Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 254
October 22, 2009
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live, hitting the road and all Sarah Ann Watts.Or something like that.
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and hitting the road. Or something like that, so please see the below link.We have a new story Any Road by Sarah Ann Watts, which we are way excited about, and, as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, a music selection from Jason Behrends and public option 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, all of you. Big...
October 21, 2009
October 20, 2009
October 19, 2009
New BFF Mel Bosworth rocks an excerpt from Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine. And changes lives. Many, many lives.
The ever cool, uber-published and quite handsome Mel Bosworth recently taped himself reading an excerpt from Most Likely Your Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine as part of his ongoing Mel Bosworth Reads Things video series and we are ridiculously appreciative. Many thanks Mel, and tea on us for sure when next we hit the New England. Meanwhile, please note, that this video kicks off an odd and upcoming flurry of attention for Most Likely and TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer, so please...
October 18, 2009
We interrupt our not so regular progamming to give a big shout-out to Calvin Trillin who somehow always seems to get it entirely right.
What Whoopi Goldberg ('Not a Rape-Rape'), Harvey Weinstein ('So-Called Crime') et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski
A youthful error? Yes, perhaps.
But he's been punished for this lapse--
For decades exiled from LA
He knows, as he wakes up each day,
He'll miss the movers and the shakers.
He'll never get to see the Lakers.
For just one old and small mischance,
He has to live in Paris, France.
He's suffered slurs and other stuff.
Has he not suffered quite enough?
How can...
October 17, 2009
This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Forty - "Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go."
It is Week Forty of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, our fully self-absorbed effort to post one self-portrait per week for one year, and this week we are all "Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go." You see, there is this POV documentary of the same title and we were asked to write an opinion piece in response to it. Then there was a screening at the Erickson Institute followed by a panel discussion and we sat on the panel. And now we have taken a self-portrait. So there you go. Now, if you...
October 16, 2009
October 15, 2009
Collin Kelley rocks The Page 69 Test. Not that we would expect anything less from him.
We are quite happy to see that TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Collin Kelley, the author of Conquering Venus, has been invited to write an essay about the book for the always cool The Page 69 Test. We do hope you will take a look, and if you are so inclined please feel free to check out our piece on Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine as well. 
October 14, 2009
The Ostdick. Brothers. Blackbirds. Staccato Fiction.
Unabashed we are when it comes to the Nick Ostdick. Always have been. And proud of it. Still, please ignore this and go read his new piece The Blackbirds in Lime Rock, Connecticut anyway. It is the goods and it is quite Ostdickian. It might even change your life.
