Pela Via's Blog, page 3
October 24, 2011
August 22, 2011
Dispatches from Thunder Road: Pela Via by Mlaz Corbier
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In the wake of the Warmed and Bound release, the generous and elusive Mlaz Corbier interviewed a few very lucky people for Thunderdome, mine found here.
July 22, 2011
Interview on Booked Podcast
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Literary podcast duo Livius Nedin and Robb Olson tackled a plethora of Warmed and Bound contributors in their series The Warmed and Bound Sessions. My interview is available for download and streaming here.
*Includes the original song by Mr Via, 'Sandwich Girl'
The Warmed and Bound Anthology
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Edited by Pela Via, Foreword by Steve Erickson
Velvet Press 2011, Available now in Paperback (408 pages), Kindle and Epub
With stories by Matt Bell, Tim Beverstock, Blake Butler, Vincent Louis...
"The writers of the Velvet are contemporary fiction's most effective and least self-conscious aesthetic guerrillas … The result is fiction at once conceived from high artistic intent and executed with depraved populist energy." —Steve Erickson, author of ZEROVILLE
Warmed and Bound: On Sale Now
Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology
Edited by Pela Via, Foreword by Steve Erickson
Velvet Press 2011, Available now in Paperback (408 pages), Kindle and Epub
With stories by Matt Bell, Tim Beverstock...
"The writers of the Velvet are contemporary fiction's most effective and least self-conscious aesthetic guerrillas … The result is fiction at once conceived from high artistic intent and executed with depraved populist energy." —Steve Erickson, author of ZEROVILLE
July 11, 2011
A (Second) Conversation With Caleb J. Ross and Pela Via
Stranger Will Tour Stop #44
What follows is a conversation between myself and author Caleb J. Ross. Why? Because Caleb is a comic genius who likes to engage in serious in-depth discussions about writing; I have a stupid sense of humor and will do what's necessary to keep a funny person nearby.
Pela Via: Thanks for talking to me again, Caleb. You are one of the hardest workers in contemporary fiction; I always love a chance to corner you into a long, stifling conversation. Are you as prolific a...
April 11, 2011
"Pela's" by Mlaz Corbier
At Trouser Man's back alley nothing but poison enters your lungs; there's only one place in the whole of Cursan Town where it's harder to breathe, and it isn't at the fishes markets either. It's at Pela's, a peculiar shop for all your most magical needs.
Legend tells the witch who owns the place lived for more than a hundred years though it looks as if she's in her salad days still. Her lips are as sweet as the poisonous air surrounding her, redder than Old Nick's arse. This woman holds what ...
January 1, 2011
"Pela Via" by Richard Thomas
Her laughing blue eyes dance at the edge of my fading vision.
The bar is cloudy and moist. Blanketed in darkness, the gash at my side throbs. A rivulet trickles down my side. Her cigarette lies crushed in the ashtray, a thin wisp of grey smoke drifting towards the ceiling. Lipstick in a faded merlot rims a tall glass filled with two trembling cubes, a bruised lime and regret.
I'm shivering now. She never touched me, only peeled back her lips into a grin, her whispers full of death and...
October 15, 2010
How to Befriend a Writer by Pela Via
Dialog With Richard Thomas, in the October 2010 issue of Word Riot.
September 23, 2010
Velvet Podcast: Don't Pull My Hair Unless You Mean It
Writers Richard Thomas (Transubstantiate), Nik Korpon (Stay God), Pela Via and Nic Young grind out the topic of sex and violence in fiction and their complex relationship to sadistic bedfellows, love and shock.
