sometimes there is a mustache and sometimes it's just the room

Saturday, 22 May 2010

Check out the newest Orange Alert Podcast, the Disco Edition, for my strange voice reading a story called "No Such Thing As a Wild Horse," which previously appeared in Juked under a different title. Other bands and readers in the podcast are Jungol, Kath

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thom jones VS tom jones

Thursday, 13 May 2010

Tough call, I know. Perhaps you might be persuaded by a write-up I did for the American Short Fiction blog concerning Thom (with an H) Jones's brilliant story "I Want To Live!" Thanks to the chipper and awesome Stacy Muszynski for asking me to write for

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anti-seafood fiction

Monday, 10 May 2010

Sometimes Barack Obama, huckleberries, rocket launchers, and neck melting all show up together. For me they have shown up together in a story about media and pretending called "The Ocean on Television," which you can read at the May issue of GIGANTIC. It

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i lost my voice at AWP and then kevin sampsell found Wilt Chamberlain's autobiography and we made videos and i was "blessed enough" to be given the opportunity to read the very beginning of the book

Saturday, 8 May 2010

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clarification opportunity for those of you who have wondered if cars are fireflies

Friday, 7 May 2010

I have two new poems at the La Fovea project, where new people are added by invitation of previous people, leading to this amazing nerve map of poets and poetry. Gracias to Daniel Bailey for inviting me and for inviting the rodeo woodchipping stunfest of

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no, the bridge lived under me

Thursday, 6 May 2010

Back from the Chapbook Festival. Awesome time. Deep thanks to Ana Božičević for all her work. Met some lovely folks, peddled some handmade books. On the bus back, I read Charles Portis's Norwood. What a gut stun. Hilarious, sharp. Pre-cursor to the Coen

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just cuz everybody's got a baby doesn't make it night

Saturday, 1 May 2010

Shome Dasgupta has been putting together an excellent series at the blog The Laughing Yeti called "On Reading," in which writers offer pithy 'graphs of thoughts on reading/on why we read/how to read/what reading is/what it's good for/what's its goof scor

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