Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 175
October 9, 2011
October 8, 2011
This Book Will Change Your Life - Domestic Apparitions by Meg Tuite.
Travel. Read. Fast. Amanda Knox. And apparitions. In the air. Cars. On living rooms floors. We are movement and read and Domestic Apparitions by the Meg Tuite. It is story as sketch. Family as fragment. Life as a series of disturbances that bounce into one another and congeal. It is also the female experience as filtered through violence and oppression and we recognize that women's experiences are far more wide-ranging than what we're reacting to, that there is love, friendship and family as a nurturing and safe place, but in a world where men endlessly project their sexual and aberrant fantasies onto women, where women's voices have been suppressed historically, and ignored, and continue to be suppressed in ignored in various forms in the literary world and beyond, these stories need to be told, highlighted and given a place to be broadcast. And in that way Domestic Apparitions is reminiscent of other work we've had the chance to read recently, books like Slut Lullabies by Gina Frangello, Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake by Cori Crooks and The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli by Ginnetta Correli, books that eschew metaphor and magical realism and try to capture something in real time in all its ugliness. Which makes them important and necessary, but aren't reduced by this necessaryness as something merely important, not when these books are this creative, thoughtful and bursting with storytelling talent. 
October 6, 2011
Some quite fine, much appreciated and most self-serving, LitStack Nouns of Assemblage love.
Quite nice to see some quite fine Nouns of Assemblage love at the LitStack courtesy of the also quite fine and surely nice Jason Lee Norman. Said appreciated love is also most self-serving as the Jason Lee Norman has singled-out several fine pieces including Dose of Crabs by TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer. Big thanks man. And everyone why not go and Assemblage now, cool, nice. 
October 5, 2011
October 4, 2011
Fathermucker is release date.
Today. Now. Get it. Got it. And if you're so inclined please feel free to check out our Fathermucker wordage. There you go. Feels good, right?
October 3, 2011
Remain in Light. Collin Kelley. eBook release excitedness. Hit it.
Remain in Light, the second novel in the Venus Trilogy by TWBCYL, Inc. favorite and This Podcast Will Change Your Life podcastee Collin Kelley is now available as an eBook with the trade paperback release scheduled for mid-January. You can learn more here, here and even here, and we think you might just want to. So please do hit it, because it just might change your life.
October 2, 2011
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. All full of Shift. And Bradley.
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We have new poems from old friend J. Bradley, which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and Suskindian reporting 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, Holy Cano!
J. Bradley reads two poems from Thiz Zine Will Change Your Life from J. Bradley on Vimeo.
