Gabe Durham's Blog, page 26
June 5, 2010
Roundtable + Reading
Over at Hobart, Jensen Beach put together a beast of a roundtable "first books" interview with Kyle Beachy, Jed Berry, Andrew Ervin, Roxane Gay, Rachel B. Glaser, Caitlin Horrocks, Holly Goddard Jones, Tom McAllister, Laura van den Berg, Kevin Wilson, and Mike Young. Lots of interesting nuggets. Here's Mike saying a lot of stuff I agree with about reading and performance:
Performance has always felt like a natural outgrowth of writing to me. If my work is talking at imaginary faces, then...
June 3, 2010
Brick
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I went to a coffee shop near my new apartment called Portland Brew this morning and discovered it's the site of the Brick Reading Series in East Nashville on Friday, June 18, featuring John Minichillo, Susannah Felts, and Motke Dapp. I'll be there. Show me what you got, Nashville.
May 28, 2010
Saltgrass #5
I'm excited to get my hands on the new issue of Saltgrass, which features two Fun Camp shorts along with new poems by Lisa Jarnot, Natalie Lyalin, and others.
One of the most productive editorial back-and-forths I've had to date was with Abigail Holstein, who accepted "No Moms for Miles," then pushed me to improve it. The last line was pretty thin and the whole thing was too short. I took a day to generate some new material for the piece and came up with so much stuff that I needed to spill...
May 20, 2010
Previous Post
"Basics," a Fun Camp short that appeared matchbook last June, got on the "long shortlist" for the Wigleaf Top 50. Nice to see it up there. Congrats to all the big winners, especially double-winners Jensen Beach and Kevin Wilson, whose shorts were selected for the Top 50 by Brian Evenson.
May 18, 2010
New Short: Flight of the Boring
Hey! 1/5 of my contribution to the upcoming issue of The Lifted Brow #7 is up at the blog That's Melbourne City. Thanks, Ronnie, for previewing. You can order the issue here.
May 13, 2010
Post-Trends
Sam Lipsyte in an interview with New York Tyrant:
"I don't know if you can say [writers today:] are doing any one thing in particular. We might be post-trends, a little. It's similar to clothing. I see groups of people hanging out and one person has a huge Mohawk and a Negative Approach t-shirt and another is in disco gear and another is doing some kind of Olivia-Newton John in Xanadu number and somebody else is Brad Davis in Querelle and here come the banker and the lumberjack and it's all...
May 5, 2010
Grads Read Next Week
Wednesday, 5/12, 8pm @ The Rendezvous in Turners Falls – Emily Rae, Luke Bloomfield, Lily Ladewig, Jamie Berger, Brian Mihok (!), Boomer Pinches, Mike Young, Gabe Durham
May 4, 2010
Hobart 11 Special Features
The Great Outdoors special features page is up now, featuring two collaborations between Lydia Conklin and me:
* Camp Conversation – Lydia and I discuss why camp is fun to write about, compare the camps of our childhood, and realize how much money we stand to make
* Hello Clone, I Will Say – a Fun Camp short illustrated by Lydia
and:
* a kind of glossary for B. C. Edwards' "Evitative"
* an appendix for Steve Himmer's "An Encyclopedia of Urban Farming"
* an alternate ending to Shya Scanlon's...
May 3, 2010
Terrible Love and I'm Walking with Spiders
This week I've been reading up articles and interviews about The National in anticipation of High Violet, which comes out later this month but was, last week, streaming in its entirety on the New York Times page. First impression? Its' fantastic. Not the loose pop album the band set out to make at all, High Violet is darker, murkier, and far more unsettling than Boxer or Alligator.
The NYT article that goes with the stream is pretty good too, at least when providing a window into the...
April 28, 2010
Fun Camp Invades Poland
Wow, hey, there are EIGHT NEW FUN CAMPS up in the new Spring Issue of FriGG. Thanks to Ellen Parker for publishing these shorts. Here's part of one:
There are limits to what a deft urbanite woman can barricade in the name of godly repute. Is my point. Boy here likes you, he throws you in a pool. Boy here really likes you, God hums your name in his ear just as his dreams start to boil, then he approaches you somber at Quiet Time with big news he implies you...
