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The Nervous Breakdown and Hukilau partner to launch TNB's new publishing imprint.

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The Nervous Breakdown and Hukilau partner to launch TNB's new publishing imprint.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (June 2010) – Readers addicted to nonfiction, fiction and poetry have long been getting their fix at the online culture magazine The Nervous Breakdown (TNB), a site founded by bestselling author Brad Listi (Attention. Deficit. Disorder.). Now, in partnership with Hukilau, TNB will be launching its own publishing imprint, producing print, e-book,...

The GSpot: Yony Leyser

Joseph Matheny in conversation with filmmaker Yony Leyser director of the documentary "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within"

Yony Leyser is a twenty-five-year-old filmmaker living in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He has directed several short films. After being kicked out of film school, he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, and began his passionate first feature film, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within,  about one of the most interesting icons of
the 20th century,

He also works as a curator, video...

Cup of TNB: Heather Fowler

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to TNB contributor, poet and author Heather Fowler . They discuss the infamous iPhone application censorship that involved one of Heather's Flash Fiction stories. More about that story here and on the podcast.


HEATHER FOWLER received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University in 1997. She has taught Literature, Writing, or Composition related courses at UCSD, Modesto Junior College, and California State University Stanisl...

The GSpot: Henry Baum

Joseph Matheny in conversation with author Henry Baum about his newest novel The American Book of the Dead. This book recently won the The Independent Publisher gold medal for Visionary Fiction.

Henry Baum is the author of the novels The Golden Calf and North of Sunset and has published work in anthologies with Another Sky Press and 3 AM Magazine, as well as stories in Scarecrow, Identity Theory, Purple Prose, Storyglossia, and others. He lives in Los Angeles.

Cup of TNB: Slade Ham

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to TNB contributor, author and stand-up comedian, Slade Ham.

Slade Ham is a stand up comedian. He has performed in 22 countries on four continents. When not on stage, he drinks Irish whiskey on the rocks and listens to rock and roll much too loud. One day he hopes to write a book, host a travel show, and continue to trick the world into paying him to do the things he loves to do. He keeps a very expensive storage unit in Houston, TX.

For more...

The GSpot: Richard Nash

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Richard Nash about publishing/e-publishing past-present-future.

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Utne Reader calls Richard Nash "One of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." Mashable.com ranks him him "The #1 Twitter User Changing the Shape of Publishing." He ran Soft Skull Press, now an imprint of Counterpoint, from 2001 to 2007, and ran the imprint on behalf of Counterpoint until early 2009. Here's why he left. The last book he edited at Soft Skull, Lydia Millet's

Cup of TNB: Chris Illuminati

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to TNB contributor and author Chris Illuminati. (Yes, that's his REAL name)

Writer CHRIS ILLUMINATI has lived in Lawrenceville, in central New Jersey (also Jon Stewart's hometown), his entire life. He is a regular contributor to such popular men's sites and publications as AskMen.com, Asylum.com, TheBachelorGuy.com, BlogsWithBalls.com, and Penthouse, although he's also written for Cosmopolitan (go figure). His many humorous perspectives can ...

I am guest speaker next week in Bakersfield

My friend Nick Belardes has invited me to be a guest speaker at The Random Writer's Workshop in sunny/funny Bakersfield California. If you're lucky, I may even sing some Buck Owens tunes. Or not. Its really a crap shoot.

Details here.

The Random Writers Workshop is held weekly at Russo's Books in Bakersfield, Calif. Headed up by author Nick Belardes, lectures and discussions have covered tips on getting published, as well as how to start a novel, how to write narrative, dialogue...

Hukilau's Slate Application is available for the iPad and in the store today

Hukilau Slate

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Open iTunes to buy and download apps.

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Description

Version one is a simple and easy to use movie slate that allows you to type in the values for all the standard fields like "scene number", "production name" , etc. Shaking the iPad will result in a realistic clapping sound. Version two, slated to come out in a week or so, will have a running LED clock, a scene incrementation button and few stylistic improvements. We encourge users to download it, try it out...

Richard Nash on Publishing Past, Present and Future

Utne Reader calls Richard Nash "One of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." Mashable.com ranks him him "The #1 Twitter User Changing the Shape of Publishing." He ran Soft Skull Press, now an imprint of Counterpoint, from 2001 to 2007, and ran the imprint on behalf of Counterpoint until early 2009. Here's why he left. The last book he edited at Soft Skull, Lydia Millet's Love in Infant Monkeys, was just picked as a Pulitzer finalist.

Nash now runs his own consulting business (details...