Just got my contrib copy of Pear Noir! (issue 3) in the mail. Really excited about this one. Go here to see the names. Just read Lily Hoang’s “Inivisible Women” selections. She reinvents Calvino’s cities. Really interesting to read someone doing a transliterative project like this, as I’ve been doing a lot of this recently myself, particularly with Bernhard. These pieces from Lily are really beautiful. I’m looking forward to seeing the rest.

The other reason I’m excited about the new Pear Noir! is that they did a great job printing my comic, “My Brother’s Shoe.” Not many lit. journals are very excited about publishing comics longer than ten pages, but they were kind enough to give me a nice chunk of real estate. And, as a comics artist, you always cringe when you first look at your work printed by someone else (especially when it involves a lot of gray tones like this one). They did a terrific job. Go get your copy of Pear Noir! here.

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…