9L / Memorious / Deb Olin Unferth

Ordering info and specs and preview pages of the new issue of NINTH LETTER is live. I have been able to read some of the work in the new issue finally after distracting myself from the beautiful cover. Yes. There is a retrospective article about the design artists discussing their work from previous issues and it is fascinating. Go get 'er.

ALSO: I have a very short thing in the new issue of MEMORIOUS, along with Kristen Iskandrian, Robin Lippincott, Major Jackson, Jessica Murphy, Jordan Windholz and several others. Memorious looks sexy. I don't remember writing the story that I have up there: LANDLORD.

Began another project that may become a novel or novella with the working title HOW MANY FLOORS DOES THE NIGHTMARE HAVE? which I got from someone googling that to find my website the other day. Whoever that was, thanks, what the fuck were you looking for? Email me or something.

DEB OLIN UNFERTH's 'Managing' from MINOR ROBBERIES may be one of my favorite new stories of the past several years.

I had some other shit to say but as usual I can't remember.

One of the worse things about insomnia is when you finally do sleep it feels so new but still usually isn't very satisfying. I went to sleep at 6 am the other day and woke and felt sure I'd finally gotten normal rest until I looked out and saw it was still dark. Maybe I should stop drinking coffee, but then I wouldn't really be able to do anything all day but sit and look. Not that that would be that different.

Somebody cut me on the face.

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EDIT: VICTORY for No Colony.

NINTH LETTER 5.1

Got my contributor copies of the new issue of NINTH LETTER today. I felt lightheaded a little looking at it. It is too nice. It is an object.



I want to paint my apartment those colors with those symbols or something.

As always the issue includes some incredible work, this time by Ron Carlson, Mark Yakich, Arthur Saltzman, Dave King, Tom Whalen, Steve Tomasula, Adam Clay, Mary Biddinger, as well as a bunch of others. Each page of this thing is a work of art. If you've never seen Ninth Letter, it is a production: fully glossy page with weird layouts and beautiful art. Props to 9L especially on this issue bringing in a lot of new names, at least to me.

My story THE GOWN FROM MOTHER'S STOMACH, currently the second story in SCORCH ATLAS, is also in the issue, set on an absolutely perfect image spread by artist Ho-Mui Wong. As Keith Montesano put it to me: "The artwork's sick and distorted and Lynchian and weird and melty and fits perfectly."

I can't stop staring at this magazine, even if I weren't in it. Made me feel good today, a needed blurp among a couple weeks of no sleep. Thanks to Andrew Ervin and Jodee Stanley and the rest of 9L for inclusion in something gorgeous.

They haven't put it up on the web yet but you can subscribe here. I've been a subscriber for the last few years and every issue is a sick sick puppy.