I just read The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis by Mark Gluth, a novella, it felt aurally pleasant in a way of great refreshment, with mirror time worming and layers of photography and weaving of levels of consciousness and continuity, all in very brief, clean sentences; a beautiful package with one of the most memorable endings I've read in a while. Feels of classical short French writing but in modern American scenery, which I can't remember having happened in other books. A lot of people I will know will really like this.
I'm selling myself into reading from here on out, reading like happens in a bath, except I won't always be in the bath. I've read quite a lot in the days since Xmas. The sleep book is eating much of my air.
My dad's brain is going quickly.
I published an ebook on Lamination Colony: Georgic, With Eclogues for Interrogators by Mark Cunningham. It is different than most things that have been on the site. I have a huge triple-sized issue that is going up hopefully soon and then another ebook. Then I am not sure what I will do with the site.
I just remember this bit I published last year or something on Wigleaf is one of the only published parts of the novel that will come out from HP next year.
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For the new year we are going to the mountains to hide and eat food.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Lamination Colony contest issue
New contest special issue of Lamination Colony is now live, with the contest winner Bobby Alter, as well as 9 finalists: Mark Doten, James Chapman, Mel Bosworth, Christian Tebordo, Darby Larson, Sasha Fletcher, Drew Kalbach, Andrew Borgstrom, Ben Segal. Feel really excited by all of the work in this issue, like it demonstrates a coming explosion. I like to stare.
Chicago folks, there will be a release party for Scorch Atlas on Monday October 12 @ 7 PM at No Coast, readings, bands, stuff. Trying to rummage up a baby to take a bite of.
Also going to the &Now Conference from Wednesday to Saturday, a panel on Thursday at noon for the 30 Under 30 Anthology, with tons of good readers. Come hang out. Free with attendance is a copy of the &Now Anthology of Innovative Writing, what they are calling the anti-Pushcart, which I have a piece in, and Giancarlo Ditrapano's piece from the first No Colony also is in.
Speaking of No Colony, we have just reopened for submissions, looking only for long works, from at least 8000 words up to whatever. The issue will probably 3 or 4 very long pieces only. Don't send short, we'll have to delete it. We don't wanna do that.
Chicago folks, there will be a release party for Scorch Atlas on Monday October 12 @ 7 PM at No Coast, readings, bands, stuff. Trying to rummage up a baby to take a bite of.
Also going to the &Now Conference from Wednesday to Saturday, a panel on Thursday at noon for the 30 Under 30 Anthology, with tons of good readers. Come hang out. Free with attendance is a copy of the &Now Anthology of Innovative Writing, what they are calling the anti-Pushcart, which I have a piece in, and Giancarlo Ditrapano's piece from the first No Colony also is in.
Speaking of No Colony, we have just reopened for submissions, looking only for long works, from at least 8000 words up to whatever. The issue will probably 3 or 4 very long pieces only. Don't send short, we'll have to delete it. We don't wanna do that.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Lamination Colony This is not not a Contest Winner
The winner of the Lamination Colony This is not not a Contest contest is
'A cardiovasc' by Bobby Alter
Bobby is a 19 yr old from Portland. Congratulations to him.
Ultimately, though I could make arguments for each of the other finalists as a winner (and even several of the nonfinalists), Bobby's piece hit me on many different levels, in the way it uses language in a way I honestly don't think I've ever heard, and then continues to hybridize it and bring in further and further forms within that first form, twisting, all while maintaining a (often buried, but often very clear) narrative.
The piece kind of reminds me of if Joyce tried to rewrite Alice in Wonderland with the grandmother from David Lynch's 'The Grandmother' standing over his shoulder eating cookies while old James smokes pieces of cherry wood and scratches the welts on his legs that he got from rubbing too hard in his sleeptime and trying to wish his saliva into a hallucinogenic drug he could then sell for $ to children in the neighborhood for money to buy a camera with no lens that contains old film with pictures of true death and the inside of a child.
Seriously. And that's not even really close at all, if you can imagine. I'm sure you can.
I'd like to also denote
1st runner up as Darby Larson's '‘Digestable Moose Kidney Sculpture Garden’
&
2nd runner up as Drew Kalbach's ‘Scraps from My Bathroom Stall’
Anyhow, arrangement of prizes and publication schedules pending, as I am about to go eat and do a drinky, but likely things will be up and abroad by next week, I will detail them here.
I'd like to reiterate what a hard decision this was, and how truly thrilled and excited I am to have gotten so much really high quality writing to read and think about.
Thanks a lot everybody. We'll have to do this again.
'A cardiovasc' by Bobby Alter
Bobby is a 19 yr old from Portland. Congratulations to him.
Ultimately, though I could make arguments for each of the other finalists as a winner (and even several of the nonfinalists), Bobby's piece hit me on many different levels, in the way it uses language in a way I honestly don't think I've ever heard, and then continues to hybridize it and bring in further and further forms within that first form, twisting, all while maintaining a (often buried, but often very clear) narrative.
The piece kind of reminds me of if Joyce tried to rewrite Alice in Wonderland with the grandmother from David Lynch's 'The Grandmother' standing over his shoulder eating cookies while old James smokes pieces of cherry wood and scratches the welts on his legs that he got from rubbing too hard in his sleeptime and trying to wish his saliva into a hallucinogenic drug he could then sell for $ to children in the neighborhood for money to buy a camera with no lens that contains old film with pictures of true death and the inside of a child.
Seriously. And that's not even really close at all, if you can imagine. I'm sure you can.
I'd like to also denote
1st runner up as Darby Larson's '‘Digestable Moose Kidney Sculpture Garden’
&
2nd runner up as Drew Kalbach's ‘Scraps from My Bathroom Stall’
Anyhow, arrangement of prizes and publication schedules pending, as I am about to go eat and do a drinky, but likely things will be up and abroad by next week, I will detail them here.
I'd like to reiterate what a hard decision this was, and how truly thrilled and excited I am to have gotten so much really high quality writing to read and think about.
Thanks a lot everybody. We'll have to do this again.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
This is not not a Contest: Finalists
I have selected 10 finalists for the Lamination Colony This is not not a Contest contest.
A winner will be picked from among these finalists on Friday.
I gotta say, it was really really hard narrowing it down. There were more than 200 entires and such a small percentage of stuff that I was able to eliminate with a quick read, which usually cuts normal submissions by at least in half. My usual reading policy is, When I feel bored, I stop. Sometimes, if I feel the boredom might be random, I will give it a few lines to come back to me, but it rarely does. Excitement and interest is a huge indicator for me whether something is doing good and new at once, as even when the reading might be language-difficult, it still will either have that light, or it will not.
All that said, let me say: Thanks to everyone who sent, good god man, I almost feel bad not selecting a whole lot more as finalists, because there were was so much in there that got me going, and for that, this contest is already a success. Pretty much if you sent something, damn. I hate to have to be the decider.
For the selections, then, I read mostly blind for names, I did not read cover letters and tried to not look at the names when clicking on emails. Sometimes I did see but mostly I was able to read blind even though it was not 'scientific.' I marked each piece as No, OK, or Good. Then with the Goods I went back through and cut until I had the nine pieces that most excited me, and simultaneously seemed to be doing something new or at least interesting in both form and content, with language, images, and ways of communicating information. Straight stories, even though there were some good ones, just didn't feel right for this contest n whatnot.
Ok, I'm babbling, here are the 10 finalists, all of whom will get some sort of prize, though the lion's share will go to the winner, who will be announced (from among this group) on Friday.
** To be clear, I have not decided the winner, and the winner will be one of the finalists...
LC CONTEST FINALISTS
Bobby Alter, ‘A cardiovasc’
Andrew Borgstrom, ‘Stories with Teeth in Them’
Mel Bosworth, ‘Stump Grinder’
James Chapman, ‘Rat’
Mark Doten, ‘Gray Zone Kidz’
Sasha Fletcher, ‘we are going to get paid and then we will dress for the weather’
Drew Kalbach, ‘Scraps from My Bathroom Stall’
Darby Larson, ‘Digestable Moose Kidney Sculpture Garden’
Ben Segal, 'Jelly Bodies'
Christian TeBordo, ‘Rules and Regulations’
Thanks again to all for the support, the words, and the time. You're all tops in my book, for real.
A winner will be picked from among these finalists on Friday.
I gotta say, it was really really hard narrowing it down. There were more than 200 entires and such a small percentage of stuff that I was able to eliminate with a quick read, which usually cuts normal submissions by at least in half. My usual reading policy is, When I feel bored, I stop. Sometimes, if I feel the boredom might be random, I will give it a few lines to come back to me, but it rarely does. Excitement and interest is a huge indicator for me whether something is doing good and new at once, as even when the reading might be language-difficult, it still will either have that light, or it will not.
All that said, let me say: Thanks to everyone who sent, good god man, I almost feel bad not selecting a whole lot more as finalists, because there were was so much in there that got me going, and for that, this contest is already a success. Pretty much if you sent something, damn. I hate to have to be the decider.
For the selections, then, I read mostly blind for names, I did not read cover letters and tried to not look at the names when clicking on emails. Sometimes I did see but mostly I was able to read blind even though it was not 'scientific.' I marked each piece as No, OK, or Good. Then with the Goods I went back through and cut until I had the nine pieces that most excited me, and simultaneously seemed to be doing something new or at least interesting in both form and content, with language, images, and ways of communicating information. Straight stories, even though there were some good ones, just didn't feel right for this contest n whatnot.
Ok, I'm babbling, here are the 10 finalists, all of whom will get some sort of prize, though the lion's share will go to the winner, who will be announced (from among this group) on Friday.
** To be clear, I have not decided the winner, and the winner will be one of the finalists...
LC CONTEST FINALISTS
Bobby Alter, ‘A cardiovasc’
Andrew Borgstrom, ‘Stories with Teeth in Them’
Mel Bosworth, ‘Stump Grinder’
James Chapman, ‘Rat’
Mark Doten, ‘Gray Zone Kidz’
Sasha Fletcher, ‘we are going to get paid and then we will dress for the weather’
Drew Kalbach, ‘Scraps from My Bathroom Stall’
Darby Larson, ‘Digestable Moose Kidney Sculpture Garden’
Ben Segal, 'Jelly Bodies'
Christian TeBordo, ‘Rules and Regulations’
Thanks again to all for the support, the words, and the time. You're all tops in my book, for real.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Lamination Colony: Michael Kimball issue
The new issue of LAMINATION COLONY, guest edited by the magical Michael Kimball, is now live, featuring the largest update of new work we've ever presented.
Michael really outdid himself, collecting fiction, poetry, artwork, and other apocrypha from:
Krammer Abrahams
Blaster Al Ackerman
Stephanie Barber
Lauren Becker
Michael Bible
Darcelle Bleau
Robert Bradley
Kim Chinquee
Luca Dipierro
Shatera Davenport
M.T. Fallon
Jamie Gaughran-Perez
Adam Good
Jac Jemc
Jason Jones
Shane Jones
Aby Kaupang
Stacie Leatherman
Karen Lillis
Aimee Lynne-Hirschowitz
Josh Maday
Conor Madigan
Jen Michalski
Ben Mirov
Gena Mohwish
Catherine Moran
Amanda Raczkowski
Cooper Renner
Adam Robinson
Matthew Salesses
Jordan Sanderson
Justin Sirois
Robert Swartwood
JA Tyler
ds white
Rupert Wondolowski
Whitney Woolf
Joseph Young
It's a massive issue, with a lot of new and interesting words. Give it a looksee.
Best stick with Firefox or Safari, as other browsers might eat it alive.
If you are still using IE, you probably can't read anyway.
;)
Those who read the issue and comment on this thread about something about it will be put into a drawing for a free copy of the 001 issue of NO COLONY. If you already have 001 and win, I will send you a book or something.
Please check it out and share it up.
Michael really outdid himself, collecting fiction, poetry, artwork, and other apocrypha from:
Krammer Abrahams
Blaster Al Ackerman
Stephanie Barber
Lauren Becker
Michael Bible
Darcelle Bleau
Robert Bradley
Kim Chinquee
Luca Dipierro
Shatera Davenport
M.T. Fallon
Jamie Gaughran-Perez
Adam Good
Jac Jemc
Jason Jones
Shane Jones
Aby Kaupang
Stacie Leatherman
Karen Lillis
Aimee Lynne-Hirschowitz
Josh Maday
Conor Madigan
Jen Michalski
Ben Mirov
Gena Mohwish
Catherine Moran
Amanda Raczkowski
Cooper Renner
Adam Robinson
Matthew Salesses
Jordan Sanderson
Justin Sirois
Robert Swartwood
JA Tyler
ds white
Rupert Wondolowski
Whitney Woolf
Joseph Young
It's a massive issue, with a lot of new and interesting words. Give it a looksee.
Best stick with Firefox or Safari, as other browsers might eat it alive.
If you are still using IE, you probably can't read anyway.
;)
Those who read the issue and comment on this thread about something about it will be put into a drawing for a free copy of the 001 issue of NO COLONY. If you already have 001 and win, I will send you a book or something.
Please check it out and share it up.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Matthew Simmons's CAVES
New ebook up at Lamination Colony:
Blurbed by Matthew's mother, sister in law, and cousin, CAVES is truly unlike anything else I've read. Here's the first sentence:
This man only dated caves. It was, like, a fetish or something.
Read CAVES here.
I am really excited about this one, it's new in new ways. Please shout it out and blog it up.
Next in line: Michael Kimball's guest edited issue, followed by ebooks from Mark Cunningham and Prathna Lor.
The new issue of Barrelhouse is out, with a huge slew of great work from people like Matt Bell, Rachel B. Glaser, Peter Davis, Michael Czyzniejewski, and a ton of others. It also contains, among its 'The Future' section, one of the longer stories from SCORCH ATLAS, 'The Ruined Child,' about a baby that grows in size inside its parents' attic after they try to mercy kill it when it is infected with a disease that makes it foam.
Right? Right.
Here is the first graph:
They carried the child into the outside by his wrists and ankles, wriggling. His flesh had turned translucent. His mouth would often froth. They waded waist-deep into the sewage past the upended Mustang where neighbor Bill had tried to drive—the engine crusted over now, back wheels high in the air. The rain had wrecked the city, burst the sewers, drowned the roads. Downtown was underwater. Bill, like many others, had still believed in some way out. He'd spent hours out there with a lone rope trying to yank the Mustang free, his crazed face and muscles so stretched and shining it seemed he might burst open or combust. Finally it was the dogs that had gotten to him, mange-mottled packs of ex-pets combing the old neighborhood for blood. They'd ripped him limb from limb, to rib and tendon. Gnats made short work of the remainder.
Anyhow, you can buy the issue here.
Thanks again to the 5 righteous B-house dudes for the paper party.
A couple other new things in new issues of mags, but will save those for next time.
Reading at 510 in Baltimore on Saturday with Shane Jones, Kyle Minor, Rahne Alexander, and Kathleen Rooney. If you are in the zone, come out!
I think in order to keep my blood at the same level as it was on the el reading, I am going to shout the whole 12 minutes. Gotsta.
Blurbed by Matthew's mother, sister in law, and cousin, CAVES is truly unlike anything else I've read. Here's the first sentence:
This man only dated caves. It was, like, a fetish or something.
Read CAVES here.
I am really excited about this one, it's new in new ways. Please shout it out and blog it up.
Next in line: Michael Kimball's guest edited issue, followed by ebooks from Mark Cunningham and Prathna Lor.
The new issue of Barrelhouse is out, with a huge slew of great work from people like Matt Bell, Rachel B. Glaser, Peter Davis, Michael Czyzniejewski, and a ton of others. It also contains, among its 'The Future' section, one of the longer stories from SCORCH ATLAS, 'The Ruined Child,' about a baby that grows in size inside its parents' attic after they try to mercy kill it when it is infected with a disease that makes it foam. Right? Right.
Here is the first graph:
They carried the child into the outside by his wrists and ankles, wriggling. His flesh had turned translucent. His mouth would often froth. They waded waist-deep into the sewage past the upended Mustang where neighbor Bill had tried to drive—the engine crusted over now, back wheels high in the air. The rain had wrecked the city, burst the sewers, drowned the roads. Downtown was underwater. Bill, like many others, had still believed in some way out. He'd spent hours out there with a lone rope trying to yank the Mustang free, his crazed face and muscles so stretched and shining it seemed he might burst open or combust. Finally it was the dogs that had gotten to him, mange-mottled packs of ex-pets combing the old neighborhood for blood. They'd ripped him limb from limb, to rib and tendon. Gnats made short work of the remainder.
Anyhow, you can buy the issue here.
Thanks again to the 5 righteous B-house dudes for the paper party.
A couple other new things in new issues of mags, but will save those for next time.
Reading at 510 in Baltimore on Saturday with Shane Jones, Kyle Minor, Rahne Alexander, and Kathleen Rooney. If you are in the zone, come out!
I think in order to keep my blood at the same level as it was on the el reading, I am going to shout the whole 12 minutes. Gotsta.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
adam robinson said 'that man has the conch'
I feel more than slightly insane today. I have been feeling insane a lot lately. I don't know what insane means except that maybe I feel like I am about to burst through my sskin. That's ok.
You can read the new Lamination Colony and then just by commenting on one of the pieces here win a free copy of Diana George's amazing DISCIPLINES from Noemi Pres. It's a really great short collection. Comment it up.
The verdict on at least the next few months of Lamination Colony is now a thing: I am more than super-excited to announce that the next issue will be guest edited by one of my favorite people in books or elsewhere, MICHAEL KIMBALL, author of, among other things, the amazing Dear Everybody (which, if you haven't checked it out yet, I'm not sure where you've been).
Michael will be reading open subs sent in the usual way to the Lamination Colony inbox until Feb 15. He is looking for writing that is "exciting in any way." I am really excited to see what he does with it. So submissions are now reopen, though it may not yet be reflected on the site. Send some new new.
I am thinking 09 might be a year of guest editing or other shifts of strange, we will see.
EVER proofs are 90% finalized, and hopefully will be green-lit tomorrow. Thanks again to everyone who has preordered, it has been really wonderful.
Other brief notes condensed:
1. I saw 'Synedoche New York' a second time, and it really really sucked. Once you can anticipate the good parts the bullshit of it really shines through.
2. Retconned has been Atlanta's best kept secret in music for about 8 years now, maybe more. A one man band/programmer/oddity, he pretty much predicted/invented several styles of music popular today way before the others who made it popular, including elements of glitch, pop, robot noise, no wave, and computer. If you like the Dirty Projectors or some shit, Retconned is real. (You can download his most recent for free: here.
3. I made a list of 100 the other day. 100 children. I hope it does not become habit. Maybe I hope it becomes habit.
4. Novels and stories and etc. I don't know. I need last December's brain back a little.
5. Favorite google from today ending here: 'why does a straight guy show me his dick at the urinal'
You can read the new Lamination Colony and then just by commenting on one of the pieces here win a free copy of Diana George's amazing DISCIPLINES from Noemi Pres. It's a really great short collection. Comment it up.
The verdict on at least the next few months of Lamination Colony is now a thing: I am more than super-excited to announce that the next issue will be guest edited by one of my favorite people in books or elsewhere, MICHAEL KIMBALL, author of, among other things, the amazing Dear Everybody (which, if you haven't checked it out yet, I'm not sure where you've been).
Michael will be reading open subs sent in the usual way to the Lamination Colony inbox until Feb 15. He is looking for writing that is "exciting in any way." I am really excited to see what he does with it. So submissions are now reopen, though it may not yet be reflected on the site. Send some new new.
I am thinking 09 might be a year of guest editing or other shifts of strange, we will see.
EVER proofs are 90% finalized, and hopefully will be green-lit tomorrow. Thanks again to everyone who has preordered, it has been really wonderful.
Other brief notes condensed:
1. I saw 'Synedoche New York' a second time, and it really really sucked. Once you can anticipate the good parts the bullshit of it really shines through.
2. Retconned has been Atlanta's best kept secret in music for about 8 years now, maybe more. A one man band/programmer/oddity, he pretty much predicted/invented several styles of music popular today way before the others who made it popular, including elements of glitch, pop, robot noise, no wave, and computer. If you like the Dirty Projectors or some shit, Retconned is real. (You can download his most recent for free: here.
3. I made a list of 100 the other day. 100 children. I hope it does not become habit. Maybe I hope it becomes habit.
4. Novels and stories and etc. I don't know. I need last December's brain back a little.
5. Favorite google from today ending here: 'why does a straight guy show me his dick at the urinal'
Monday, December 15, 2008
Lamination Colony: 2x issue Winter 08/09
The new update of LAMINATION COLONY is now live, a double issue for the cold season, and the last of the current incarnation of the site.
It is the Masta Killa and the GZA both at once I believe, and is packed to the fat fuck gills for all of rutting, including new joints by:
HEATHER PALMER
EVAN WILLNER
MATTHEW SAVOCA
ELIZABETH ELLEN
RYAN CALL
BRANDI WELLS
BRYSON NEWHART
CARL ANNARUMMO
PETER DAVIS
JULIA COHEN
BRIAN OLIU
MATT DEBENEDICTIS
CHRISTOPHER HIGGS
CAROL NOVACK
J.P. KING
RAUAN KLASSNIK
KEVIN WILSON
JOHN HOLTEN
MATHIAS SVALINA
GENA MOHWISH
MIKE DOCKINS
AMELIA GRAY
ZACHARY BUSH
RYAN MANNING
DIDI MENENDEZ
MEGHAN AUSTIN
BEN SEGAL
JOANNA NOVAK
DAVID PEAK
This is probably the most varied and variant in tone issue I have put together. There is a lot of new things being done, some that I spent several days thinking about what was going on in them, a lot of new and other to think about I think.
It also contains a recommended reading list from randomly selected contributors from past and present, as well as new known mouths ie: PETER MARKUS, MICHAEL KIMBALL, KEVIN SAMPSELL, EUGENE LIM, ROBERT LOPEZ, ROY KESEY, KRISTINA BORN, and myself, adding in time for your holiday season wanting to extend the wanting into further months therefore disrupting brain strength in want of exposing your gash to your gash.
This will be the last issue most likely of the current incarnation of the site. I already have some interesting ideas I think for where it will go from here. Will continue to publish new weird works etc., just in a different and hopefully more brain damaging format. More on that later.
For now, please, enjoy, blog, shout, spread the word, laugh?
It is the Masta Killa and the GZA both at once I believe, and is packed to the fat fuck gills for all of rutting, including new joints by:
HEATHER PALMER
EVAN WILLNER
MATTHEW SAVOCA
ELIZABETH ELLEN
RYAN CALL
BRANDI WELLS
BRYSON NEWHART
CARL ANNARUMMO
PETER DAVIS
JULIA COHEN
BRIAN OLIU
MATT DEBENEDICTIS
CHRISTOPHER HIGGS
CAROL NOVACK
J.P. KING
RAUAN KLASSNIK
KEVIN WILSON
JOHN HOLTEN
MATHIAS SVALINA
GENA MOHWISH
MIKE DOCKINS
AMELIA GRAY
ZACHARY BUSH
RYAN MANNING
DIDI MENENDEZ
MEGHAN AUSTIN
BEN SEGAL
JOANNA NOVAK
DAVID PEAK
This is probably the most varied and variant in tone issue I have put together. There is a lot of new things being done, some that I spent several days thinking about what was going on in them, a lot of new and other to think about I think.
It also contains a recommended reading list from randomly selected contributors from past and present, as well as new known mouths ie: PETER MARKUS, MICHAEL KIMBALL, KEVIN SAMPSELL, EUGENE LIM, ROBERT LOPEZ, ROY KESEY, KRISTINA BORN, and myself, adding in time for your holiday season wanting to extend the wanting into further months therefore disrupting brain strength in want of exposing your gash to your gash.
This will be the last issue most likely of the current incarnation of the site. I already have some interesting ideas I think for where it will go from here. Will continue to publish new weird works etc., just in a different and hopefully more brain damaging format. More on that later.
For now, please, enjoy, blog, shout, spread the word, laugh?
Friday, December 12, 2008
someone in the other room has said 'i would like to speak to an agent' into the phone at least 30 times literally in the last 3 minutes
Scott Garson blogged about a maybe interesting, maybe controversial thing that happened involving me over at HTML Giant.
I have no further comment.
I got a really amazing rej. letter from one of the book institutions I hold highest of high. It is nice when such a letter can feel like holding light rather than just an end to a thread. I feel high off it some.
I am right now reading Coleman Dowell's ISLAND PEOPLE, based on Eugene Lim saying somewhere that is his favorite, or at least among his favorites, book. I've been reading a lot of short novels lately and really wanted to get into something longer. This book is only 300 pp but so so so fucking rich and full of ideas and language, it's like reading something 600 pp by most others. I am 60 pp right now and already have felt my brain switched on by it in a way I haven't felt maybe in a while. Every other graph or so I've had to stop and close the book a little in my hands and think about it, though the language is not obfuscating. It just has power. I think this is the beginning of me getting back into the really long novels, which are my true love. A small book is nice and much more fun to read, but there is something about the long, dense novel that engrosses and takes hold of your life for a while. Of the great long novels I've read (among them, somemy favorites: INFINITE JEST, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, THE TUNNEL, SUTTREE, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG) it seems I can remember vividly the days and minutes of the reading of those pages, the carrying, the heft and all, more so than I can with smaller books. The books really come into your life. And I am sounding like a fuck.
Krammer Abrahams picked part of 1 sentence out of many thousands of words or something that I didn't write for his new twitter journal: HeyShortyComeToMyKegPartyDougIsInABadMoodThereAreNachos-
RINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGBANANAPHONEPenguinsOnWings-OfAirplanesEatingCloudsILove$
I told Krammer I had written it via methods but really it was not made by me at all. I have been corresponding with a very young person.
The sentence is called ken griffey jr
I preordered Ellen and Brandon's books from Muumuu House yesterday: you should as well, they are going to be fantastic, I am excited about their books and MH as a whole.
I closed subs for Lamination Colony a day or 2 ago for the first time in the 5+ years of the journal. I am about to put together a big double issue, after I finish weeding through the overflowing inbox. After that I don't know what is going to happen. I am either going to have a big format change, or put the baby down, or maybe even keep going as it has been. I'm not sure which, but I think at least I want to spend some time thinking about something new. It is time, for me at least, for something new to happen. How I can make new happen has been on my mind a lot lately. I have some maybe ideas that might burn up into bigger bubbles, or might shit my pants. I don't know. We'll see.
Regardless, there is some other large to semi-large news looming that I am super stoked about. Things.
I have no further comment.
I got a really amazing rej. letter from one of the book institutions I hold highest of high. It is nice when such a letter can feel like holding light rather than just an end to a thread. I feel high off it some.
I am right now reading Coleman Dowell's ISLAND PEOPLE, based on Eugene Lim saying somewhere that is his favorite, or at least among his favorites, book. I've been reading a lot of short novels lately and really wanted to get into something longer. This book is only 300 pp but so so so fucking rich and full of ideas and language, it's like reading something 600 pp by most others. I am 60 pp right now and already have felt my brain switched on by it in a way I haven't felt maybe in a while. Every other graph or so I've had to stop and close the book a little in my hands and think about it, though the language is not obfuscating. It just has power. I think this is the beginning of me getting back into the really long novels, which are my true love. A small book is nice and much more fun to read, but there is something about the long, dense novel that engrosses and takes hold of your life for a while. Of the great long novels I've read (among them, somemy favorites: INFINITE JEST, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, THE TUNNEL, SUTTREE, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG) it seems I can remember vividly the days and minutes of the reading of those pages, the carrying, the heft and all, more so than I can with smaller books. The books really come into your life. And I am sounding like a fuck.Krammer Abrahams picked part of 1 sentence out of many thousands of words or something that I didn't write for his new twitter journal: HeyShortyComeToMyKegPartyDougIsInABadMoodThereAreNachos-
RINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGBANANAPHONEPenguinsOnWings-OfAirplanesEatingCloudsILove$
I told Krammer I had written it via methods but really it was not made by me at all. I have been corresponding with a very young person.
The sentence is called ken griffey jr
I preordered Ellen and Brandon's books from Muumuu House yesterday: you should as well, they are going to be fantastic, I am excited about their books and MH as a whole.
I closed subs for Lamination Colony a day or 2 ago for the first time in the 5+ years of the journal. I am about to put together a big double issue, after I finish weeding through the overflowing inbox. After that I don't know what is going to happen. I am either going to have a big format change, or put the baby down, or maybe even keep going as it has been. I'm not sure which, but I think at least I want to spend some time thinking about something new. It is time, for me at least, for something new to happen. How I can make new happen has been on my mind a lot lately. I have some maybe ideas that might burn up into bigger bubbles, or might shit my pants. I don't know. We'll see.
Regardless, there is some other large to semi-large news looming that I am super stoked about. Things.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
LAMINATION COLONY late summer 08
The late summer issue of LAMINATION COLONY is now live. It features a bit of a shift or facelift or something, I updated the archives and submission policy, etc., for the first time in years.
This issue means a lot to me, I am very excited about it, I has a bit of a shift of energy or something, it has more new work in it than any issue in past, as well as longer work, and of a more hyper array.
It has new work by: Amanda Billings, Joshua Ware, Matt Kirkpatrick, Stacy Kidd, Jamie Iredell, a collaboration between Ian Davisson & Ryan Downey, Krammer Abrahams, Shane Jones, Scott Garson, Angela Genusa, Daniel Bailey, Brandon Barrett, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Gene Morgan, Conn Tomas O'brien, Thomas Cook, Molly Gaudry, and Matt Bell.
I was going to do a feature to go with the issue but when I got done compiling I was too excited to wait, so perhaps this will follow in the future.
A goony goo goo.
Sean Lovelace made a really nice post about the first issue of NO COLONY I am glad for it, though I am still down on Woody Allen's recent years.
I probably have some other dumb shit to say but for now please enjoy.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Lady Tyrant
While I was in NYC, I got a copy of the fourth issue of New York Tyrant, which if you haven't heard consists entirely of female writers, a kind of shout out in my mind to the recent slew of calls from other journals saying there aren't enough women submitting. Among them included are Sheila Heti, Kim Chinquee, Rachel B. Glaser, Rachel Sherman, Deb Olin Unferth, Dawn Raffel, Eva Talmadge, Leigh Newman, and many others, with a stark black cover with large white writing that continues onto the back, a quote from one of the included writers Cezarija Abartis: "I can smile like a woman, smile at their jokes, make my eyes mild and bring dimples to my cheeks, but inside I am bears and panthers."
I read the whole magazine pretty much cover to cover on the Amtrak from NYC to Philly.
Like the other Tyrants before it, Tyrant 4 destroys. There's no filler here, it's all sentence-driven, at least slight innovative stories that keep you reading just to see what they will do next. I was constantly excited from line to line as I read through, I felt an energy, I was ready.
In particular Rachel B. Glaser's story 'PEE ON WATER' ripped me open. Easily in the top ten new stories I've read in the past several years, both for its scope (it's kind of a history of the world but in elbows, if you will, weird catalogued tidbits and rams of destruction, all in a weird cutup language that still manages to read pristine), for its innovative imagery (it is overflowing, the title alone makes you know this person is not speaking in expectation), and its birth of want in me to create also. There's nothing quite as great as a story that inspires you to work more, and this definitely did that. Even if all the rest of the pages in Tyrant 4 were blank, this magazine would be worth buying for Glaser alone.
Fortunately they are not blank, and there is a ton of brilliance to go around (Kim's story juts and looms, as she is wont to, and Elizabeth Koch's 'ANGER GENE' really got me, as did most of this. Tyrant is the future.
Unfortunately they are already sold out this issue once again for mail orders, but you can find it still in stores, which are listed here. It is worth tracking down.
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I am beginning to put together the next Lamination Colony, and I still need pictures of people's heads close up looking into the camera, you should be wearing no clothing though this won't be evident in the photo except for your shoulders, the background does not matter, you will be used in the issue, please make the photo large enough res so I can make it stretch over a background or thereabouts, the standard size of digital photography will suffice. Please email me some photos, it will be *FUN*
I read the whole magazine pretty much cover to cover on the Amtrak from NYC to Philly.
Like the other Tyrants before it, Tyrant 4 destroys. There's no filler here, it's all sentence-driven, at least slight innovative stories that keep you reading just to see what they will do next. I was constantly excited from line to line as I read through, I felt an energy, I was ready.
In particular Rachel B. Glaser's story 'PEE ON WATER' ripped me open. Easily in the top ten new stories I've read in the past several years, both for its scope (it's kind of a history of the world but in elbows, if you will, weird catalogued tidbits and rams of destruction, all in a weird cutup language that still manages to read pristine), for its innovative imagery (it is overflowing, the title alone makes you know this person is not speaking in expectation), and its birth of want in me to create also. There's nothing quite as great as a story that inspires you to work more, and this definitely did that. Even if all the rest of the pages in Tyrant 4 were blank, this magazine would be worth buying for Glaser alone.
Fortunately they are not blank, and there is a ton of brilliance to go around (Kim's story juts and looms, as she is wont to, and Elizabeth Koch's 'ANGER GENE' really got me, as did most of this. Tyrant is the future.
Unfortunately they are already sold out this issue once again for mail orders, but you can find it still in stores, which are listed here. It is worth tracking down.
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I am beginning to put together the next Lamination Colony, and I still need pictures of people's heads close up looking into the camera, you should be wearing no clothing though this won't be evident in the photo except for your shoulders, the background does not matter, you will be used in the issue, please make the photo large enough res so I can make it stretch over a background or thereabouts, the standard size of digital photography will suffice. Please email me some photos, it will be *FUN*
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
I uploaded the pierced vulva to REDBINKERS.COM and got a response query mailed in 30 seconds
<<<I blurbed Sam Pink's first book.>>>
Keyhole just launched their new website, it will now run online content to accompany the excellent print leg, the debut site has a new interview I did with Tao Lin about COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, another interview with William Walsh, new fiction by Kim Chinquee and Thomas Cooper, and more. Plus the site just looks really nice. They are accepting submissions of all kinds of writing for it, go look. The site is beautiful and will be a great place for new words.
Michael Kimball wrote my life story on a postcard. Michael is probably one of the easiest people to talk to I've met in years. Not to mention one of the coolest, and with a sweet tooth to battle my own. This postcard project is pretty insane, the text all really came to my house on a postcard handwritten very small, I don't know how he does it.
My review of his absolutely amazing and form bending novel DEAR EVERYBODY is forthcoming, but let me just say you don't need to wait for me to say so: this book is new, unusual, compelling, fun to read, and unlike most any other, you should go ahead and preorder.
Today I got THE BATTLEFIELD WHERE THE MOON SAYS I LOVE YOU by Frank Stanford in the mail, I had meant to order and finish reading beyond the little bits I'd read before for quite some time now, Peter Markus's encouragement that he carries it everywhere with him when he is reading it "and he often does" pushed me over the edge, and now I am just sitting here staring at what a beautiful book and words.
If you have some extra money, even a couple bucks, consider donating to Peter's Inside Out Literary Arts Project, which sends writers in to teach writing to K-12 students in Detroit, they are having a fundraiser where donations will be matched I think if they reach $25k, you can't ask for a much better cause.
Too much good to read now, things are good.
Approved proofs of NO COLONY issue 1 yesterday, planning to arrive in NYC early next Friday afternoon for Launch Party at Barbes, excited, please come.
Other things are brewing.
- - -
The next issue of Lamination Colony, I am making, I need favors from people who look at this blog, I am going to ask you to do it and then you can decide if you want to do.
I would like people to send me headshots, close up shots, you should not have clothes on, though it doesnt not have to be apparent in the shot that you don't have clothes on, except your shoulders should not have clothes on them.
You are welcome to also send more photos in the same series, I may also use them with it.
The background can be anything, but mostly I just want the face close up.
It should be in a high enough resolution that it can be used for something. If you use the default on your camera don't shrink it, just crop it clean and send to me, or don't crop it, I can crop things, I know about cropping.
Please mail these not to my personal address but to laminationcolony [at] gmail [dot] com
Keyhole just launched their new website, it will now run online content to accompany the excellent print leg, the debut site has a new interview I did with Tao Lin about COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY, another interview with William Walsh, new fiction by Kim Chinquee and Thomas Cooper, and more. Plus the site just looks really nice. They are accepting submissions of all kinds of writing for it, go look. The site is beautiful and will be a great place for new words.
Michael Kimball wrote my life story on a postcard. Michael is probably one of the easiest people to talk to I've met in years. Not to mention one of the coolest, and with a sweet tooth to battle my own. This postcard project is pretty insane, the text all really came to my house on a postcard handwritten very small, I don't know how he does it.
My review of his absolutely amazing and form bending novel DEAR EVERYBODY is forthcoming, but let me just say you don't need to wait for me to say so: this book is new, unusual, compelling, fun to read, and unlike most any other, you should go ahead and preorder.
Today I got THE BATTLEFIELD WHERE THE MOON SAYS I LOVE YOU by Frank Stanford in the mail, I had meant to order and finish reading beyond the little bits I'd read before for quite some time now, Peter Markus's encouragement that he carries it everywhere with him when he is reading it "and he often does" pushed me over the edge, and now I am just sitting here staring at what a beautiful book and words.
If you have some extra money, even a couple bucks, consider donating to Peter's Inside Out Literary Arts Project, which sends writers in to teach writing to K-12 students in Detroit, they are having a fundraiser where donations will be matched I think if they reach $25k, you can't ask for a much better cause.
Too much good to read now, things are good.
Approved proofs of NO COLONY issue 1 yesterday, planning to arrive in NYC early next Friday afternoon for Launch Party at Barbes, excited, please come.
Other things are brewing.
- - -
The next issue of Lamination Colony, I am making, I need favors from people who look at this blog, I am going to ask you to do it and then you can decide if you want to do.
I would like people to send me headshots, close up shots, you should not have clothes on, though it doesnt not have to be apparent in the shot that you don't have clothes on, except your shoulders should not have clothes on them.
You are welcome to also send more photos in the same series, I may also use them with it.
The background can be anything, but mostly I just want the face close up.
It should be in a high enough resolution that it can be used for something. If you use the default on your camera don't shrink it, just crop it clean and send to me, or don't crop it, I can crop things, I know about cropping.
Please mail these not to my personal address but to laminationcolony [at] gmail [dot] com
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
NEW LAMINATION COLONY EBOOK: Lily Hoang's THE WOMAN DOWN THE HALL
Now available for your consumptive g-spot banging, please observe the newest Lamination Colony ebook by LILY HOANG:
It's a sick little magickal book, please enjoy.
This book scrunched me into a ball the second I clicked open on the email it arrived in, it choked me into submission with its fairy screwtape and its post-Eraserhead screech.
Also note: Lily's first book PARABOLA was just released by Chiasmus Press (after winning their Un-Doing the Novel contest), so if you are interested you should consider a purchase. She also has a second novel CHANGING forthcoming from Fairy Tale Review Press and THE EVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION from Les Figues Press.
Lily is on fire, for a reason.
If anyone is interested in interviewing Lily re: the creation of this ebook, as well as her other new forthcoming work, please email me and I will put you in contact.
Those who review THE WOMAN DOWN THE HALL on their blogs or elsewhere and/or throw up links or magic rice or otherwise turn their voices into metal eaters who crowd the streets screeching our condition via Ms. Hoang, these people will surely find something underneath their pillow within 7-9 days, no shit. Share the demon.
It's a sick little magickal book, please enjoy.
This book scrunched me into a ball the second I clicked open on the email it arrived in, it choked me into submission with its fairy screwtape and its post-Eraserhead screech.
Also note: Lily's first book PARABOLA was just released by Chiasmus Press (after winning their Un-Doing the Novel contest), so if you are interested you should consider a purchase. She also has a second novel CHANGING forthcoming from Fairy Tale Review Press and THE EVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION from Les Figues Press.
Lily is on fire, for a reason.
If anyone is interested in interviewing Lily re: the creation of this ebook, as well as her other new forthcoming work, please email me and I will put you in contact.
Those who review THE WOMAN DOWN THE HALL on their blogs or elsewhere and/or throw up links or magic rice or otherwise turn their voices into metal eaters who crowd the streets screeching our condition via Ms. Hoang, these people will surely find something underneath their pillow within 7-9 days, no shit. Share the demon.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
HORSE BOOK
Didi Menendez interviewed me about LAMINATION COLONY for MEN OF THE WEB.
I just lost a big hand at poker so I am probably going to be negative in this post.
Really I feel too dumb today to be negative. I don't know what's going on with anything. I feel like my cousin who developed blindness in the form of tunnel vision, wherein she would lose a little bit around the edges every so often until she could no longer see.
I don't know, my hope seems whipped to bits like some old horse.
I had an idea I was going to talk about where I was going to suggest something I felt could help small publishing: where each year, each literary journal that is quarterly or more replaces one of their issues with a book length ms instead of that issue. This would focus the energy of that press into that one book, giving it a lot of hype and attention for each, 'this is 8dy7fa08suf0ua08a0ew[r80a97ew40t8a7er8tuyao8gfoahdsfgohadsfghasfdhga oaihdfo hasd aohdfj asjkdfh asj hdfjhasodhfoashdfashdfhjasdhfasdhfahsdfhasdhfasdfl;jasldjkflaskdjfljasdlfja;slkdjf;las ahjdl fasldjk fajkdf ja
I don't care
I think if I ate some human flesh it would make me feel fine, i really would do that, i don't know when it could ever happen, one of my friends let his friends eat part of his arm once, he cooked it up real good, no shit
I like
read some
Bill Faulkner
i reread the damn AS I LAY DYING thang
it was good
i just lost another big fucking poker hand, it is orchestrated for me to want to cut my face off today, i say that a lot, 'cut face off' 'cut dick off' shut up
the last scene in AS I LAY DYING was partially stupid, that's ok, most of it was excellent, bill claimed he wrote it in 6 weeks and didnt change anything, i like that, ok good
if I had a pussy bill faulkner would eat it through the pages
i am going insert that in my novel, the novella is a novel now, it is getting longer/////////////////////// i am about to have two novels from this year on my hard drive, though these are ones i like, unlike the X # of novels on hard drive from other years where i was still too dumb, i am probably still too dumb, but ////////////// in this new novel i am going to insert a passage where the narrator eats the pussy out of the reader, if I knew a book would eat my pussy i would definitely buy it nahwahimsayin
Someone should write a book that keeps asking Do you know what I'm saying over and over again like the way rappers n shit do, if you can work rappers into your books along with getting your pussy eat, more people will do it, i am 100% sure
Tupac is in WHERE AM I WHERE HAVE I BEEN WHERE ARE YOU
oh boy, NOVELZ!))!)
gosh, this post, i know, i'm sorry
I just lost a big hand at poker so I am probably going to be negative in this post.
Really I feel too dumb today to be negative. I don't know what's going on with anything. I feel like my cousin who developed blindness in the form of tunnel vision, wherein she would lose a little bit around the edges every so often until she could no longer see.
I don't know, my hope seems whipped to bits like some old horse.
I had an idea I was going to talk about where I was going to suggest something I felt could help small publishing: where each year, each literary journal that is quarterly or more replaces one of their issues with a book length ms instead of that issue. This would focus the energy of that press into that one book, giving it a lot of hype and attention for each, 'this is 8dy7fa08suf0ua08a0ew[r80a97ew40t8a7er8tuyao8gfoahdsfgohadsfghasfdhga oaihdfo hasd aohdfj asjkdfh asj hdfjhasodhfoashdfashdfhjasdhfasdhfahsdfhasdhfasdfl;jasldjkflaskdjfljasdlfja;slkdjf;las ahjdl fasldjk fajkdf ja
I don't care
I think if I ate some human flesh it would make me feel fine, i really would do that, i don't know when it could ever happen, one of my friends let his friends eat part of his arm once, he cooked it up real good, no shit
I like
read some
Bill Faulkner
i reread the damn AS I LAY DYING thang
it was good
i just lost another big fucking poker hand, it is orchestrated for me to want to cut my face off today, i say that a lot, 'cut face off' 'cut dick off' shut up
the last scene in AS I LAY DYING was partially stupid, that's ok, most of it was excellent, bill claimed he wrote it in 6 weeks and didnt change anything, i like that, ok good
if I had a pussy bill faulkner would eat it through the pages
i am going insert that in my novel, the novella is a novel now, it is getting longer/////////////////////// i am about to have two novels from this year on my hard drive, though these are ones i like, unlike the X # of novels on hard drive from other years where i was still too dumb, i am probably still too dumb, but ////////////// in this new novel i am going to insert a passage where the narrator eats the pussy out of the reader, if I knew a book would eat my pussy i would definitely buy it nahwahimsayin
Someone should write a book that keeps asking Do you know what I'm saying over and over again like the way rappers n shit do, if you can work rappers into your books along with getting your pussy eat, more people will do it, i am 100% sure
Tupac is in WHERE AM I WHERE HAVE I BEEN WHERE ARE YOU
oh boy, NOVELZ!))!)
gosh, this post, i know, i'm sorry
Friday, June 20, 2008
5 Star Literary Stories + OH BABY
LAMINATION COLONY is featured today on Five Star Literary Stories, with a review of Ron Burch's UNFINISHED, one of my favorite stories from back in the archives. Thanks to T.J. Forrester and Jai Clare for the nice write up.
Also, on HOTBOOKS today a brief review of Kim Chinquee's OH BABY.
Also, on HOTBOOKS today a brief review of Kim Chinquee's OH BABY.
Monday, June 9, 2008
LAMINATION COLONY Summer 08
Since it is hot enough to sweat a house through a fudge today, might as well get your arms tied together and enjoy the new Summer 08 update of LAMINATION COLONY.
This issue contains all writers/writing I think of as FRESH, in that they are doing things I have not seen other places. New shit, is what I'm saying. New shit. It includes post-C.McCarthy venom by C. ROBIN MADIGAN, three hybrid and bizarre poems by DANIEL SPINKS, a creamy Florida vivisection by HEATHER DAVIDSON, a ruination of Danielle Steele's work by JOHN SPIERS, a poem that makes me smile by G. DAVID SCHWARTZ, a mindburp by ADAM J. MAYNARD, three new mini-masterpieces by PETER BERGHOEF, an accidental spam-survivor dodged by Dick Palace by JUSTIN RANDS, a laugh out loud awesome and really peculiar series of shorts by KENDRA GRANT MALONE, jackoff material by ZACHARY GERMAN, found dictionary peculiarity by JOSH WALLAERT, a creepy sequence of serial texts by J.A. Tyler, two stillbirth doppelganger apparati by HEDY ZIMRA, and a correspondence video to TAO LIN by MATTHEW SAVOCA.
I have read and reread the stuff in this issue perhaps moreso than the contents of any issue I've put together.
The layout on this hopefully holds up in your browser, though most pleasantly you should view it on 1028x768 res in Firefox on a mac. Otherwise, you are subject to skewing. Though the skewing may make it better.
Go get that shit and sniff it and hold your baby down and make it eat. Then tell yr friends.
Next from LC: a brutal eBook by LILY HOANG, forthcoming in JULY-ish.
Please enjoy/discuss.
This issue contains all writers/writing I think of as FRESH, in that they are doing things I have not seen other places. New shit, is what I'm saying. New shit. It includes post-C.McCarthy venom by C. ROBIN MADIGAN, three hybrid and bizarre poems by DANIEL SPINKS, a creamy Florida vivisection by HEATHER DAVIDSON, a ruination of Danielle Steele's work by JOHN SPIERS, a poem that makes me smile by G. DAVID SCHWARTZ, a mindburp by ADAM J. MAYNARD, three new mini-masterpieces by PETER BERGHOEF, an accidental spam-survivor dodged by Dick Palace by JUSTIN RANDS, a laugh out loud awesome and really peculiar series of shorts by KENDRA GRANT MALONE, jackoff material by ZACHARY GERMAN, found dictionary peculiarity by JOSH WALLAERT, a creepy sequence of serial texts by J.A. Tyler, two stillbirth doppelganger apparati by HEDY ZIMRA, and a correspondence video to TAO LIN by MATTHEW SAVOCA.
I have read and reread the stuff in this issue perhaps moreso than the contents of any issue I've put together.
The layout on this hopefully holds up in your browser, though most pleasantly you should view it on 1028x768 res in Firefox on a mac. Otherwise, you are subject to skewing. Though the skewing may make it better.
Go get that shit and sniff it and hold your baby down and make it eat. Then tell yr friends.
Next from LC: a brutal eBook by LILY HOANG, forthcoming in JULY-ish.
Please enjoy/discuss.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
LC / NOO / AVERY
Submissions for the next issue of LAMINATION COLONY are now closed. All further submissions and those who have not been answered yet will be considered for the next issue. In case you were looking at our old URL (lamination.deadwinter.com), that URL is now null. The new issue of LC should be out by mid-June and is full of all young writers. There are no editors of journals or people with several books published. There are only people doing things new. It is going to be nice.
Soon after the new issue LAMINATION COLONY will release an eBook by the megabadass LILY HOANG. I can't tell you how pumped I am about her book, which is full of magic and bizarre and titled THE WOMAN DOWN THE HALL. Just you wait.
Speaking of things done new, there is a new issue of NOO JOURNAL now online. It has new work by Ofelia Hunt, Noah Cicero, Mary Miller, K. Silem Mohammad, Claudia Smith, Benjamin Buchholz and Sean Kilpatrick, including a weird as hell little ebook from Kilpatrick, titled: SPURIOUS ONE-MAN LOBOTOMY WITH CLIPPED INQUISITION. Sean Kilpatrick is a killer.
Also today in the mail got my contributor copies of AVERY ANTHOLOGY 3 which looks so sexy with its slick glossy color cover I really want to lick it. The stories are massive and sick. Go do a buy.
Soon after the new issue LAMINATION COLONY will release an eBook by the megabadass LILY HOANG. I can't tell you how pumped I am about her book, which is full of magic and bizarre and titled THE WOMAN DOWN THE HALL. Just you wait.
Speaking of things done new, there is a new issue of NOO JOURNAL now online. It has new work by Ofelia Hunt, Noah Cicero, Mary Miller, K. Silem Mohammad, Claudia Smith, Benjamin Buchholz and Sean Kilpatrick, including a weird as hell little ebook from Kilpatrick, titled: SPURIOUS ONE-MAN LOBOTOMY WITH CLIPPED INQUISITION. Sean Kilpatrick is a killer.
Also today in the mail got my contributor copies of AVERY ANTHOLOGY 3 which looks so sexy with its slick glossy color cover I really want to lick it. The stories are massive and sick. Go do a buy.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Notable Stories + New Shits
Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2007 are now up. Congrats to Andrea Fitzpatrick, whose story 'DOLLFACE' from Lamination Colony made the list. Other friends including Shane Jones, Andrew Ervin, Lee Klein, Daniel Spinks, Nick Antosca, Corey Mesler, Jimmy Chen and Matt Bell were in the house, as was I for 'TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME'. Notable. Or something.
I am often confused how the journal of the year at Million Writers is one I have never heard of, and not heard of most any of the authors they have published. Is that a good thing? I think I pay pretty good attention.
Editing novel is about 1/3rd through. Hope to finish 1/3rd tonight into tomorrow. A first published piece of the novel will be at WIGLEAF next week or something. Also, Wigleaf is about to start running their own version of the Notable Stories of 2007, though this focusing on work less than 1000 words. I like this idea.
Read Tao Lin's new book COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY on Sunday evening. This is a whole other blog post, which I will write later this week, but let's just say that the book has a kind of presence reminiscent of the monolith in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, only if that monolith were made out of neutral facial expressions and lined in soft fake black fur from a fake marmot who curls around you in the evening in place of who might have been there once before or not at all.
Now reading Joy Williams's rereleased book THE CHANGELING from Fairy Tale Review Press (the presence of which as a press overall I am very stoked about), which is already becoming unlike most any other books. More on that later also.
One final bit of related news: Lamination Colony will be releasing its next eBook from an author who also has a novel forthcoming from Fairy Tale Review press. It is a backfucker of an eBook. I will tell you later. Other ebooks pending still consideration promise. I am up to my neck.
ALSO: I am selling a bunch of LPs and a pedal on ebay.
I am often confused how the journal of the year at Million Writers is one I have never heard of, and not heard of most any of the authors they have published. Is that a good thing? I think I pay pretty good attention.
Editing novel is about 1/3rd through. Hope to finish 1/3rd tonight into tomorrow. A first published piece of the novel will be at WIGLEAF next week or something. Also, Wigleaf is about to start running their own version of the Notable Stories of 2007, though this focusing on work less than 1000 words. I like this idea.
Read Tao Lin's new book COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY on Sunday evening. This is a whole other blog post, which I will write later this week, but let's just say that the book has a kind of presence reminiscent of the monolith in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, only if that monolith were made out of neutral facial expressions and lined in soft fake black fur from a fake marmot who curls around you in the evening in place of who might have been there once before or not at all.
Now reading Joy Williams's rereleased book THE CHANGELING from Fairy Tale Review Press (the presence of which as a press overall I am very stoked about), which is already becoming unlike most any other books. More on that later also.
One final bit of related news: Lamination Colony will be releasing its next eBook from an author who also has a novel forthcoming from Fairy Tale Review press. It is a backfucker of an eBook. I will tell you later. Other ebooks pending still consideration promise. I am up to my neck.
ALSO: I am selling a bunch of LPs and a pedal on ebay.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Day 6: P
Most of Saturday off. Wrote a little, edited a little. There are 24359 words. I feel sick. Something got inside me. Something. Tomorrow will wake up ready regardless of feel.
I'm not really aware of half of what I'm saying.
To those who have submitted Lamination Colony eBooks: I am behind on these and it might be a minute. I will read them all eventually without question, just please be patient. I will probably do next book as the summer is getting hottest. I've peeked at some. Many excellences. I am going to have to be decisive.
The story LYNETTE, YOUR UNIQUENESS in KISSED BY by Alexandra Chasin is one of the coolest stories I've read in a while.
Random sentence from today:
Across the street, the enormous box in the neighbor’s yard was changing shape.
I'm not really aware of half of what I'm saying.
To those who have submitted Lamination Colony eBooks: I am behind on these and it might be a minute. I will read them all eventually without question, just please be patient. I will probably do next book as the summer is getting hottest. I've peeked at some. Many excellences. I am going to have to be decisive.
The story LYNETTE, YOUR UNIQUENESS in KISSED BY by Alexandra Chasin is one of the coolest stories I've read in a while.
Random sentence from today:
Across the street, the enormous box in the neighbor’s yard was changing shape.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Back
I went out of town this weekend. I went to Gatlinburg TN. Mostly what they have there are pancake houses, Christmas supply stores, anti-liquor bills and novelty tourist-aimed recreation. Even restaurants can't sell liquor here, though it would help digest the casino-sized Jamboree dinner houses & weird putt putt venues.
They literally had 6-10 Christmas stores in a 4 mile stretch, some as large as WalMart.
I saw Dolly Parton in a very short parade and yelled something obscene and got glared at.
I climbed a mountain and took my clothes off so my dick could breathe.
I was glad to leave the fuckhole of Atlanta.
While I was gone, the new issue of Lamination Colony deleted itself. It reverted to its old index page and cleared many of the pieces on the new update. I have no idea how it did that.
It has also been editing itself occasionally. It stuck an extra line at the end of one of Jason Bredle's poems. It has changed versions of two of the Dick Palace sections twice.
Dick Palace is a co-editor at Lamination Colony and he lives inside the computer. He is a destructor.
I have fixed the site back to how it was for now.
Kemel Zalidvar blogged about Chris Killen's piece and the Lamination Colony submission guidelines.
This weekend I read Joyelle McSweeney's FLET. I read it mostly while going up the mountain by myself. I would walk a while and then stop in a spot that looked like a spot for stopping and then I would read one of the short sections. The book worked very well like that: completely alone on a mountain, in sections. I enjoyed it.
I have more to say later but right now I am very tired and I can't stop thinking about the two small shaking dogs I saw a woman at a flea market had stored inside a small aquarium. It was cold and they were clawed against one another trying to get warm. The woman running the booth was cockeyed and had acne and I am fairly certain had kissed relatives. She offered to let us hold the dogs. I couldn't look at her.
I feel sick.
Jesus christ: A VERY ANXIOUS FEELING
They literally had 6-10 Christmas stores in a 4 mile stretch, some as large as WalMart.
I saw Dolly Parton in a very short parade and yelled something obscene and got glared at.
I climbed a mountain and took my clothes off so my dick could breathe.
I was glad to leave the fuckhole of Atlanta.
While I was gone, the new issue of Lamination Colony deleted itself. It reverted to its old index page and cleared many of the pieces on the new update. I have no idea how it did that.
It has also been editing itself occasionally. It stuck an extra line at the end of one of Jason Bredle's poems. It has changed versions of two of the Dick Palace sections twice.
Dick Palace is a co-editor at Lamination Colony and he lives inside the computer. He is a destructor.
I have fixed the site back to how it was for now.
Kemel Zalidvar blogged about Chris Killen's piece and the Lamination Colony submission guidelines.
This weekend I read Joyelle McSweeney's FLET. I read it mostly while going up the mountain by myself. I would walk a while and then stop in a spot that looked like a spot for stopping and then I would read one of the short sections. The book worked very well like that: completely alone on a mountain, in sections. I enjoyed it.
I have more to say later but right now I am very tired and I can't stop thinking about the two small shaking dogs I saw a woman at a flea market had stored inside a small aquarium. It was cold and they were clawed against one another trying to get warm. The woman running the booth was cockeyed and had acne and I am fairly certain had kissed relatives. She offered to let us hold the dogs. I couldn't look at her.
I feel sick.
Jesus christ: A VERY ANXIOUS FEELING
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