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The Game of Stephen King

My post on the Game of Stephen King at the Kenyon Review Blog has had over 165,000 page views. What?

My next post is about the game of Kitty Kelley that I play with my aunts.

New Pony Anthology

Just got my contributor copy of New Pony, a Horse Less Press Anthology.
Some very cool stuff from Kate Schapira, Sandy Florian & DZ Delgado, Mathias Svalina & Julia Cohen, and Justin Taylor, who has an erasure poem of W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants that I found spooky.
My contribution is "The Tepper Question: Isn't He Going Out?", which is derived from Calvin Trillin's novel on parking in NYC, Tepper Isn't Going Out (2001). There's a lot of this: "Going out? Are you going out? He's not going...

PATHOLOGIES

Keyhole Press is taking pre-orders for a new mini-book of short stories called Pathologies.
It's about sixty pages. Seventeen shorts, about a third new and unpublished anyplace else. You can read a sample story, Revision, at Keyhole.
The cover was needlepointed by Keyhole publisher Peter Cole and his wife Annie. The back cover of the book shows the underside of their pathological stitchwork. Can't thank them enough for their hard work.
Click here for full-size cover image (the stitching!).

Blogging at Kenyon Review

I've got a six-month gig blogging at The Kenyon Review.

The goal is to post something semi-literary once a week. And I am planning a monthly feature on writers engaged in collaborative projects.

Check it out!

Cover for Ampersand, Mass.

Dzanc Books has posted cover art for nine of its eleven forthcoming titles (including their imprints Keyhole Press and Black Lawrence Press).

My collection from Keyhole, Ampersand, Mass., is among the new books announced. Very happy to be in such good company: Matt Bell, Aaron Burch, Robert Lopez, Terese Svoboda, Peter Marcus, Yelizaveta P. Renfro, Patrick Michael Finn, and Steven Gillis.

Artifice Reading at Small Animal Project

I will be reading on February 27 with Jessica Bozek, Ori Fienberg, and Elisa Gabbert at Small Animal Project. This reading celebrates the release of Artifice #1! Please note that this is an afternoon reading, starting at 3PM at Outpost 186, (186 1/2 Hampshire Street, between Prospect & Amory Streets, in Cambridge).

Workshop @ Brown Continuing Studies

I'll be leading a new writing workshop with Brown University's Continuing Studies Program in early 2010.

RE: Telling--Making New Narratives with Borrowed Characters, Familiar Settings, and Classic Plots begins February 3 and runs for six weeks.

Course description and registration information available here.

Email me if you have any questions.

& Now Anthology: Best Innovative Writing

From Lake Forrest College Press, The & Now Anthology: Best of Innovative Writing features work from Jeffrey DeShell, Christina Milletti, Giancarlo DiTrapano, Kim Chinquee, Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Shelley Jackson, Cris Mazza, Tom LaFarge, Wendy Walker, Lily Hoang, Keith & Rosemarie Waldrop, Lance Olsen, Dave Kress, and a slew of other writers of innovative prose and poetry. A piece of mine from Questionstruck called "American Fried Questions" is also featured. Available at Amazon.

Questionstruck Available on Kindle

Just in time for the Holidays! Keyhole Press has made Questionstruck available in a Kindle edition at Amazon.com. Price is $4.99.
Sample question: "Why can't somebody write my books for me and just leave me to collect the royalties in peace?" (from Trillin's Too Soon to Tell, 1995)
Questionstruck/Kindle.

"Chaos" in Quick Fiction 16

Short-short called "Chaos" appearing in Quick Fiction 16. You can read the first few lines here.
Quick Fiction is a handsomely designed journal, and I'm proud to be in the company of Jim Ruland, Kim Chinquee, Aaron Burch, Barry Graham, Claudia Smith, Myfanwy Collins, the great Kathy Fish, and others.
Can't wait to get my copy. Order yours here.