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Shattered Wig Review 28 Sneak Preview #1

For those not yet clued in: Blaster Al Ackerman is a legendary word conjurer, mail artist, neoist, recluse, imbiber and former Texan. He also is one of the best read people I know and he has an encyclopedic memory of books and their details despite his heroic, shamanistic consumption of various spirits throughout his adventurous life.

He is the author of The Blaster Al Ackerman Omnibus, I Taught My Dog to Shoot a Gun, Corn & Smoke (on Shattered Wig) and many others. Ever since he moved to...

I Got My Ass Whupped By Gertie Stein

Well I am happy to say I'm included in the new City Lit anthology - City Sages: Baltimore with the likes of Poe, Mencken, Michael "Hot Lips" Kimball, Joe "Swan's Neck" Young, Laura Lippman, Mad Bell and many other fantastic Baltimore writers living and dead, but I had to eat humble pie or crow pie or gelatinous bladder legume when the Baltimore Sun Read Street blog decided to promote the publication by pitting the book's authors gladiator style in a popularity contest.

I am happy and proud t...

Haiku for Glenn Beck

Blotchy anger clown

I guess that you never got to

Clap the erasers


- Everly Brown

Another Reason to Love My New 'Hood: Invasion of the Hopping String Felons

Walking three or four blocks from our new house on a Friday evening and climbing the darkened but decorated stairs to the Hamilton Alliance to hear the wild unwashed sounds of the Baltimore String Felons was just what I needed to shake the lurking spectre of death that has been hovering the last six months. Even at the glorious backyard book release party for Adam Robinson's new book editor Justin's cat had just returned from the vet's with a prognosis of impending death. The next day...

Celebrating Adam Robinson's New Skewing of Reality On a Cool Springlike Night

My head and heart are still reeling from the radical 180 degree turn from brutal blizzard conditions to soft spring breezes and consistent weather with highs in the 70s. Inspired by the weather and a new collection of writing by Adam Robinson on Narrowhouse Press called Adam Robison, we were chauffeured blindfolded out to an undisclosed backyard where the overlord of Narrowhouse, Justin Sirois, holds court. There was a fantastic firepit crackling, weenies of average mettle grilling and great...

My head and heart are still reeling from the radical 180 ...

My head and heart are still reeling from the radical 180 degree turn from brutal blizzard conditions to soft spring breezes and consistent weather with highs in the 70s. Inspired by the weather and a new collection of writing by Adam Robinson on Narrowhouse Press called Adam Robison, we were chauffeured blindfolded out to an undisclosed backyard where the overlord of Narrowhouse, Justin Sirois, holds court. There was a fantastic firepit crackling, weenies of average mettle grilling and great...

Normal's Plug and Interview In HTML Giant

Adam Robinson
March 18th, 2010 / 3:11 pm
Behind the Scenes & Q & A Bookstore Interview: Normal's Books & Records, Baltimore

Google "Baltimore used bookstore" and click "I'm feeling lucky." You will be. The first hit is Normal's Books & Records, one of the best used shops I've ever been to. It isn't just the selection that makes it great, though it's clear that Rupert Wondolowski, who runs the buying there, knows great literature beyond the classics. It isn't just the personality of the store...

Adam Robinson March 18th, 2010 / 3...

Adam Robinson
March 18th, 2010 / 3:11 pm
Behind the Scenes & Q & A Bookstore Interview: Normal's Books & Records, Baltimore

Google "Baltimore used bookstore" and click "I'm feeling lucky." You will be. The first hit is Normal's Books & Records, one of the best used shops I've ever been to. It isn't just the selection that makes it great, though it's clear that Rupert Wondolowski, who runs the buying there, knows great literature beyond the classics. It...

Letters From Pappy In Chengdu - Episode 2: On Catness & "The Prime Directive"

The drumbeats of Pappy are working! The Shattered Wig switchboard has been lighting up non-stop since we posted the tale of Pappy's torturous kidney stone. Youngsters with bad mullets are holding their sides pretending immense pain so that they too can be as groovy and enigmatic as our weary world traveler Monsieur Paps. Judging by the responses it is indeed time to unleash a new book of Mark's on Shattered Wig. But for now, at least a new missive. This one on the essence of "catness...

Letters From Pappy In Chengdu - Episode 1: Another Kidney Stone

Mark "Pappy" Hossfeld was a huge influence on the Baltimore arts scene of the late '80s and early '90s. He co-founded and did most of the hands-on managing of the BAUHAUS (which he wanted to call The Astro Chimp Impact Crater) on Charles Street then and hosted his own monthly reading/performance series there called The Punch House. Each month he would read a new chapter from a novel he was working on, Dona Juana, and have various musical acts and readers of greater or lesser perversion...