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Word Riot’s got a review of the issue today, with a few choice selections from Ryan Boudinot, Jay Wexler, Laura van den Berg and Matthew Summer-Sparks highlighted. I like how Timmy Waldron gives a few of them ideal beverage pairings and also discusses writerly moments.
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These may be a ways off, but I’ve got confirmation that we’ll be playing at Don Pedro at 90 Manhattan Ave. between Boerum and McKibben in Brooklyn on August 28, and at Trash Bar (256 Grand St. between Driggs and Roebling in Williamsburg) on October 29. I’m excited about that one, ‘cuz we’re playing with…
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Big news. This blog is participating in Shya Scanlon’s Forecast 42 Project. The idea is to get 42 lit journals and bloggers to post two chapters of Shya’s novel Forecast per week (on Mondays and Thursdays), with all the sites linked to each other in the novel’s sequence. It’s just been confirmed that I’ll be…
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Monkeybicycle’s got the total roundup of press reviews on its site. In addition to the reviews of Issue 6 I’ve mentioned already in this blog, we’ve got one from The Nervous Breakdown, a short write-up in the Philadelphia City Paper, and an as yet unfinished front-to-back series on Tim Jones-Yelvington’s blog. I recently finished reading…
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Fantastic news. Seattle’s best alternative paper reviewed Monkeybicycle 6 pretty favorably here. It seems like they don’t like the name of the journal, but they like its accessibility: “The stories and poems here are well-crafted, but they feel spontaneous in their energy and inventiveness. They’re the kind of stories that people who don’t ordinarily like…
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Monkeybicycle 6 got a positive review on the Pank magazine site’s blog. I like how the issue was summed up: “A lot of times when you review a magazine issue, you end by saying there’s something for everyone. I’m not going to say that. There isn’t something for everyone. Monkeybicycle is a publication that knows…
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The band’s got a show coming up as part of the Northside Festival. That’s 200 bands from June 11-14 and a ton of gallery exhibitions in Williamsburg, all sponsored by our friends at The L Magazine. We’ll be playing at 9:30 on Saturday the 13th at the Black and White Project Space at 483 Driggs,…
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This time it’s from our friend Brian Diedrick, aka The Fake Angeleno. He writes: “…a video I saw of the band recently made me think of Cave’s appearance in Wings of Desire.” One of my favorite movies ever, and one of my favorite performances in a movie. Do the MTV Movie Awards have such a…
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My podcast for Monkeybicycle 6, along with the issue as a whole and the journal’s tendency to publish genre-less-ly through its history, are given props today in the online journal The Rumpus.
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Shya Scanlon’s novel, Forecast, is now available here. He’s also got excerpts on the Monkeybicycle and Opium sites. If you like it and would like to publish all or a part of it, contact Shya via his site: http://shyascanlon.com. I’ve read pieces of it and it’s very well-written literary sci-fi. Check it out.
Joe Sullivan 