Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 102
July 3, 2013
Happy Birthday.
"Writers speak stench." Franz Kafka
July 2, 2013
Backed yo. Take One.
More. So much more.
July 1, 2013
"It's beautifully written." My Father's House gets some Goodreads love. And likes it. A lot.
Much appreciated that. Thanks, many, to the Jason Donnelly. And drinks, also many, on us, somewhere, somehow, soon. Excerpt? Cool."If I can offer any recommendation, it's read this book while you're on the treadmill at the gym. Not only will it keep your mind off the burn, but it'll inspire you to go further, the only thing I can apologize for is the looks you'll get when it's not sweat falling down your cheeks, it's tears."
June 30, 2013
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. All Post-Modern. And full of Hemmings.
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We have new story, Post-Modern by old friend Kyle Hemmings, which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and DOMA not prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Finally, please note, we are hoping more of you will submit comix, and music, novel excerpts, and art, and video, yes, video, and combinations there of. And most finally, Proud, yes, very, though we would certainly feel better if the Voting Rights Act had been treated less shabbily. June 29, 2013
June 28, 2013
New joint. Languid. As an Exquisite Duet with the Anna March. At the JMWW.
Yes, that Anna March. And big thanks to the Meg Tuite for all of it. Excerpt? Word."Baby you are raw and nothing can scorch you. And we are naked, scuffed, and covered in a fine layer of glistening sweat and scum. Smiling and languid, as we eat Ben & Jerry's, and ignore all those things that must be ignored, dying fathers, dead-end jobs, and baby's that won't make themselves."
June 27, 2013
June 26, 2013
This Book Will Change Your Life - As a Machine and Parts by the Caleb J. Ross.
We are so not sure how we missed the actual release of As a Machine and Parts by the Caleb J. Ross here, but we did. Like really missed it. We also read it and blurbed it and we are happy to report that it changed our lives. We believe it may just change your life as well. So please do hit that. Like now. Well done."There was once a Marvel comic book called "What if..." and in it Uatu the Watcher, a bald sage-like character with an enormous head spun speculative tales of alternative versions of the Marvel Universe you thought you knew. With As a Machine & Parts Caleb J. Ross continues to stake his claim as his generation's Watcher, which should not be construed as a commentary on his beautiful, yet clearly fake head of hair, but instead as an observation about the scope of his imagination and his ongoing vision of what the world can be, might be and just maybe will be if Ross has anything to say about it."
