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The Paris Review launched a blog today. You can’t read all of their content online, but you still want something current and fulfilling, so this is great. Lorin Stein wrote that this makes them participants and “amateurs” in the spirit of George Plimpton. I like this idea. And I like how it’s off to the…
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Matt Bell, who I’m familiar with as editor of The Collagist, and a fellow contributor to Monkeybicycle, is writing a story online for all of us to see this week, on Everyday Genius. He talks about the project here. Basically what’s happening is, we get to watch him write, as he writes. Then two guest…
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Robert Olen Butler’s story “Moving Day” is up on Fictionaut this week, and they’ve done an interview with him for their regular blog section “Line Breaks.” In it, it’s astounding to hear how much writing he did before he feels he produced anything he felt was worthy. He calls it his “million words of dreck.”…
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We’ll be opening for the legendary L.A. band 45 Grave, Monday, May 17 at Club Europa in Greenpoint. For those unfamiliar, these guys were one of the original groups on the L.A. punk scene in the late ’70s, and they shared their drummer with The Germs. Doors are at 7, I believe.
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In recent years, haikus have been something like a training ground with language for me. This article by Lou Freshwater speaks to the art of haiku, and it seems to share a similar view I’ve always felt. Haikus are like yoga for a writer. They keep you stretched out and disciplined.
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Lincoln Michel over at The Faster Times ranks literary journals in tiers tip-top, then 1–5 here. He’s getting comments about the list on HTMLGiant, too. All of the journals on the list are excellent places to be published. Some of the ones he has in the third and fourth tiers, I’d probably put in the…
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The trailer for Marshall Winchester’s Big Stand, the short film I co-wrote with my friend, writer/director Kevin Hall, is finally up on the IMDB. Check it out here. I also just learned that, even though the film won’t be screened there, the Las Vegas International Film Festival has given it a Golden Ace Award as one…
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I’d really like to be attending this, but I’m not sure it’ll happen. If you happen to be in NYC on the evening of May 6, check it out and tell me how it is. It’s a tribute to Ecco Press founder Daniel Halpern at NYU. Among the people reading: John Ashberry, Joyce Carol Oates,…
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We’ve been asked by Guitar Bomb to join them and a few others for rockabilly night at Ace of Clubs, the club below the restaurant known as ACME. That’s 9 Great Jones Street, between Broadway and Lafayette in the city. Doors are at 8, and the cover is $10.
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Just yesterday I became aware of a new magazine for South Brooklyn, Overflow. It looks like they launched last spring and are coming up on a year in existence. They’re the “quarterly magazine geared toward the overeducated and underutilized.” They’re the first people in New York I’ve ever heard state outright opposition to perpetual adolescence.…
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