Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 109

Wherein we find ourselves included in an Emerging Writers Network Short Story Month post on "MLP and Their Early Chapbooks" and are reminded in ways both self-serving and not what a terrific collection of writers and their work were captured therein.

For real. Check it out. Here. Now. Right?

There is Curbside Gold Membership - 2013. And it is most beautious.

With a Curbside Gold Membership you'll get all twelve of Curbside's Fall/Winter 2013 books that are coming out starting in September, and you will get them way before anyone else does. At $75, this comes to about $6 a book, including shipping to domestic locations, a steal and great way to get a hold of what will be a critically acclaimed selection. So, do read about the twelve books here and then please do hit that. It just might change your life.

Orphans line edits now yes.

You Can Make Him Like You is Mellow Pages Library. And we feel fine.

Quite fine. And more here. Lots more. 

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Sixty-Two - Hunger, starring the Pete Anderson.

Wonderfully good it is. All of it. The Podcast. The Anderson. And talking Wheatyard, Pete's debut novel which drops today yo. We should also note that Pete starred in the second Podcast we ever recorded - "What Becomes A Legend Most" - way back in February 2008. So please do enjoy yourself some Anderson love. And please do hit the Wheatyard post-haste. It just might change you life. 

What We Tweet About When We Tweet About Jason Collins.

Daddy Cool is live. Retail. And happy to change your life.

Nice, right? We think so and we think you will too. So please do hit it, however, and wherever, that works for you. And thank you in advance for doing so, very cool of you. 

Daddy Cool is live. Retail. And happy change to change your life.

Nice, right? We think so and we think you will too. So please do hit it, however, and wherever, that works for you. And thank you in advance for doing so, very cool of you. 

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. All Cagle. And full of Ghost.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We have new poem, Ghost of Paradise Isle by Brittany Cagle, which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and presidential library 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, Go Knicks, yo.

New joint. No Response. At the Nailed Magazine.

We are digging the Nailed and we very much want to thank the John Barrios for his interest in our new joint No Response. Drinks on us brother, whenever, and wherever, we can make that happen. Excerpt? Cool.


“I need to talk to you guys about something that happened on Friday,” I say as we walk to school on Monday morning.I am holding Noah’s hand as Myles zips along beside us. I could have said something at breakfast as they wiped the sleep from their eyes and ate their cereal, but I didn’t know if they would go to school after that.“There was a shooting at a school on Friday,” I say, “and Mommy and I want to be sure you hear about it from us and not someone else.”No response.“The important thing,” I continue, “is that it happened far away from here.”I say this because we read that this is what you are supposed to say."