Just got back to Brooklyn after a weekend in New Hampshire – a blizzard hit while I was gone. So after digging out a parking space for my car and then shoveling my stairs and sidewalk, I got inside inside to find a floor full of mail including the following books. (It was a welcome surprise.)

Two gifts from Alec Niedenthal: Will Gass’s The Tunnel (this was the push I needed to finally read this beast), and Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (on which I actually collaborated with Claudia). Thanks, Alec!

My contributor copy of the new Caketrain. (Did some drawing to accompany a few of J.A. Tyler’s Jimmy stories.)

Kristina Born’s One Hour of Television the first book from Year of the Liquidator.

Another press debut, Mud Luscious’s first novella, Molly Gaudry’s We Take Me Apart. (This book is as pretty looking as the internet pictures make it seem.)

And one of the most glorious looking indie books I’ve ever held, Brandon Downing’s Lake Antiquity. This thing is so wonderful looking, I don’t know how it only costs $40.

Y’all jealous or what?

Lots of little news to catch up. My house new house is a construction site so production is slow, but I have started posting over at Big Other, with a smart and thoughtful bunch of writers. Lets of good stuff to read over there.

First off, our new Action, Yes is up. This is the first of four issues that is largely collected from our very first open submissions period. We were hoping to get one issue out of it, and then we got FOUR. I’ve heard so many tales of terror about the slush pile – but we didn’t see it – it was a rare submission that didn’t have something interesting going on. Plus we have a specially curated section from Canada.

New Pear Noir! is out, and it’s got my comic “My Brother’s Shoe.” It’s a story that takes place in autumn in New York.  Pretty similar to this movie:

And I have some drawings in the new Caketrain that accompany a series of J.A. Tyler’s Jimmy stories. Totally different project that our image-text novel Glimpse. I think it’s fair to say that the Jimmy drawings are illustrations – which I rarely do.  Here’s one of them:

Leaving for five days – three reading in Georgia. Friday night will be in Athens at Cine with Sabrina (Orah Mark) and Blake (Buter). This is the launch for Sabrina’s brilliant Tsim Tsum, and my southern celebration for The Complete Collection in the town where it was born, and Blake with be bringing his Scorch Atlas to town. Sabrina says this thing will be more party than reading  and she promises RAFFLES, which are similar to the lottery. Then Blake is hosting Sabrina and me, and Laura Carter and Sandra Simonds, at his Solar Anus series at the Beep Beep Gallery in Atlanta. Then next Tuesday I’m reading for the VOX Reading series at my alma mater back in Athens.

Speaking of Georgia, I’ve been reading Jamie Iredell’s Prose Poems: A Novel today. Really desperate stuff – I’m going to go talk about it at Big Other…