Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 6

"Masterful modern storytelling." The New York Stories. Thankful still.

Most thankful in fact. Excerpt? For sure.

"The New York Stories exceeds on the old maxim: show, don’t tell. Here in Ben Tanzer’s modern Yankee Yoknapatawpha, the reader is a third wheel in the lives of the residents of the author’s fictionalized hometown, and is allowed to feel and experience first hand, rather than consume from an unnamed omniscience. Beyond anecdotal, the New York Stories eschews linear storytelling in favor of juxtaposing memory and nightmare, moving in fits and starts, so that the reader, when the NY Stories is at its best, can honestly be left confounded if his or her memories are their own or one of Tanzer’s vignettes."

Bughouse #1 is quite free e-download. And quite thankful for that we are.

So do hit it, it just might change your life.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. All Morning. And full of Elias.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live, and we are thrilled to have new poem, Morning by new friend Carolyn Elias, and (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and Louisiana Governor race what prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Finally, please note, we are hoping more of you will submit comix, and music, novel excerpts, and art, and video, yes, video, and combinations there of. And most finally, Happy Thanksgiving, yo.

"Tanzer's greatest talent is his ability to make the personal universal." The New York Stories. The Clayton Smith. The appreciations.

Endless. All of it. Excerpt? Totally.

"All of these tales center around a fictional small town in upstate New York, the sort of unimpressive geographical black hole that you hate growing up in but don't ever seen quite able to escape. Maybe this collection speaks so loudly to me because I'm from a town just like Tanzer's fictional Two Rivers, New York, but I think the fundamental truth of the place and its people is rooted in all of us; we grow up thinking we know everything, and that everything is tragic, and we grow old learning that the tragedy is what we've made for ourselves."

And then there is RIFT by Kathy Fish and Robert Vaughan coming so soon.

Soon as in next month soon. And more here.

Made me smile this did.

The Single Stroke Seven.

Coming so soon it is. More here. Much more.

The Single Stroke Seven, yo.

Coming so soon it is. More here. Much more.

The New York Stories is all Pungent Parlour and CCLaP Chicago Book Expo 2015 Preview at City Lit Books, yo.

Thanks to @cclapcenter, @citylit_books, @jason_pettus, @BenTanzer, @josephgpeterson & the rest of the readers for a great event last night!— Chicago Book Expo (@ChicagoBookExpo) November 20, 2015

Not Quite So Stories by the David S. Atkinson is so March 2016 release and quite possibly so pre-order too.

And much more here. For reals. Really reals.