Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 234

How about a crazy, freaking awesome, dude-laden, will quite possibly change your life Orange Alert reading at The Whistler this Sunday, April 18th?

Scott McClanahan. Sam Pink. Spencer Dew. Brandon Will. And TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer. Yeah.

Vikings. The other. Fathers and sons. Romance. The Middle East. Friendship. Disability. Fear. Difference. And Jay Baruchel. How to Train Your Dragon.

There will be grease stains. That and kismet. Well, and maternal wisdom.

Grease Stains, Kismet and Maternal Wisdom by the Mel Bosworth is forthcoming from the Aqueous Books. Nice.

"Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world."

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live, somewhat rainy and all Timothy Raymond. Or something like that.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and somewhat rainy. Or something like that. We have a new story Girl by Timothy Raymond, which we are way excited about, and, as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, a music selection from Jason Behrends and nuclear prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Also, all submissions from this point forward are being managed via our good friends at submishmash and we are...

More Weigel. More Asleep. More Podcast. And more Mud Luscious Press.

It's like Day Four Hundred of the quite awesome Asleep book tour 2010 and today Sally and Too Young to Fall Asleep are making an appearance at the Mud Luscious Press. The crew there asked if we could help out with this stop and we are happy to let you know that we have and keeping with the themes, or if you prefer compulsions, of the last week we recorded a podcast with Sally, Episode Twenty-Six of our ongoing This Podcast Will Change Your Life series for those of you scoring at home, and it...

Coolness. Timothy Olyphant. Coolness. Elmore Leonard. Coolness. Westerns. Coolness. Walter Goggins. Coolness. Kentucky. Coolness. Justified.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Twenty-Five - "Steel Bars."

It's true, there has been much podcast mania this week here at TBWCYL, Inc., for example, Episodes Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four starring Mel Bosworth and Gina Frangello respectively, and yes, there is more to come soon, but for now let's savor the newest edition to the series, Episode Twenty-Five starring TBWCYL, Inc. favorite David Masciotra, author of the quite rocking Working on a Dream - The Political Progressive Vision of Bruce Springsteen. Who knows, it just might change your life. And...

Richard Simmons Goodreads love.

Quite excited and most appreciative to see that J.A. Tyler and his crew at Mud Luscious Press have added I Am Richard Simmons to the Goodreads. Thanks dude, drinks on us for sure when next we meet.

This Book - Slut Lullabies by Gina Frangello - and Podcast - "Quasi-Covered" - Will Change Your Life.

We had the great pleasure of not only reading Chicago author Gina Frangello's fantastic short story collection Slut Lullabies this week, but sitting down with Gina for the latest edition of This Podcast Will Change Your Life, which for those of you tracking these kinds of things is Episode Twenty-Four in the series. We would add that we conducted this podcast on the north side of Chicago and we are adding this because in so many ways we were both far from home, even though Gina grew-up in...