is probably still an irresponsible choice, if less so.
You’ll also find out what else bedbugs can destroy.
You’ll also find out that you can’t wait to read the book that Sara is working on.
*Full disclosure: Sara is my friend. A big part of the reason I made her my friend in the first place was because she told these hilarious stories about her experience with bedbugs.