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Fiction

• Fiction, Me

  revising the novel (1)

  08.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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, [...]

• Fiction, Me

  new fiction

  03.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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.

• Fiction, gimme fiction backmatter

  Gimme Fiction Backmatter 04: Chris Abani

  11.16.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  [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 [...]

• Fiction, Music

  tuesday morning.

  10.23.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Fiction, gimme fiction backmatter

  gimme fiction backmatter 03: mike daily

  10.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  [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.

• Fiction, gimme fiction backmatter

  gimme fiction backmatter 02: ronen kauffman

  10.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  [this originally appeared here; the column in question appears here]
  Ronen Kauffman currently hosts the Issue Oriented podcast; guests have ranged from Jersey Beat editor Jim Testa to artist
  Derek Hess to Thursday’s Geoff Rickly. He maintains a web presence here.
  Kauffman was also interviewed for my EMP paper on basement shows.
  The Degenerics have a myspace page and [...]

• Fiction, gimme fiction backmatter

  gimme fiction backmatter 01: chris easton

  10.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  [this originally appeared here; the column in question appears here]
  Rock Plaza Central’s website is www.rockplazacentral.com; the page devoted to Eaton’s novels is http://rockplazacentral.com/novels.html. Their Daytrotter session can be heard here.

• Fiction, gimme fiction backmatter

  gimme fiction backmatter: scowl intro

  10.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been posting “backmatter” posts corresponding with my Gimme Fiction columns for Paper Thin Walls on my blog on said site. I’m going to begin cross-posting them here; as part of this, the introduction I wrote up, as well as the backmatter for the first two columns, will follow.
  [prelude: originally posted here]
  Am endeavoring to use [...]

• Fiction, Me, Music

  new nonfiction

  10.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  1. The third installment of Gimme Fiction is up at Paper Thin Walls; interviewed is Portland-based writer Mike Daily.
  2. Death + Taxes has a fine-looking new site these days; if you go there, you can read my piece on Pissed Jeans from the current issue (the one sporting Bad Brains on the cover). Nice.

• Fiction, Me

  brief updates; sunday night.

  10.08.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve tweaked the links section to give fiction its own category; you may notice one new entry over there, and that’s for the short story “Every Night Is Bluegrass Night”. That’s available via the fine people at Featherproof as part of their Light Reading Mini-Books series, alongside work by Todd Dills, Kevin Sampsell, Jeb Gleason-Allured, [...]

• Fiction

  10.04.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  A story I’m currently editing may have inadvertently contained references to Coldplay and Rudy Ray Moore.
  My subconscious is a deeply strange place.

• Fiction, Me, Music

  october 1st.

  10.01.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Just got through a problematic draft of a short story (for this reading, in fact). I think I have something workable as of now, which is a fine thing. The previous mixtape story I wrote was more or less a reaction to the themes of the song; this newer one has more to do with [...]

• Fiction, Me

  Reading: October 9

  09.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m going to quote the McNally Robinson event listing extensively here:
  The Dollar Store Show
  Hosted by Jonathan Messinger, author of Hiding Out (Featherproof Books)
  With authors/performers Scott Snyder, Bryan Charles, and Tobias Carroll
  Each month Jonathan Messinger digs through the dusty shelves of a dollar store, searching for inspiration. The treasures eventually find their way on stage as [...]

• Fiction, Me

  Reading: October 4

  09.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ll be taking part in THE2NDHAND Mixtape: Brooklyn on Thursday, October 4. I read a story at the Chicago edition of this earlier this year, and I’ll have something new at this one (hint: based on a Spinanes song).
  The2ndHand Mixtape Reading: Stories about Songs, the 3rd installment in our Mixtape series of readings of [...]

• Fiction, Music

  Everyone’s quiet when the record ends.

  08.22.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  My short story “Party Able Model”, taking its cue from Joan of Arc’s “A Party Able Model Of”, is now up at THE2NDHAND’s website.

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