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Haiku Not Bombs
Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series presents:
Haiku Not Bombs: a Booklyn book release party
with readings by:
Tom Gilroy, Jim McKay, Shin Yu Pai, Rick “Biskit” Roth, and Patrick So
Wednesday, July 9
8-10pm
Free as a bird!
Booklyn Artist Alliance is excited to announce the publication of Haiku Not Bombs, the latest edition of the Another Booklyn Chapbook series, [...]
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Scofield: A Man Greater Than the Sum of His Parts
by Christopher de la Torre, UM Editor
I hadn’t known Stewart for long, but by the second email exchange I had already found him to be exquisitely open-minded and creative to the bone. According to his own words, he didn’t tolerate stupidity very well, nor superficiality, nor [...]
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Tags: New York, Urban Molecule, stewart scofield, flickr, urinalia, urinal, think tank, interview, RFD, weehawken street, christopher street, san francisco, sonoma county, food for thought, neptune society of northern california, obituary, cultural anthropologist
Judging a Book by Its Cover, and Then Some, Part III
by Perry Brass
Her question: “Carnal Sacraments could be marketed as a queer book, or as Science Fiction (SF). The cover makes it pretty clear that the publishers intend to market it as a queer book; there’s hardly any hint that the contents are very much [...]
Filed under: In the Writer's World, fiction, literary, poetry | 1 Comment
Tags: about my life and the kept woman, bantam, Carnal Sacraments, cover, david leavitt, eustace chisholm and the works, foreward magazine, future, gap, homosexual, In the Writer's World, james purdy, jeffrey cooper, john rechy, juding a book by its cover, lambda literary foundation, mr. shirtless, New York, new york times, novel, oscar wilde bookstore, part 3, Perry Brass, porn, queer, ragazzo, rose fox, science fiction, us post office, women's christian temperance union, writer
The Teller of Monstrosities
The third volume of short fiction by Jillian Elisabetta Ciaccia is now available. Monstrosities is composed of eleven literary portraits concentrating on the creation and process of objects, both organic and inorganic. Animal crackers. Maraschino cherries. A freckle and Nylon stockings. You won’t look at your world the same.
As with the two previous volumes, [...]
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Tags: absurdities, contributor, fiction, jillian elisabetta ciaccia, literary, Monstrosities, peculiarities, The Fictionist, writer, writing
LONG STORY SHORT
Synthetic Memoir Is Not the New Virtual Reality
by Josh Livingston
Buffeted by scandal after scandal, the publishing industry is in a major crisis of confidence. Every time I turn around there’s another author caught embellishing, exaggerating or inventing outright significant portions of a memoir.
Personally, I pin the blame on Sedaris.
I’m not saying that David Sedaris is [...]
Filed under: Long Story Short, literary | 1 Comment
Tags: Luis Colan, Josh Livingston, Long Story Short, david sedaris, running with scissors, augusten burroughs, misha defonseca, misha a memoire of the holocaust years, hustler, playboy, pink, cash, James frey, jt leroy, margaret b jones, love and consequences
