Excellent review of the Unsaid 6 KGB reading over @ the Electric Literature Blog:
From the article: “I compare a reader’s performance to a band’s often, but the pieces from Brian Kubarycz, Katherine Manderfield, Pamela Ryder and Robert Lopez last night were the most metal in both content and tone I’ve ever heard. Sort of like these guys.”
Extremely honored to have a new fiction piece published in the forthcoming Unsaid 6. I really respect this publication and I have been a fan for years.
Contributors: Padgett Powell, Diane Williams, Jonathan Callahan, Lito Elio Porto, Brian Evenson, Richard St. Germain, Ottessa Moshfegh, Paul Maliszewski, Rebecca Entel, Bonnie Nadzam, Luke B. Goebel, Daniel Rolf, Edouard Leve, Lorin Stein, Jason Schwartz, Brian Kubarycz, Amin Erfani, Julia Holleman, Shabnam Piryaei, Miguel Morales, Tom Laverty, Ian Lirenman, Michael Kimball, Joseph Scapellato, Peter Markus, Pamela Ryder, Tom McCartan, M Thompson, Aaron Burch, Anna DeForest, Matt Bell, Lauren McCollum, Vanessa Place, Katherine Manderfield, Will Clingan, Jordaan Mason, Alexis Almeida, Lynne Butler Oaks, Catherine Foulkrod, Danielle Blau, Kayla Blatchley, C.A. Harrison, Robert Lopez, Amber Sparks, Kate Wyer, R.M. O’Brien, Megan Giller, Marie Viljoen, Keith J. Varadi, Nina Buckless, M Sarki, Cooper Esteban, Rick Poinsett, Elizabeth Mikesch, Lincoln Michel, Matthew Kirkpatrick, Lauren Spohrer, David Hollander, Lara Candland, Nic Leigh, Robert Kloss.
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[original pub date: October 30, 2011 for LAist]
Novelist Mark Z. Danielewski is frighteningly good at what he does. His books have imparted an international cult following for their courageous and mind-bending subjects, experimental typography, and innovative approaches to story-telling. His first novel, House of Leaves, shook the literary world with its multi-narrative tale about a family that discovers their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. A work ten years in the making, the story imbues horror, suspense, daring uses of font size and page layouts, and boasts a haunting soundtrack by Danielewski’s own sister, singer Poe. 2006 marked the release of the author’s wildly ambitious novel Only Revolutions, an epic poem of two sixteen year old lovers traversing the country by car. The book was a National Book Award finalist—heralded for its inventive format: the book starts from both ends, can be read infinitely (all the way through and back again), and requires one to manually rotate the book while reading. Continue reading
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“Things got way too meta,” Art Spiegelman says. The author sits at a table atop the Soho House, smoking a cigarette and awaiting his interview with Bookworm-host, Michael Silverblatt, for the 6th installment of KCRW’sUpClose series. And he’s not kidding. Art Spiegelman is on tour for his latest work, MetaMaus: A Look Inside A Modern Classic, Maus, which is an in-depth look at the making of his novel Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, the Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated account of the Holocaust. Incidentally, the MetaMaus tour is a kind of postmodern performance: the author is essentially being interviewed about MetaMaus, which is a series of interviews with the author about Maus, which is a book based upon a series of interviews between the author and his father.
*originally published @LAist on October 13, 2011
The days of dogging LA book culture might soon (finally!) be behind us thanks to The Los Angeles Review of Books, an ambitious new LA-based literature review journal that’s re-imagining the art of literary critique and propelling it into the 21st century. Digital, sprawling, and fearless, the LARB aims to reinvigorate book discourse by widening the margins of literary coverage and overthrowing the traditional book review format.
Firmly rooted in a city that shares the same decentralized qualities of the Internet, the LARB poses a pretty solid argument on why the world’s next major literary hub ought to be LA. And with national attention from The New Yorker and The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Review of Books might just be right.
Via e-mail interview, editor-in-chief Tom Lutz shed light onto LARB, the future of publishing, and why literature’s new ‘it’ city is likely our own.
(original pub date: 7/29/11) Last Sunday, local literati convened in the penthouse of the Soho House West Hollywood, and settled into deep-set sofas and velvet armchairs for an evening of intimate conversation with acclaimed author Sapphire and KCRW’s Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt.
Sapphire is the author of several books of poetry and two novels. Her debut novel Push, was made into Lee Daniel’s Academy Award-winning film Precious, and this month marks the release of Sapphire’s newest novel,The Kid, (which picks up where Push left off, told from the vantage point of Precious’ son, Abdul). The event was the fifth installation of KCRW’s UpClose series, which serves to ‘reinvent the art of conversation,’ by providing public radio listeners exclusive access to intimate conversations with cultural icons.
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I will be reading at KGB bar in NYC on April 6 with Pamela Ryder, Bryan Kubarycz, and Robert Lopez for the Unsaid 6 launch!
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