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"An excellent balance of sincerity, realistic advice, and humor." Lost in Space. The Entropy. Wonderbar.

Quite insanely appreciate of this we are. And drinks on us when next we meet Entropy and Quincy Rhoads, for sure. Excerpt? Cool.

"It’s difficult to think about disliking your children at times or being helpless as a new parent, but, frankly, these are some of the most prevalent feelings that comes alongside raising children. This candor probably doesn’t sell copies of What to Expect…, but if more books could set aside their puerile approach many new dads would be better off. Lost in Space strikes an excellent balance of sincerity, realistic advice, and humor. I certainly know what I’m bringing to the next “dadchelor party” I’m invited to."

The Dark Cave Between My Ribs. The Loren Kleinman. Hit it now thank you.

More here, here, or even here, yes totally.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life - The AWP 2014 Edition Part II - Scorched Earth, starring the Justin Daugherty.

Truth. We are so Daugherty. And podcast. We are also Sundog Lit, AWP, VIDA, Cormac McCarthy, and much, much, more yo. So do hit it. It just might change your life.

100 Words on Love. Fathers and Sons. The Good Men Project. Lost in Space.

Totally. All of that. Here. Excerpt? Word.

"There is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex."
There is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co... is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co...
There is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co...
There is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co... is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co...
There is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co...
There is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co... is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co... is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co...
There is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co... is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co...
There is rage and Star Wars and eyebrows sliced by baby beds and Caillou with his horrible bald head and colic and bed sex - See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-co...

Wherein we are Lost in Space/Gigantic Sequins reading with the quite amazing Tom Pescatore, Jennifer Werner, and Holiday Campanella at the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym on April 7th in Fishtown and look forward to seeing you there thank you cool done.

Lost in Space is being released today. Buy. Hype. Rejoice. Anything. Thanks.

We apologize for this mostly informal blog post as a means for letting you know about this exciting news. Not that this means we love you any less, and who knows, by the time you're done reading this we may even love you more. We do want to let you know though that our new essay collection Lost in Space is being released today. Which you may already know, which makes this repetitive, and we are now heading down some kind lit hype worm hole. You may not know, however, that Chicago Magazine said, "Tanzer lets readers in on the softer, scarier, truer side of being a family man." Though we suppose you do now. You can learn more about Lost in Space at the Curbside Splendor website and our hope is that you will consider getting a copy (many Barnes & Nobles are carrying it, really, we know, though please do hit Amazon and Indiebound as needed) for yourself, your neighbors, family, co-workers, and best friends, hyping it, or some combination there of. Either way though, thanks for taking a moment to read this and we hope you are doing well.

"The only behavior I’m trying to figure out is mine." Interview. Lost in Space. Newcity Lit. Wonderbar.

Quite wonderbar that. And most appreciative. Excerpt? Word.

One of the most striking essays has you watching “Star Wars” with your sons, and you want to have this discussion with them but they weren’t responding the way that you wanted them to.
My dad would say, “When you were a kid I’d say, ‘Look, there’s a cow outside the window,’ and all you’d want to do is look in the ashtrays. It didn’t matter that there was a cow on the side of the road.” There’s that beginning piece where you just want your kid to look at anything, and then the second piece where you want them to look at things like you look at them, which is worse, but then there’s this third level, which is like, “heeey, they’re excited, I’m excited, let’s use this to teach.” I’m sure there’s a part that’s like, “why can’t you just let them enjoy ‘Star Wars’”; for a long time, they didn’t want to watch it at all. - See more at: http://lit.newcity.com/2014/03/17/fin...One of the most striking essays has you watching “Star Wars” with your sons, and you want to have this discussion with them but they weren’t responding the way that you wanted them to.
My dad would say, “When you were a kid I’d say, ‘Look, there’s a cow outside the window,’ and all you’d want to do is look in the ashtrays. It didn’t matter that there was a cow on the side of the road.” There’s that beginning piece where you just want your kid to look at anything, and then the second piece where you want them to look at things like you look at them, which is worse, but then there’s this third level, which is like, “heeey, they’re excited, I’m excited, let’s use this to teach.” I’m sure there’s a part that’s like, “why can’t you just let them enjoy ‘Star Wars’”; for a long time, they didn’t want to watch it at all. - See more at: http://lit.newcity.com/2014/03/17/fin...One of the most striking essays has you watching “Star Wars” with your sons, and you want to have this discussion with them but they weren’t responding the way that you wanted them to.
My dad would say, “When you were a kid I’d say, ‘Look, there’s a cow outside the window,’ and all you’d want to do is look in the ashtrays. It didn’t matter that there was a cow on the side of the road.” There’s that beginning piece where you just want your kid to look at anything, and then the second piece where you want them to look at things like you look at them, which is worse, but then there’s this third level, which is like, “heeey, they’re excited, I’m excited, let’s use this to teach.” I’m sure there’s a part that’s like, “why can’t you just let them enjoy ‘Star Wars’”; for a long time, they didn’t want to watch it at all. - See more at: http://lit.newcity.com/2014/03/17/fin...One of the most striking essays has you watching “Star Wars” with your sons, and you want to have this discussion with them but they weren’t responding the way that you wanted them to. 

My dad would say, “When you were a kid I’d say, ‘Look, there’s a cow outside the window,’ and all you’d want to do is look in the ashtrays. It didn’t matter that there was a cow on the side of the road.” There’s that beginning piece where you just want your kid to look at anything, and then the second piece where you want them to look at things like you look at them, which is worse, but then there’s this third level, which is like, “heeey, they’re excited, I’m excited, let’s use this to teach.” I’m sure there’s a part that’s like, “why can’t you just let them enjoy ‘Star Wars’”; for a long time, they didn’t want to watch it at all.
One of the most striking essays has you watching “Star Wars” with your sons, and you want to have this discussion with them but they weren’t responding the way that you wanted them to.
My dad would say, “When you were a kid I’d say, ‘Look, there’s a cow outside the window,’ and all you’d want to do is look in the ashtrays. It didn’t matter that there was a cow on the side of the road.” There’s that beginning piece where you just want your kid to look at anything, and then the second piece where you want them to look at things like you look at them, which is worse, but then there’s this third level, which is like, “heeey, they’re excited, I’m excited, let’s use this to teach.” I’m sure there’s a part that’s like, “why can’t you just let them enjoy ‘Star Wars’”; for a long time, they didn’t want to watch it at all. - See more at: http://lit.newcity.com/2014/03/17/fin...One of the most striking essays has you watching “Star Wars” with your sons, and you want to have this discussion with them but they weren’t responding the way that you wanted them to.
My dad would say, “When you were a kid I’d say, ‘Look, there’s a cow outside the window,’ and all you’d want to do is look in the ashtrays. It didn’t matter that there was a cow on the side of the road.” There’s that beginning piece where you just want your kid to look at anything, and then the second piece where you want them to look at things like you look at them, which is worse, but then there’s this third level, which is like, “heeey, they’re excited, I’m excited, let’s use this to teach.” I’m sure there’s a part that’s like, “why can’t you just let them enjoy ‘Star Wars’”; for a long time, they didn’t want to watch it at all. - See more at: http://lit.newcity.com/2014/03/17/fin...

Wherein we are Writing Is Revision panel with the quite amazing D. Foy, Dave Housley, Rae Bryant, and Jessica Anya Blau at the Conversations and Connection conference on April 5th in Washington, D.C. and look forward to seeing you there thank you cool done

Totally. More here. Workshop description excerpt? Cool. Done. Yes.

"For those of us not touched my magic, writing is less about “connecting with the muse” than it is about elbow grease. Get the words on the page, then go back and delete most of them, change others, move them around, repeat, drink coffee, repeat, drink bourbon, repeat, go to sleep, repeat, repeat, until maybe you have something that’s headed towards working."

Wherein we are Writing Is Revision panel with the quite amazing D. Foy, Dave Housley, Rae Bryant, and Jessica Anya Blau at the Conversations and Connection conference on April 5th in Washington, D.C. and look forward to seeing you there thank you cool done

Totally. More here. Workshop description excerpt? Cool. Done. Yes.

"For those of us not touched my magic, writing is less about “connecting with the muse” than it is about elbow grease. Get the words on the page, then go back and delete most of them, change others, move them around, repeat, drink coffee, repeat, drink bourbon, repeat, go to sleep, repeat, repeat, until maybe you have something that’s headed towards working."

Wherein we are Writing Is Revision panel with the quite amazing D. Foy, Dave Housley, Rae Bryant, and Jessica Anya Blau at the Conversations and Connection conference on April 5th in Washington, D.C. and look forward to seeing you there thank you cool done

Totally. More here. Workshop description excerpt? Cool. Done. Yes.

"For those of us not touched my magic, writing is less about “connecting with the muse” than it is about elbow grease. Get the words on the page, then go back and delete most of them, change others, move them around, repeat, drink coffee, repeat, drink bourbon, repeat, go to sleep, repeat, repeat, until maybe you have something that’s headed towards working."