Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 92

Stielstra. Villacres. Mrock. Karas. Tanzer. Friend. Follow. Text. Chicago launch. November 2nd. City Lit Books.

Mass coolness, right. Totally. And there is more information here. Much, much more. So do hit it. It just might change your life.

Stielstra. Villcres. Mrock. Karas. Tanzer. Friend. Follow. Text. Chicago launch. November 2nd. City Lit Books.

Mass coolness, right. Totally. And there is more information here. Much, much more. So do hit it. It just might change your life.

Orphans is in the house.

Wherein TBWCYl, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer talks writing, nostalgia, Billy Martin, and drinking, copiously, in his hometown of Binghamton, N.Y.

So true it is. We are Thirsty's and Spiedies and stellar lineup. We are also most appreciative that the Barry Graham, yes that Barry Graham, invited us to participate. Excerpt? Cool.

"And if you think about Binghamton writ large, you may know that Billy Martin died there in a drunk driving accident as well. A point which may not be a good stepping-off point to my suggestion that Binghamton belongs in any and all discussions about good places to drink. But Binghamton is also the 10th rainiest city in the United States, and if not for bars, what else would we do?"

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

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We have new poem, SATURDAY MORNING DOWN-CITY by old friend John Grey, which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and ongoing debt ceiling shutdown 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, the Bears, with a big thank you to the Giants.

The James Gray. And The Immigrant.

There will be books.

For real. Many. And thank you to The Book Cellar for that.

A most selfish yet loving James Claffey Literary Orphans Write to Survive Blood a Cold Blue Zine Interview shout-out thing.

Truth. Lots of Claffey. Blood a Cold Blue. Zine love. All of it. Enjoy.

Q: What serves as the motivation (or the spark) to embark on another tale?
A: God, isn’t that the million dollar question? Stories spring from so many places, a photograph, a song line, the memory of a moment in time, a news article, all sorts of things. Recently, I was looking at a NY Times gallery of photographs and there was one of a beautiful woman in the doorway of a rundown house and I wrote a piece that spun from that central image. It’s up at Ben Tanzer’s “This Zine will Change your Life,” and it’s called “The Sun Lost a Sibling.”

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Seventy - The Imperfect Person, starring the David S. Atkinson.

Podcast are we yes. And beautifully at that. We are Bones Buried in the Dirt, Proust, Joseph Michael Owens, and Denver. So do hit it. It just might change your life.

Orphans Book Release Party Yo.

It's true we are Orphans release party on November 6th, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, at the Beauty Bar Chicago and we would like you to join us. There will be a laser light show. Fog machines. Drinks. Many. Books (courtesy of the most awesome The Book Cellar). Dogs and Cats living together. And rock star readers who are sure to change your life:

Joseph G. Peterson - Beautiful Piece, Inside The Whale: A Novel in Verse, Wanted: Elevator Man

Kathryn Born - The Blue Kind

Chris Terry - Zero Fade

Patricia Ann McNair - The Temple of Air

Jason Fisk - Hank & Jules, The Salt Creek Anthology

And TBWYL, Inc. Spokesperson Ben Tanzer - Orphans, coming soon from Switchgrass Books and NIU Press, among others.

So please join us. Please spread the word. And please don't stop being you, because we think you are quite awesome at that.

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