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This Book Will Change Your Life - Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake by Cori Crooks.

We recently had the chance to read Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake by Cori Crooks and to say it makes for an intriguing companion piece to Dear Everybody by Michael Kimball or even The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli by Ginetta Correli would be most accurate we think. It is memoir as scrapbook, and its pages are filled with shreds of memory, swirling fragments of truths and untruths and the detritus, both physical and emotional, we accumulate across a lifetime. It is beautiful and...

Hush Up And Listen Stinky Poo Butt by Ken Sparling.

Quite excited to check out Hush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt by Ken Sparling from our new BFF's at Artistically Declined. And when we do we promise to report back to you like post-haste. In the interim though please feel free to take a look yourself because from what we understand it is most likely to change your life. Finally, in an effort to keep up with the theme of the last several days, please consider reading Ken's quite excellent interview with Sean Lovelace at the Big Other as well...

Craig Finn. Eric Spitznagel. Vanity Fair. Blessed.

We know, we know, we are so interview this week, but what can we do, they keep coming, and they keep changing lives. Today, we have TBWCYL, Inc. favorite and author of Fast Forward: Confessions of a Porn Screenwriter Eric Spitznagel talking Catholicism, KISS and Goldman Sachs none other than Craig Finn the lead singer of The Hold Steady in Vanity Fair. Blessed indeed and excerpt below.

You also do a lot of finger pointing at the crowd during your live shows. But somehow it never seems as...

Steve Himmer. Fictionaut. Goodness.

We may just be a little interview happy these days, but it was quite fun to see Steve Himmer of Necessary Fiction fame being interviewed this week at the Fictionaut. Steve was quite awesome to work with on our story More Than Anything which appeared earlier this year at the Necessary Fiction and we hope others will get the opportunity to work with him as we have. We also hope you will take a look at the interview and for your reading pleasure we have provided you with a brief excerpt below.

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Tim Jones-Yelvington. Orange Alert. Enjoy.

There are many exciting writers both young and old busting out in Chicago these days and we were geeked to read an interview at the Orange Alert with one of the former, Tim Jones-Yelvington, who is up to many cool things, including as you may recall, what we can only assume was the highlight of his year thus far, appearing in our award-winning Fire Sale video. Narcissistic hype aside, we do hope you will take a look at the interview which we have quite generously excerpted below.



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What's your worst dating story? TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine Giveaway .

The always lovely Lori Hettler and her team at TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog are giving away a signed copy of Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine. The copy they are giving away was purchased by the also lovely P.H. Madore and his crew at Dispatch Litareview who bought a number of copies for this very purpose, hype the book, hype the Litareview, spread joy, change lives. TNBBC's giveaway runs through May 1st and the details are thus:

"If you want a shot at winning this signed copy o...

This Book Will Change Your Life - Beautiful Piece by Joseph G. Peterson.

On page 66 of Chicago author Joseph G. Peterson's fabulous and hallucinatory noir Chicago heatwave novel Beautiful Piece he writes, "Life is repetitious. Oh, I know. That's what I love about it." Which he then repeats several times. And that's the thing about this novel, the scenes and dialog endlessly repeat, constantly circling back and collapsing into themselves, while slowly releasing more and more details and expanding on what you think you know as the story both soars and grinds...

submishmash visits the HTMLGIANT. And goodness ensues.

Quite nice to see the always awesome Michael A. Fitzgerald interviewed about submishmash at the HTMLGIANT this week. This Zine Will Change Your Life is a proud member of the submishmash revolution and we hope you will take a look. In the interim though please feel free to peruse the below excerpt.
I want to go back to something you said earlier. The idea that you can make things easier for writers by making things easier for publishers really blows me away. It's so forward-thinking. I think...