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The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and enjoying the contact. Or something like that.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and enjoying the contact. Or something like that. We have a new piece of flash fiction Hamam by Julian Baker, which we are way excited about, and, as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, a music selection from Jason Behrends and epically legislative 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...

The Asleep book tour 2010 is coming. You want some? Of course you do.

TBWCYL, Inc. favorite and CCLaP stablemate, is that right, or is it label mate, that doesn't sound right either frankly, anyway, Sally Weigel of Too Young to Fall Asleep fame, and a This Zine Will Change Your Life contributor, is embarking on a virtual book tour in support of Too Young to Fall Asleep, which is not so dissimilar from the tour TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer went on following the release of Repetition Patterns, and we here to not only hype it, but let you know that we...

Nirvana. No, sorry, not that Nirvana, its actually the new joint from The Hold Steady courtesy of Pitchfork and Matt Bell. So, as we said, Nirvana.

Premiere: Hold Steady: "Hurricane J"

We are submishmash, hear us roar.

This Zine Will Change Your Life has joined the submishmash revolution.
What does this mean for you though?
It means that all future submissions to This Zine Will Change Your Life will now be managed through submishmash.
Because we are obsessive though, please note, that if you have submitted up through this very moment, you're cool.
Meanwhile, what does this mean for us?
It means that the skies are bluer, the grass is greener and everyone is way more beautiful, even you, and you already...

This (chap) Book Will Change Your Life - Congratulations! There's No Last Place if Everyone is Dead by Matt Debenedictis.

The fact that Matt Debenedictis finds us sexually attractive has nothing to do with anything we say in today's post, but let's be honest, it doesn't hurt. Still, there we were, the wife was in the middle of a long phone call, the weights were lifted and the Wii was played. And there it was, Congratulations! There's No Last Place if Everyone is Dead by the Debenedictis, staring us in the face, and demanding to be consumed. Which we did, and here's what we think. Debenedictis knows from anger...

Amazon sort of sucketh, albeit in an awesomely sucketh sort of way.

All we wanted to do was post a review and some blurbage on Amazon for the Masciotra's new joint Working on a Dream - The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen. So we went with the following:
"David Masciotra is the bastard love child of Lester Bangs and William Julius Wilson."
But it didn't post, nothing, no post. So we wrote Amazon, and we said, hey Amazon, why no post and Amazon said the following:
"I read your recent review of "Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political...

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Man.

Mesler squared.

TBWCYL, Inc. favorite, This Zine Will Change Your Life contributor and endlessly awesome dude and writer Corey Mesler has hit the rare bi-fecta and has not one but two books coming out at once. As we said he's awesome. Now go check them out, cool? Awesome.

To be filed under, "We now know where all of our spare time will soon be spent." Barbie introduces Mad Men dolls. Sweet.

The Tiny Caterpillar and The Great Big Tree by Kelly Moran.

Very nice to see some kind words for TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Kelly Moran's new children's book The Tiny Caterpillar and the Big Tree. Kelly is a wonderfully talented writer working across a variety of genres and we hope you will take a look. Who knows, it just might change your, or the child in your life's, life.