Monday, June 30, 2008

PIATBVL Review, MARSUPIAL, etc.

The stellar Kathryn Regina and the other lovely ladies of Venom Literati read & reviewed PIATBVL. That made me feel honored and happy.

They were eating chocolate covered potato chips, which I can't remember ever trying and now I want.

I like & agree with this blog post by Shane Jones.

I got Derek White's new novel MARSUPIAL in the mail today and it may be one of the most beautiful looking book objects I've seen in a long while. BUY IT. It has moved to the top of my reading pile, ever growing. Here's like 1/3 of it, though next I think I want to reread Faulkner.



Also, if you haven't yet, check out MICHAEL KIMBALL WRITES YOUR LIFE STORY ON A POSTCARD, it's pretty insane.

Did anyone in NYC go to the NEW YORK TYRANT 4 release party? I want it.
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27 comments:

  1. colin bassettJune 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM

    i liked shane's post a lot too

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  2. AnonymousJune 30, 2008 at 5:35 PM

    Lopez went to the tyrant party. I was lame and didn't go. $10 covers scare me off, and I was busy selling furniture.

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  3. AnonymousJune 30, 2008 at 5:36 PM

    haha, I can post without being a blogspotter, though i guess it's better if I put my name

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  4. AnonymousJune 30, 2008 at 5:39 PM

    oh, and if anyone is reading this in NYC, get ye to the Sleepingfish launch party, it's in another hour or so...

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  5. ryan callJune 30, 2008 at 5:44 PM

    i want to do a post that just links to all the other posts about that guardian post

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  6. The Man Who Couldn't BlogJune 30, 2008 at 5:44 PM

    i'm so happy to see a copy of thank you for being concerned and sensitive.

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  7. BLAKE BUTLERJune 30, 2008 at 5:47 PM

    derek comments live, welcome anonymous allowances

    fuck i want to go to sleepfish reading dick fuck i need to move

    i am trying to remember the guardian? too many things around

    matt, yes, i think i found that through you writing about it on the hobart blog maybe? i think something like that

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  8. Bradley SandsJune 30, 2008 at 5:48 PM

    Noy Holland was my writing professor last week.

    Marsupial is a good word.

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  9. Ken BaumannJune 30, 2008 at 6:35 PM

    i like this post/want your books

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  10. AnonymousJune 30, 2008 at 7:21 PM

    no one does that

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  11. AnonymousJune 30, 2008 at 9:32 PM

    Put the Holland book at the top of your pile. "Orbit" will change your life.

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  12. BLAKE BUTLERJune 30, 2008 at 9:40 PM

    brother, i have heard that about that story in particular. it is moved.

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  13. AnonymousJune 30, 2008 at 11:27 PM

    uh, oh, now we got a brother in on it.

    The fish fest was fun. I'll post some vids manana.

    KH Cantrill is trying to convince me to do an all-puppet issue next. I think Lamination Colony should be all about puppets, at least once.

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  14. BLAKE BUTLERJune 30, 2008 at 11:55 PM

    aren't all stories about puppets? i have a tired child puppet that eats and eats

    vidsyes

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  15. jeremeJuly 1, 2008 at 1:02 AM

    what is so good about that book?


    CUTTING DICKS OFF

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  16. Brandon HobsonJuly 1, 2008 at 1:23 AM

    I got Derek's Marupial as well. Just started reading it tonight. A great looking book.

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  17. Brandon HobsonJuly 1, 2008 at 1:23 AM

    MARSUPIAL I mean.

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  18. AnonymousJuly 1, 2008 at 6:32 AM

    I actually used that line, although in my words I said all writers are pupeteers. And Brandon knows I can open a can on Christopher Walken.

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  19. Brandon HobsonJuly 1, 2008 at 11:25 AM

    indeed he can.

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  20. KathrynJuly 1, 2008 at 3:27 PM

    what faulkner?

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  21. BLAKE BUTLERJuly 1, 2008 at 3:32 PM

    i think i'm gonna reread all of it. but starting with as i lay dying i believe. i'd forgotten how incredible he is. still getting ripped off everyday.

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  22. Josh MadayJuly 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM

    nice to see faulkner getting props. ripped off everyday indeed. i love me some faulkner. i've got The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! and Light in August on the to be (re)read pile. As I Lay Dying is excellent. Vardaman is one crazy little dude:

    I can feel where the fish was in the dust. It is cut up into pieces of not-fish now, not-blood on my hands and overalls. Then it wasn't so. It hadn't happened then. And now she is getting so far ahead I cannot catch her.

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  23. AnonymousJuly 1, 2008 at 6:46 PM

    My mother is a fish.

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  24. jeremeJuly 1, 2008 at 7:19 PM

    thank you all for not acknowledging my existence. it is much appreciated.

    i will google the book "orbit" and try to figure out why it is held in high regard.

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  25. Josh MadayJuly 1, 2008 at 10:50 PM

    what did you find out about ORBIT, jereme? this is the first i've heard of this book.

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  26. BLAKE BUTLERJuly 2, 2008 at 12:22 AM

    jereme, i didnt know either, i have heard though that when she'd read the story everyone would stay and listen to all 89 pages or something

    i am readin git this week

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  27. jeremeJuly 2, 2008 at 3:13 AM

    josh i have not found anything pertinent so far

    blake, ok that sounds interesting. let me know what you think after you read it. i am curious

    thank you josh thank you blake for acknowledging my existence. i feel better

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