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Barber vs Heart Disease Trailer at Annalemma

Barber vs Heart Disease trailer on Vimeo. Annalemma produced this great trailer for Barber vs Heart Disease, which is in their current issue. My thanks to Chris Heavener and his collaborators.

Beggars Can't at Suss

New short called "Beggars Can't" up today at Suss, which is part of of Lintel, Sash, and Sill Press.

A Descriptive Lust at The Scrambler, #33

Piece called "A Descriptive Lust," derived from Giacomo Joyce, by James Joyce, is featured in issue 33 of The Scrambler.

Published posthumously, Giacomo Joyce is a series of notes by Joyce about a student of his in Trieste. Joyce had quite an intense crush on this young lady. I've reduced the text to its base descriptive elements. The title comes from a comment made by another student of Joyce's who said that the author had "a descriptive lust" in his approach to teaching English to his Itali...

Tramp @ The Outlet

New text called Tramp up now at The Outlet, Electric Literature's new blog.

Tramp is derived from one of David Markson's early detective novels. I excised lines that sounded a lot like Markson's later work--like Reader's Block, This is Not a Novel, Vanishing Point, and The Last Novel--to make a new narrative.

Check it out...

Interview at PANK

Roxane Gay at PANK has been interviewing contributors to their September issue.

Mine went up today. Thanks, Roxane.

Muse @ Night Train

Short-short called "Muse" featured this week at Night Train . It's like this:

"The television at the bar had on a reality show set in a tattoo parlor, which inspired those at the bar to begin showing their tattoos to one another, to share their subtexts."

Master @ PANK

New story up at PANK.

Without Wax Reviewed in Florida Review

I missed this review of Without Wax when it came out in The Florida Review (Winter 2008). Chris Wiewiora, Assistant Editor of The Florida Review, gave it a very thorough read. Scroll to bottom of the issue's Table of Contents, the review link will appear in a neat java window.

Fictionaut: Writing Spaces

Jürgen Fauth invited me to write about my writing space on the Fictionaut Blog.

Issue # 2 of Kill Author

"This Laptop Kills Fascists" is in issue #2 of Kill Author, just posted.

Issue # 2 also features Jimmy Chen, Roxane Gay, Sam Pink, Steve McDermott, among others.

Check it out...