Featherproof has launched their TripleQuick application for the iPhone. Four sample stories — from Shane Jones, Lindsay Hunter, Paul Fattaruso, and Amelia Gray — can be read on Featherproof’s site.
Among the other contributors is, well, me. Writing at that length (the stories had a maximum length of 333 words) was one of the hardest things …
My short story “Dulcimers Played, Strings Played” is now up at Vol.1.
Sharp-eyed and/or longtime readers may note that it shares a character with my earlier “Every Night is Bluegrass Night”.
(A tip of the hat to Shannon Garland for the North Carolinian weather advice.)
For the second time this year, I’ll be taking part in the generally kickass Vol. 1 reading series at Matchless in Greenpoint. Details follow:
June 19th, 2009
Chris Leo (writer/musician in The Van Pelt)
Tom Shillue (comedian)
Tobias Carroll (writer)
Maggie Serota (freelance writer/A.V Club)
Justin Maurer (writer)
Isaac Ramon (Comedian)
Each give their best shot at telling a story about a vacation …
Very quickly: the sites of Luca Dipierro and Michael Kimball, writers and collaborators on the in-progress film 60 Writers / 60 Places. Information aplenty on the kind of cross-disciplinary work that never fails to pique my interest. And the writers involved in the 60 Writers… project so far also look like an interesting bunch.
Closing out the readers at last week’s Vol. 1 at Matchless was John Wray, whose piece (an excerpt from a novel in progress) left me with the inclination to track down everything he’s written. (Two novels, as it turns out, with a third forthcoming.) On Twitter , Wray is currently posting brief vignettes comprising a …
I’ll be taking part in the February 2009 edition of Hex Education Journal’s Vol.1 series, which benefits 826NYC.
The reading begins at 8 PM; it’ll be held at Matchless, 557 Manhattan Avenue, in scenic Brooklyn, NY. Reading will be:
Kimberlee Auerbach
John Wray
Jessica Milton
Theo Gangi
Knox Dupree
Tobias Carroll
Aaron Lake Smith
Along with music from:
The Morgues
Childress
There’s also a Facebook page …
I have a contribution up as part of THE2NDHAND’s David Foster Wallace tribute. As of this writing, it’s the first one listed, and it begins like this:
Recent events had convinced Thing that a rethink of certain priorities was in order, that careful consideration would need to be applied before selecting his next assignment.
One followup to yesterday’s post on “Western Bridges”: The story was originally written for a THE2NDHAND “Mixtape” reading held in Brooklyn at Sound Fix. There’s a passing reference to Phonogram in the story — said graphic novel’s theme of using music as a tool for reinvention was something I wanted to tip my hat towards, …
Newly up at THE2NDHAND is my second contribution to their Mixtape series: a story entitled “Western Bridges”, which draws its inspiration from The Spinanes‘ “Winter on Ice”.
Said song comes from their album Strand, which I genuinely do cite as one of the more life-changing records I’ve ever heard. I picked up Strand at the tail …
The interesting thing about looking at your notes on the first draft of your novel after a span of a few months? The fact that some of them seem to make no sense whatsoever.
8. Scritti Politti were a collective.
I genuinely have no idea how this applies to this novel. (The next one is another story, …
My short story “A Record Called ‘American Woodworking’” is now up on 3:AM Magazine.
In Birmingham, Dorman’s phone was screaming. In Queens, I’m conversing with Avery. He says, “Didn’t we visit the Jazz Age together?” I nod, his necessary affirmation.
The title, for what it’s worth, is a reference to this band.
[the column in question appears here]
For more on Chris Abani, his website is fairly comprehensive. The Believer interviewed him several years ago; more recently, he went on a book tour with Joe Meno. Abani also curates the Black Goat poetry imprint.
Some additional q & a, cut for reasons of space, can be found at my …
Listening to the Joggers right now; also, meant to mention ages ago that the new Travis Morrison disc is, in fact, really good.
Realized yesterday that I’d accidentally linked the Band of Horses homepage rather than Paper Thin Walls; here’s a direct link to my Saturday Looks Good to Me review, which has one of my …
[this originally appeared here; the column in question appears here]
Mike Daily’s O’GRADY maintains a web presence here, while ALARM’s myspace page is here; Daily maintains a frighteningly comprehensive blog here.
Footage of O’GRADY live can be seen here.
Referenced in the introduction is Portland-based writer and publisher Kevin Sampsell; his Future Tense Publishing maintains a website here.
new fiction: “twenty minutes’ road”
Up as part of the January issue of Word Riot is my short story “Twenty Minutes’ Road”. (Those of you who might be curious to hear me reading a section of it can do so here.) I don’t have as much to say here as I did about, say, “Western Bridges”, and I’m slightly baffled …