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November 19, 2009
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Twenty-Two - "Flying Biscuits," starring Collin Kelley.
Yo, quite happy are we to share the new episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life with you. It is Episode Twenty-Two, it is titled "Flying Biscuits" and it stars one of our newest BFFs, Collin Kelley the author of the recent This Book Will Change Your Life selection Conquering Venus. We are most appreciative that Collin took the time to meet with us, we hope you enjoy our discussion and we are quite confident that will change your life, if only briefly. Meanwhile, for your additional...
November 18, 2009
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live, quite incredible and all Greg Santos. Or something like that.
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and quite incredible. Or something like that, so please see the below link. We have a new poem A Love Poem for Shelley by Hulk by Greg Santos, which we are way excited about, and, as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, a music selection from Jason Behrends and overseas prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links.
Finally, please note, that we think you are the bomb...
Finally, please note, that we think you are the bomb...
November 17, 2009
November 16, 2009
November 15, 2009
This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Forty-Four - "Book Club."
It is Week Forty-Four of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, our wonderfully self-absorbed effort to post one self-portrait per week for one year, and this week we are all Book Club. Now why is that you might ask? Because this week we were invited to discuss Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine at a local book club. Which we did. We also ate. Drank. And had much fun. Much. At this point you may be wondering if we would be happy to visit your book club as well. We would, so...
November 14, 2009
November 13, 2009
This Book Will Change Your Life - Put Your Head in My Lap by Claudia Smith. And an Orange Alert interview. We know.
It is time to roll out the current edition of This Book Will Change Will Your Life and today's entry is Put Your Head in My Lap by Claudia Smith. Claudia packs more emotion, loss and empathy into a handful of words than most writers do in stories than run on for pages and Put Your Head in My Lap is a terrific collection of flash fiction and short stories in a year that has already seen a number of terrific collections. We also had the chance recently to talk with Claudia and interview her...
November 12, 2009
The single greatest response to a rejection letter ever recevieved by This Zine Will Change Your Life or any zine, anywhere, any time. For real.
"Good choice! It's absolutely atrocious. My writing group advised me to send it around, which I impulsively did because I'm a former lawyer and it's new for me to write anything creative, but I wrote it in 15 minutes during the group's session, and it's really a brick of crap. I'm very sorry I sent it. I'm doing a class to see if I can get my writing to go in more promising directions. Thank you for replying."
Did we lie? And please note that this response was not only printed with permission ...
Did we lie? And please note that this response was not only printed with permission ...
November 11, 2009
An Iredell Prose Poem Deckfight Holyfield mashup. Or is it snarl? Huh.
The crew at Deckfight have not only taken the time to give a quite fine review to Jamie Iredell's new Orange Alert joint Prose. Poems. A Novel., they have even allowed Jamie to riff on their Friday Five segment, in this case discussing the five best things Jamie has recently read. All good stuff, quite good stuff, and for more good stuff be sure to check out our podcast with Jamie as well, because collectively, we are very confident that all this Iredell will change your life. Well, briefly ...
