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The New York Stories. Out in the world it is. The ARCs anyway.

Pumped to have gotten one of the first signed editions of @bentanzer's new book! Can't wait to read… https://t.co/fXmkOP8zPX
— Sam Slaughter (@slaughterwrites) April 10, 2015

This Podcast Will Change Your Life Artistically Declined Tweet hype.

Two of our favorite people, @BenTanzer & @HoshoMcCreesh in conversation. Doesn't get much better than that! http://t.co/6bGLiLZqun
— ArtisticallyDeclined (@BuckTweetADP) April 8, 2015

All The Lonely Boy in New York by the Jeffrey Barken there is. Which is most awesome when you stop to think about it.

Most awesome indeed. And more here. Totally.

Men's Health asked us to revisit "The Penis Stories" from Lost in Space and having accepted the challenge, we chose to talk fathering, penis size, and swagger.

So please do enjoy it. Excerpt? Word.

"Like any parent, I'm terrified that I'll fail my kids in ways I can’t even contemplate yet. And also in ways I can entirely contemplate but also might be aspects of life I never really understood in the first place, which is just as terrifying.For instance, I'm pretty sure it's my job as a father to teach my sons how to act like they have the biggest dick in the room, even when they do not. If my sons just had the biggest dicks in the first place, it would save me some work and anxiety.When I was barely older than my oldest son is now, I was on the high school wrestling team and there was a senior named Donald whose penis was at least a foot long, soft.Donald would sit in the locker room naked. Holding his penis in one hand, he would casually swing it back and forth as he held court and expounded on life in all of its myriad complications.I would sit there, mesmerized, and it’s even quite possible that he hypnotized me.It’s also quite possible that Donald's enormous schlong did him no favors, and he's no more the CEO of Fortune 500 company than I am. But hell if he wasn’t the most confident guy in a room full of confident guys."

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Five - The Most Powerful Force In The Universe, starring the Hosho McCreesh.

So totally McCreesh we are. And so totally powerful it is. There is also podcast, not to mention drinking, poetry, New Mexico sunsets, and love, so much love. So do hit it, it just might change your life as it has ours. 

"I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life." Maya Angelou

"My (Not Quite) Cancer Years (1999-2004)" is Entropy. And most awesome that is, yo.

No really, most awesome, and most appreciated. Excerpt? Word.

Herman Munster Tells Me He is Going to Put a Camera in My Penis.Dr. W. sends me to see Dr. F. Dr. F. is an Urologist. He has a square jaw and a head like Herman Munster. His neck is always red and irritated. He doesn’t say much. So, what do you think? I ask. I think it’s probably a kidney stone, he says. Really? Yes, he says, or a tumor. A tumor? Yes, but that’s doubtful at your age. So, what do we do, I ask. A Cystoscopy, he says. What’s that? We’re going to look inside your bladder and see what’s there. And how do you do that? I ask. There’s a tube and a camera and we go through your penis. Yeah, so, I’ll be asleep for that, right? No. No? No, you’ll be awake and we’ll do it right here in the office, he says.
(1999)

Georgetown defeats Houston 84-75.

The New York Stories is Downtown Writers Jam, Vol. 4: Storytellers on July 15th. Too soon?

Maybe, regardless, we're geeked. More here.

"Beautiful, melancholic and eerily quiet every time the thunder finishes rolling." After the Flood. Dead End Follies. Appreciations. Endless.

Totally. And massively too. Excerpt? Word.

"The Chicago-based author's quiet brand of domestic tragedy, often best portrayed in his collections of short stories, treats you like fine wine: it gets better as you both get older, and After the Flood might be his finest yet."