Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 267
June 11, 2009
June 10, 2009
1,919,586.
We've have always had this feeling that crossing the 2 million unsold mark on Amazon was the point of no return. We'll let you know.
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June 9, 2009
Stories by Scott McClanahan.
Endlessly conversational and engaging, Stories is a series of more or less intertwined fictional non-fiction folk tale influenced pieces full of giants, picnic table sex and dead deer. It is an America we rarely visit unless we grew-up there and it is the bomb. Read it now, it just might change your life. [image error]
June 8, 2009
June 7, 2009
A cold and rainy 2009 Printers Row Lit Fest, Orange Alert, Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine, interviews and such.
More or less in order. We hit the 2009 Printers Row Lit Fest yesterday. We worked the Orange Alert table with the Behrends. We sold copies of Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine. We hyped the new Orange Alert joint Sunlight at Midnight, Darkness at Noon. We did an interview with La Guth and Chicago Subtext, more on that soon, we think. And we had coffee with author David Masciotra (and his lovely girlfriend Sara), who has a new book which we are way geeked about on Bruce Springsteen, hi
June 5, 2009
This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Twenty-One - "41."
Uh, no, titling this shot "41" isn't about H.W., its about Week Twenty-One of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, our effort to post one self-portrait of ourselves per week for one year; inviting you to both follow the project in its entirety on the Flickr and consider submitting one of your own to thiszinewillchangeyourlife@yahoo.com so we can post it right here on This Blog Will Change Your Life and well, you know, adding one more year. That's all. [image error]
June 4, 2009
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and imperturbably poised. Or something like that.
The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and imperturbably poised. Or something like that. We have a new poem, Zephyr Row by Jim Heavily, which we are way excited about, and, as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, a music selection from Jason Behrends and endlessly bonused prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Finally, please note, that we have re-opened for submissions. Nice.[image error]
June 3, 2009
New City Lit 50.
The New City annual Lit 50 list is out, with the theme this year being "Who really books in Chicago." They decided not to focus on any straight-up writers or poets this year, which is probably good for our egos here at headquarters, and they sort of ignored the whole blogosphere, for example the fine team at Pete Lit, one of our first podcasts, or the crew at Orange Alert, not to mention the ladies of QUICKIES! and Pilcrow, podcasted here and here respectively, but they still listed a number of
June 2, 2009
Chris Ware. Bad at Sports. Fanboy love.
We are unabashed fans of comix/cartoonist/writer guy Chris Ware and his comic/book/graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth. We are fans of the arts podcast Bad at Sports and in fact once interviewed the BAS team for the now long defunct Third Coast Press. We are fanboys. BAS are fanboys. BAS recently did a piece with Chris Ware. It is the best of all worlds. Our worlds anyway. Please check it out. And enjoy. [image error]
June 1, 2009
Blurbage, Joseph Goosey and Josh Maday. What, that isn't enough?
Lately we have been asked to write blurbs for a variety of books and chapbooks and we have been thrilled to do so. All the requests have come from writers or publishers we really dig and we always enjoy the chance to stumble into things we might not have read otherwise. The first of those blurbs has come to life and we wanted to mention this because it gives us the chance to hype not just the chapbook that we blurbed, Wet and Dripping, which is quite good, but the poet behind it Joseph Goosey, w
