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Skinny Legs and All. This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Amy Guth, the Pilcrow Lit Fest and So New publishing.

Check it out, the 2009 Pilcrow Lit Fest is so coming soon, and we are so geeked to be paneling and podcasting there again this year, that we thought, why not do a podcast with Pilcrow literary queen, killer writer, and good friend, the Amy Guth, so she can so hype it. So we did. And so, without further adieu, we present This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Sixteen, "Skinny Legs and All," where we talk with Ms. Guth about this year's Pilcrow, her new role at So New media, and her favorite

This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, Week Seventeen - "Shameless."

We could pretend we aren't self-absorbed, and yet This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, our effort to post one self-portrait per week for one year clearly disproves that. We could also pretend that we aren't shameless, but this week's self-portrait, which appropriately enough we have titled "Shameless, would disprove that as well. So, we hope you will continue to embrace us despite our many flaws. We also hope you will consider tracking this project on the Flickr, and maybe, just maybe send

We just want Judy Blume to know that we love and support her.

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The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and trying not to think about baseball. Or something like that.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and trying not to think about baseball. Or something like that. We have a new poem, Terry by Jason Fisk, which we are way excited about, and, as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, a music selection from Jason Behrends, and increasingly confident consumer 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]

1 Machine. Are you geeked?

Geeked? Yes. Our old friend Mark Hendryx of the band Other World has at least briefly reinvented himself as 1 Machine and he and his crew have just released a new self-titled CD which we think you need to go get now. Nice. Thank you. And nice work Mark, you brother really kind of rock it. [image error]

The Slide by Kyle Beachy.

Okay, so at first we're thinking coming-of-age tale, and typical in some ways, drugs, loss, sex, fractured families, and on and on, but good, the Kyle Beachy can definitely write, and then we're thinking, nice, it's also a celebration of St. Louis and the mid-west, and we like that, its different, and again, the Beachy can you know, write, but then like 200 pages in, its something all together different, a story suddenly filled with twists and turns, chaos, violence, and goodness; a story we cou

Do you think Yoda has something to do with this?

We were intrigued to see that Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine ranks #329 on the Tower Books list of bestselling books in the category of "Fairy Tales, Folkore & Mythology." While we find this absolutely thrilling, we are confused given the books actual themes, content and characters. We are thinking that this might have something to do with Yoda's sage albeit minimalist presence throughout the story, but we must admit we are not quite sure. Maybe you know the reason for this though,

This Self-Portrait WIll Change Your Life, Week Sixteen - "Love You, Whole Bunch."

We could tell you that this week's addition to the our terrifically self-absorbed project This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, our effort to post one self-portrait per week for one year, is titled "Love You, Whole Bunch" for reasons driven purely by campy kitchen tchotchkes, but the fact is we do love you a whole bunch, all of you, we just can't help ourselves, and frankly we don't care. If you love us too, or even if you don't, and you want to follow this project in its entirety, please fe

Are you serious, we missed Buy Indie Day. How about we just buy indie everyday?

So, yeah we went to visit our good friends at the most excellent blog Baby Got Books and learned that Buy Indie Day is on May 1st and we totally missed hyping it. Which makes us kind of lame, but that doesn't mean that we, and you, can't buy indie today, tomorrow, or really any day of the week, right? And we're not just talking about buying books by TBWCYL, Inc. Ben Tanzer, though we totally support that, no we're talking about buying from any and all of our indie brothers and sisters, be that b

This Zine Will Change Your Life has re-opened for submissions. And we couldn't be happier. You?

And here are your This Zine Will Change Your Life submission guidelines:

Genre.

Fiction, creative nonfiction, comix and poetry.

Word count.

1200 - 1500 words is preferred, shorter is great, though up to 2000 words is cool if it rocks.

What we like.

We like it funny, and dark, some times inappropriate, always sparse, and not so experimental or speculative, not that we're sure what the latter means.

Payment.

None. But that doesn't mean that we don't love you. Because we do.

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