Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 207
December 8, 2010
Killing in the name of. Chicago lit scene love in the Brooklyn Rail.
Quite thrilled, honored, all of it to see TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer's "Of course, a scene is more than its supernovas. A scene also requires some kind of collective mass, writers knocking at the door—some door, any door—and reminding us that there can't be a scene without hunger, and spew, and work, always work, and wanting something bigger, and believing something greater is waiting, always waiting, if you keep pushing, and wanting it. Chicago has those writers in droves, so many good writers in so many parts of the city that you can barely throw a rock in any direction and not hit one of them in the head. Talent alone though isn't enough to make the argument for a scene here in our beloved Second City, especially when you could argue that just as many writers, per capita anyway, reside in New York City, Los Angeles, and Ann Arbor."
December 7, 2010
Some quite unexpected Karen the Small Press Librarian Repetition Patterns love.
The always awesome Karen Lillis has a way cool project going on at her blog Karen the Small Press Librarian where she is inviting indie writers to list their three favorite indie releases of the last two years. We have been working on our submission and were quite, quite geeked to see Repetition Patterns make an appearance on today's dual posting by long-time TBWCYL, Inc. favorites Ken Wohlrob and Tim Hall. Big thanks all-around some excerpt below, and look for our list soon, so, so soon."In many ways, Ben's writing reminds me of Mike's (Faloon) in how unforced it all is. There seems no effort behind it. And the stories are always great. This e-only collection was a nice step up for Ben. He took it to a whole different level compared to his previous work. And I always like that he writes good female characters, something too many male writers can't do very well. I also liked that CCLaP was experimenting with a different publishing model for this release and doing it as a digital- only release."
December 6, 2010
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December 4, 2010
Feel the hype. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Spencer Dew.
One-time This Podcast Will Change Your Life podcastee, contributor to This Zine Will Change Your Life and all-around TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Spencer Dew has a new joint out, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres from the quite stellar local publisher Another New Calligraphy, and we are quite stoked,so stoked in fact, that we want you to be stoked as well, so please do be stoked, please do take a look and if you a moment please feel free to read Spencer's essay on the writing of the book at the decomP, got it, good.[image error]
