My neighbor Melissa Broder published a book of poems. (She actually wrote it; some guy with a beard in Baltimore published it.) The first one hundred copies will be delivered with a letter-pressed cover. The rest will be printed by a non-anthropomorphic robot in central Pennsylvania. There may still be a few of the limited editions left (there were 20 as of yesterday evening). You can try to get one here.
Jason Teal interviewed J.A. Tyler and me about our forthcoming book No One Told Me I Was Going to Disappear for the first episode of his Heavy Feather Review podcast. Go hear it here. The best part of this for me is that J.A. came up with a concise description of the book (something that’s beyond my verbal abilities): “a novel about conjoined twins who join a circus.” Seems simple enough.
You can see another of my atrocities, “Sheldon Weathers.” This time at website for the Heavy Feather Review. It’s a preview for this new journal. (The first issue of which will feature a few more atrocities and some other atrocious work, I’m sure.)
It exists. I just got the proof from Debra. I can’t believe the color quality they got on these pages.
Available soon at Jaded Ibis Press.
I got a big deal email from my friend Justin Sirois this morning. His novel, about people living in wartime Iraq, Falcons on the Floor, is available for pre-order today. If MLKNG SCKLS suggests anything, this book will be something important to read, one of the few attempts to humanize a situation that is doggedly dehumanized for us Americans.
And he’s offering this Connor Willumsen print for free if you order now. I’d say that’s worth the money alone (a lot more, actually).
In celebration of my friend Edward’s first book, If I Falter at the Gallows, which Publishing Genius put out this week, I drew this picture. It’s a response to the title poem.
This book knows how to feel. Without reserve.
A couple of months ago we had an exceptional Soda Series conversation featuring Gary Lutz, Mary Caponegro, and Tim Horvath. James Yeh and Anelise Chen were good enough to create a transcript which you can read as part of GIGANTIC’s new online issue called “Bodies.” Lots of other great stuff too.
The conversation includes a series of works by Maria Kondratiev.
It’s been a while. Summer and tennis and tenure and child expectation have gotten in the way. Should that have upset anybody, I’m going to try to update a bit more. Just wanted to leave a not that we’ve posted all of the Animals in Midlife Crises strips (so far) up at animalsinmidlifecrises.com. It’s a good way to see them. Hope you laugh once per.
Here’s Mets shortstop’s Jose Reyes’s news reggaeton single. It’s amazing and I’m not saying it’s not. The video includes both soft focus dramatizations of Reyes playing on a little field and indulgent footage of an all grown up Reyes driving a white sports car with some friends through a suburban subdivision. So everything’s covered. BUT, it turns out that Reyes is not a good rapper at all. Even autotune can’t fix it.
