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Literary News
BARRY GRAHAM - THE NATIONAL VIRGINITY PLEDGE - now available from another sky press
Submitted by bgraham on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 00:33.
THE NATIONAL VIRGINITY PLEDGE
BARRY GRAHAM
ANOTHER SKY PRESS
100 PGS.
ORDER NOW
http://www.anothersky.org/in-print/the-national-virginity-pledge-barry-graham/
“Barry Graham’s heroes want to love, yet bigger than their love for people and things is their capacity to destroy the objects of their affection. He doesn’t scorn them, though; he treats them with care and a loving tenderness. He turns grief, betrayal, and violence into something close to poetry, and finds beauty in places we should never wish to visit.”
–Stefan Kiesbye, Next Door Lived a Girl
“Barry Graham’s stories are little cries for help from way in the corners and deep in the cracks of contemporary fiction.”
–Jeff Parker, Ovenman
“Barry Graham’s writing hits hard because it is raw and honest. He will suck you in with equal parts everydayness and voyeurism.”
–Aaron Burch, Hobart
“…it remains a funny, reckless, fast paced, and edgy voice from beginning to end.”
–Dan Wickett, Emerging Writers Network / Dzanc
Printer-friendly versionTim Hall's FULL OF IT - Available now
Submitted by petercole on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 13:00.
Full Of It
The Birth, Death, and Life of an Underground Newspaper
$14.95
REVIEWS:
decomP
Time Out Chicago
SYNOPSIS:
In the mid-1990s in New York's gritty East Village, a group of artists, activists, and dreamers come together to create the Troglodyte,
a freewheeling, anarchic newspaper in the spirit of the underground
press of the 1960s. There's Jack, the sensitive poet with a troubled
past; Ross, the fiery ex-hippie fighting to save his beloved
neighborhood from greedy landlords and "yuppie scum"; and Buzzy, a fast-talking dilettante with big plans for the Troglodyte—if she can ever stop her manic socializing long enough to actually do anything.
Creative
tensions turn into rivalries, and a battle for control of
the newspaper. When tragedy unexpectedly strikes, long-simmering
tensions explode into outright hostility, as two camps form and fight
for the hearts and minds of the neighborhood.
Based on a true story, Full Of It
crackles with alternating currents of humor and poignancy as it charts
the rise and fall of a small alternative newspaper at the beginning of
the Internet Age, with feuds that become so intense only because "the
stakes are so low."
Blake Butler's EVER (Pre-order)
Submitted by petercole on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 06:03.
"Within the
psychic architecture that is EVER, Blake Butler explores the way
bodies swell and contract, going from skin to house and back
again. And the
way houses too shrink to fit us first like clothing and then like skin
and
then tighter still. The result is a strange, visionary
ontological
dismemberment that takes you well beyond what you'd ever expect."
Brian Evenson
"Blake
Butler
is a daring invigorator of the literary
sentence, and the room-ridden narrator of his debut novella, EVER, nerves her
way into a hallucinative ruckus of rousing originality."
"In EVER – as in, indicating any time in the past
or future – light is entropic; “the sky could lift
your skin off”; domestic rituals are anamorphotic mind fucks
granting “no exit method”; and doors
won’t open even when you don’t try. Articulating
viscera, ever inside,
Butler’s narrative dispatches are enclosed between
parentheses like unfinished houses, the pages opening out occasionally
into exquisitely burnished fields of imagery. Much in the way minerals
are pushed up past the mantle by core collisions, EVER reads to me like
new evidence, delicate gear that allows us to glimpse a place
we’ve always lived but still don’t know."
Pre-order Mary Miller's BIG WORLD
Submitted by petercole on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 00:34.
RELEASE DATE: February 2009
Short Flight / Long Drive Books
ISBN 978-0-9749541-8-9
$9.95 US / 4" x 6" / 200 pages
(plus $2.50 s&h)
Mary's stories have appeared in
Oxford American, Mississippi Review, Black Clock, and Quick Fiction, and are forthcoming in New Stories From the South 2008, Barrelhouse, and Hobart #9.
Big World will be a mass market
sized paperback and will be available in early-'09. The book will
feature artwork by David Kramer and will exhibit the beauty and care in
design and printing that went into The Sicily Papers.
Howie Good's chapbook TOMORROWLAND now available
Submitted by petercole on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 15:29.
Howie Good’s latest chapbook, Tomorrowland, is now available from
Achilles Chapbooks. A journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, Tomorrowland is Good’s sixth chapbook.
Jack Henry of deadbeatpress.com
said Good is “one of those rare voices that can give you an explosion
of life in a brevity of words. Evocative, witty, and always
interesting. . . Good is a writer you will not want to miss.”
Poet Susan Culver, editor of the magazine Poetry Friends, said
Tomorrowland “offers the essential element of prose poetry: tight,
moving language and amazing imagery. With both the mastery of
storytelling and the dance of poetry, Tomorrowland is a writer's envy
and a reader's delight.”
To order a copy of Tomorrowland, go to http://achilleschapbook.
December Hobart
Submitted by petercole on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 04:52.
the December web issue is now up, with new stories from Eugene Cross, Molly Gaudry, Kyle Minor, and Edward
Mullany. There's also an interview with John Brandon by Hobart friend and contributor and newest member to the Hobart web editing team, Matt Bell.
STORYGLOSSIA Issue 32 - Now Live
Submitted by petercole on Fri, 12/05/2008 - 04:09.
STORYGLOSSIA Issue 32 is now live! I know it's soon after Issue 31, but it was now or never.
This issue features a new story by Matt Bell, whose Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken from Issue 23 was the most recent Million Writers Award winner. Also
in this issue is a great mix of realism, edginess, and language
adventures from Sarah Sarai, Dennis Mahagin, C. Robin Madigan, Cynthia
Newberry Martin, Alice K. Boatwright, Nicholas Ripatrazone, Dianne
Rees, Jared Ward, and J. A. Tyler.
Enjoy, it's the last issue for a while.
Quick Fiction: $10 gift subscriptions & a new issue
Submitted by petercole on Fri, 12/05/2008 - 03:59.
This holiday season, gift subscriptions to Quick Fiction are only $10 (they're normally $13.50).
Gift recipients will receive our 14th issue with a personalized gift card from you. Issue 14 includes new stories by Steve Almond, Pam Painter, Kim Chinquee, Randall Brown, Susannah Felts, Kathy Fish, Peter Jay Shippy, and many others.
Matt Bell's HOW THE BROKEN LEAD THE BLIND is now available for pre-order!
Submitted by mollygaudry on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 20:36.
HOW THE BROKEN LEAD THE BLIND includes ten fabulous stories by Mr. Matt Bell. The amazing Christy Call is working on illustrations and cover art. And we have blurbs on their way from Michael Kimball, Mike Czyzniejewski, Dave Housley, Steve Gillis, Steven McDermott, Dan Wickett, William Walsh, and Ryan Call. HOW THE BROKEN LEAD THE BLIND will begin shipping in January.
http://willowsweptpress.blogspot.com
Please pre-order now, as there is a limited print run of only 100 copies.
Thank you,
Willows Wept Press
