Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 144

We are View. We are also Keyboard McNair Death Star Tour and most appreciative.

Very appreciative and talking writing space, so mass thanks to the endlessly lovely Patricia Ann McNair for that.

Proud.

We are Day Seven baby. Goddess. And quite Bosworth.

Big truth that. Old friend Mel Bosworth, with special guest Christie Crutchfield, is in the house, and we are quite Day Seven indeed.

"Tanzer’s aim is to strip down grief to its essentials." My Father's House gets some Tom Williams Novella Month love. And likes it. A lot.

Big thanks to good friend and most craftsman-like writer rock star dude Tom Williams for his most kind words about My Father's House. Happy to be coupled as well with the Barry Graham and his painfully splendid Nothing or Next to Nothing. And  despite your inability to fully grasp Patrick Ewing's astounding levels of awesomeness, drinks on us for sure when next we meet. Now how about some excerpt? Word. 

"For it seems as though that what the book chronicles is all the mess that occurs and accumulates and one tries to run from but that in the end must be dealt with in order to move on. And of course, it’s Ben Tanzer: so it’s funny in all the right places, kinda sexy in a wrong, wrong, wrong kind of way, and replete with references to the Knicks of Pat Ewing." [image error]

This Book Will Change Your Life - Baby & Other Stories by Paula Bomer.

We suppose other authors write about just how much the promise of marriage and parenting can be so profoundly disappointing when you learn that the passion will fade, children can be monsters, and we have invested too much of our identity in the idea that one or both of these states of being will make us happy, or at the least, satisfied with our lives. We also suppose that there are other authors who write as devastatingly about substance abuse and adultery as escape and salve. Some who seek to capture the female experience of childbirth, sexuality, and aging, though there are few who do so in such stark detail and emotion, crafting crushing, at times, suffocating stories full of longing and desperation. What we don't suppose, however, is that even though we know our experience of Baby was impacted by reading a book wrapped in so much pain and dread, we've also never had the experience of reading a book as we did with Baby that made us kind of hate other writers for not writing books with the kind of detailed and realistic precision that Bomer does.

Day Six yo. Video. Myles interview. Baby Got Books. Goodness.

The Baby Got Books is always most supportive and we are way appreciative. We are also video, Myles interview (and guest) and "The New York Stories Tour 2012" Day Six. Word.

We are Day Five. Meta. And Burrow.

So Meta, so Burrow, so Day Five, so appreciative, and so not bad yo, so not bad at all. So please do hit it. And big thanks to the Ryan Rivas and Nathan Holic for making it happen.

Talking upstate New York, high school, storytelling, and going home with the Pete Lit on Day Four of the "The New York Stories Tour 2012."

True that. There is interview. And Pete Lit and we are most thankful.

We are The New York Stories Tour 2012 Day Three. We are also Ryan W. Bradley. His mad Chip Kiddian skills. And 1970's era Penguin paperbacks-inspired alternative cover New York Stories love.

Word. Day Three. And the Ryan W. Bradley talking covers, alternate and otherwise. Big thanks handsome.

We are so more The New York Stories Tour 2012 Day One. Defending our work. Szumowski. And Caleb J. Ross.

And the tour continues. Next stop hanging with the Caleb J. Ross and talking Devils Work all podcast-style and such.