Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 96

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"And he’s there too. Behind the bar. Pouring drinks. One after another. Sometimes they speak. But mostly she orders. He pours. And so it goes."

There is Hill William Book Trailer. It is weird and awesome. It stars the Scott McClanahan. There is dancing.

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"In the tradition of Philip K. Dick and, more recently, Charles Yu." This Orphans Book Blurb Will Change Your Life, Part Two. Amber Sparks.

“In the tradition of Philip K. Dick and, more recently, Charles Yu, Ben Tanzer’s protagonist is uncomfortable in the future he inhabits—a messy, all-too-human disaster in a clean, pristine world of black helicopters and androids. Like the best science fiction, it’s not the science that matters in Orphans; it’s the gaps between the science and the imperfect humans who created it. The struggles here—work, family, parenthood, responsibility—are as old as the caves and as
modern as robots and freeze-dried ice cream.”—Amber Sparks, author of May We Shed
These Human Bodies

This Podcast - and Book - Will Change Your Life, Episode Sixty-Seven - Sad Robot Stories, starring the Mason Johnson.

We should begin by noting that Sad Robot Stories is a very apt title. There is sadness. Robots. And stories. Or story, really. But it's all there. That's just not all. Because there is also love. How it's found and how much it hurts. That there is sadness because there is love. That with love comes loss. And that one way we manage these feelings is to tell stories about who we are, what we might yet be, and what it is to love at all. There is also change, because things change, and because without change there isn't life, or a chance at love, much less loss, though most importantly, there isn't story, or as Johnson writes, "Without change, you got nothing. You got no stories, no life, no nothing." Robot Stories is the opposite of nothing though. It's filled with lots of something, and that something is life, and a celebration of the stories we tell, all of which we found quite moving, and think you will too. In fact, we think it just might change your life. So please do hit it, and when the moment strikes you, please do hit our podcast with Mason as well. You will learn more about Sad Robots, but you will also learn about Logan Square, Mason's hair, rashes, Oscar Wao, Shabby Dollhouse, and why DJ Berndt is so fucking happy. It's good stuff, and sure to change your life as well.

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

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We have new poem, Everything Wanes Imperfect by old friend Christopher Hivner, which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and indicted comptroller 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, twerking, what, huh?

"This is 1984 by way of Tom Perrotta.” This Orphans Book Blurb Will Change Your, Part One. Salvatore Pane.

“For a novel involving flash mob protests, martian real estate deals, and robot hand jobs, Orphans is deeply affecting and terribly tender. This is 1984 by way of Tom Perrotta.”
—Salvatore Pane, author of Last Call in the City of Bridges

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