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A Daily Nebraskan article on Lincoln's Flourishing...

A Daily Nebraskan article on Lincoln's Flourishing Literary scene—which I've been touting for years, now. (5 of them, to be exact).

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Not the world's best quality (thanks to youtube) but...

Not the world's best quality (thanks to youtube) but 12-seconds of time-lapse footage that we'll be incorporating into tMoCP book trailer—premiering this December, 2011. (Get yer popcorn ready, kids). Why a Teen Study Bible? Why paper crane folding? Why so fast? These are good questions, all: but will there be answers? Stay tuned.

Maybe the only time in my life I'll ever be on the same...

Maybe the only time in my life I'll ever be on the same "lit-list" with—and within a few names of—the fabulous Michael Cunningham; nearly 2000 of us (writers) are now included. Click-the-pic to check out the full list, along with original #ows related work from Francine Prose, Jonathan Lethem, Lemony Snicket, Judith Butler, and many others.

I'm very lucky to be part of The Apocalypsies: a...

I'm very lucky to be part of The Apocalypsies: a super-cool collective of fiction writers, all of us publishing our debut YA novels in 2012. If we're still around, of course—if the world's still around. (I feel like I should cackle like the Count here or something, though I'm not sure why, given how little Dracula has to do with Armageddon Prophecies.)

Anyway, while you still have the chance (avoiding that cackle, again): click on over—through the tabloid image—to check out all these forthcoming novels and get some info on the good folks who wrote them.

I'm very excited to announce that on Monday, November 21st...

I'm very excited to announce that on Monday, November 21st (2011), I'll be in Chicago and on an author's panel (along with the fantastic David Levithan—BOY MEETS BOY and other wonderful authors) talking tMoCP as part of the ALAN workshops. This panel is part of the session: ON BEYOND STONEWALL: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE WITH LGBTQ CONTENT-PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. 
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Remembering Gerry Shapiro: Writer, Mentor, Friend.(Click pic)

Remembering Gerry Shapiro: Writer, Mentor, Friend.

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Remembering Gerry Shapiro: Writer, Mentor, Friend.

Remembering Gerry Shapiro: Writer, Mentor, Friend.

"I think a lot of stuff that gets called experimental, particularly within the American tradition, is..."

"I think a lot of stuff that gets called experimental, particularly within the American tradition, is in fact very staid, very predictable. Often that's the stuff that gets praised, at least in the short term. At the same time there's great work out there if you're willing to look for it…I'm also, as you might have gathered by the way I rarely say it, hostile to the term "experimental literature," which for me brings too much scientific baggage with it and also brings expectations from another realm. It brings with it images of mad scientists and beakers, and also the binary idea that experiments either succeed or fail, and thus forefronts the notion of success. I prefer "innovative literature" since it's a somewhat more neutral and non-discipline specific term and more likely to keep us focused on process."

- Brian Evenson on "Experimental Literature" at HTMLGIANT.com

more gum.

more gum.