Carol Emshwiller Reading
-- and The Mount is on the VLS 25 Favorite Books of the Year
New Advice Column (If and When)
Judith Berman
Powells and Us
Robert Wexler
T-shirts for winter
AVH, an ongoing story
Quietus
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Start your year off in upright and literary fashion -- or get a New Year's
Resolution (no.18: "go to more readings and stuff") out the way right now
(simpler than no.19: "stop empire-building president from pushing us into
war"). Come to Carol Emshwiller's reading:
Carol Emshwiller
January 8, 7.30 PM
Barnes & Noble
4 Astor Place
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212-420-1322
4,5,6 to Astor Place
Free Admission
Bring a friend!
81-year-old New Yorker Carol Emshwiller¹s fourth novel, The Mount, joins
such luminaries as Haruki Murakami (After the Quake), Ian McEwan
(Atonement) and Dave Eggers (You Shall Know Our Velocity) on the Village
Voice¹s list of "Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002." The latest accolade for The
Mount follows a starred review in Publishers Weekly and appearances on best
of the year lists in Book Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0250/25favorite.phphttp://www.lcrw.net/carolemshwillerhttp://www.booksense.com/product/info.jsp?affiliateId=beer&isbn=1931520038
Bookslut liked The Mount, too:
http://www.bookslut.com/columns/0103/sflibertine.htm
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New Advice Column (If and When)
Starting later this year, we will have a new advice column by Ms. Gwenda
Bond. Known for her warmth, smarts, and pragmatic and straight-talking
advice, Ms. Bond takes over from Mr. H. Belloc, whose advice -- when it was
given -- was unfailingly polite and rich in the wisdom of his years. We and
his legion of fans say a fond farewell and thank you to Mr. Belloc for his
years of advice.
Ms. Bond's column will run in the magazine and perhaps online. She can be
found somewhat regualrly online at http://bondgirl.blogspot.com/
Please send questions, problems, matters of the head and heart to
mailto:info@...?subject=Advice
We look forward to hearing from you.
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Judith Berman's first chapbook, Lord Stink and Other Stories, continues to
fly off our shelves (and fine shelves they are, too) at a pace encouraging
to chapbook publishers everywhere.
Available at some fine bookshops across the nation, perhaps the easiest way
to get it is here:
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/judithberman.htm
$6 including shipping will get you four stories (~40,000 words!).
Not sure? Try "The Window":
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ejudithberman/fiction/window/window.html
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This might be a good chance to note that we affiliated to Powells.com, to go
with our previous site aff. to BookSense.com. Thus, some of our books and
chapbooks can be ordered direct from one of the largest and most wonderful
bookshops in the world. I'd say largest, but really, how can one quantify
that? And might there not be larger bookshops still undiscovered in the
wilds of Ohio, the Cayman Islands, or Borneo?
Until those bookshops are discovered, you might try Powell's -- Content
kings that the are:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?partner_id=26490&cgi=biblio&show=PAMPH
LET:NEW:1131911377:5.00
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Congratulations to Robert Freeman Wexler, whose excellent story "Suspension"
from LCRW8 was nominated for the Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement
Award. Andy Duncan's "The Chief Designer" was the winner, but as Robert was
one of four finalists,
http://www.scifidimensions.com/sesfa/sesfa.htm
Robert's first book, In Springdale Town, will be published in March, 2003,
by the mighty PS Publishing. Recommended.
http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/cat/ist.htm
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Noted: A strange and rude poem that should only be read if you are of strong
disposition:
http://chizine.com/under_hill.htm
Another poem on the same site, by someone else:
http://chizine.com/upsidedownville.htm
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T-shirts for winter
"Longjohns -- and, amazingly, boxers! -- are _so_ definitely _in_ right
now," breathed our rosy-cheeked fashion editor yesterday when she came in
from checking out the competitive sledding and shoveling antics on the hill
leading from her castle to ours.
"Everyone," she grinned, and moved her teeth around a little, "was
_ecstatically_ showing them off!" She threw her mohair and Goretex hat on
the rack and continued in a more thoughtful manner. "I wouldn't have guessed
Union Suits would be almost popular. Ah well, my dears," she said, heading
to her basement office, "slow and steady sales don't mean a thing in
fashion."
http://www.cafeshops.com/kellylinkhttp://www.cafeshops.com/lcrwhttp://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=emshwillerstoryhttp://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=emshwillernovel
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AVH, an ongoing story
Yay for books and book purveyors! Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop celebrated 27
years on Newbury Street on January 3rd with a party and the announcement
that they will be spending the rest of January moving just down the street
to 353 Newbury Street -- some of the store will be on street level and some
on the rarefied (but open to all, of course!) air of the second floor.
During January the old 339 location will be open sporadically. Teams of
people (call 617-266-7746 if you want to join in) will be moving books,
magazines, ephemera, and, at some point, the Contents of the Basement, along
to 353 Newbury. Even closer to the T and the Other Side Cafe -- a great spot
for a sandwich and a smoothie, or a beer.
The new location should be open by the start of February, and if you're
already sweating thinking about that next present-buying holiday, a vintage
mag or a book is always a better bet than cartel-produced gemstones!
http://www.avenuevictorhugobooks.com/home.php3
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Quietus
No, not the books, just that we may be quieter than normal for a bit as we
try and put together our next couple of books and deal with our old Multivac
mainframe system which seems to have an itch that might need to be taken (a
job, a job indeed) to the shop to get scratched. Apologies for slownesses in
responses, snow shoveling, and preparation of snacks. When a benchmark for
normal is established, we will attempt to return to it.
In the meantime, Gregorianiacally-speaking, Happy New Year.
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Feel free to pass this newsletter on to any friends, neighbors, or family
who might like a little magazine in their lives.
Remember -- We moved:
Small Beer Press
176 Prospect Ave.
Noorthampton, MA 01060
http://www.lcrw.net
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No weather discussions here, move along
Carol Emshwiller gets Nominationed
Chocolate, yes, Macy's, no
A little bit of activism
More BMP
Coupons coding
Be Good Tanyas
Even More
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Carol Emshwiller's two books have both been nominated for the Philip K. Dick
Award. Which means that no matter who wins, Carol will lose. Or, to put it a
brighter way, she has twice the chance of winning. But there are some other
wonderful books up there, too, check them out, whydon'tcha?
http://www.lcrw.net/carolemshwiller
The award is given annually for science fiction published as a paperback
original in the USA. The award will be awarded on April 18, 2003 at
Norwescon 26 in SeaTac, Washington. Jane Yolen will be GoH at Norwescon, so
if you're in the area, drop by.
The PKD is not the only award Carol is up for. Her story, "Creature,"
originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and
reprinted in Report to the Men's Club, is on the final ballot for the Nebula
Award. Believe it or not, this is Carol's first (but surely not last?)
Nebula nomination.
You can read "Creature" -- and a whole host of other good stuff by authors
such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Coleman Finlay, Richard Bowes, Ted
Chiang, Gregory Frost, Jeffrey Ford, Tim Pratt, and more.
http://sfwa.org/fiction/NebFinal2002.html
Can a Nobel Prize be far off?
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Macy's Milk Chocolate Bars
Whoops. Bought these thinking they would be fun to send out to our chocolate
subscribers. No, they wouldn't. Maybe I was dazzled by the bubbly yellow cab
drawing on the front -- or simpley the word 'chocolate' -- either way, there
appears to have been a short circuit on the critical radar.
What's the first ingredient on the list? Sugar. Oh. Second? Cocoa butter. Oh
no. Oh well. They're made by Joseph Schmidt Confections who "specializes in
chocolate truffles and novelties." Oh well, indeed. So now we can be found
in the chocolate (a)isle of the local grocery closely reading ingredients
lists on chocolate bars and later at home doing the hard, messy, thankless
task of testing, testing, testing. Mmm hmm.
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In the USA? Unhappy (or happy...) with Bush the Younger's revenge War-4-Oil?
Take a moment and write to your Senators and Congresspeople. Here are the
links. It really is that easy.
http://www.house.gov/writerep/http://www.senate.gov/
More? How about the Pres and VP?
Yes, you can send your protest emails to W the Younger and
Stuck-in-the-bunker Cheney here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/http://www.Google.com your local council, see if they, like Northampton, MA,
and many other places, will pass an anti-war resolution.
Sadly UK Prime Minister Tony "Negative Numbers" Blair doesn't have a public
email address on the No.10 Downing Street website. Doesn't he have email
counters like the White House? You can, however, send him a 300-person
petition about anything you like. Including small fiction magazines, I
suppose.
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Three Good Things
http://www.threegoodthings.com/index.html
(see January 7th, 2003)
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World (and Wold) Shocked as Books Found Stored in Brooklyn
Bunch! Lafferty in Orbit, Sinbad: the 13th Voyage, and more from the secret
hideout of Broken Mirrors Press. More issues of Crank! More books, more good
reading.
http://www.lcrw.net/nonlcrwpages/bmp/index.htm
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This one leaves us speechless: AOLTW Loses US$98.7 billion (anyone found it?
Willing to share?)
Ted Turner, the billionaire philanthropist and CNN founder, is quitting as
vice-chairman of media giant AOL Time Warner in May. The announcement
accompanied news that the dysfunctional group had suffered a world record
US$98.7 billion loss in 2002. AOLTW's value has plummeted by more than
US$100 billion in the past 18 months - the equivalent of wiping out New
Zealand's economy almost twice over.
Amazed? Horrified? Amused? Then go support Salon: http://www.salon.com/
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"Where have you been recently?"
"Oh, hanging around the American Dry Bean Board."
http://www.americanbean.org/
"Yeah?"
"A Nutritional Power House. Hell, yeah."
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A very few days to save money off t-shirts, mice, etc. Here is the very
tempting email sent to our headquarters, then spiffed up, shone, then
depolished and returned to its original state and forwarded to you and
yours. Yes, send it to family and tell them, dammit, if you're going to buy
me some piece of junk for my birthday that is not either one of those
hunking great remote control Tonka Trucks or at least a good new pair of
socks, then get me some of this, ok?
- Coupon code is PREZDAY
- *Customer must spend $40 or more in products (that does not include
shipping, tax and gift services) to qualify for the $5 off coupon
- Customer will enter coupon code, PREZDAY, at checkout to redeem coupon
- Coupon starts February 17, 2003 and expires February 28, 2003
http://www.cafeshops.com/kellylinkhttp://www.cafeshops.com/lcrwhttp://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=emshwillerstoryhttp://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=emshwillernovel
...and the latest store: http://www.cafeshops.com/lordstink
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One of our favorite bookshops (and the list grows longer every day) Avenue
Victor Hugo in Boston, MA, has moved.
http://www.avenuevictorhugobooks.com/home.php3
If you are in the area, drop by. You can still help out! Soon there's be a
party celebrating the new place, don't miss out. There's an art gallery,
Johnson's, on the third floor, which would make a great room for readings...
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Kelly Link will be doing a couple of readings soon. Catch up with her
reading "Catskin" (from McSweeney's no.10) or something even newer here:
http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/calendar.htm
More news from Kelly -- she has a story coming out later this year or early
next in The Dark, an anthology edited by Ellen Datlow.
Kelly is right now finishing up editing Trampoline, an anthology of new and
surprising fiction which we here at Small Beer will publish in July of this
year. There are stories from such well-known names as Karen Joy Fowler and
Jeffrey Ford as well as from up-and-comers and whoare-theys? that will have
people dancing in the streets. Keeping us busy, keeping us happy.
http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/index.htm
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The Be Good Tanyas have a new CD, Chinatown, coming out and thanks to the
miracles of international shipping we got a British copy of it. Is it as
good as their first CD, Blue Horse? Repeated listening suggest that yes,
this will be another one that will take hold of the CD player and not let
go.
They tend to tour a lot, so be on the lookout for them. When we saw them
(with the wonderful Kathleen Edwards in tow) one of the singers had a slight
cold, yet they still managed to be fantastic. Very highly recommended.
http://www.begoodtanyas.com/
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Please forward to friends and relatives, real estate agents and soap opera
stars.
Yours, etc.
The Members of the Rumbledethump and Crepe Makers Union 401
http://www.smallbeerpress.com
Carol Emshwiller wins the Philip K. Dick Award!
July 15, 2003:
Angelica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Kelly Link edits Trampoline
More:
IAF
Want a Prize?
More
New ish of The Urban Pantheist
The Zine Yearbook reprints...
A little more
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This news flash just hit the news desk at Small Beer Central. We are
celebrating. This is your license to take the rest of the day off and
celebrate, too.
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Philip K. Dick Awards
c/o PO Box 3447
Hoboken, NJ 07030
(201) 876-2551
www.philipkdickaward.org
April 18, 2003
For Immediate Release
2002 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced
The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society was pleased to announce Friday at
Norwescon 26, in SeaTac, Washington, that the winner for the distinguished
original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2002
in the U.S.A. is:
THE MOUNT by Carol Emshwiller (Small Beer Press)
Special citation was given to:
THE SCAR by China Miéville (Del Rey Books)
The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually for distinguished science
fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The award
is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society. The 2002 judges
were Shelley Rodrigo Blanchard, Michael Blumlein, Nalo Hopkinson (chair),
Donna McMahon, Lois Tilton.
The 2003 judges are Stephen L. Burns, Suzy McKee Charnas, Craig Jacobsen,
Richard Parks, Janine Ellen Young
For more information, contact the award administration:
David G. Hartwell (914) 769-5545.
Gordon Van Gelder (201) 876-2551
For more information about the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society,
http://www.psfs.org/:
Contact Gary Feldbaum (215) 563-2511
For more information about Norwescon: http://www.norwescon.org/:
Contact NorthWest SF Society: (206) 270-7850
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Our two new books coming out later this year are just great. Pre-order them
now and save on shipping. Pass that hot tip to friends. Go on, you all know
someone who needs a trampoline, right? Or a translation of an Argentinean
novel?
But what if that trampoline was edited by Kelly Link and the novel was
translated by Ursula K. Le Guin? Different story? Hope so!
Covers (and a little more information) are now available online:
http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/index.htmhttp://www.lcrw.net/kalpa/index.htm
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Announcement: Interstitial Arts: Artists Without Borders
Interstice: (noun) a crack, a crevice, a space between
Interstitial: (adj) existing in the interstices; capable of binding two or
more things together
Interstitial Arts: art made in the interstices between genres and
categories. Art that flourishes in the borderlands between disciplines,
mediums, and cultures. Art that blurs the divide between fine art and craft,
high art and low. Art that crosses boundaries. Artists without borders.
Check it out: contribute an essay, read a book, walk along the cracks in the
pavement:
http://www.endicott-studio.com/IA/index.html
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A Prize For You
Our website is chock full of broken links, outdated comma use, and misses
and near misses of the spelling persuasion. Rather than
So: the first person to email us with a broken link (no breaking them, now
:) will win this extraordinary prize:
http://www.lcrw.net/images/allsorts.jpg
No hidden mailing fee, no have-to-subscribe to win. You sends in the
mispelling (that one doesn't count) and you gets the Allsorts. If we have
to, we will supply more Allsorts, or other prizes of similar worth.
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Happy Holiday of your choice.
Hope it is sunny, but not too sunny. Hope there's food in your house, there
are people you love, and there's a book, a zine, a comic, something good to
read.
Movies? You watch them, too? We liked "Bend it Like Beckham" (or any
Brazilian player, really...) and "The In-Laws" recently. More crying in each
of these than expected, though.
Please, someone, where can we get The Italian Job on video, or DVD?
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New: The Urban Pantheist
We used to think our fake ads were funny, but we are consistently knocked
over by the ads on the back of The Urban Pantheist. The new issue, no.4,
Spring 2003, has the usual ad, which we can't reproduce here, but, suffice
to say, it made us laugh pretty hard.
Contents include articles such as "In Defense of Artifice (Cautiously)"
[wherein the Urban Pantheist tries for the fourth time to define "nature"
and contemplates humans as somehow outside of nature], "...Among Us" [the
Urban Pantheist takes on the Fifth Kingdom, fungi], and the informative "How
to Make a Spore Print" [the cover image explained].
http://www.lcrw.net/nonlcrwpages/urban.htm
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The Zine Yearbook
Every year some brave souls read hundreds (thousands?) of nominations from
zines from all round the world (yes, it could be your zine, yes, you could
nominate stuff) and pick what looks best to them.
Last year, Zine Yearbook picked up Margaret Muirhead's "Simple Living" for
reprinting, and this year we're happy to say that Gavin's satirical piece
"Oil and Greece" (concerning George W. Bush's transliterations of ancient
Greek texts) will be reprinted in the new Zine Yearbook.
Pre-order it now at culture-jamming-central (Clamor Magazine's site):
http://www.clamormagazine.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=B
TM&Product_Code=ZY007&Category_Code=ZY
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By the way: we'll post customer reviews of our books, zines, chocolate bars,
etc. soon. Email us your review. Go on.
And letters, on the letters pages.
And remember to send questions to our Advice Guru: Ms. Gwenda Bond
info@...?subject=Ms.Bond
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(From PW Daily) Best of the Web: What Bezos Is Worth
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, earned just $81,840 last year in
salary, the same as the two previous years. He did cash in an
estimated $27.2 million in stock options back in 201 and holds 108
million Amazon.com shares, valued at about $2.8 billion, based on the
company's closing share price of $25.67 last Thursday.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/030411/amazon_com_bezos_1.html
It's all about books, baby.
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What are we doing, where are we going? Occasional updates here:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/notajournal.htm
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who might like a little magazine in their lives.
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lcrw-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Mmm. Summer on the horizon. Mmm. Chocolate.
Carol Emshwiller wins a Nebula!
http://locusmag.com/2003/News/News04Log5.html
Tonight Carol Emshwiller's short story "Creature" won the 2002 Nebula for
Short Story.
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"Creature" was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
(a double winner tonight -- subscribe! -- http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/) in the
Oct/Nov 2001 double issue and was reprinted in Carol's most recent
collection, Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories.
http://www.lcrw.net/carolemshwiller/stories/index.htm
Also winners tonight, Neil Gaiman, Richard Chwedyk, and Ted Chiang (who
yesterday accepted the Philip K. Dick Award for Carol!), who won a Nebula
for Novelette for "Hell Is the Absence of God", which was published in the
third volume of the excellent Starlight 3 series edited by Patrick Nielsen
Hayden, ed.
Congratulations, Carol! There's dancing in the streets tonight.
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Feel free to pass this newsletter on to any friends, neighbors, or family
who might like a little magazine in their lives.
http://www.smallbeerpress.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
lcrw-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Wow. Chocolate statues.
Mark Rich, Foreigners, and Other Familiar Faces
Announcement: Free shipping on all books.
LCRW12. Here. No fear.
Minsoo Kang's story, "Lady Faraway"
Big Winner: Lori Selke
Bye Bye LCRW 4
Calendars are multiplying
Extra things maybe of interest
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June means there are two new things in the pockets of the Small Beer
greatcoat. (Summer, pah? Winter 2003 was the extended 12" remix edition (we
blame Swiss Beatz for the snow) and Summer is shy. Weather? Pah. Enough of
it -- no more.) A new ish of LCRW and, first, a Chapbook:
Mark Rich, Foreigners, and Other Familiar Faces
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/markrich.htm
Where to buy?
Powells
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?partner_id=26490&cgi=biblio&show=PAMPH
LET:NEW:114122576x:5.00
Clarkesworld
http://www.clarkesworld.com/books/rich_foreigners.html
and a few select others.
Why buy?
Written and illustrated by the multi-talented writer, illustrator, musician,
toy columnist (etc!) Mark Rich, this 68-page chapbook collects nine stories
(three of which are new: "Wrong Door," "Take Me," & "Kiss of The Wood
Woman") which illustrate (ahem) the wide range of Mark's stories. There's
quirk, quark, and whimsy, science fiction, slipstream, and many other terms
that might put you off, But won't.
Praised by writers such as Jeff VanderMeer and Michael Kandel, after a
20-year career, Mark is suddenly taking off. Magazines of all sorts
(Electric Velocipede, Full Unit Hookup, Analog) are publishing his stories
and the word on the web is that he's also turning his energies toward
novels. Go, Mark, go!
An example is necessary. And what better than the title story:
http://www.lcrw.net/fictionplus/richforeigners.htm
(Bookmark it if you don't have time now...)
Two more good things: Order now and we'll send you a signed copy -- and a
free copy of Mark's tiny new 8-page book, "Sniddlefee."
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htm
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Yep, books ship free. Other things still have a small charge (ow!) but the
books, free ship, they do.
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LCRW 12 is here.
http://www.lcrw.net/issues/lcrw12.htm
Number 13 approaches. Are we afraid? We are not afraid. We are living in
Happier Days. The Fishie will protect us from the hound, the lantern
carrier, the dreams we begin to remember. We will drink martinis per Mr.
Butner, watch films per Mr. Smith. We will be defined as Found Wedged in the
Side Drawer in Paris, France, 23 December, 1989. We will be Mesopotamians,
All.
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Minsoo Kang's story, "Lady Faraway" -- one of three printed in LCRW 11 -- is
now online at Fantastic Metropolis:
http://fantasticmetropolis.com/show.html?fn,ladyfaraway,1
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Congratulations to our big winner, Lori Selke (http://www.io.com/~selk)
publisher of the fun zine, Problem Child, who won the big pack of Bassett's
Liquorice Allsorts. She pointed out that Bakka Books is now Bakka Phoenix
Books: http://www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/
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Did we mention there are new issues of Say..., FUHU, Electric Velocipede,
The Urban Pantheist, Kiss Machine, and more...
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping2.htm
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See if this works: An interview with Charles Coleman Finlay:
http://ee.dispatch.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=
Page\&Skin=Columbus&BaseHref=TCD/2003/05/28&EntityId=Ar05001&ViewMode=HTML
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Sorry to say (well, happy, too) LCRW no.4 just went out of print. Now we're
sold out of the first five issues.* What was in this now disappeared ish?
"Tan-Tan and Dry Bone" -- an excerpt from Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight
Robber -- as well as "Miss Kansas on Judgement Day" by Kelly Link (part of
"Shoe and Marriage") and short stories from Sten Wetgard, Dora Knez, and
Rachel Roberts; poetry from Ian McDowell, Margaret Muirhead, and more; and
great nonfiction from Margaret, David Findlay, Naoko Takahashi, among
others. 44 pages, and spacious margins. Ah.
*Can you say reprint anthology? I thought you could! Well. that will come in
time, got all these other fun things going on first.
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Thanks as ever for reading our occasional newsletter. The news in politics
is pretty bad. Have there always been such shenanigans? (Hmm, reading Kalpa
Imperial {more on that later this summer} I shuppose {sic} there has been.)
WisCon was such unutterable fun (despite the swapping of colds!) that more
travel was deemed necessary. So we'll be back later in summer with news (and
maybe reports) about Kelly Link teaching at Clarion and Kelly Link and Gavin
Grant teaching at the Imagination Workshop at Cleveland University, and a
trip to the Allied Media Conference in Bowling Green, Ohio
(http://www.clamormagazine.org/amc2003/). (Got iPod, will travel?)
There are calendars here:
http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/calendar.htm
here:
http://www.lcrw.net/kgb/index.htm
and for a bit (more on this next time when it's closer to the publication
date), here (any help on publicity and/or setting up readings appreciated!):
http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/readings.htm
Maybe see you at one of these events? We'll be the tanned and fit ones in
matching Eric Carle Picture Book Museum polo shirts.
http://www.picturebookart.org/
Cheers,
SBP/LCRW/etc.
http://www.lcrw.net
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Now follow some other things that may or may not be of interest.
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Things perhaps of interest?
Mythic Journeys 2004
Interstitial Arts Foundation
Strange Horizons Writing Workshops 2003 -- Oregon and New Jersey
Mythic Journeys 2004
June 3-7 Atlanta, Georgia
Our rich cultural heritage of myth, story, and ritual scatters breadcrumbs
that guide us through the dark forests of life. Their archetypal patterns
hide clues for finding meaning in an increasingly dangerous world, and
provide metaphors for inspiring art, poetry, conflict resolution, mental
well-being, and personal growth. Join us as we bring together some of the
very best minds working to keep myth alive for a festival of conversations,
performances, and workshops in celebration of the centennial of Joseph
Campbell's birth.
Mythic Passages is online at: http://www.mythicjourneys.org/passages
***
Interstitial Arts Foundation
http://www.endicott-studio.com/IA/index.html
Just getting off the ground, this will soon be the hottest thing going.
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Strange Horizons Writing Workshops 2003 -- Oregon and New Jersey
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS -- June 30, 2003
Strange Horizons is planning to hold two intermediate writing workshops in
the late summer/early fall. These workshops are appropriate for writers
who have been writing fiction for some time, and who are familiar with
basic craft concepts. If you've published a few short stories in semi-pro
or pro markets, or if you've attended Clarion, you're probably at
approximately the right level for these workshops. There will be a maximum
of ten participants in each workshop.
The discussion will be on a generally literary level, focusing on how to
make the stories better as stories, regardless of genre. However, you're
welcome to submit genre pieces, and if you are accepted to one of the
workshops, you may then send a genre piece to be workshopped. Many of the
participants will be primarily writing speculative fiction.
If you're accepted into the workshop, you'll have until August 7 to send a
workshop story to the rest of the group. Ideally, your workshop story will
be a story that you've taken as far as you can take it on your own, but it
needn't (and probably shouldn't) be something you consider finished. It'll
then be the workshop participants' responsibility to print out, carefully
read, and prepare to critique the set of stories before coming to the
workshop, so that we can all make the best use of the time while we're
there. I may also assign additional reading in preparation for our craft
discussions.
Details follow along with a fast-approaching deadline.
Please read through the details below -- guidelines for submitting
material appear at the end.
HOST FOR BOTH: Mary Anne Mohanraj (www.mamohanraj.com), Strange Horizons
editor-in-chief, editor of anthologies Aqua Erotica and Wet (Random
House), author of Kathryn in the City (Penguin), Ph.D. student in literary
fiction at the University of Utah. Susan Groppi and/or Jed Hartman (SH
fiction editors) may also be in attendance, depending on their schedules
at the time.
GUEST EDITORS: We're delighted to announce that this year we'll be
bringing in some fabulous guest editors to complement the workshop. The
Oregon workshop will have Guest Editor Jay Lake, of Polyphony; the New
Jersey workshop will have Guest Editors Gavin Grant and Kelly Link, of
Small Beer Press, and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology (newly
editing the fantasy half for upcoming volumes). These editors will be full
participants in the workshops, reading and critiquing your work, and
offering craft and market suggestions.
Polyphony: http://www.wheatlandpress.com/polyphony/index.html
Small Beer Press: http://www.lcrw.net/
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: http://www.lcrw.net/yearsbest/
*****
NEW JERSEY SPECIFICS:
LOCATION: A kindly-donated house about an hour's drive (or a 40-minute
ferry ride) from New York, near the ocean and a national park. 1 Prospect
Ave., Highlands, NJ.
DATES: September 26-28, 2003
COST: $100/person
GUEST EDITORS: Gavin Grant and Kelly Link, Small Beer Press and The Year's
Best Fantasy and Horror
SCHEDULE:
Friday evening: arrive, group dinner at house
Saturday:
10-12 - focused discussion of character, point-of-view
12-1 - lunch
1-6 - workshop five stories
evening: dinner
Sunday:
10-12 - focused discussion of plot, structure
12-1 - lunch
1-6 - workshop five stories
evening: dinner
LOGISTICS: If you arrive early, you may snag a bed or couch. Expect to be
sleeping on the floor, and bring your own sleeping bag or air mattress,
pillow, towels, etc. Meals (including tasty vegetarian options) will be
provided throughout. The house has a jacuzzi and sauna, and there's a
beach nearby, so we recommend bringing a swimsuit. You can spend the
night Sunday if you like, and leave Monday morning, or you can leave
Sunday after dinner. Your choice.
*****
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Deadline for submissions -- June 30, 2002
Obviously, this is quite soon. Please be aware that your submission story
and your workshop story need not (and probably should not) be the same
piece. Your submission story should be the best thing you've written (of
the appropriate length) -- I'm happy to look at pieces published or
unpublished.
All manuscripts will be read and responded to by July 15th.
Format for submissions:
a) send up to 9000 words (one story, multiple stories, or novel excerpt)
to: editor@....
b) mark subject line with this format: WORKSHOP SUB: "Title" (Author Name)
c) send plain text submissions only. No attachments. See the Strange
Horizons guidelines for more info on how to format submissions:
(http://www.strangehorizons.com/SubmissionGuide_Fiction.shtml)
Publication Day
Hope you have power
News about our tiny zine
Nominated
Read a story
Read those? How about this?
Etc.
:: August 15, 2003 :: :: 3002 ,51 tsuguA ::
Monday we'll talk about some other things we're about to do, but, first,
it's Friday, August 15th: Publication Day for this year's two new books:
Kalpa Imperial: the greatest empire that never was
by Angelica Gorodischer
trans. by Ursula K. Le Guin
Apparently the number of books translated into English is at an all time low
and publishers and readers are getting discouraged. Not all is bleak: our
first new title this year is Ursula K. Le Guin's translation of Argentinean
writer Angelica Gorodischer's novel Kalpa Imperial. It's an amazing book --
see the site for some of the early reviews -- more will be added as they
come in.
We have a limited supply of copies signed by Ursula K. Le Guin, so if you
want one, order fast:
Buy the book here:
http://www.lcrw.net/kalpa/index.htm
&
Trampoline, an anthology, edited by Kelly Link
Our second book is Trampoline, an anthology of short fiction edited by Kelly
Link. We had two pre-publication readings (one in Raleigh, NC, featuring
Richard Butner and Dave Shaw) and the second in Lexington, KY, featuring
Christopher Barzak and Christopher Rowe) and in September there will be
three more: in Cleveland, OH, Minneapolis, MN, and New York City.
http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/readings.htm
Peggy Hailey of Book People in Austin, TX, says:
"Trampoline does what most other anthologies only dream of -- it manages to
be both significant and eminently readable.... All of the stories push the
genre boundaries, creating a collection on the cutting edge of modern genre
fiction."
We've just added our multiple author interview (with more to come!) check
out what these 20 smart people wanted to know about one another:
http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/author/index.htm
Read the story that inspired Shelley Jackson's cover painting, Richard
Butner's "Ash City Stomp"
http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/stories/butnerash.htm
Buy the book here:
http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/index.htm
Anthologies: perfect books.
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Hope you have power.
:: August 15, 2003 :: :: 3002 ,51 tsuguA ::
News about our tiny zine:
Next year we will begin publishing three issues of Lady Churchill's per
year. The dates are tentatively April, July, and November. We're getting too
many good stories (so we're turning more down, sorry) to only do two per
year (all we ever promised or wanted to do before now).
Our saddle-stapled little zine may even morph into a perfectbound,
color-covered zine as we've been forever considering. Can quarterly
publication be far behind?
We might even start taking ads. Ad sales rep wanted, commission basis. Heh.
Cover price will stay the same and for simplicity subscriptions will still
be for four issues.
Subscribe now. Now! Now? Then? Again? Later? Hmm? Something good coming down
the pike.
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/subscriptions.htm
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Nominated
Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant have been nominated for the World Fantasy Award:
SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL
* Peter Crowther (for PS Publishing)
* Gavin Grant & Kelly Link (for Small Beer Press)
* Sean Wallace (for Prime Books)
* Michael Walsh (for Old Earth Books)
* Jason Williams, Jeremy Lassen & Benjamin Cossel (for Night Shade Books)
This is a great list of people and presses and we are honored to be
included.
Full list of nominations:
http://locusmag.com/2003/News/News08Log1.html
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Read a story
It's an odd time in US politics and the title story of Mar Rich's
Foreigners, and Other Familiar Faces is more scary each day:
http://www.lcrw.net/fictionplus/richforeigners.htm
(We now have signed copies in stock.)
:: August 15, 2003 :: :: 3002 ,51 tsuguA ::
Read those? How about this?
One of the best books we've read this year came out in July: Kevin
Brockmeier's The Truth About Celia. If you look on the back of the book
you'll see how much Kelly loves this one.
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0375421351-0&partner_id=26490
:: August 15, 2003 :: :: 3002 ,51 tsuguA ::
Went to a fantastic show at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC where Carolyn Mark,
Neko Case, and Kelly Hogan put on a show. They don't have a band name, they
may not record an album, so check local listings, folks, and try and see
these women.
:: August 15, 2003 :: :: 3002 ,51 tsuguA ::
This message brought to you in the spirit of 28 Days Later and the taste of
Tecate and the sound of the Dancer in the Dark soundtrack being played at
the Haymarket Cafe.
Kentucky is to vampires as Vermont is to lovers.
Small Beer Press
http://www.lcrw.net
For Immediate Release * Gavin J. Grant * Small Beer Press *
http://www.lcrw.net * 413-584-7021
Small Beer Press is proud to announce the two November 2003 titles in their
chapbook series:
Benjamin Rosenbaum, Other Cities
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/benjaminrosenbaum.htm
Christopher Rowe, Bittersweet Creek
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/christopherrowe.htm
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Since their first chapbook, Kelly Link's Four Stories (5/00), Small Beer's
chapbook series has been dedicated to publishing writers of short fiction
they believe deserve a wider audience. The chapbooks are beautifully
designed and low-priced (generally running $6 including shipping)...and
sometimes even come signed by the author. We should stop and ask if there
can really be a better choice for bedtime reading?
These chapbooks are stocked at a number of specialty and general
bookstore (including Mark Ziesing, Clarkesworld, Quimby's, &c.) and can also
be ordered by mail or from the Small Beer website.
Subscriptions to the chapbook series can be had for the royal sum of $20
for four chapbooks.
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Bittersweet Creek, a Chapbook by Christopher Rowe, November 2003, 68 pp., $6
No.7 in the Small Beer Press chapbook series is author and publisher
Christopher Rowe's first chapbook Bittersweet Creek, with a cover
illustration by the wonderful Shelley Jackson.
Rowe takes his storytelling seriously and, if he can, with a small-batch
bourbon on the side. (His readings are not to be missed.) Rowe's recent
stories, including "The Force Acting on the Displaced Body" (the lead story
in the anthology Trampoline) and "The Voluntary State", have taken him into
fresh and exciting literary territory and have brought him many new and
appreciative readers. Bittersweet Creek gathers some of his best stories
from recent years and solidifies his reputation as one of the up and coming
writers in the speculative fiction field.
Contents: Baptism at Bittersweet Creek, The Dreaming Mountain, Seared
Scallops and Steamed Green Beans, Sally Harpe, and an as-yet-untitled new
story.
About the author: Christopher Rowe's story, "The Force Acting on the
Displaced Body", is the lead story in the anthology Trampoline. He lives in
Lexington, KY. His fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in many
magazines, webzines and zine zines. You can read some of his stories online
at The Dead Mule and an interview and three of his stories online at
Ideomancer. Rowe's poem "Our Prize Patrol Will Find You" was published in
LCRW 9. He is the editor and publisher (with Gwenda Bond) of the magazine
Say....
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Other Cities, a Chapbook by Benjamin Rosenbaum, November 2003, 48 pp., $6
No.6 in the Small Beer Press chapbook series is Benjamin Rosenbaum's Other
Cities. Twelve of the stories in Other Cities were previously published as a
weekly series on Strange Horizons. The entire series is presented here for
the first time and each story is illustrated with the art of Boston artist
and architect Peter Reiss.
Cities are seemingly inevitable, seductive, depressing, and inebriating.
In his Other Cities series Benjamin Rosenbaum takes us on a tour of fourteen
imaginary cities:
* from "The White City" -- where two sisters fight one another and their
fate -- to Bellur -- which celebrates its censors --
* from Ponge -- that's already enough about that -- to Zvlotsk -- where
by 1912 detective work accounted for a third of the economy
* from Jouiselle-aux-Chantes -- the city of erotic forgetting -- to Stin
-- the city for those who are tired of other cities --
Rosenbaum's stories illuminate the hidden corners of the world the train
rider suspects exist at the stop after theirs, the tourist knows the locals
will never reveal, and the mapmakers keep for themselves.
Contents: The White City, The City of Peace, Bellur, Ponge, Ahavah, Amea
Amaau, Ylla's Choice, Zvlotsk, New (n) Pernch, Maxis, Jouiselle-Aux-Chantes,
Penelar of the Reefs, The Cities of Myrkhyr, and Stin.
25% of the gross revenues from Other Cities will go to the Grameen
Foundation USA (see below). If you would like to donate more to the Grameen
Foundation when you buy Other Cities please use this link here and fill in
the amount (including $6 for the chapbook), thank you.
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"Other Cities by Ben Rosenbaum is a collection of fourteen gems, expertly
cut and highly polished. Each contains, within its myriad facets, a
metropolis, brimming with mystery, insight and wonder."
-- Jeffrey Ford (The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque)
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About the author: Benjamin Rosenbaum is troubled but hopeful. He used to
live near Basel, Switzerland, but now he is moving back to the tangled
superhighways of Northern Virginia, with his wife Esther, his daughter
Aviva, and Aviva's imaginary friends: Kiko, Makke, and the Happy Boy. His
stories can be found in Asimov's, Harper's, Argosy, F&SF, Strange Horizons,
Vestal Review, McSweeney's, The Infinite Matrix, and Lady Churchill's
Rosebud Wristlet 11.
About the artist: Peter Reiss lives with his wife the writer Margaret
Muirhead and their son Abe in Somerville, MA.
About the Grameen Foundation USA: 25% of the gross revenues from the sales
of this book go to the Grameen Foundation USA, which fights poverty all over
the world by establishing banks that loan very small amounts to very poor
people to start businesses, and helping them to coordinate and pool their
resources. The effect of microcredit loans is transformative rather than
palliative: every year Grameen-style loans lift hundreds of thousands of
people above the poverty line. Because of the high repayment rate (typically
over 95%), money donated to Grameen is highly leveraged: each dollar donated
will be loaned again and again. As borrowers become successful in their
businesses and begin saving, a Grameen-style bank becomes independent of
donations. The original Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which loans $3.8 billion
dollars to 2.54 million very poor people, is now self-sufficient.
You can find out more on their website: http://www.gfusa.org/
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Gavin J. Grant
Small Beer Press, 176 Prospect Ave., Northampton, MA 01060
http://www.lcrw.net
413-584-7021
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New: Trampoline, an anthology, edited by Kelly Link
http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/index.htm
New: Kalpa Imperial: the greatest empire that never was
by Angelica Gorodischer
translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
http://www.lcrw.net/kalpa/index.htm
Congratulations: Sarah Monette
New chapbooks for winter reading
Theodora Goss News
Read a story
Trampoline Review + Readings (NYC this week!)
Kelly Link in Japan
Help wanted (4+1 even sillier one)
Thoughtworm
Places, etc.
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Congratulations: Sarah Monette
Sarah Monette's story "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland" from LCRW 11
won the 2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Award! Congratulations Sarah!
http://www.lcrw.net/issues/lcrw11.htmhttp://www.spectrumawards.org/2003.htm
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Recently we announced two new chapbooks. I think you got the email, right?
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Theodora Goss News: "The Rapid Advance of Sorrow" is being translated into
Serbian by Zoran Zivkovic, who will publish the translation in his SF
magazine Polaris.
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Read a story
The End of a Dynasty or The Natural History of Ferrets
http://www.lcrw.net/kalpa/end.htm
Thanks to:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/
for the special characters.
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Trampoline Review and Readings
Read Jeff VanderMeer's thoughtful review of Trampoline here:
http://locusmag.com/2003/Reviews/VanderMeer09_Trampoline.html
Coming up at a bookstore that might be near you. Latest addition, 10/16 in
Boston:
September 18, 7 PM
Housing Works
126 Crosby Street
NYC 10012
(212) 334-3324
http://206.252.132.18:8080/usedbookcafe/UsedBookCafe_Events.jsp
Readers:
Ed Park, Well-Moistened with Cheap Wine, the Sailor and the Wayfarer Sing of
Their Absent Sweethearts
Shelley Jackson, Angel
Samantha Hunt, Famous Men (Three Stories)
Jeffrey Ford, The Yellow Chamber
Rosalind Palermo Stevenson, Insect Dreams
Kelly Link
-- with a special appearance by Karen Joy Fowler (King Rat)
Subway: S,F,V, 6 to Broadway-Lafayette. N, R to Prince St.
O
October 12, 1.30 PM
Lilish Fair
Central Florida
(407) 929-4348
http://www.lilishfair.com/
Reader:
Beth Adele Long, Destroyer
O
October 16, 7 PM
Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop
353 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 266-7746
http://avenuevictorhugobooks.com/
Readers:
Alex Irvine, Gus Dreams of Biting the Mail Man
Greer Gilman, A Crowd of Bone
Vandana Singh, The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet
Kelly Link
http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/readings.htm
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Kelly Link in Japan
Did we tell you Hayakawa of Japan bought rights to Kelly Link's Stranger
Things Happen and will publish a Japanese edition next spring? Can't wait to
see the art. A couple of stories from the collection -- "Louise's Ghost" and
"Travels with the Snow Queen" were translated and published in the magazine
SF Hayakawa. And the even later latest news is that "The Cannon" (first
published in Say...what time is it?) will be next to be translated and
published.
Say...
http://www.lcrw.net/nonlcrwpages/fow/index.htm
A somewhat updated Kelly Link bibliography here:
http://www.kellylink.net/biblio.htm
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Help wanted (4)
(1) We encourage reviews of our books on online bookshops -- or, if your
fave bookshop doesn't post reviews, email them to us and we'll post them.
(2) Do you make banner ads? Want to make some for us? Email us and we'll
talk.
(3) Local help with winemaking/viniculture...
(4) Local help with a letterpress...
(5) Even sillier than the preceeding items is this. Any professors of
literature or linguistics out there want to nominate Carol Emshwiller,
Ursula K. Le Guin, or Angelica Gorodischer (or someone else you admire) for
the Nobel Prize? I don't think we need to say how wonderful these women are,
so, if you're alllowed (see below), we say go!
The Nominators Literature
Right to submit proposals for the Nobel Prize in Literature, based on the
principle of competence and universality, shall by statute be enjoyed by:
1. Members of the Swedish Academy and of other academies, institutions
and societies which are similar to it in construction and purpose;
2. Professors of literature and of linguistics at universities and
university colleges;
3. Previous Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature;
4. Presidents of those societies of authors that are representative of
the literary production in their respective countries.
Prize-Awarder: The Swedish Academy, Stockholm
Email for The Nobel Prize in Literature: Sekretariat@...
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Congratulations Alan & Kristin!
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Thoughtworm
It's a zine we like a lot, so we've, ah, made it available to you.
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping2.htm
What's it about? It's a perzine, see, which is short for Personal Zine, so
it's all about Sean who's, well, let him tell it. Lovely covers (which may
or may not be Representin on the page above) and text text text inside.
Makes for a great mail day.
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Places we'll be/Places our books will be/Places our ads are/Places our
hearts are:
We'll be at NEBA in Providence, RI, saying hi to many, many booksellers --
yay!
At the same time (our bi-location spell notwithstanding) a wonderful fellow
named Nathan Ballingrud wil be tabling for us at a New Orleans Bookfair, a
celebration of independent literature:
http://www.nolabookfair.com/
Then we split for DC and the big World Fantasy Convention (where we will
find out if we are special or not).
Then something else, I'm sure.
The books and zines and so on are showing up far afield and the next LCRW
and various chapbooks and so on will be newly displayed at Mac's Backs
(fantastic place) in Cleveland and Dark Carnival in Berkeley, CA:
http://www.darkcarnival.com
Our ads are in groovy mags such as Foreword, Rain Taxi, Bitch, F&SF, Clamor
and zines that swap ads and places that we have paid very good (if a bit
weak around the edges) currency to, such as, um, Le Monde, Der
Kunstgellerie, ah, The Sydney Morning Sun, and The International Herald
Tribune.
We're football fans at heart (soccer, dig deep) and are sad to see the WUSA
gig go down. Hopefully the people who run the men's leagues will pick it up
and make a success of it.
Kevin Brockmeier has a wonderful new novel out: The Truth About Celia. And a
great story in a recent The New Yorker. Wow.
Minneapolis is an amazing town: Elvis the chicken (and all the other
animals...) at Wild Rumpus kids book shop. The Open Book Center where three
book related thingys (that's the flaw in late night writing right there)
share a fantastic old factory (sort of like the Mass Moca Museum in North
Adams, MA). You can take paper making classes, make your own letterpress
broadsides, take writing classes from the likes of Alan DeNiro, and see
Milkweed Press in action. And the whole building is wired for wireless
internet access, oh yeah. And the brownies are great.
Can't visit Minneapolis without stopping by DreamHaven Bookshop, an amazing
place for books, comics, and Stuff. By this time we were wondering if we
could move. The weather was beautiful (it's always like that, right?) and
the people were great (that part I'm pretty sure is always true). Did we
mention the Red Balloon -- _another_ great kids bookshop. Or Or Or. And And
And (loved their first record). Rag & Bone -- great used bookshop. We
haven't started on the great restaurants. Oh wait, that was Ventiane, in
Madison, WI. Ahem. Let's go back.
This month and next are Big Book Months and we encourage you to Get Caught
Reading by friends and neighbors, but not by Uncle Sam.
You guys are the best.
You're registered to vote, right?
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Tiny Ale Pressers
http://www.lcrw.net
Two New Chapbooks:
Benjamin Rosenbaum, Other Cities
Christopher Rowe, Bittersweet Creek and Other Stories
Something to Read
And Some Zine: LCRW Hits 13
Trunk Stories: More good reading
Some Links
New Boston Reading Series: Volunteers?
What's Going On
More Must-Have 1970s Albums
Peapod Classics
A November 10th Reminder
FALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Ignore what's below and order now:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htm#chapbooks
The Latest Entrants in Our Not to Be Missed, Cannot Be Beaten for Price Nor
Quality Limited to 500 Copies Chapbook Series (Announced Alphabetically But
Not Hyphenated) Are (Almost) Here!
Despite being held up by a few small problems at the printer, these two new
beautiful entrants into our amazingly low-priced chapbook series wherein
lucky (and financially savvy) readers are introduced to (or reminded of)
wonderful writers all in one small lovingly packaged book were about to fly
through the mail to those shops and readers who are wonderful enough to have
pre-ordered them. Without further adjective use, they are:
1) Benjamin Rosenbaum, Other Cities, 48pp, $6
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/benjaminrosenbaum.htm
Who? What? Cities? A dozen? In one small book? Illustrated by a Boston
architect?
Multiple World Fantasy Award winner Jeffrey Ford (The Fantasy Writer's
Assistant) says: "Other Cities by Ben Rosenbaum is a collection of fourteen
gems, expertly cut and highly polished. Each contains, within its myriad
facets, a metropolis, brimming with mystery, insight and wonder."
Not only that, but 25% of the gross revenues from Other Cities will go
to the Grameen Foundation USA: http://www.gfusa.org/
That's $1.25 per chapbook. Buy two!
And Bradley Denton (One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality)
says: "The eloquence and poignancy of each of these stories astonished me.
"The City of Peace," alone, is enough to make one weep. But when read as a
whole, Other Cities is not only harrowing, but exhilarating. It's a fearless
exploration into both the heart of darkness and the soul of hope. Here,
despair and joy are neither opposites nor antagonists -- but husband and
wife, brother and sister, yin and yang. In these Cities of Humanity, you
won't meet one without meeting the other."
(There's more to this: http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/denton/1.htm)
Rosenbuam's stories have appeared in Strange Horizons (where many of these
city stories first appeared), Harper's, F&SF, LCRW, Asimov's, and other fine
places. This is the first small collection of his work and is illustrated by
Boston architect Peter Reiss.
2) Christopher Rowe, Bittersweet Creek and Other Stories, 62pp, $6
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/christopherrowe.htm
No.7 in the chapbook series is author and publisher Christopher Rowe's
Bittersweet Creek, with a cover illustration by the wonderful Shelley
Jackson. Bittersweet Creek gathers some of Rowe's best stories from recent
years and solidifies his reputation as one of the up and coming writers in
the speculative fiction field.
Premiere storyteller Terry Bisson (The Pickup Artist) says: "This smart,
sleek, scary little book is all about strange arrivals: girls coming up out
of their graves, giants from their junkyards, dragons from their river beds.
Add Rowe himself-- striding out of the Kentucky hills into the sunlight of
literature's regard. And he looks good doing it."
And even across the Atlantic in the UK the best writers are talking about
Rowe. Justina Robson (Natural History) says: "Christopher Rowe's stories are
the kind of thing you want on a cold, winter's night when the fire starts
burning low. Reverent and irreverent in the same breath, chilling and funny
by turns, they deliver the full measure required of short story tellers the
world over; entertainment plus x, where x is a measure of internal vertigo
caused by a sudden glimpse of a sheer drop. Terrific."
Rowe's editorial skills are also on show in the latest ish of his zine,
Say... http://www.lcrw.net/nonlcrwpages/fow/index.htm
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Something to read:
Politics and fairy tales mix in this Ursula Pflug story, The Last Arabia
Night found on the site of our Canadian distributor:
http://www.marginalbook.com/distract/scheher.htm
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And Some Zine:
Almost forgot: there's a New, Color, Perfectbound, Seventy-Two (this ish
dedicated to the three-day no-sleep production marathon) Page Extravaganza
of Fiction that when you look at the cover you will see is Named
Lady
Churchill's
Rosebud
Wristlet
No.13
-- There is fiction. Or, rather, there are Sixteen Fictions.
-- There is Nonfiction. Four of.
-- There is Poetry. Seven by three writers.
-- And photographer Mieke Zuiderweg provides a cover, "Anticipation."
-- There is even a drawing. But only one.
-- There is a checklist that should keep you busy all winter (or summer,
southern hemispherists).
-- It is US$5.
http://www.lcrw.net/issues/lcrw13.htm
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If a tree falls in a forest...
This isn't the type of story you'll find in the first issue of a new zine,
Trunk Stories, edited by William Smith (known to LCRW readers from his film
column). Check out new stories, reviews, and dandy pen and ink illos all for
a lower-than-expected price of $12. No, wait, $5. Oh yeah!
http://www.lcrw.net/nonlcrwpages/trunk/index.htm
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Reveille
Horn it is atuned to dogs and Quorn:
http://www.surgeryofmodernwarfare.com/archives/sept2903/sept2903.htmlhttp://mcsweeneys.net/links/newfood/
Something about reprints:
http://www.ForReaders.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=94
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Kalpa Imperial: the greatest empire that never was
by Angelica Gorodischer
trans. by Ursula K. Le Guin
http://www.lcrw.net/kalpa/index.htm
Look for this some Sunday in a New York Time near you.
"Those looking for offbeat literary fantasy will welcome Kalpa Imperial: The
Greatest Empire That Never Was, by Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer.
Translated from the Spanish by Ursula Le Guin, this is the first appearance
in English of this prize-winning South American fantasist."
-- Publishers Weekly
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Something about selling:
We thought about looking at a book such as this one: Jeffrey Stamp
"Meaningful Marketing: Selling More With Less Effort" but then we thought
why don't we just insist that people buy more books. But then we realized
that that would be rude. And we thought about how wonderful and how popular
we would be if we never advertised. But then we questioned how anyone would
ever hear about our books. And then we thought maybe other people will tell
them. And we further thought that if we kept on writing in this style either
of of you or one of would take the proverbial blunt object and put an end to
us. But then
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Something on TV:
The soundtrack for the new Super Mario ad is by Japanese popstar Mayumi
Kojima (or Kojima Mayumi). Go to DeoDeo.com and order some. It's jazzy,
energetic, freaky, lively. And now it's on TV. Wacky!
http://www.ultra-vybe.co.jp/artist/kojima/kojima-top.htm
The soundtrack to the best unwritten movies there are.
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On October 16th, the third floor art gallery at Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop
(AVH) in Boston, MA, played host to the final reading in the energetic and
exciting cross-country Trampoline reading series. Missing from the line-up
was Christopher Barzak, the Ohio writer who read at Joseph-Beth in
Lexington, KY, the Ruminator in Minneapolis, MN, and Mac's Backs in
Cleveland Heights, OH. Next time.
Fueled by chocolate, snacks, and sparkling drinks (there's a no-alcohol rule
in the gallery which is run by Johnson Paint next door to AVH), the three
Boston-area readers, Alex Irvine, Vandana Singh, and Greer Gilman all gave
fantastic readings -- no one believed Vandana when she claimed that it had
been her first reading! Rounding out the evening was Greer Gilman's poetic
and hypnotic reading from her novella, "A Crowd of Bone."
The reading was so successful that Avenue Victor Hugo and Small Beer are
going to kick off a series of readings there in the new year. The gallery
space -- which looks down over Newbury Street -- is terrific and the
browsing before the readings in AVH's beautiful new space was as fruitful as
ever.
We are looking for volunteers to help with publicity, signage, space for
out-of-town readers to crash, 40+ folding chairs(!), and so on. Does your
company want its name in the paper every month as the reading series
sponsor? Send us an email at info@... and we'll put together a group of
interested people and see what we can do! Yeah!
All this will begin in February 2004 at:
Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop
353 Newbury St.
Boston, MA 02115
http://avenuevictorhugobooks.com/
Drop by, say hi. Books for Thanksgiving and every day after.
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Peapod Classics
2004 will see the first offshoot (not counting the People's Republic of
Goreistan Nov.7-Dec. 11, 2000) of Small Beer Press.
Peapod Classics will be our reprint line. We will be starting with a couple
of titles next spring (so soon!) and a second season in fall (less than a
year away!). Sadly we will miss the summer season completely. Except for
those frontlist Small Beer books. You know, those. Well, more on that next
time, too. Frontlist, backlist -- where's the gyroscope when you need it?
We'll begin by reprinting a couple of books we love and hope to start
parties all around the world (well, as far as Global Priority and a Jiffy
Mailer will go...) when we announce the titles early in the new year. More
on that next time. It's all about Good Books.
http://www.peapodclassics.com
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Selling stuff online? Use this stuff and make us money. Go on, something has
to.
Start a Paypal Merchant account:
https://www.paypal.com/mrb/pal=YGFJKL7LQEZBN
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Or, alternatively, got a couple of hundred dollars you want to invest in a
Minneapolis bookshop?
http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/4181069.html
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Check the website for something special:
Small Beer Press
http://www.lcrw.net
Nomination
Sale
Chapbooks...
Notes
Free T-shirts for 5 Lucky Folks
Nominate Something
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Carol Emshwiller's novel THE MOUNT has been nominated for The Impac Award,
perhaps the richest annual literary prize. Good luck, Carol! Is there
reprinting news about THE MOUNT (and other Emshwiller titles)? Maybe there
will be soon, keep an eye on our site in the new year.
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Big Sale. Special Offer. Have you seen this? http://www.lcrw.net/special.htm
Get a free chapbook when you order either Trampoline or Kalpa Imperial from
our website. Offer ends 12/31/03
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Our New(ish) Chapbooks Have At Last Arrived. We are proud, relieved, happy.
They are selling faster than ever before. Is this because we added the line
"Limited to an edition of 500" on the copyright page? All our chapbooks are
groovy low-priced limited editions.
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We are holidazed.
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Avocados are the new peaches.
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Free T-Shirt
Yep. First 5 people to email us at info@... will receive a t-shirt for
Karen Joy Fowler's new (April 2004) novel THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB.
It may or may not arrive in time for the holiday of your choice. Especially
if that holiday is sometime in January. On the front a wonderful quote from
the ur-novelist herself, Jane Austen: "You want to be reading." Wear it with
verve.
Pre-order the book here:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0399151613-0&partner_id=26490
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New Review:
Kalpa Imperial and Ursula K. Le Guin's Changing Planes reviewed in The
Village Voice: http://villagevoice.com/issues/0351/mcelroy.php
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New! Exciting! Interstitial! What? Read about it all here:
http://www.artistswithoutborders.org/
One of the best and deepest new websites around -- and they want volunteers,
money, and content for that wesbite. Go for it!
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Want to read short stories? Really short stories? Lots of them?
http://www.journalscape.com/christopherrowe
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Nominate stuff from Zines:
The Zine Yearbook Volume 8 will include excerpts from zines published in
2003, but we can't pick the best without your input! Tell us what should be
included! Eligible zines must have been printed in 2003 and have
circulations of less than 5,000 copies per issue. All you need to do is
photocopy the article or artwork that you want nominate, and include the
zine's name and address with your entry. Please send your nominations to:
The Zine Yearbook
PO Box 20128
Toledo, OH, 43610, USA
All entries must be received by February 1, 2004.
For more information, email: zineyearbook@....
Look for The Zine Yearbook Vol 8 during summer 2004 from Soft Skull Press.
http://www.clamormagazine.org/yearbook/
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Happy holidays. Drive sober.
Cheers,
Small Beer Press
http://www.lcrw.net
2. 3. Hmm.
A story.
New year, all kinds.
5 happy T-shirt people
From PW Daily: Important Caruso Anniversary
No news is no news
http://www.paintdragon.com
The Mount -- Onward!
Trampolinist caught in Twirly Storm Thing
Mas Art
Odd notes and so on
Forthcoming book deals
MUSIC
Look at the Good Words and Pictures
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First: are we going to three issues a year, or two fatter issues? What do
you think? We're not sure. We're tempted, but we're already behind in our
reading (sorry), won't this just make us moreso. Oh we tremble on the edge
of decision. What Would Barbara Stanwyck say?
Perhaps a poll is necessary. More to follow.
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Did you read a good story lately? Here's one:
http://scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/butner/butner1.html
More good stuff in the archive. Skiving is the new working.
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Hello! Happy 2004! (Or whatever year this is to you. Not quite the green
wooden monkey yet. Maybe the Year of the Book? The Zine?)
Bored by the hot weather (S. Hemisphere and the southern US states) or the
cold (Hello Minneapolis, Toronto, Minnehaha!)? Quick: multiply your colons;
ignore the semi-colons; and rush thee to this site: http://www.cheapass.com
and check out "Kill Doctor Lucky." What a concept. What fun. What smart (but
cheap) folks. Yeah.
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Congratulations to Lori, John, Ellen, Nancy, and Alan who at some point will
get a T-shirt, gratis, in the mail. They were the fastest five off the mark
last time we posted. Apologies to everyone else who replied. We instantly
(and some would say karmically) had email problems and were not able to
reply with the sad news that 5 only was the number of shirts, and the number
only was 5. Next time we'll know to get 21.*
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler comes out at the end of April.
Buy one for yourself...and one for your (or someone's...) mother for
Mother's Day! Karen will be touring madly (or madly touring, depending on
how harsh you feel it is to have mini-bar prices forced upon you day after
day) in and around May and June. Say hi for us!
New website!
http://www.sfwa.org/members/Fowler/http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0399151613-0&partner_id=26490
* So you like free stuff? Do you _all_ work for Haliburton?
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From PW Daily: Important Caruso Anniversary
Did you celebrate on Tuesday, January 13?
That was the anniversary of the first radio broadcast to the public by Lee
De Forest in 1910 which featured the Metropolitan Opera starring Enrico
Caruso to a handful of people wearing headphones.
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Man, we're working. It's really exciting. Two new books, some reprints. Even
though recently it's been colder than Mars (but not Pluto) it's warm in here
because we are running on chocolate. Yep. Still. Aren't we getting too old
for this? Have we been to the dentist recently? No. Wonder if that will
change things.
Define "behind schedule" anyway.
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http://www.paintdragon.com Amy Hannum is an interior designer based in New
London, CT. She is the subject and the artist of the cover photo,
"Anticipation," by Mieke Zuiderweg.
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All Carol all the time:
Spanish translation rights to Carol Emshwiller's THE MOUNT have been sold to
Bibliopolis! Yay!
Also: THE MOUNT will be published by Firebird as a mass market paperback in
Spring 2005! SuperYay! THE MOUNT will be a wonderful complement to MR.
BOOTS, Carol's new novel, which Sharyn November at Penguin has also bought!
Celebrations! Jumping! Brightly colored silks! (novel ref.)
http://www.bibliopolis.orghttp://www.lcrw.net/carolemshwiller
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This one is not in the contents list above. Ooh. Exciting. How about those
Triplets of Belleville? Worth seein? Yes. Even if your tiny local art Cinema
doesn't seem to have paid their oil bill and gloves, hat, and scarf are
required.
Along the same lines: Damn. What about The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Documentary. Go See. Ok, it's not playing in your town, put it on your
Netflix queue. Get Bl*ckbuster to stock it. Buy it! Politics in real life.
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Trampolinist caught in Twirly Storm Thing
Dave Shaw, author of "that monkey story" from the anthology Trampoline
(Fresh Fish Press, 1962), is the proud author of a new collection, "Here
Comes the Roar" (for which a handy linkage unit is included below). Mr.
Shaw, who we did not bother to contact for this interview, would have said
something like, "Well, first of all thanks to a certain vintage industryal
combine such as IBM or Rykodisck, without whom I could not have set into
type my stories."
Mr. Shaw would have continued expostulating upon the monkey being
reminiscent in a sense, that sense we all have, the one you can only say in
Austrian -- the 19th Century Full Hapsbergian Empire style, tenth Dan
Austrian -- reminiscent in a sense of one's mortality. One's mortality, and
perhaps one's best intimates.
However. At this point we settled decisively the decision to add a Brooklyn
Brown to the pre-accumulated Hylands Sturbridge Amber and further play in
titlage and contents of said wunnerful wunnerful collection (collections,
yay!) had to be held over until another time. Play will continue (Young
Weather (sic) willing) here:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1574411705-0&partner_id=26490
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Another cool artist whose site we haven't linked to in a while:
http://www.kellibickman.net
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Odd notes and so on:
NYTimes review of Kalpa Imperial:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/books/review/04SCIFIT.html?pagewanted=2
The ALA is giving the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime contribution in
writing for young adults, to Ursula K. Le Guin. Yay!
An interview with Irish poet Paul Muldoon translated into Turkish (I think):
http://www.ykykultur.com.tr/kitaplik/67/gavinjgrant.html
We don't have a blog, but for the last few years we've had an updates page
(much more regular than this "newsletter" here:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/notajournal.htm
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Forthcoming book deals (provided without comment) from Publishers Lunch
Weekly:
Children's
Soccer star Mia Hamm's picture book WINNERS NEVER QUIT!, illustrated by
Carol Thompson, to Kate Morgan Jackson at Harper Children's, by Byron Preiss
Visual Publications.
Actress/writer/director Amber Benson and Bram Stoker Award winner and comic
book writer Christopher Golden's first two original novels based upon their
popular BBCi animated online drama GHOSTS OF ALBION, a period supernatural
drama set in 1830s England about two siblings who who inherit from their
murdered grandfather the responsibility to become the magical Protectors of
England, with the aid of the ghosts of historical figures including Queen
Bodicea, Admiral Nelson and Lord Byron, to Steve Saffel at Del Rey, for
publication in fall 2005. A roleplaying game from Eden Studios is also in
the works.
DON'T LET A TREND GO UNEXPLOITED:
Maggie Sefton's MURDER IN LAMBSPUN: A Knitting Mystery, in which novice
knitter and now amateur sleuth Kelly Flynn <cut>
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MUSIC:
If you can get to these, do:
Kelly Hogan
Feb. 12,13,19 Chicago, IL The Hideout
Fri, 02/27/2004 San Francisco, CA Bimbo's (w/ Neko Case and Carolyn Mark)
Sat, 02/28/2004 Los Angeles, CA The Derby (w/ Neko Case and Carolyn Mark)
Sun, 02/29/2004 San Diego, CA The Casbah (w/ Neko Case and Carolyn Mark)
Trailer Bride
Mon, 02/09/2004 Lexington, KY The Dame
Fri, 02/20/2004 Greenville, NC Pirate Underground
Sat, 03/13/2004 Atlanta, GA Echo Lounge
Mon, 03/15/2004 Oxford, MS Proud Larry's
Wed, 03/17/2004 New Orleans, LA Tipitina's
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I hope this is not how you read:
http://www.short-story-stats.com/short-stories.html
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Look at the Good Words and Pictures:
AMERICA’S GREATEST HUMORIST, ILLUSTRATED!
Eureka Productions is pleased to announce the publication of GRAPHIC
CLASSICS: MARK TWAIN.
GRAPHIC CLASSICS: MARK TWAIN features a comics adaptation of "The Mysterious
Stranger" by Rick Geary, "A Ghost Story" by Anton Emdin, "A Dog's Tale" by
Lance Tooks and nine more great stories. Plus Twain's "Advice To Little
Girls", illustrated by seven women artists: Mary Fleener, Shary Flenniken,
Annie Owens, Lesley Reppeteaux, Toni Pawlowsky, Kirsten Ulve and Florence
Cestac. With additional art by Evert Geradts, Skip Williamson, Dan O'Neill,
Nick Miller, Simon Gane, Milton Knight, Dan Burr, Jackie Smith, William L.
Brown and Lisa K. Weber. Cover by George Sellas. Edited by Tom Pomplun.
GRAPHIC CLASSICS: MARK TWAIN (ISBN#0-9712464-8-3) is available in
bookstores, comics shops, or direct from the publisher at
http://www.graphicclassics.com. 144 pages, b&w w/color cover, $9.95.
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0971246483-0&partner_id=26490
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Teenage Fanclub play nice music.
http://www.teenagefanclub.co.uk/
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(Table of Contents Intentionally Deleted.)
June: New Books!
You may or may not know, but we publish books as well as send out occasional
emails and give out T-shirts for books we like (The Jane Austen Book Club,
if you wish, see below for more).
June is a big month: our Spring 2004 (Summer, really, I suppose) hit the
stores, yay! What are they? Who cares? Order them and see! We love them!
We've read them innumerable times. We've set them in at least two different
types. Isn't that enough? There'll be excerpts, there'll be (fingers
crossed) a freebie mini-comic (more on that next time!) for Perfect Circle,
there'll be readings, bake-offs, shoe shines, songs to learn and sing, and
(Now: more choice!) simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions.
Order early -- help us calculate our print runs!
Order here: http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htm
Mail order: http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/ordersheet.htm
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1. Sean Stewart, PERFECT CIRCLE
hardcover $24 1931520070
trade paperback $15 1931520119
Sometimes a guy is haunted for a really good reason.
Sean Stewart's much-anticipated eighth novel is a dark, funny, fast-moving
thriller that you won't want to put down. Stewart was the lead author behind
the innovative interactive web game known as "The Beast" (inspired by the
film A.I.,) which became a break-out cult hit. He is the winner of the
Arthur Ellis, Aurora, and World Fantasy awards, and the author of The New
York Times Notable Books Mockingbird and Resurrection Man.
"Needy Ghosts, bar fights, concealed weapons, R.E.M., and ramen noodles --
Perfect Circle is an irreverent Texas treat. Sean Stewart is one bright,
funny writer."
-- Stewart O'Nan, author of The Night Country
http://www.lcrw.net/seanstewart/index.htm
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2. Jennifer Stevenson's TRASH SEX MAGIC
hardcover $26 1931520062
trade paperback $16 1931520127
This funny and sexy debut novel is about family and kinship, mothers and
daughters, homecomings and never leaving home at all. It's a tender,
raunchy, sprawling, exuberant, radiant magical love story like nothing
you've read before.
"It was a proverb of the 16th Century: _On Hallowmass Eve troll notte thy
broomstick bye ye caravan park, for thou wottist notte who maye mount
thereon._ I had paid it little heed since learning it years ago, and planned
to read this grand book one chapter at a time. I'd scarcely begun the second
when I fell under the author's spell."
-- Gene Wolfe, author of The Knight
"Jennifer Stevenson is my goddess. In this book, trash is power. Trash Sex
Magic is a springtime bacchanalia of beautiful, wild women, magic trees and
sexy men -- love it!"
-- Nalo Hopkinson, author of The Salt Roads
http://www.lcrw.net/stevenson/index.htm
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3. The first in our Peapod Classics reprint series, Carol Emshwiller's
CARMEN DOG, ISBN 1931520O89, $14.
Carol recently received two Nebula nominations, The Mount, for Best Novel
and "Grandma" nominated for Best Short Story.
"Emshwiller has produced a first novel that combines the cruel humor of
Candide with the allegorical panache of Animal Farm. In the hyper-Kafkaesque
world of Carmen Dog, women have begun devolving into animals and animals
ascending the evolutionary ladder to become women. . . . there has not been
such a singy combination of imaginative energy, feminist outrage, and sheer
literary muscle since Joanna Russ' classic The Female Man"
--Entertainment Weekly
"This trenchant feminist fantasy-satire mixes elements of Animal Farm,
Rhinoceros and The Handmaid's Tale.... Imagination and absurdist humor mark
[Carmen Dog] throughout, and Emshwiller is engaging even when most savage
about male-female relationships."
--Booklist
"An inspired feminist fable.... A wise and funny book."
--The New York Times
More info to come as we get it!
http://www.lcrw.net/peapod/
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We'll have excerpts from these new titles online soon and we'll let you know
within a couple of weeks of it happening. Deadlines and timetables are us.
Oh yeah.
If you have ideas on how to get these books out to the wider world, email
us!
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Blue? Wicked? Got questions, troubles, inexplicable problems, wonderings on
this, and that, and, oh, that. Send them in to info@... for our new
advice guru, Ms. Gwenda Bond.
Here's Ms. Bond's column from ish.13:
http://www.lcrw.net/columns/auntgwenda1.htm
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More politics:
http://www.cafeshops.com/proudtobehere
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Two Greer Gilman Interviews!
An interview with Sherwood Smith
http://sfsite.com/02b/gr170.htm
Interview with Michael Swanwick from 2000
http://sfsite.com/02b/msgg170.htm
And if you're in the New York area on May 19th, drop by KGB Bar to hear
Greer read. It's worth it. We're trying to get Greer to record "A Crowd of
Bone", which would be an awesome project.
http://www.lcrw.net/kgb/index.htm
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Free audio download: Richard Butner, Ash City Stomp
Information wants to be free! (Well, it also wants to be expensive, but not
this time.)
We just uploaded a 44 MB MP3 file of North Carolina writer Richard
Butner reading his story "Ash City Stomp". The link below will take you to a
page where you can listen to the whole thing. Not really recommended on a
dial-up. We'll also see if we can get this to you on a CD at some point.
Sure, we're working on that.
http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/stories/butnerash.htm
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It was pretty amazing to be wandering around a great exhibit (GIRL PRINTERS
-- An Invitational Show Featuring Printing, Books & Ephemera) at Smith
College and see the broadside of Alan DeNiro's "Da Vinci Dreams of the
Ornithopter":
http://www.boxcarpress.com/books-cards/broadsides.html
You can also read the poem here:
http://www.taverners-koans.com/ratbastards/mypoems.html#davinci
The show came from Syracuse, maybe it will come somewhere near you. But if
not, fly here: January 14 -- March 28, 2004
Neilson Library: first floor, Morgan Gallery; third floor, Mortimer Rare
Book Room Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 413-585-2907
Curated by Carol J. Blinn, Proprietor of Warwick Press Assisted by Meg
Sanders.
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Lots of press for an interesting new site:
http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/
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VARIOUS THINGS
Should you wish to Subscribe to LCRW but not do it by check or through our
site, Project Pulp now sell subscriptions (as well as lots of other good
things): http://projectpulp.com/item_detail.asp?bookID=1877960502
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How about some nice pictures to go with your words?
http://unrewarding.com/steve/
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Who owns what? Which celebrity spokesperson/media executive is pretending to
be a nonpartisan newscaster on your TV?
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/majormedia_pop/movies.htmlhttp://www.blackcommentator.com/75/75_cover_dean_media.html
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Cockahoop is the first solo album by Cerys Matthews the firebrand singer of
Catatonia. At the moment it's only available in the UK (see link) but if
Nonesuch or Bloodshot are listening, hopefully one of them will pick it up.
There are some fantastic songs. The album was recorded in Nashville (ok,
outside Nashville) by "acclaimed Bob Dylan and Ryan Adams steel guitarist,
Bucky Baxter and features traditionals, covers, and new songs.
http://cerysmatthews.info/
Go here to see a tiny video for "il est midi", the B-side of "Caught in the
Middle": http://cerysmatthews.info/d_loads/index.htm
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We have a bunch of other stuff around the office, some of which is for sale
again (after some time off for good writing), here:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping2.htm
If we ever get it together, this is where we'll put odd things up for
sale. If.
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Nice reviews in the Review of Contemporary Fiction
Meet Me in the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich:
http://www.centerforbookculture.org/review/bookreviews/02_2/moon%20room.html
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller:
http://www.centerforbookculture.org/review/bookreviews/03_1/carol.html
*** And: good luck to Ray, Carol, and all those other Nebula Nominees!
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A Review:
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler, April 2004 (same month as Dan
Chaon's debut novel, You Remind Me of Me (great title!)
From Kirkus Reviews:
"... a real delight as she follows the lives of six members of a book
club. Not a moment passes without its interest as we meet Jocelyn (who
raises Rhodesian Ridgebacks); her best friend since girlhood, Sylvia (nee
Sanchez); Sylvia's daughter Allegra, an artist who's now 30 and a lesbian;
high-school French teacher, Prudie, 28 and flighty; the talkative
Bernadette, turning 67 and the oldest; and the only man, Grigg Harris,
unmarried, in his 40s, new to the neighborhood -- and a science-fiction buff
who's never read Jane Austen.... Bright, engaging, dexterous literary
entertainment for everyone, though with many special treats and pleasures
for Janeites."
Go see a reading: http://www.sfwa.org/members/Fowler/Speaking.html
--
Small Beer Press
http://www.lcrw.net
Local things for local people.
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Book Store Closing
Boston bookshop Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop will shut its doors for good
in May. The year long attempt to save the store in a new location will come
to an end. A loss of former customers who thought the store had closed at
the end of 2002, compounded with an overall loss of business to chain
stores, and to the changing shopping patterns on Newbury Street, made
continuing the struggle impossible.
Despite lower overhead, a large stock of over 100,000 volumes, and a
good location only steps from where it originally opened almost thirty years
ago, the shop has finally succumbed to the prevailing trends in the book
business. Blue Bart, the store cat, will retire to the home of a long time
friend.
A general 50% off sale began Thursday, April 1st for book fools and
those who wish to be. The sale will continue until all stock is sold,
with further reductions to follow as necessary. Shelving will be sold in
May.
For more information and updates please visit the website:
http://www.avenuevictorhugobooks.com
Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop
353 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02115 (617) 266-7746
books@...
Also closing: the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Black Images Book Bazaar, the
Dallas, Tex., African-American bookstore founded in 1977, Main Street Book
Shop in White Plains, N.Y., etc. etc.
*** AVH, as we knew it, took us in when we hardly knew whether we were
sleeping in the street or running for senate. We were interviewed for more
than two hours. We listed our recent favorite reads and attempted to defend
them. (This defense would be an ongoing pattern.)
We learned more about books and people than expected.
We learned that there was a history to the store and we helped with a
tiny 25th anniversary celebration (that was some time ago, now).
The store moved from 339 to 353 Newbury St. and there was a party.
The store earned so many "Best of Boston" Awards that at one point
Boston Magazine decided to stop including it to let others have a chance.
The store cat, Blue Bart (after Tyg, the cat who came before -- whom we
never knew), arrived to little fanfare and much love. There were many people
who knocked on the window or came in and asked, "Is that cat were alive?"
Imagine the temptation.
Soon we were able to find that book even when the customer didn't know
the author or the title, but, you know, "It's green."
AVH would probably not like it, but: send them checks. Send them money. Buy
books during their sale.
AVH is a small and glorious slice of a better life. They close with a
sale to pay off debts incurred in bringing readers to unexpected books, in
searching out the book you wanted, in storing for long years the one book
you will only long years later discover you always needed.
Ach.
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Advance word on new books:
Trash Sex Magic:
"It's to Chicago what Mysteries of Pittsburgh is to Pittsburgh and A
Winter's Tale is to New York -- a winning, touching, open-eyed love letter
-- but with trash, sex, and magic too. Unusual and wonderfully done."
-- John Crowley, author of The Translator
http://www.lcrw.net/stevenson/index.htm
Perfect Circle:
"Perfect Circle is a perfect read, exciting, unique, everything here but the
Second Coming, but, Sean Stewart himself is the prize. What a talent. Write
on, my man. Write on."
-- Joe Lansdale, Sunset and Sawdust
http://www.lcrw.net/seanstewart/index.htm
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I never realized the Beastie Boys ("You've got to fight for your right to
party") were a political band until Bush got elected.
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Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link is now available in Japanese! You can
look at the great cover here
http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/415020358X.09.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
and buy the book here:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/415020358X/qid%3D1079119981/249-146
0723-2547543
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New review of Carol Emshwiller's The Mount here at Rambles:
"In a recent interview with Science Fiction Weekly, Ursula Le Guin called
Emshwiller "the most unappreciated great writer we've got." The Mount proves
Le Guin right.... If Emshwiller is not already on your top bookshelf, The
Mount will put her there."
http://www.rambles.net/emshwiller_mt02.html
Q. What is Rambles?
A. "Your best source on the web for folk & traditional music, speculative
fiction, folklore, concerts, movies & more."
-- Superlatives make for difficulties. How about a tiny edit to:
"One of the best sources on the web for folk & traditional music,
speculative fiction, folklore, concerts, movies & more."
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Print this email out, fold into paper plane. Attempt flight tests while boss
is power lunching, napping, or at Executive Compensation Conference.
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Ask your local library/public TV channel/rep. cinema/guy with a projector to
get a copy of Talking to the Wall -- a movie about how the people of
Greenfield managed to stop Wal Mart from coming to town. Are Wal Mart the
biggest company in the world yet? "Welcome to all our shoppers presently
shopping themselves out of a job!"
Some of the people of Greenfield is even now trying to bring a discount shop
to their town, despite there being 5 or 6 other Walmarts within 20 minutes.
Power to the people: not just the Walton family.
http://www.talkingtothewall.com/
(Ok, so not every dollar spent at a local store stays in the community. But,
for instance, in a bookshop the shop buys a $10 book from the publisher (or
distributor, etc) for $5. So when they sell that book, the publisher gets
(not makes, there's a huge difference!) $5 and your town gets $5 (and the
Feds get 4-8% sales tax, mais oui) which goes to pay the booksellers, the
utility companies, the cat food, the annual charitable donations, etc. etc.
If you buy the book at Walmart, they get a bigger discount (how? isn't that
illegal? Oh wait, how complex are their books? I see) so the publisher (and
therefore the author) gets less (say $3-$3.50), the store gets the same
(because the book sold at a "discount". Of that $3.50, not much goes to the
community. Big stores get tax breaks to come to town (in the film, they
worked out that Wal Mart would bring the town 19 new jobs... and local
businesses would lose $34 million in sales).
In the film, which is a documentary, and therefore in the town, there is one
hardware store owner in Orange (near Greenfield (colorful places) who loses
his store due to Wal Mart. He takes a part time job at a lumber place, but
on the whole he'd rather work for himself. He is so cheery, and so sad.
Anyway, enough. This is no fun. Local stores are the answer in some places
(cities and small towns) but not everywhere. Jane Jacobs probably knows the
answer. Thank god for small businesses. Maybe we should have a Thank a Small
Business Day where everyone sends office supplies, coupons for coffee,
catfood if they have a cat, and lets them go first at the post office and
the bank. Yeah. Let's do that.
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Maybe close to you?
1) April 28th, 2004 7:30 pm
Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant, Brian Evenson, Geoffrey H. Goodwin
A Panel On Writing Short Stories
Barnes & Noble, Store #2645
One Worcester Road, Framingham, MA 01701
508-626-4268
2) Please join us for the 4th ANNUAL JUNIPER LITERARY FESTIVAL
May 7-8, 2004
The University of Massachusetts Amherst, Memorial Hall
FRIDAY, MAY 7:
5pm Opening reception for the Book and Journal Fair
8pm Fiction readings by Amy Hempel and David Gates
SATURDAY, MAY 8:
11am Question and Answer Forum with Amy Hempel and David Gates
2pm Address by Marjorie Perloff:
"The Poetics of Cultural Estrangement: Viennese High Culture and the New
York School"
3:15pm Issues in Independent Publishing Roundtable with: Eric Lorberer
(Rain Taxi, moderator), Carol Ann Davis (Crazyhorse), Christian Hawkey
(jubilat), Allan Kornblum (Coffeehouse Press), Vincent Standley (3rd bed),
Matthew Zapruder (Verse Press)
8pm Poetry reading by John Ashbery
Participants in the Book and Journal Fair: 3rd bed, Coffeehouse Press,
Conduit, Fence, Fulcrum, jubilat, The Massachusetts Review, NowCulture, Open
City, Paris Press, Perugia Press, Rain Taxi, Slope, Small Beer Press, The
Univ. of Mass. Press, Verse Press.
All events take place in Memorial Hall at the University of
Massachusetts and are free and open to the public.
A yearly gathering of writers, editors, publishers, scholars, and
readers, the Juniper Festival is dedicated to the exploration of issues
vital to the literary arts. It presents important new creative, editorial,
and scholarly work through public readings, addresses, forums, and a journal
and book fair. A journal and book fair will run throughout the Festival,
filling Memorial Hall with books and magazines produced through independent
literary publishing.
For more information, email juniper@...
Lisa Olstein, Director, Juniper Festival
3) May 7, 2004, 8.00 PM (Friday)
Kelly Link opens for The Magnetic Fields who have a new album out, i:
Calvin Theatre, Northampton, MA
413-586-8686 http://www.iheg.com
4) June 1, 2004, 7.30 PM
Hannah Wolf Bowen, John Trey, Dave Schwartz, Philip Brewer, Gavin J.
Grant and Kelly Link
A Night of Readings (and More?) from Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.
Quimby's Bookstore
1854 West North Ave, Chicago IL 60622
773/342-0910 http://www.quimbys.com
5) Jennifer Stevenson and with Gene Wolfe (The Knight)
June 2, 2004, 7.00 PM, Evanston Public Library, Evanston, IL
June 25, 2004 8.00 PM, Prairie Lights, Iowa City, Iowa
http://www.prairielights.com
6) Gavin Grant, Kelly Link, Small Beer Press, Sean Stewart, Jennifer
Stevenson
June 4-6, 2004, BookExpo America
McCormick Center, Chicago, IL
http://www.bookexpoamerica.com
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Random linkage:
Review of Bittersweet Creek and Other Stories & Other Cities at Tangent
Online:
http://tangentonline.com/reviews/anthoreview.php3?review=952
LCRW 13 reviewed:
http://www.sfsite.com/04a/lc173.htm
Luis Urrea interview:
http://www.bookpage.com/0404bp/luis_alberto_urrea.html
Read a story from LCRW:
Born on the Edge of an Adjective
By Christopher Barzak
http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/show.html?fn,adjective,1
The New Yorker on height:
THE HEIGHT GAP
by BURKHARD BILGER
Why Europeans are getting taller and taller‹and Americans aren¹t.
Issue of 2004-04-05
Posted 2004-03-29
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040405fa_fact
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This email is an amalgamation of one written in May which apparently people=
did not get and one "written" today.
1. New Chapbook
2. [Sort of] Early new title news
2a. LCRW news
3. Almost
4. Reviews
5. Who are we?
6. Don't buy this
7. Flyrabbit
8. Something missing here?
Insider News & so on from June 21, The Sunniest Day in the Northern Hemisph=
ere.
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1. Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories
by Richard Butner
First printing, June 2004
$6 (inc. shipping)
No.8 in the limited edition Small Beer Press chapbook series. We'll have mo=
re about this beautiful little artefact soon: in the meantime, here's the Ta=
ble of Contents:
Ash City Stomp
Horses Blow Up Dog City
The Rules of Gambling
Lo-Fi
Drifting
Richard Butner loves you. This is his second chapbook after Mind Snakes (il=
lustrated by Michael Carter, Barefoot Press & The Paper Plant). His stories =
have been published in RE Arts & Letters, Say..., ...is this a cat?, Problem=
Child, Scream, Mind Caviar, and the anthologies Trampoline (Kelly Link, ed)=
, Crossroads: Southern Stories of the Fantastic (F. Brett Cox and Andy Dunca=
n, eds., Tor), Intersections (John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name, and Richard But=
ner, eds., Tor), and When The Music's Over (Lewis Shiner, ed., Bantam Spectr=
a).
Read some fiction by Richard Butner:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/butner/butner1.=
html
http://www.lcrw.net/fictionplus/otheragents.htmhttp://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/stories/butnerash.htm (also available as an =
audio download)
Our little chapbooks are, well, usually quite beautiful and run $6 with shi=
pping (or 4 for $20), are sometimes signed, and are great introductions to n=
ew writers.
Mr. Butner's chapbook can be ordered here:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htmhttp://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/ordersheet.htm
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Richard Butner also wrote an excellent piece on "How to Make a Martini" for=
LCRW 12:
"Drink what you like, so you can talk to assholes including yourself. But. =
But you might want to have a martini. And here's how to make one.
"First off, martinis are made of gin and vermouth. If you make one with vod=
ka, it's not a martini; it's a vodka martini. If you make one without vermou=
th, it's not a martini, it's cold gin, which is a perfectly fine KISS song b=
ut perhaps not a perfectly fine beverage.
"The state of being in a martini glass does not instantly confer martini-ho=
od on any given concoction. Some perfectly fine drinks are served in martini=
glasses (aka cocktail glasses, as opposed to old-fashioned glasses or Colli=
ns glasses or cordial glasses). Gimlets, say. Hell, even Lemon Drops. There =
is no such thing as a Choco-Banana Martini, though."
http://www.lcrw.net/issues/lcrw12.htm
(Maybe we should get the rest of that online....)
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2. We've just signed up another title for our Peapod Classics line, Travel=
Light by Naomi Mitchison. It is an amazing novel that's been one of Gavin's=
favorites since he read it a couple of years ago (he may have pushed the pr=
evious Virago Press edition on you if you stood still long enough).
The new edition of Travel Light will be out in 2005 and will knock your=
socks off. More news on it closer to the date, just figured that if anyone =
should get early news, it should be yous.
Here's a short thing on it from F&SF:
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/depts/cur0106.htm
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2a. LCRW is a twice a year occurrence. Anything at all that led you to thin=
k it was thrice a year was misleading, hopeful, and maybe even naughty. The =
new ish, $14, will be out soon. We can hardly tell you anything more about i=
t (unless you will be at WisCon in Madison, WI, or at Quimby's in Chicago on=
June 1st, when we might know more). It's printed on paper, it uses black in=
k, there is a huge lack of a recipe and same for crossword. It is not printe=
d in 4.5 point Bodoni and does not come with a free pair of glasses after al=
l.
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3. New books almost out of the gate. Starred Booklist review for Sean, som=
ething else good we can't talk about until June 28(!), he's doing the Gray L=
ecture series in New York. Jennifer's book also gets a lovely Booklist revie=
w and both will be in Publishers Weekly. They're beautiful, and the insides =
are pretty good, too. Get your ghosts, your trash, your pop music, your magi=
c, get it all here.
Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle: http://www.lcrw.net/seanstewart/index.htm
Jennifer Stevenson, Trash Sex Magic: http://www.lcrw.net/stevenson/index.ht=
m
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4. Review news
the pathetic caverns
eclectic reviews and opinions
http://www.pathetic-caverns.com/books/l/kelly_link.html#trampolinehttp://www.pathetic-caverns.com/books/l/kelly_link.html#strangerhttp://www.pathetic-caverns.com/books/v/ray_vukcevich.html
Tangent Online took a look at the last two LCRWs:
"sly, bizarre, funny, and haunting stories by writers both familiar and unf=
amiliar."
http://www.tangentonline.com/reviews/magazine.php3?review=991
"Had LCRW #12 been a sheaf of blank pages around "The Fishie," I still woul=
d have felt compelled to give it a good review. But with its usual assortmen=
t of quietly compelling fiction hovering somewhere around the nexus of ghost=
story, fairy tale, folklore, fantasy, and magical realism, Lady Churchill's=
Rosebud Wristlet continues to define-and redefine-for me why we read, write=
, and take risks on new writers, new ideas, and new ways. Quality."
http://www.tangentonline.com/reviews/magazine.php3?review=1005
And one from Broken Pencil, 23:
"There's something for everyone within these pages, which include fiction, =
poetry, non-fiction, a book review, a film review, a few sine reviews, and e=
ven a piece that could pass for a visual poem. If anything, you could argue =
that the sine is a little too eclectic because it doesn't cohere under any o=
ne theme or mood. But these days, who needs coherence?... Many of the storie=
s, like Jan Lars Jensen's "Happier Days", at first seem perfect for a lazy, =
hung-over Sunday afternoon when you may be more receptive to a bit of gold o=
ld nostalgia, but then take a weird and welcome twist. Cara Spindler offers =
some poetic mid-zine relief with her delightful lyricism, and Richard Butner=
instructs on how to make a proper martini. (There is no such thing as a Cho=
co-Banana Martini.) ... This is a good zine to keep in your bag during daily=
travels.
On Books: by Paul Di Fiippo
Mark Rich, Foreigners and Other Familiar Faces
"Opening and closing with wistfully beautiful prose poems, Mark Rich's new =
collection, Foreigners, and Other Familiar Faces, is a sharp slice of this f=
ine writer's work, featuring several stories seeing print for the first time=
. Rich writes like a combination of James Thurber and Franz Kafka, evoking r=
uefully comic domestic situations that partake of the essential absurdity of=
the universe and human strivings. In a story like "Mrs. Hewitt's Tulips" --=
where a nebbishy, cuckolded husband finds his life turned around after the =
arrival of miniature humanoid "little gardeners" in a pack of green hotdogs =
-- we see Rich mining some of the same vein of quotidian miracles that James=
Blaylock also exploits."
http://asimovs.com/_issue_0407/onbooks.shtmlhttp://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/markrich.htm
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Unnumbered unruly bit:
Random music links to liven the week:
http://www.ebtg.com/http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/http://www.jimandjennie.com/
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Sean Stewart interview
http://www.booksense.com/people/archive/stewartsean.jsp
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5. Are we http://www.lcrw.org/
Lake Country Romance Writers.
Lee County Republican Women?
Linn County Republican Women?
Local Church Records Index - W?
Log Cabin Republicans of Washington (LCRW) is a statewide group founded in =
1994 to advance the legislative and policy-making interests of gay and lesbi=
an individuals with the Washington State Republican Party.
Lamar County Raceway
http://www.whizwheels.com/Tracks/lamarcounty.html
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6. Wonder if this will ever sell?
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=196347379
(If it has gone, it was LCRW 9 -- asking price $14...!)
Try this for comparison:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htm
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7. More news from Boston: We loved Flyrabbit and will miss it. We encourag=
e you to add yourself to their email list if you like odd and interesting th=
ings:
Sunday, May 2, 2004, Flyrabbit closed its doors for the last time. Longtime=
Flyrabbit employee Sue, along with her business partner Ross will be taking=
over the storefront and creating their own shop to bring you independent mu=
sic, books, magazines and other stuff that mainstream businesses know nothin=
g about. Look for their forthcoming website at http://www.regenerationboston=
.com.
What's next from the creator of Flyrabbit? In the works is an online so=
urce for some of the more peculiar items found at Flyrabbit, a few of our ow=
n favorite gewgaws, and many new and possibly objectionable items to thrill =
and disconcert you. We are also painstakingly engineering our very own line =
of unusual merchandise, soon to be available at http://www.cuckoocorral.com.=
If you have any questions, comments, info about crazy stuff you've come=
across, please send e-mail to: flyrabbit@....
Thank you all for your support over the years.
Brooke Corey, Proprietor
Flyrabbit
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8. Satire about the government has been inadequate and therefore removed. =
We await a sane government which will answer questions truthfully and take r=
esponsibility for their own actions. Adolescent governments need not apply. =
We know we may have to wait a long time.
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Insider News
Well, we have a new distributor (SCB) who is liking the way our two new boo=
ks Sean Stewart's PERFECT CIRCLE & Jennifer Stevenson's TRASH SEX MAGIC are =
going out. Like little old summer tornadoes. Which is a bit messy, for which=
we apologize -- but, like a certain government, we're going to have to refu=
se to take responsibility for any damages.
Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle: http://www.lcrw.net/seanstewart/index.htm
Hardcover
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-1931520070-0&partner_id=26490=
Trade paperback
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-1931520119-0&partner_id=26490=
Oh wait, shouldn't get political this early in the, ah, monthly (June comes=
right after April as far as this monthly is concerned) newsletter. Later th=
en.
There's good news about PERFECT CIRCLE that we're not supposed to tell you =
about until June 28th. So we won't. But it is very groovy. In the meantime, =
reviews will be appearing in newspapers and mags. The more the better! Reque=
st your local library get our books in. Book shops, too. Send to friends. Bu=
t, don't order from us! We are traveling and our shopping page is Temporaril=
y Gone!
Apologies for caffeinated exclamation points provided free with China Gray =
{Earl Gray by any other name} and Sea Mist {a lovely sencha} by Espresso Roy=
ale (hey, they have wireless!).
http://espressoroyale.com/locations_detail.cfm?state=Michigan
The books are at the distributor's warehouse and have gone out from there t=
o a few places already. Our other titles are at this moment in a truck on th=
eir way to SCB so if you work in a shop and can't get them right now, Don't =
Give Up! They'll be available again soon. Yay!
BookExpo America at the McCormick Center in Chicago was awesome. We met ton=
s of people (there is still a stack of fliers, business cards, and so on to =
go through back at the office) and got the word out to lots of new people ab=
out our Stuff. Books, baby, books. We were advised to get a phrase (since we=
don't have a logo, hee hee) to capture the essence of the press. Coffee Hou=
se Press (formerly, a long time ago it seems, Toothpaste Press!) have this n=
eat phrase, something like Good Books are Brewing at CHP (not the Calif. Hig=
hway Patrol, ok?). Any suggestions welcome.
SCB threw a great party, but due to noise restrictions the Polkaholics coul=
dn't play. Boo! We did get to see Buried Beds (fantastic stuff from Providen=
ce, RI) and the Mountain Goats at the Empty Bottle at an event MC'd by Matth=
ew Derby (SUPER FLAT TIMES) and technically a BELIEVER event. Check out this=
month's BELIEVER for a tres groovioso compilation CD and a great piece by D=
avid Suissman (of WFMU, 9AM, Thursday morning fame) on Caruso.
Tea running out, so this ends this edition of Insider Notes from Somewhere =
Unexpected.
June 21-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-
Gavin J. Grant, Geoffrey Goodwin, and Liisa Ladouceur will be on the Perpet=
ual Motion Roadshow in July. Stop by and say hi:
July 8, 8pm. [Sat.] The Lucky Cat (245 Grand St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn) F=
ree.
July 10, 7pm. [Mon.] Mac's Backs (1820 Coventry Rd., Cleveland) Free.
July 11, 8:30pm. [Sun.] Southgate House (24 East. 3rd St., Newport) Free.
July 12, 8pm. [Mon.] Quimby's (1854 W. North Ave., Chicago) Free.
July 13, 8pm. [Tues.] Holy Joe's (651 Queen St. W., Toronto) $PWYC.
July 14, 7pm. [Wed.] The Study Lounge, Embassy Hotel (25 Cartier St., Ottaw=
a) Free.
July 15, 7:30pm. [Thurs. ] Zeke's Gallery (3955 St. Laurent, Montreal) $4. =
Handbills can be downloaded from here -- paste them up, mail them out, fram=
e them, send them on: http://nomediakings.net/handbills/
There will be local acts (bands?) opening. There will be (SUPER SIZE ME ign=
ored for now) chocolate, poetry, fiction, snappy dressers, snapping fingers,=
chocolate, zines, maybe a CD, a dearth of anything resembling commercial pr=
oduct, border crossing (literal and metaphorical), and little white rabbits =
on pogosticks (please supply own hallucinogenics for last).
What we need from you loveys who turn up:
-- a shoulder to cry on about that obnoxious Scot/American/Canadian
-- lists of road food to avoid
-- lists of road food to pick up
-- help with loading in and out our huge set up (including our Marshall sta=
cks, Motown freeze-dried backup singers, poetry-riser [2nd hand from Motley =
Crue's drummer], dry ice (and gloves to handle same), etc.)
-- directions to The High Road
-- onions for those not brought to tears at appropriate moments
-- reasons to go on
Hope to see you there, or there, or there.
June 21-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-
Quick. Where did that book come from? An interview with Jennifer Stevenson =
(TRASH SEX MAGIC): http://www.lcrw.net/stevenson/interview.htm
Jennifer will be at Prairie Lights Soon:
Prairie Lights Bookstore, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City IA 52240, 319-337-26=
81, Friday June 25, 2004 8-9pm. Live radio broadcast to WSUI http://wsui.uio=
wa.edu/prairie_lights.htm at 910AM in Iowa, and later broadcast at WOI 640AM=
http://www.woi.org/schedules/default.asp
Does this book rock? Audrey Niffenegger says so!
"Trash Sex Magic can sweep you up and leave you dazzled, miles from home."
-- Faren Miller, Locus
"Vivid, strange, pulsing with life, this is an unforgettable debut by a pro=
mising author."
-- Booklist
"Stevenson's first novel is at once sexy, beautifully written and passing s=
trange."
-- Publishers Weekly
Hardcover
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-1931520062-0&partner_id=26490=
Trade paperback
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-1931520127-0&partner_id=26490=
June 21-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-
We were at the Allied Media Conference (along with Autonomedia, Garrett Cou=
nty Press, Clamor, Earth First, and many other zinesters and more and more r=
adio peeps) this weekend. The presentation by the guy from Negativeland was =
pretty good but the standout was the show by The Evens, who are Ian MacKaye =
& Amy Farina (of many previous hardcore bands). They both sing, she plays dr=
ums, he plays guitar. It is a mellow (Buried Beds, Be Good Tanyas!) show: ve=
ry highly recommended. They'll be recording in autumn, but until then if you=
are near these places, go see:
06.21.04 - Cleveland, OH Asterik Gallery
06.22.04 - Buffalo, NY Soundlab/Big Orbit Gallery
06.23.04 - Ithaca, NY Museum of the Earth
06.27.04 - Stroudsberg, PA Monroe Public Library
06.28.04 - Brooklyn, NY The Nest
06.29.04 - Baltimore, MD Mission Space
07.01.04 - Washington DC Fort Reno Park -- w/ Ted Leo
June 21-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-
Want to see what we're selling? Want to proselytize? Want to burn us in our=
image? Need content to make your paper aeroplane (or Paper Super Shuttle or=
whatever) look groovy? T-shirt images? here is an Acrobat (ie Large PDF Fil=
e -- you have been warned!) of our Summer 2004 Catalog
http://www.lcrw.net/about/catalog.pdf
June 21-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-
Documentary of the moment has to be (since it's the one we saw most recentl=
y) SUPER SIZE ME. (Which the Cloverleaf breakfast place here in Ann Arbor ba=
sically tried to do this morning with their massive plate of Clverleaf Hash =
Bash [or something] -- hashbrowns with tons of veggies on top sprinkled with=
feta cheese, somewhat healthy, except fried and absolutely Huge. Had to lea=
ve about 1/2!)
SUPER SIZE ME is very smart, scary, and a great follow up to DIET FOR A NEW=
AMERICA and FAST FOOD NATION in getting the word out there on the general u=
nhealthyness of fast food and the epidemic of obesity in the US (and the way=
the USA is dragging other country's diets down with it).
Made us worry about the Chocolate LCRW subscription, but we figure the 14% =
of our subscribers who chose that option are smart. We don't have to worry a=
bout you, right?
The Film (you can find a screening near you):
http://www.supersizeme.com/
Old interview with Eric Schlosser (FAST FOOD NATION):
http://www.booksense.com/people/archive/schlossereric.jsp
June 21-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-
Do you need any bookshelves? AVH is selling them off cheap until the end of=
June! http://www.avenuevictorhugobooks.com/home.php3
June 21-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-
Here's great news for KALPA IMPERIAL, chosen for the New York Times Summer =
Reading list:
"These tales of an imaginary empire burst from the mouth of a storyteller w=
hose meditations on power -- its acquisition, possession and loss -- elude e=
asy paraphrase. Ursula K. Le Guin's translation of a work by a prominent Arg=
entine writer elegantly articulates the shifting tones of the larger narrati=
ve, whose theme seems to be the endless imperfectibility of human society."
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-1931520054-0&partner_id=26490=
June 21-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-
Karen Joy Fowler's THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB has been on the NYTimes Bestse=
ller list for 6 weeks and is now at #7; #4 at BookSense.com; #7 at Publisher=
s Weekly. It's a bestseller, wooee!
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0399151613-0&partner_id=26490=
June 21-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-
Ok, just a minute, let's get shimmery and political for a minute.
<shimmer>
It's back to the 1980s and Reagan is president. A certain future editor has=
worked out that his high school is close enough to the US Navy's Holy Loch =
submarine base (now closed) that when the bomb drops (ah, drama) there won't=
be too long, as it were, to wait. However, it has to be dropped between 9 A=
M and 4 PM, otherwise there may be a _long_ miserable time to wait.
Hopes that whoever stumbles and falls onto the red button (suspecting it wi=
ll be Cheeseburger (thanks, Spitting Image) Brain himself and he won't wait =
until Sunday (since Godless Commies don't take Sunday off for church, right?=
).
<Undo shimmer>
Ok, that made sense. Why the flashback? Ronald Reagan died, and much as I f=
eel sorry for his family, his presidency was a disaster for the planet and h=
e won't be missed.
June 21-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-the-longest-day-
Small Beer Press: http://www.lcrw.net
2 or 3 Things.
1 of 2ish: Today Salon.com posted Chapter One of Sean Stewart's page turner
PERFECT CIRCLE. Pass it on, friends, pass it on.
http://salon.com/books/feature/2004/07/02/perfect_circle/index.html
2 of 2ish: A small touring band
WHO
Gavin J. Grant, Geoffrey Goodwin, and Liisa Ladouceur are the latest
participants of the the Perpetual Motion Roadshow (http://nomediakings.net):
WHEN & WHERE
July 8, 8pm. [Sat.] The Lucky Cat (245 Grand St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
Free.
July 10, 7pm. [Mon.] Mac's Backs (1820 Coventry Rd., Cleveland) Free.
July 11, 8:30pm. [Sun.] Southgate House (24 East. 3rd St., Newport) Free.
July 12, 8pm. [Mon.] Quimby's (1854 W. North Ave., Chicago) Free.
July 13, 8pm. [Tues.] Holy Joe's (651 Queen St. W., Toronto) $PWYC.
July 14, 7pm. [Wed.] The Study Lounge, Embassy Hotel (25 Cartier St.,
Ottawa) Free.
July 15, 7:30pm. [Thurs.] Zeke's Gallery (3955 St. Laurent, Montreal) $4
HOW
Driving, driving, driving! Blue '97 Saturn station wagon, 165,000+ miles, no
CD player, one tape player.
We may need crash space (to sleep, not for cars), watch out for pleas from
the "stage". Please supply all readers (except drivers -- ha ha, Geoffrey &
Gavin) with beer, small or otherwise. More on swappings below.
* Please download handbills, paste them up, mail them out, frame them, send
them on and generally call in all favors in the media to Make Us Stars (for
a very short time): http://nomediakings.net/handbills/
Who again. Who ARE these people?
GEOFFREY H. GOODWIN (Boston, MA) performs speculative fiction and strange
off-kilter rants. Some people go "EeEeEek!" when they see a rodent or a
tarantula‹and Geoffrey sometimes does that too‹but he's most often left
gasping by things that occur in the "real world." This isn't to say that
both rodents and tarantulas are not sometimes considered "real," but this
rapidly devolves into an epic ramble involving semantics, mousetraps, and
segmented legs. A couple of his stories have appeared in LCRW, and another
one will appear one day.
(http://www.surgeryofmodernwarfare.com/archives/dec2203.html)
GAVIN J. GRANT (Northampton, MA) came to the USA from Scotland in 1991. His
accent comes through when he reads (out loud). With Kelly Link he
co-publishes the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and runs Small Beer
Press. He's published fiction on a bunch of websites and in print in The
Third Alternative, JPPN, and, erm, gosh, they're mostly online! He also
co-hosts a reading series at KGB Bar in New York City, reads a lot, and is
looking for a new job.
(http://www.lcrw.net/gavinjgrant)
LIISA LADOUCEUR (Toronto, ON) is a poet and obsessive sign reader. Her Sign
Poems are composed entirely from words photographed on signs, inspired by
cut 'n' paste zines and a desire to "explore the hidden meaning in public
spaces." For the Roadshow, she'll be reading from the Toronto neighbourhood
series, with rants about dead girls in Parkdale, 18K gold bras in Yorkville
and cheese magic in Kensington, presented with accompanying photo slide
show. She'll also be shooting and composing new work on the fly at each tour
stop.
(http://www.spiderrecords.com/liisa)
There will also be a short film from the Antarctica, local acts (bands?)
opening, chocolate (SUPER SIZE ME ignored for now), poetry, fiction, snappy
dressers, snapping fingers, chocolate, zines, maybe a CD, a dearth of
anything resembling Actual Commercial Product, border crossing (literal and
metaphorical), and little white rabbits on pogosticks (please supply own
hallucinogenics for last).
What we need from you loveys who turn up:
-- a shoulder to cry on about that obnoxious Scot/American/Canadian
-- lists of road food to avoid
-- lists of road food to hunt out
-- help with loading in and out our huge set up (including our Marshall
stacks, Motown freeze-dried backup singers, poetry-riser [2nd hand from
Motley Crue's drummer], dry ice (and gloves to handle same), M&M collection,
etc.)
-- directions to The High Road
-- onions for those not brought to tears at appropriate moments
-- reasons to go on
3 of 3 or so: A sneaky little thing
We done did put together a CD. Some of the stuff on it may be read or
performed on the tour, some will definitely not. Some will be rude or
surprising. Again, some may not. What will be on the so far slightly mythy
CD is listed below.
The "good" news is that sometime after the tour hopefully you too will be
able to download and burn the CD yourself (or you mum can do it for you if
she's in a good mood) and print out the jacket PDF.
Or, design a new CD cover and email it to us!? Or, order it from the
lcrw.net shopping page (which doesn't show it yet, of course) and we'll all
sign it or something and send it to you. Yes: You.
Perpetual Motion Roadshow July July July CD
Geoffrey H. Goodwin Stoddy Awchaw (LCRW 10, 7:28)
Toby Goodwin Stoddy Awchaw (song, 2:32)
Gavin J. Grant Paper (Broken Pencil 21, 2:06)
Softly, with a Big Stick (S1ngularity)
Liisa Ladouceur Christmas in Yorkville
(Each word taken from a sign photographed in
Yorkville, Toronto, Dec. 2003. 2:23)
100 Dead Workers
(Each word taken from a plaque photographed at the
100 Workers monument honouring men and women killed
on the job. Toronto, May 2004. 0:46)
Eruption
(From the Teeth Poem series, 2002. 0:50)
The not very well hidden extras:
Maybe some songs
Richard Butner Ash City Stomp (32:17, Trampoline)
Various Various Textual Pieces (PDFs, mostly)
Hope to see you there.
Or there.
Or even way up there.
Wish us luck!
--
Small Beer Press
http://www.lcrw.net
Salon.com
Reviews
Links
Special Offer
An Apology
+++-----+++++-------++
This Short Note has assorted links and relies on content from other places.
Salon.com has just completed running the first four chapters of Sean
Stewart's fantastic new novel, PERFECT CIRCLE (linked below). Read, email
them on, say thank you to wonderful Salon, avoid ghost roads:
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/07/02/perfect_circle/index.htmlhttp://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/07/09/perfect_circle_chp2/http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/07/23/perfect_circle_chp3/http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/07/30/perfect_circle_chp4/index.html
Perfect Circle
http://www.lcrw.net/seanstewart/index.htm
Buy the book:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htm
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Reviews
-- of Mr. Richard Butner's reading of "Ash City Stomp":
http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Reviews/07_AdamsAudiobooks.htmlhttp://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/richardbutner.htm
-- of Kalpa Imperial:
http://www.emcit.com/emcit107.shtml#Kalpa
++++++++++++++
A good writer now has a decent website:
http://www.scottwesterfeld.com
"My DY" by Brian Bieber still makes us laugh a little too long, a little too
loud: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/1/12bieber.html
In Seattle, smart friends took us to see http://www.circuscontraption.com/
If you are Left Coasters, maybe you can go, too. A little trapeze, a little
trombone, a little variety.
What is this thing people are following? http://www.ilovebees.com/
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Three signed art prints by Terri Windling are now available for purchase on
the Internet: Green Woman and Child, The Storyteller, and Brother & Sister.
These prints are being offered as a fund-raiser to support the costs of
putting Endicott's quarterly Journal of Mythic Arts on line. To see the
prints and for more information: http://www.endicott-studio.com/friends.html
(Click on the thumbnails of the art to see larger versions.)
++++++++++++++
Dreamhaven Books, Minneapolis
Thursday, Aug 12, 6:30-8:30 PM
Mark Rich will be reading. This event is part of the Speculations Readings
Series, a co-production of SF Minnesota and S.A.S.E. - The Write Place.
FFI: eheideman@... or call Eric at 612-721-5959.
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/markrich.htm
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Special Offer
Only 14 days left to receive! Your friends will jealous! Reap the
freezerwind!
Now! Read your copy of LCRW in Air Conditioned Comfort! For $723 we will
send you the latest issue of our zine (packed with fictive goodness) and an
air conditioner. Send checks to the usual address or use the Send Money
function of Paypal. "Cool" factor at this point not quantified by the FDA,
ABA, DNC, or TTA.
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/index.htm
14 days Remain!
++++++++++++++
Lastly, an apology. Earlier this month Gavin J. Grant and two compadres
traveled to seven cities on the Perpetual Motion Roadshow
(http://www.nomediakings.net more on this some other time when we get
everything added to the website).
Mr. Grant apparently promised chocolate to those hardy, witty, sensuous,
good-looking, and smart souls who attended the shows.
Mr. Grant did not provide said chocolate and would like to offer an apology
to those disappointed attendees. Also, if those attendees would like
chocolate, Mr. Grant promises (although we know how much that is worth) to
send some. Email or write with address, disappointment factor, ticket stub,
photographic proof, reason why you have signed up for West Coast rather than
East Coast Perpetual Motion Roadshow, and so on and chocolate may at last be
forthcoming.
--
Small Beer Press: http://www.lcrw.net
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A couple of items from guest contributor Richard Butner concerning houses,
cities, and the internet.
A Theodora Goss Chapbook
Carmen Dog
Travel
Sean Stewart Interview
Read Around New England
New daily reading
>>>>
ITEM: If you have unlimited means and impeccable taste, perhaps you should
purchase the Wolfson Trailer House:
http://www.breuertrailerhouse.com/contact.html
It's a trailer! It's a house! It's both! (Well, sort of.)
If you have less than unlimited means, perhaps you should purchase some of
these fine new Small Beer Press products:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htm
Impeccably tasteful!
ITEM: You've heard about other cities, visible and invisible: the White
City, Ash City, Dog City ... now thrill to the isometrically beautiful
ecity, from the fine folks at eboy:
http://www.eboy.com/browse/ecity/cities
ITEM: According to Wired magazine, the Internet is now the internet. Wired
is still Wired, though, and not wired.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64596,00.html
This makes some peevish ranters, such as Web design guru Jeffrey Zeldman,
happy: http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0804d.shtml#cap
It does not make peevish ranters such as me happy, though. As the silly
cyberpunks told us in that long ago and far away time of the 1980s, the
Internet is a place ("cyberspace: it's where you are when you talk on the
phone"). And like Paris or Antarctica or other places, it should be
capitalized. Ditto the Web.
Maybe I'm wrong in my peevish rant, though--maybe it's a matter of articles:
the internet versus an internet. Or, the internet is like the beach. Which
internet? Which beach? What is the One True Internet and does the dark lord
on his dark throne control it or is it in the possession of digitally
enhanced hobbits?
i give in down with capitalization lets get rid of apostrophes and commas
and periods too
<<<<
The latest in our small books series:
The Rose in Twelve Petals & Other Stories
by Theodora Goss
First printing, October 2004
$6
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/theodoragoss.htm
Order here or send a check or a money order using this form.
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htmhttp://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/ordersheet.htm
No.9 in the limited edition Small Beer Press chapbook series is The Rose in
Twelve Petals & Other Stories by Theodora Goss.Goss is one of the strongest
and most distinctive voices to appear in recent years. She has very quickly
made a name for herself: her stories have been reprinted in The Year's Best
Fantasy and Horror as well as Year's Best Fantasy and her poem "Octavia Is
Lost in the Hall of Masks" has just won the Rhysling Award. Goss's stories
reach across and through genres. She utilizes fairy-tale structures and
post-modern motifs all the while building through increments a beautiful
body of work.
The cover art is by the incredible Charles Vess. http://greenmanpress.com/
Contents
The Rose in Twelve Petals
The Rapid Advance of Sorrow
Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold
Lily, With Clouds
Her Mother's Ghosts
What Her Mother Said
Chrysanthemums
The Ophelia Cantos
That Year
The Bear's Daughter
Bears
Helen in Sparta
By Tidal Pools
The Changeling
What do other people think?
"Theodora began publishing in 2002, and already she's become one of my
favorite writers. Her stories and poems are beautifully written, deliciously
spiced with the flavors of fairy tales, folklore, myth, and 19th century
gothic literature. This book is a feast -- and one I intend to savor slowly,
to make it last."
-- Terri Windling, author of The Wood Wife
"These stories are poetic, sad, hopeful, brave. And very, very beautiful.
There's no one, in the field or out of it, who does lyrical simplicity
better, or says more about the mysterious workings of the human heart, than
Theodora Goss."
-- Delia Sherman, author of The Porcelain Dove
"An original voice, and an original vision: crystalline, precise, mordant
and devastating."
-- Ellen Kushner, author of Swordspoint
"By the merest chance, I had the honor to read Theodora Goss just before she
broke into print. Lucky me - I've devoured everything she's published since.
Here's a writer who commands the common tongue as if it were meant to serve
her alone, even as her passionate stories spiral upward to surreal glory.
Trust me on this: you have never read anything quite like The Rose in Twelve
Petals."
-- James Patrick Kelly, author of Strange But Not a Stranger
"Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold" is a superb oneirism, an
opportunity vouchsafed to an obscure, not overly successful academic to step
through the gates of dream into -- what? transcendent inspiration? death?
both? Certainly out of his scholarly mediocrity. The atmosphere and
invention are quite wonderful.
-- Nick Gevers, Locus
One of the most impressive debuts I can recall.... Fairy tale retellings are
a dime a dozen, and Sleeping Beauty ones probably as common as any, so this
story has to be special to stand out, and special it is.
-- Rich Horton, Locus
About Theodora Goss: She was born in an imaginary city: at least, it looks
nothing like she remembers. (In hers, swallows built nests under the eaves
of apartment houses, and someone was always playing Liszt.) She grew up in a
series of airport terminals and wonders why, wherever you go, you have to
pass through Frankfurt. This may explain why most of her characters are from
somewhere else, or want to go there. She's been there, and wants you to know
that the mountains are particularly fine. (She recommends the sour cherry
strudel.) She lives in Boston with her husband and daughter, and the
necessary number of cats. She was a lawyer, but decided it just wouldn't do.
She is now working on a PhD in English literature. She enjoys introducing
unsuspecting freshmen to Lord Dunsany and Philip K. Dick, and needs more
bookshelves. Her stories have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Polyphony,
Alchemy, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and online at Strange Horizons
and Fantastic Metropolis. Several have been reprinted in The Year's Best
Fantasy and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in
magazines such as Mythic Delirium and The Lyric. She has won a Rhysling
Award for her speculative poetry.
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/theodoragoss.htm
................................................
Look. A new edition of Carmen Dog. What you're seeing at the link below is
probably not the actual cover.
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1931520089-0&partner_id=26490
Go vote about it (until Sept. 4) here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lcrw/polls
I see that poll thing got emailed to you all. Sorry about that. Will change
the settings on the silly Yahoo thingy so that You Don't Get No More Spammy
Emails like That.
So, anyway. Carmen Dog is one of our fave books. Carol is one of our fave
writers. Did you know she has a new young adult book, Mr. Boots, coming out
next year. We liked it a lot, but Viking are putting it out. Are we happy?
Oh yeah, baby, oh yeah. Get that good writing out there. We can't wait until
it comes out. Carol will be reading at Bluestockings Books (Oct. 14) and at
KGB Bar (Dec. 15) in NYC.
http://www.lcrw.net/peapod/emshwiller/carmendog.htm
................................................
There will be much travel soon and our internet store will be closed Sept
8th to Oct. 8th. Order now, or then. Tons of stores have our books (yay
bookshops, yay SCB, our new distro selling the heck out of all our books!)
and some of them even have LCRW and the small books. [Always looking for
more stores who want to carry a zine called Lady Churchill's Rosebud
Wristlet.]
................................................
An interview with Sean Stewart: A Perfect Summer Ghost Story
From the moment William "Dead" Kennedy's ability to see ghosts causes him to
almost become one, writer Sean Stewart ambushes the reader's attention in
Perfect Circle (Small Beer Press). Stewart's novel could be described as a
"Meaning Of Life Thriller," a term Stewart coined to describe a book that
"tackles the profound questions of human existence, but doesn't skimp on the
sword fights." Perfect Circle was a July Book Sense "We Also Recommend"
selection. Bookselling This Week recently interviewed Stewart via e-mail.
http://news.bookweb.org/features/2780.html
List of July Book Sense picks that includes Perfect Circle:
http://www.booksense.com/bspicks/jul04.jsp
Oh yeah. There was this thing we did. A freebie comic by excellent artist
Steve Lieber and written by Sean Stewart. We printed a ton, gave them out,
sent them to subscribers, then, uh, ran out. Someone liked it:
http://www.icomics.com/rev_081604_familyreunion.shtml
Now we're going to reprint it. If you want a copy, email us or send us
chocolate (hey, it's worked before) [ There's now an LA Burdick Chocolate
Cafe in our town. We are officially in trouble. http://www.laburdick.com ]
or something. Should be back from the printer about a few days after we get
it to them.
................................................
If you live in New England you can now easily find out about readings at
local bookshops. The local booksellers association has put together an
incredibly easy to use site that lists readings, book clubs (including that
of the Jane Austen variety) and so on. They're still signing up bookshops,
but it's a great idea. Suggest to your local bookshop that they get in on
it.
http://www.readaround.com
................................................
Online there are things to be reading:
-- Hope this doesn't happen to you. Unless you like pentagrammatic
roommates. http://roommatefromhell.com/
-- Paul Ingram of Prairie Lights Bookshop in Iowa City has a blog!
http://misternouse.blogspot.com/
-- One of our fave poets, Margaret Muirhead, is interviewed at the Plum Ruby
review. We've published poetry and nonfiction by Ms. Muirhead (the nonfic
satirical piece was picked up and reprinted by the Zine Yearbook). Yay for
good poets!
Interview: http://www.plumrubyreview.com/jun04/nonfiction/muirhead.htm
Poetry: http://www.plumrubyreview.com/jun04/poetry/muirhead2.htm
-- Kelly Link's "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" in German:
http://www.epilog.de/PersData/L/Link_Kelly_1969/Nelke_Lilie_Lilie_Rose_AC061
_Story.htm
Don't want to read on your computer? Random book link says: Go read a book
about the UK under W, V for Vendetta --
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0930289528-0&partner_id=26490
................................................
Oh yeah. Today's guest contributor, Richard Butner, is a freelance writer
(http://www.richardbutner.com: look at those things he's written, go on,
employ him!) and sometimes a fiction writer.
We just published a small book of his stories, Horses Blow Up Dog City &
Other Stories, and he just signed a stack of them. We recommend them to you,
of course. But, we would have if we worked in a carnival and we travelled to
lots of State Fairs and could only carry a few books with us in our little
oddities shop of things to sell at the fair. We'd still recommend it. Yep.
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/richardbutner.htm
Time for something cooling. If it's beer it probably won't be the
caffeinated stuff (http://www.moonshotbeer.com/index1.html) which we
wouldn't carry to the State Fair, and we would only try on nights when,
after a week of printer troubles, we were off to see a band or two:
http://www.gamil.com/rh/index.html
Read good books. Be good people. Drink good beer. Eat good chocolate. Vote.
Small Beer Press
http://www.lcrw.net
Some Readings (NC, NY)
Fresh art
A review
Gothamlit
Biscuits
Tea
Thanks for voting
A break from selling
#
Thur., Sept. 16, 8.00 PM
Richard Butner (Horses Blow Up Dog City) & David Connerley Nahm
Internationalist Books
405 W Franklin St Chapel Hill, NC 27516, 919-942-1740
http://www.internationalistbooks.org
David Connerley Nahm is in the pop band Audubon Park and has stories in (or
forthcoming in) Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Trunk Stories, Surgery of
Modern Warfare, Eyeshot and Zulkey.
For a preview of Butner's laid back but intense reading style, stream an MP3
of him reading "Ash City Stomp": http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/stories/Ash
City Stomp.mp3
Cool, smart, and the slightest bit satirical, Raleigh freelance writer
Richard Butner isn¹t phased by not being included in the Anchor Book of New
Short Stories or The Best American Short Stories and all its offshoots.
Butner, who has a story in the new Southern-accented anthology CROSSROADS
(Tor) and whose story "Ash City Stomp" was selected for THE YEAR¹S BEST
FANTASY AND HORROR (St. Martin¹s) and shortlisted for the Fountain Award,
has been slipping his stories out into the world for 16 years. His new
chapbook, HORSES BLOW UP DOG CITY & OTHER STORIES (Small Beer Press), is his
second small book: in 1988 local press, Barefoot Press & The Paper Plant put
out MIND SNAKES, illustrated by Michael Carter, now a sought-after rarity.
Richard Butner, Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories:
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/richardbutner.htm
##
Oct. 14, 7 PM
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St. (bet. Stanton and Rivington St), NYC, 212-777-6028
http://www.bluestockings.com
Ellen Datlow, editor of scifiction, will be MC for the event introducing
readings by:
-- Carol Emshwiller, award-winning author of Carmen Dog and The Mount
-- Marleen Barr, editor and author of Feminist Fabulation and Oy Pioneer!
-- Nancy Jane Moore, author of stories in Imagination Fully Dilated and
Imaginings
-- and Sue Lange, author of Tritcheon Hash
Feminist science fiction questions the gender roles and stereotypes we live
with today and, looking to the future, offers alternatives to our current
social constructs. Emshwiller, Barr, Moore, and Lange will provide a taste
of what this innovative and unique branch of science fiction offers.
###
Sean Stewart Perfect Circle: http://www.lcrw.net/seanstewart/index.htm
Jennifer Stevenson, Trash Sex Magic: http://www.lcrw.net/stevenson/index.htm
Small Beer Press: http://www.lcrw.net
####
Need some political clothing, stickers, a blast of fresh art? Try Kelli
Bickman' & co.'s new site: http://www.revolutionaryeye.com
#####
Review of the latest LCRW Spectacle. Spectacular. Something, anyway:
http://www.tangentonline.com/reviews/magazine.php3?review=1063
#######
Something to replicate in your area?
Announcing GothamLit -- a new group specifically created to carry events and
information of interest to readers and writers of speculative fiction and
horror in the New York City area. This list is moderated and will be
generally free of discussion so as to keep the number of postings low and
on-topic. Our goal is to include the events and information of interest to
you, the speculative fiction community.
To join GothamLit and see what it's all about, send an email to
gothamlit-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, or visit our website at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gothamlit to see what we have to offer.
You will have the option of joining and using the web interface only, if
you so choose, or you may receive emails in individual or daily digest form.
Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you on-line and at future
events.
Sincerely,
Ellen Datlow, Avi Bar-Zeev, Ysabeau Wilce (the moderators)
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A note from Heather Whipple (thanks Heather!):
From http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/ Green & Black now does
biscuits.
We can report that the butter biscuits in dark chocolate are a rich and
furious thing to behold (furious because they beat the corn syrup solids out
of most other biscuits). Perhaps even too rich? Are Plain Hob Nobs the best
biscuit ever made?
http://www.greenandblacks.com/biscuits.php
heather whipple
http://www.sondryfolk.net/hhw
#########
We just went to a huge, large, um, big, crowded, fun convention in Boston
and threw a tea party (without Green & Black biscuits because at the time we
did not know and besides those Trader Joe's Ginger Snaps are gingery
gooodness) with http://www.StrangeHorizons.com where all kinds of
interesting and good fiction can be found. Full disclosure: including a
weird story by Gavin J. Grant.
They're having a fund raiser with interesting prizes. Go for it.
##########
Thanks to all those who voted last time on the sad little doggie cover. We
changed it again and you'll see the new one soon (uh, a couple of weeks) at
http://www.peapodclassics.com
New poll some other time. In the USA, please vote on Nov. 2nd if you can.
##########
A break from selling
From Sept 9 - Oct 9 or so our selling page will be down (on purpose).
However there are a bunch of great bookshops (such as Borderlands and Mark
Ziesing) that stock our stuff, so please contact them if you sudden;y
realize you need a/nother copy of LCRW or Perfect Circle or Theodora Goss's
wunnerful, wunnerful new chapbook. That one with the Charles Vess art and
the new story and poetry and all that. Yep, that one.
By the time we get back, the fourth printing of Kelly Link's Stranger Things
Happen will probably be back from the printers and available again; her new
book will be wending its way to a spring 2005 appearance; and Kevin
Huizenga's wonderful art will be gracing the cover of our first Peapod
Classic, Carol Emshwiller's Carmen Dog. So, although the website may not
look like it there's a lot going on. Oh yeah, LCRW, too. More in a month.
Small Beer (Fuller's, Tetley's, Wood's, and more) Press
http://www.smallbeerpress.com
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Please pass this on to any nutters you know who will send us chocolate.
###
Readings everywhere: NYC, Cambridge, MA, Evanston, IL
Reviews
Good news for Deborah Roggie
Enablers, we
Samantha Hunt and the 1st Book Tour
Dark little story corner
Whisper it
13 Oct. 7.00 PM -- Local author Jennifer Stevenson (Trash Sex Magic) will
read at Evanston Borders, 1700 Maple Avenue Evanston, IL 60201 Phone:
847.733.8852 Fax: 847.733.8960
14 Oct. 7.00PM -- Carol Emshwiller (whose first novel Carmen Dog is the
debut title in our Peapod Classics line) Bluestockings Bookstore 172 Allen
St. (bet. Stanton and Rivington St) NYC 212-777-6028 www.bluestockings.com
http://www.lcrw.net/peapod/emshwiller/carmendog.htm
16 Oct. 3-5 PM -- Theodora Goss will launch her debut chapbook, The Rose in
Twelve Petals, with two other readers, Vandana Singh & World Fantasy
nominated ("A Crowd of Bone") Greer Gilman, Pandemonium Books & Games, The
Garage @ Harvard SQ, 36 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/theodoragoss.htmhttp://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/index.htm
Somewhat updated readings pages (so many of them!) for the KGB Fantastic
(yes, they generally are: Scott Westerfeld and Lucius Shepard this month)
Fiction Reading Series, Small Beer, and Kelly Link:
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/calendar.htmhttp://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/calendar.htmhttp://www.lcrw.net/kgb/index.htm
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While we were traveling (more on that below) there were the occasional
review of our books, toasters, and so on. Go here to read:
-- Asimov's review of the Rowe and Rosenbaum chapbooks and a solid review of
Horses from SF Site.
-- Cleveland Plain Dealer review of Perfect Circle ("Delivers what the
maudlin "Sixth Sense never did - a wicked good time.") and one from
Blogcritics. Also: Jim Munroe interviews Sean Stewart about the AI web game.
Of Jennifer Stevenson's Trash Sex Magic:
-- "Trash Sex Magic is Stevenson's first novel, and it will be exciting to
see what she comes up with next." (Bookslut)
--"Deeply charming, and its best scenes lodge in the reader's memory."
(Washington Post)
More here, if you like that sort of thing:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/notajournal.htm
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Yay! Deborah Roggie's story "The Enchanted Trousseau" from LCRW 14 has been
picked up by Jonathan Strahan and Karen Haber for their anthology, Fantasy:
The Best of 2004.
http://www.lcrw.net/issues/lcrw14.htm
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So, now we're back and we've re-enabled (enablers, we) the shopping pages on
our site. Don't all rush, now.
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htm
We also turned on the Crank! page for the first time in a while. We don't
have Gene Wolfe's Bibliomen back in stock yet, but that gives you some idea
of the quality of the stock.
http://www.lcrw.net/nonlcrwpages/bmp/index.htm
There is one page that's not on yet, the page with other zines. Give us a
week to try and hit some deadlines and we'll get Alchemy and some other good
stuff up there.
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Samantha Hunt (who is amusing on that McSweeney's DVD) is on tour (with
Lorraine Adams, Joshua Braff, Jason Headly, and Marc Acito) for her first
novel, The Seas. Who? She had 3 short stories in Trampoline, remember?
http://www.lcrw.net/trampoline/index.htm
www.samanthahunt.net
www.macadamcage.com/sitefiles/BooksDetail_new.asp?ISBN=1931561850
-- Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, October 17, Book Soup at Fais Do-Do, 5253 West
Adams Blvd, 7:30 p.m.
-- Portland, OR, Monday, October 18, Powell's at XV, 15 NW 2nd Avenue, 5:30
p.m.
-- Denver, CO, Tuesday, October 19, Tattered Cover at Wynkoop Brewery, 1634
18th Street, 7 p.m.
-- Albuquerque, NM, Wednesday, October 20, Bookworks at Golden West Saloon,
620 Central SW, 7:30 p.m.
-- Austin, TX, Thursday, October 21, Bookpeople at Opal Diviness Freehouse,
700 West 6th Street, 7 p.m.
-- Tempe, AZ, Friday, October 22, Changing Hands Bookstore at Monti's La
Casa Vieja, 1 West Rio Salado Parkway, 7 p.m.
-- San Francisco, CA, Monday, November 1 with Amanda Eyre Ward, A Clean
Well-Lighted Place for Books, 601 Van Ness Ave, 7 p.m.
"The Seas explores the very real possibilities in the unreal, straddling the
horizons between the ocean and the land, literature and science, wish and
reality."
"Hunt¹s spare narrative is as mysterious and lyrical as a mermaid's song.
The strands of her story are touched with magic, strange in the best
possible way and very pleasurable to read."
- Andrea Barrett, author of Servants of the Map
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Another reading. Connection: tenuous at best. Jeff Ford (Trampoline, again)
teaches here.
Kim Deitch will be at Brookdale Community College on Thursady, October 21st
at 7:00 pm in the Performing Arts Center. He will speak about the art and
craft of creating graphic novels and comics. Deitch will illustrate his talk
with slides of his own work from his recent graphic novel, Boulevard of
Broken Dreams (Pantheon 2002), and as yet unpublished work. He will also be
screening some of his own early animations and a few from the days of
Windsor McCay. Brookdale is located in middle New Jersey, in Monmouth
County. Easily gotten to from NYC. and all New Jersey Locations.
"Deitch has created a private world as fully realized in its own way as
Faulkner's. He's an American original, a spinner of yarns whose beautifully
structured pages and intricate plots conjure up a haunting and haunted
American past."--Art Spiegelman
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Dark little story corner. Don't go reading these if you are alone at night
in a creaky old house. Or have a fear of dentists. Or don't like spooky
stuff. Or, well, you get the idea.
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040823/holdtight-f.shtmlhttp://www.lenoxavemag.com/lenoxavemag/issue2scrimshaw.htm
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Always read to the end:
Well, next spring (which apparently goes from January to August) we have 5
(five) (V!) books due. And then, if we're still around, there'll be the
autumn list (one more at least!).
What are they? Well, that would be telling. But why not? Really, you
suffered through all this (or skimmed quickly, as one does). Kelly Link's
second collection, Magic for Beginners; Kate Wilhelm's memoir/writing book
Clarion; reprints of Mockingbird by Sean Stewart and Travel Light by Naomi
Mitchison; and lastly, and rather incredibly, Maureen McHugh's debut short
story collection.
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Hem have a new album out: http://www.rabbitsongs.com/
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
In Scotland (well, maybe the UK), they give away CDs with the Sunday papers.
How wonderful is that? We were very jealous and wished we'd known before the
last Sunday we were there. We did through the kind offices of a certain
brother in law manage to score a couple of CDs so we have the latest by The
Delgados, B&S, and so on, as well as the equivalent of a Franz Ferdinand
limited CD. Can you imagine if the Times, the Globe, the Tribune, etc. did
this? Sales would soar in our house.
What else? Did you know that cheese is brilliant in France? That beer is
superb in England? And what about a haggis for sir? Veggie? Sure. For madam,
well, she could go either way.
Look out for a Burns Supper in 2005.
Gots to run to the post office (ie back to business as usual).
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Theodora Goss, The Rose in Twelve Petals
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/theodoragoss.htm
Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle
http://www.lcrw.net/seanstewart/index.htm
Jennifer Stevenson, Trash Sex Magic
http://www.lcrw.net/stevenson/index.htm
Richard Butner, Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/richardbutner.htm
Small Beer Press: http://www.lcrw.net
+ CARMEN DOG +
Some readings
Rats Reviewing
Twelve Petals
Round Things
Death Vessel
Snappy Ginger
Laundry List
BTWOF
I Love Bees
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
Today the DHL van backed up the 2 mile secret underground driveway and
delivered the first few boxes of Carol Emshwiller's CARMEN DOG -- the first
in our new Peapod Classics series.
The remaining 200,000 copies will soon be flying off the shelves in a
bookshop near you. CARMEN DOG is great fun and comics artist Kevin Huizenga
really caught some of that in his cover illustration. The book has a 5"x7"
trim size which is so cute you just want to gleefully line them all up on a
shelf and admire them. (Just wait until there are more in the series!)
+ CARMEN DOG +
http://www.lcrw.net/peapod/emshwiller/carmendog.htm
Read the first chapter:
http://www.lcrw.net/peapod/emshwiller/chapter1.htm
Join the celebration when Carol Emshwiller reads at KGB Bar on December 15th
at 7.00PM. Carol will be reading with Paul LaFarge (Haussmann or the
Distinction).
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
Kelly Link is doing some readings. She has a story in the new Conjunctions
(#43, Beyond Arcadia!) and is writing some more so that by next May when we
publish her new collection, MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS, there'll be some more new
stories in it. The new collection will be a hardcover. Anyone interested in
a limited edition should email us. (Price to be determined, contents super
in some way.) More of these limited editions (which will not be available in
most stores as they won't have ISBNs!) to come at some point.
23 Nov. 7.00PM -- Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, between Houston and Prince, NYC,
Home and Other Disorders Dixon Place
-- with Shelley Jackson (The Melancholy of Anatomy, Patchwork Girl) &
Samantha Hunt (The Seas)
-- $5 or TDF
20 Nov. -- Pandemonium Books, Cambridge, MA: a group signing from the
anthology The Faery Reel with Holly Black, Gregory Frost, Katherine Vaz, and
editor Ellen Datlow.
6 Dec. 7.30 PM -- Junno's Monday Night Reading Series, Junno's, 64 Downing
Street btw. Bedford and Varick, just North of West Houston FREE! for
information: 212 627 7995
-- with Jedediah Berry, whose short fiction has appeared in Third Bed,
Pindeldyboz, and La Petite Zine.
http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/calendar.htm
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
The Ratbastards (really, they're nice people: Barth Anderson, Chris Barzak,
Alan DeNiro, and Kristin Livdahl) are reviewing short fiction on The Modern
Word in the recently launched The Sideshow. It's a monthly series of short
fiction review columns covering lit mags, journals, zines, and anthologies.
http://www.themodernword.com/sideshow/sideshow_info.html
The second issue is up and includes reviews of Conjunctions 41 and Elixir 4,
Fusing Horizons #2, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories edited By
Ben Marcus, and The Whole Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith.
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
Our latest chapbook, Theodora Goss's The Rose in Twelve Petals, went out
rather well. A review follows -- there's another, but one has to register
for it, so no go on that.
Seems Charles Vess's art won a prize at a convention he took it to in Tempe,
AZ. Isn't that fabby? We did not attend said convention, but we'll be at one
in Philadelphia in December, see you there? See our calendar for more
details.
Review:
http://www.sfsite.com/11a/rs187.htm
"This chapbook, exquisitely produced, illustrated by Charles Vess, costs a
modest six bucks. There are very few ways to better spend six smackeroos.
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/theodoragoss.htm
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
It seemed only right to make lots of round things (buttons, buy them by the
hundred??) for PERFECT CIRCLE.
http://www.cafepress.com/pcbook
Along with some other good books, Perfect Circle is a holiday choice in the
San Francisco Chronicle:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/14/RVGPN9LSDK1.DTL
More fun things to wear: Trash Sex Magic shirts, aprons, and more.
Your shop link is: http://www.cafepress.com/tsmbook
Thought this website would be dead by now. Who knew?
http://www.cafepress.com/proudtobehere
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
The band Death Vessel have a name that wouldn't be out of place on a bill
with Corrosion of Conformity and Satan's Satanic Spew (guess the real
band!). Yet, before you skip over to the next even-more-thrilling item (my
laundry list) check out some of the MP3s on their site. They're high up
there on the people who are going places list:
http://www.deathvessel.com/
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
My Laundry List
Clothes.
More clothes.
I've only been wearing those a week, are you sure I need to wash them?
Towel, bath. (Doesn't hold much water.)
Small child playing hide and seek.
Stoor-covered clothes from storage.
Chocolate-stained shirts (4).
Money from huge "zine-publishing" scam.
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
Nothing to do with the film Ginger Snaps, although it was quite good. At
least until the last few minutes. The sequel, quite good, and reliable
informants inform us the prequel was not bad, either. Our local cinema
http://www.cinemark.com/theater_showtimes.asp?theater_id=321 showed none of
them.
At a recent KGB reading (KGB Bar is a great, 2nd-floor bar in New York City
which hosts readings most nights of the week: http://www.kgbbar.com) Michael
Liebling was kind enough to pass us a sample of some Snappy Ginger cookies.
Mmm-hmm. Between these and the comes-with-little-chunks-of-ginger biscuits
(you know what I mean) from Trader Joe's, yumm. The Patsy Pie Snappy Ginger
ones are gluten free if that's important to you, and, in these our years of
trial, from Canada. Anything from a sane country Just Tastes Better.
http://www.patsypie.com
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
For the past six months, Carol Seajay, former publisher of Feminist
Bookstore News, has been publishing the electronic newsletter Books to Watch
Out For (http://www.btwof.com), which takes up where FBN left off almost
four years ago. BTWOF is a compilation of book reviews, news and industry
gossip for readers of feminist, gay and lesbian literature. There are two
versions of the newsletter: BTWOF: The Lesbian Edition, edited by Seajay,
and BTWOF: The Gay Men's Edition edited by Richard LaBonte.
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
Sean Stewart (PERFECT CIRCLE, mais oui) was just outed as the author of the
recent pre-HALO 2 "I Love Bees" game. With help from a handful of other
skilled writers they put on a game from August to November which had people
from all over the world following an audio play about ... uh, bees?
Not really, read about the game in the NYTimes and then get into the story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/technology/circuits/04bees.html?adxnnl=1&a
dxnnlx=1099537388-3ozpFqt/5mM3JfaFWS4clg
Listen to the story: http://www.ilovebees.com/
Who did what: http://www.ilovebees.com/MIA.html
Oh, and the folks behind these game stories/search operas have formed a new
company (http://www.4orty2wo.com) so maybe there will be more of this stuff
coming down the line!
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
Wanted: Union Pacific board game.
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
Thanks for reading, not just this, but anything. Literacy, it's the new
black.
New LCRW will be going out soon (68 pages saddle-stiched or perfect
bound, anyone know a good printer?), or maybe soonish. And subscribers will
get a little thing no one else will, yay!
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/subscriptions.htm
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle
http://www.lcrw.net/seanstewart/index.htm
Jennifer Stevenson, Trash Sex Magic
http://www.lcrw.net/stevenson/index.htm
Richard Butner, Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/richardbutner.htm
Shopping
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htm
: :: ::: :::: ::: :: :
Dear Aunt Gwenda
Gifts we like
Oh yes, and something for reading
Other things.
Readings.
--------------------
Quick: send your question to Aunt Gwenda to us at info@... and maybe
it'll be in the next late, late LCRW!
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Holidays (Rated R)
Don't give someone more shit they don't want. Give them a little card and
something worth your while and theirs. Yep, wealth redistribution time is
here again:
Give bees and trees. Llamas, water buffalo. (Llamas!) http://www.heifer.org/
Ok, so you're a vegetarian and can't bring yourself to give out le jolie
animals/le dejuener.
Here's a list of alternates. Of course, if you're really into wealth
redistribution, vote for the US republican party, producing more new
millionaires than ever before. And killing health insurance, social
security, the dollar, civil liberties, and so much more!
Change possible here:
Greenpeace http://www.greenpeaceusa.org
Vegetarian Shoes! http://www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk
Pangea Store http://veganstore.com
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org
Habitat for Humanity http://www.habitat.org
Partners in Health http://www.pih.org/index.html
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Oh yes, and a sale.
A late-in-the-year S*a*l*e to celebrate Guy Fawkes and other
proto-revolutionaries of the western world.
Starts as soon as the page goes live and ends December 31st. Ahem. Order now
for the Holidays. Monotone along with us: Books make a great gift. Read for
Peace! Better books for a better world!
Now, flex the knees, jump in the air. Better? It's ergonomics, baby.
Sale!
http://www.lcrw.net/special.htm
Jennifer Stevenson, Trash Sex Magic
-- $12
Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial
Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
-- $8
Trampoline
Kelly Link, ed.
-- $10
Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories
Carol Emshwiller
-- $8
The Mount
Carol Emshwiller
-- $8
Meet Me in the Moon Room
Ray Vukcevich
-- $8
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Review of TRASH SEX MAGIC and Jennifer Stevenson interview with Cynthia
Harrison at Garage Band:
http://www.cynthiaharrison.com/garageband/mt-archives/000952.html
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Beautiful little book rolling into stores now: Carol Emshwiller, CARMEN DOG
=- http://www.lcrw.net/peapod/emshwiller/carmendog.htm
--------------------
We got a nice little response on the note about limited editions last time.
We will probably do more of these. Contact us if you are interested. It's a
wacky thing.
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Poetry we like: Kelly Everding, Strappado for the Devil
http://www.durationpress.com/etherdome/
Check that stuff out. People writing poetry in 2004. People publishing it.
People buying it. People reading it. Responding to it. You've got to wonder,
you've got to be awed. Bow your head to the human heart. Lift your head,
lift your pen, write.
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Readings
6 Dec. 7 PM
Kelly Link & Small Beer Wonder Intern Jedediah Berry, whose short fiction
has appeared in Third Bed, Pindeldyboz, and La Petite Zine.
6 Dec. 7.30 PM -- Junno's Monday Night Reading Series, Junno's, 64 Downing
Street btw. Bedford and Varick, just North of West Houston FREE! for
information: 212 627 7995
http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/calendar.htm
15 Dec. 7 PM
Carol Emshwiller, author of The Mount and Carmen Dog
&
Paul LaFarge, author of Haussmann or the Distinction
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.), NYC
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=26490&cgi=product&
isbn=1931520038
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=26490&cgi=product&
isbn=0312420927
Part of the KGB Fantastic Fiction Series which is a t 7PM, 3rd Wednesday,
Every Month. More readers: http://www.lcrw.net/kgb
KGB email list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/join
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LCRW 15 is still being made. Sorry.
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Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle: http://www.lcrw.net/seanstewart/index.htm
Jennifer Stevenson, Trash Sex Magic: http://www.lcrw.net/stevenson/index.htm
Theodora Goss, The Rose in Twelve Petals
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/theodoragoss.htm
Richard Butner, Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories:
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/richardbutner.htm
Small Beer Press: http://www.lcrw.net
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Peace.
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HELLO SMARTY LOVES
HEADLINES SHOUT ACROSS INTERNET
SHORT FICTION RADIO
limited editions
BYE D-TAKE
GETTING AVEC LE TIMES
WHAT WE DID ON 12/31/4 - 1/1/5
MUSIC
WRONG FILM
LCRW
NEWS
LIMITED EDITION POP-UP TRUNK STORIES
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Hello dear smartest people in the world,
We have a tiny request for any literary journal readers out there. We've
been making our way through many literary journals (mostly courtesy of the
Five College Library (http://fclibr.library.umass.edu) system but sometimes
we clamber up to the rooftop greenhouse and read the with iced drink
(sencha[1] or LA Burdick[2] Hot choc {water or soy-based, natch}) in hand.
So, anyway, we've read tons of them but may have missed some. Have you
read any fantastic (in all senses of the word only) stories that you think
we must must must read? Remember, we've read most of the obvious things, but
if you've come across something, please do tell.
[1] Thanks to Gregory Frost, tea drinker extraordinaire and author of a
forthcoming short fiction collection, Attack of the Jazz Giants (Golden
Gryphon). http://www.gregoryfrost.com/
[2] Heather, you were right: it's fantastic. Sooo rich, has to be doled out
carefully.
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SHORT FICTION RADIO
It -- which will be defined later -- is a victory for good radio; read
podcast, non-terrestrial, Intahrweb ((c) CVR., Inc.) radio.
It, as every writer and fan -- although this 'term' is used in its
broadest use meaning 'person who enjoys' as compared to 'person who dresses
up' -- is SSR.
Now: if anyone can tell us what the writer above (who wishes to remain
anonymous due to G&T consumption) was on about (esp. "SSR"), we'll send you
a ncie packet of sweeties or a chapbook or something.
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limited editions
In 2005 we will be doing our first limited editions. We should announce and
advertise and so on, but first here's the link (and the mchugh) and that's
all.
http://www.lcrw.net/special/index.htm
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BYE D-TAKE
DoubleTake Mag bites the dust:
http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2005/01/the_lights_go_
o.html#more
If anyone wants to throw $10 million at us we promise to produce a glossy
mag for years, mismanage it, make lots of readers happy, overpay
freelancers, and eventually disappear. But we loved it while it went on.
And, seriously folks, if you want to send us $10 million....
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GETTING AVEC LE TIMES
Looks like we will have a bunch of our books and so on available at some
point soon at Fictionwise.com. One of the benefits of this is that we
haven't been able to put our large print editions of our books. Now, rather
than worry about that, we can refer people to Fictionwise where they can
download the book and change the type size to something that's comfortable
for them. Yay.
http://fictionwise.com/
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WHAT WE DID ON 12/31/4 - 1/1/5
Report from the streets [From the black turtle-necked forces who brought you
LCRW]:
1/1/05, Western calendar. Well, the parade was, embarrassingly, just a
blowout. There had to be be 150,000 people (NorthamptonPD estimate: 45,000)
who popped up in the hours of 12AM-2AM. Who cares about First Night (not to
mention The First Knight, who, happily, Did Not make an appearance) when you
have a zine party in full effect [update slang, puh-leez - ed.].
The inflatables, were. The Drawn Together/Alias mash-up was, well, as
sausagy and spicy as hoped. Yes, we hoped it would be like that. We have a
liking or serrano, jalapeno, habanerjo. Macy's was upset that their
inflatable wasn't allowed in. Virgin's thingy beat NASA's and lots of
engineers faked tears as they retooled their resumes. Who knew that Peter
Pan (see below) would appear? That was nice. As they say when gingerbread is
served.
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MUSIC: Rock, pop, and all that.
In the past couple of years Eric Boehlert has written a wonderful series of
pieces on Payola (Pay-Ola -- sounds like a swinging '50s song) for
Salon.com. A culminatory arcticle here:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/05/payola/index.html
Not a pop music fan? Skip to the next part.
The Fawns, baby, The Fawns. It's a CD called Smiling**. It's 35 minutes or
so long. It's catchy. It's worth passing on to two or three friends.
http://www.thefawns.com
Sample: http://www.thefawns.com/listen.html
Sing along: http://www.thefawns.com/sing.html
Good lord.
Musicopolis: Postal Service -- Lady: "Nothing Better" (or, as the Sub Pop
page has it "nothnig better"); Tiger: "Sleeping In."
http://www.subpop.com/bands/postalservice/
If your band (and I'm hinting toward Dischord here) doesn't have
downloadables on your site, what's wrong with you? How can we check out
bands we are recommended? Stream me some mp3s!
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WRONG FILM
Q. What is wrong with you? [You being defined as some kind of Movie Critic.]
Why is SIDEWAYS a popular film?
I loved the women. I hated the men.
Let's not talk about Merlot. This film -- unlike _all_ Merlots -- is
crap. It's well made. There are some beautiful shots. But, characters?
Let's look at Ptarmigan at blogspot* and the happy use of First Novel as
Device of Seduction. Well, that'll produce another slew of them. Thanks. No,
really, thanks Mr. Alexander Payne. Please send all first novels to the guys
who made a film from an unpublished novel. Hey wait, we've got a couple of
surefire critic killer First Novels Right Here.
Morals? We don't pretend to be 18th or 19th century moralists, but,
damn. Could you please acknowledge the horrobilus annus that has led to this
film being called crap. They say great, I say crap.
*http://ptarmigan.blogspot.com/2004/12/still-still-trying-to-figure-out-mass
.html
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LCRW IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN AND MAYBE WHERE WE ARE GOING AND ONCE WE ARE
THERE WILL WE KNOW IT AND WILL THERE BY BOOKS AS GOOD AS LOCAS BY
J.HERNANDEZ?
There's a new LCRW. Apocalypse
notwithstanding.http://www.lcrw.net/issues/lcrw15.htm
And there is a ton, a veritable Ton of silly stuff featuring Steve Lieber's
lovely cover art on Cafe Press. Who doesn't need 100 badges?
http://www.cafepress.com/lcrw
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AT&T: DROPPED!
December 6th, 1.10PM. Calling AT&T (second time). An hour or so ago I called
(800-222-0300) to cancel the long distance. I'd received a postcard telling
me instate calls were going up to 12 cents/minute. I call the UK for
less.... Coincidentally, Mark on Boing Boing recommended a long-distance
phone company. I went to their website and signed up. I received an email
confirming the switch and a call the next day to do the recorded
confirmation. Excellent and v. easy to deal with.
Today I call AT&T on the number provided on their bill. After 20 minutes
a man in India answers. I ask to cancel my service. He offers to drop my
prices. I explain I've been an AT&T customer for a couple of years and never
once was offered cut prices. He asks for a minute to offer me a deal, I
explain that, no, I don't have a minute. He puts me on hold and has his
revenge. He manages to switche me through to a nice lady at the Citibank
credit card customer service who is very confused as to why I want to talk
about phone service. I diss AT&T to her. And I forgot to get his name
1.24 PM -- "Alvin"? answers the phone. He asks for my phone # (which I've
already entered). I begin -- and the line goes dead. I give up for the day.
December 10, 12.05 PM. Entered my 10-digit number and confirmed it. The
machine says I will be helped in 3 minutes.
12.07 PM -- Not bad, two minutes. Talked to "Cling" (yep, check on spelling)
who asks me to give my number again -- why enter it? Ask not to be put on
hold. He puts me on hold. (4 minutes.) Offer better prices but I am gone,
baby, solid gone.
Since I couldn't reach AT&T and they only offered to cut their prices when I
was leaving I recommend ECG (888-869-1141) who _start_ with low prices. Tell
them Gavin Grant sent you.
> You can personally tell your referrals about ECG and direct them to
http://www.ecgtelefriend.com
> Or you can have your referrals call 1-888-869-1141 and speak to a customer
service representative.
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NEWS
King Tut Exhibition impounded for Terrorist activities. Ok. Even we can't
satirize the US Gov't and their 3-years-and-more illegal imprisonments. At
least they had a spark of decency and redefined torture out of their own
usage. Bastards had it in there for a while. Maybe that Legacy thing has hit
them between the eyes. Something should.
Lookee: The Scotsman Digital Archive - http://archive.scotsman.com
> 25 January 1817 to 1900. Includes coverage of the Highland clearances, the Tay
Bridge disaster and the assassination of President Lincoln, to list but a
few.
> Searching the Archive is free and results are displayed on screen as the pages
were originally printed. We've provided a timeline of events covered in The
Scotsman from 1800-1900 with links to key articles. Articles on this
timeline as well as the first ever edition of The Scotsman are available for
free allowing users to try the service before buying.
> Our Archive also allows you to find out if an ancestor appeared in the paper's
births, marriages and deaths notices, and is a valuable resource for
historians and genealogists, amateur or professional.
> To view the editions and articles in full we do charge a small fee. We believe
that the pricing levels offer very good value for money - the Annual Pass
provides unlimited access for around 30p per day.
> The Archive will be updated to 1950 by April of 2005 and eventually to the
current date.
Keep an eye out: something is about to happen. Something will happen.
Something is happening: http://www.fortressofwords.com/
Sean Stewart's Perfect Circle comes out in the UK as FIRECRACKER this
spring. Please be nice and face it out in any bookshop you see :) Comes out
in Finland at some point, too.
http://www.lcrw.net/seanstewart/index.htm
We have the cutest book in the world
Carol Emshwiller, CARMEN DOG
http://www.lcrw.net/peapod/emshwiller/carmendog.htm
Here are some good upcoming film reviews. Beware of the excellent Dave
Navarro usage. http://www.izzlepfaff.com/blog/archives/cat_visual_club.php
We recommend the 2003 Peter Pan. Who knew? Thanks, sisters.
Is it just us or do you have an odd hankering to get the Live Aid DVD?
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LIMITED EDITION POP-UP TRUNK STORIES
What we didn't want to tell you about but we probably should: We have a
limited edition you can buy. We wish you wouldn't, though, because later,
when we are old, we would like not to work. We would like to retire and
drive all around the Wurld in an RV (with bookshelves, solar panels, comfy
couches, &c.). To realize this dream we need to keep these limited editions
and sell them on eBay (or whatever they are calling the Whole Life Virtual
Auction Experience of the Future).
If you really want to ruin our (admittedly limited) dreams (you may have
other reasons, but this is the one we will attribute to you even as we
carefully pack up your Limited Edition), you will purchase the second issue
of William Smith's Trunk Stories, which beside being well designed and
having good stories and so on, has (well, one hundred of them have) a
handmade popup in the center. It is amazing. We set up a plinth in the
center of our town and show the pop up every hour on the hour M-F, 9-5. It
is very popular. We show a coy that later we will sell. Those we are selling
now are still sealed in their bags. They cost $6+1 shipping (handmade, baby,
handmade). So, anyway. We love them.
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping2.htm
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Us and others wishing you well: Small Beer Press: http://www.lcrw.net
NYC Reading
Google
Utopian Host, man
Fiction
Other
Free Books
Time off for good behaviour
NYC Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeading
New Yorkers flood museum? Seaport imports readers?
March 7th, 7PM
Gavin J. Grant (not much) & Kelly Link (Stranger Things Happen, Magic for
Beginners)
South St. Seaport Museum,
Melville Gallery, 213 Water St., NY NY
Doors open at 6:30 PM
Suggested donation $5
http://www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf/http://www.southstseaport.org/
Kelly's reading around the country later this year (hopefully!). Catch up
with her here: http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/calendar.htm
goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle
Four of our books (with more to follow) are in the Google Print thingy, so
if you search for "Meet Me in the Moon Room" for example, you can search
some of the text and, Ray's stories are so short and great, probably read a
few!
Voila! http://print.google.com/print?id=hZS1Vko2O9EC&prev=
Or, of course, go here and read a few stories:
http://www.lcrw.net/rayvukcevich/index.htm
hosssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssst.
We have a new webhost and we recommend themmm:
http://www.utopian.net
Fictionnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Get dressed up -- and I mean you in the pj's! -- and point your sexy clicker
over toe Futurismic to read some great fiction: "Strike A Pose" by Donnárd
Sturgis: http://www.futurismic.com/fiction/strike.html
Otherrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrr rrrr
Mix Tape by Gavin J. Grant on Monkey of Modern Bicycle
http://monkeybicycle.net/archive/Grant/mix.html
On the Perpetual Motion Roadshow in lovely mag Herbivore. Another mag for
you to subscribe to, ooh!
http://www.herbivoreclothing.com/magazine.page.html
M. Ward, baby. Something about indie radio stations on a lively record (no,
not really) about Transistor Radios and other dead media. Also, on a looong
tour so maybe playing at a barn near you soon.
http://www.mergerecords.com/band.php?news=true&band_id=8
Gillian Welch is selling single tunes off her website including covers of
Radiohead and Neil Young and Young Rodeo Tornado and others. Kick back and
other dead slang.
http://gillianwelch.com/downloads/index.htm
Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrree
booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookssssssssssssssss
Yep. We'll send copies of Carol Emshwiller's hilarious (we say) first novel
CARMEN DOG to those that can tell us something interesting about either:
Carol, Carmen, or dogs.
Carol Emshwiller, CARMEN DOG
http://www.lcrw.net/peapod/emshwiller/carmendog.htm
(PS Carol has a new collection coming this spring and a new young adult
book. Both are pretty fabby, too.)
We are thinking this sending out free books is a great idea. Please be nice
and do not disillusion us. In fact, we just did our taxes, so please be very
gentle with us and do not suggest celebratory cocktails until some checks
start rolling in. Roll, baby, roll!
Anyway, woe is us, the sky is falling, but not for a bit, so send us
something fun and we will send you a Book. And tell your friends what groovy
things happen in this newsletter thingy and get them to sign up because the
more the merrier and this time we are sending out say 3-5 copies of CARMEN
DOG and maybe next time we will send out more more more. We have good
heating, we don't need them for insulation.
See, soon come now we will have galleys of our five (Five, are you Nuts?)
books we are publishing (fingers crossed!) this summer. That's two fabby
collections -- Maureen McHugh's MOTHERS AND OTHER MONSTERS and Kelly Link's
MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS -- two books we loves so we are reprinting them (yay!)
-- Sean Stewart's MOCKINGBIRD and Naomi Mitchison's TRAVEL LIGHT -- and Kate
Wilhelm's memoir/book on writing, STORYTELLER: WRITING LESSONS FROM 27 YEARS
OF THE CLARION WRITERS' WORKSHOP.
We really will send out books. Unlike the sweets we promised last time to
Liana in Hawaii. Every time we import mass quantities of chocolate or
liquorice or butterscotch for export to Liana someone consumed them. (--
Blame the interns!) [-- Intern went to Spain!] (-- Blame the dog?) [-- Don't
have a dog!] (Bugger. It was me.). But, we do not consume books in quite the
same manner, so we will have some to send. To those who Work Hard and Write
Good.
Bonussssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
What's the email headline, Kenneth? Hee hee. We'll send you something,
honest, guv.
Tea-timmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmme
This is we : Small Beer Press : http://www.smallbeerpress.com
Perfect Circle reprint
Start Your Own
Possible logo
Music for the iPod
The Faery Handbag online
Free book: Mr. Boots
2 Calendrical things
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There was something else to go in here.... Something about books, or poetry,
or...? Maybe about not finding Tony Hoagland's collection at the Strand but
getting the new Dave Gibbons graphic novel. About missing the dates to start
those tomato seeds. Deadlines that stretch. Or maybe just snow, snow, snow.
Everywhere we go there are snowdrops and crocuses (although not here, not
quite yet). Ah well, on, on:
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Perfect Circle reprint
We'll be going back to press on Sean Stewart's Perfect Circle. If any
sharp-eyed readers have spotted any misprints or mistakes, please do tell --
thanks!
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=61-1931520119-0&partner_id=26490
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Nice Tattoo
Want to read more zines but can't tell the mad-in-a-good-way from the
mad-in-a-not-so-bad-way? Get yourself in some Xerography Debt.
(Sorry about that horrid sentence.)
http://www.leekinginc.com/index.htm
(Tattoo on the cover, that is.)
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And if you're tempted to start your own press, maybe take a quick look at
this first:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050321/grant-small-press-a.shtml
[Good story from Mark Rich just went up this week.]
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More music, please
Gillian Welch is proving herself to be -- besides an amazing singer, a
self-publishing entrepreneur, and a great musician -- one of the smartest
women in pop. She keeps adding more and more downloads to her website. Songs
are available in Macintosh or Windows and in MP3, AAC, & FLAC). Awesome.
Power to the people, baby.
http://www.gillianwelch.com
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Amazon
Is this Amazon feature going to change the way people write? (Will it last
long enough to have any effect? Is it still there?)
> Statistically Improbable Phrases, or "SIPs", show you the interesting,
distinctive, or unlikely phrases that occur in the text of books in Search
Inside the Book. Our computers scan the text of all books in the Search
Inside program. If they find a phrase that occurs a large number of times in
a particular book relative to how many times it occurs across all Search
Inside books, that phrase is a SIP in that book.
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Blasted Rain Taxi. http://www.raintaxi.com I'm too busy to read another damn
review. But I open the envelope and I love the bright green cover (it's 40
below in Massachusetts. Reeeally) and then there are all these beautiful
books I've never heard of! There I go, adding to the library-or-buy list.
Heh.
Update: Argh. The Ruminator Review just came in and it, too, it intensely
readable. Don't these people know we have deadlines??
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Posted Kelly Link's story "The Specialist's Hat" back online as Event
Horizon.com has been glommed onto by someone else:
http://www.kellylink.net/fiction/link-specialist.htm
Also posted "The Faery Handbag" (nominated for the Hugo Award, yay!)
http://www.lcrw.net/fictionplus/link-handbag.htm
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Should you need it, the ISBN13 converter:
http://www.isbn.org/converterpub.asp
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Possible logo
Ok, so we don't have a logo, have never really felt the need for a logo,
have rejected a couple of ideas, and laughed when we were told we'd
disappear without one. We're still here, right? You can see this? Is there
anyo
Okay, so (reprise). Here's the gig: make us a pretty Small Beer Press logo
and we'll hide it, ah, put it up somewhere on our site, put up a poll to see
who likes which one, and maybe at some point even use one. If we do use it
we'll pay you something (you like chocolate, right?). If we don't, well, you
had fun, right?
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A page from a limited edition:
Magic for Beginners: Stories
Kelly Link
Illustrated by Shelley Jackson
This is number of one hundred and eleven copies which are signed and
numbered by the author and illustrator. Printed by Thomson-Shore on 70lb
Finch Opaque Cream White Smooth paper, with 80lb Oatmeal Rainbow Endpapers,
Smyth Sewn in Pearl Linen Cobalt Blue cloth, and includes a ribbon to mark
your place.
Also available in a few select shops Maureen McHugh's Mothers and Other
Monsters -- http://www.lcrw.net/special/index.htm
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Free books
Last month we gave away 5 copies of Carol Emshwillers's CARMEN DOG! Winners
and the why of it can be found here:
http://www.lcrw.net/comments/archive/cd.htm
We're giving more books away and there's only one condition (which we forgot
last time and in fact is not serious): you must then promise to buy 5 copies
of all her other books and send them to friends who must then send 5 copies
to friends. You see where this is going, right? Carol Emshwiller at #1 on
the pop charts. Or book charts, or something.
The Mount is now out in a handy wee paperback from Penguin Firebird! Makes a
great gift for readers 10 and up. Nice review here:
http://www.challengingdestiny.com/reviews/themount.htmhttp://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=61-0142403024-0&partner_id=26490
Carol's new young adult book, Mr. Boots, comes out in July.
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=61-0670059684-0&partner_id=26490
We have one galley (which has a different cover from the actual book,
ooh!) to give to one lucky reader (apologies to our earlier winners, we have
to give it to someone else!) who can tell us something interesting about
horses, Carol Emshwiller, or boots.
(emails to info at lcrw dot net!)
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Small Beery &c Events
http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/calendar.htmhttp://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/calendar.htm
Publishing Forum: Small Presses
Monday, April 18, 6:30 p.m., Rm. 510, New School, NYC
With Gavin Grant of Small Beer Press, Patricia Carlin of Barrow Street,
Shanna Compton of Soft Skull Press, and Joanna Yas of Open City.
http://www.nsu.newschool.edu/writing/07_specprog.htmhttp://www.newschool.edu/aboutnsu/map/
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We'll be at the 5th Annual Juniper Literary Festival, May 6-7, 2005,
Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst
CHARLES SIMIC * SIMON ARMITAGE * MARK FORD * ZOE HELLER * JAMES WOOD
BOOTSTRAP PRODUCTIONS * FENCE * FOUR WAY BOOKS * FULCRUM JUBILAT *
MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR THE BOOK * OPEN CITY * PARIS PRESS * QUALE PRESS *
SLOPE * SMALL BEER PRESS * THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW * UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
* UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS * VERSE * VERSE PRESS * 3rd BED
Please join us for the fifth annual Juniper Festival, a yearly gathering of
writers, readers, students, scholars, and editors for two days of poetry and
fiction readings, addresses, and a book and journal fair. The 2005 Festival
will especially feature contemporary British writing through readings and
addresses, and continue to celebrate the dynamic work of independent
literary publishers.
Friday May 6th
5:00 p.m. Opening Reception, Independent Publishing Journal & Book Fair
8:00 p.m. Fiction Reading by Zoe Heller
Saturday May 7th
11:00 a.m. Journal & Book Fair opens and runs throughout the day
11:30 a.m. Address by Charles Simic: British Poetry Today
12:30 p.m. Poetry Reading by Mark Ford
3:00 p.m. Fiction Reading by James Wood
3:45 p.m. Authors’ Roundtable with Zoe Heller, Mark Ford, Simon Armitage,
and James Wood; moderated by Brian Henry
8:00 p.m. Poetry Reading by Simon Armitage
The Festival is free and open to the public. For more information visit:
http://www.umass.edu/english/eng/mfa/events.html or email:
juniper@...
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The most recent books:
Carol Emshwiller, CARMEN DOG
http://www.lcrw.net/peapod/emshwiller/carmendog.htm
Theodora Goss, The Rose in Twelve Petals
http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/theodoragoss.htm
Us: http://www.lcrw.net or http://www.smallbeerpress.com
Pass it on for good karma. Cough.
Chocolate as a paint
Thunderstorms
Falling SUV sales
Etc.
Bouncing Backward in Time
So that contents list might not be right. Yeah, yeah. Besides, if we just
put 1--,2--,3--, then 4-"free books" or "chocohoneyloveforyou" not only will
we get lost in the spam filter but you might not even skim the rest.
Besides, all the books are Delayed (see beeeelow), so how can we give them
away?
Our two summer short fiction collections are moving _very_ slowly at the
printer. This means that if you thought a Small Beer book was something
similar to a hare, then maybe you thought more like a cheetah (and we resent
that) or a donkey(?), it turns out, it is more like a tortoise. ("Tor-tus",
ok?)
So, there's that. Or, rather, there isn't that, yet. Ah tooth grinding, we
hardly knew you. Frustrating? Que?
Does anyone (within a bike ride's reach) need a wall taken down with a
sledgehammer? How about something that could be designed _angrily_? All
these attempts at italics in a non-html email. Just goes to show these weak
sentences can't stand up for themselves.
So, the fave word of the mo', Kelly Link and Maureen McHugh's books:
Handy-dandy special editions:
http://www.lcrw.net/special/index.htm
General page for pre-ordering (note lack of Flash programming):
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/preorder.htm
Popping minds like 15 amp fuses:
Mothers & Other Monsters by Maureen F. McHugh
http://www.lcrw.net/mchugh/index.htm
Clone stories which of course are stories about the human condition with
some science or one major tweak or a Womble, or, wait, surely not sci fi???
--
The website will be updated once we get all the books to the printer.
There's also that zine thing that we used to do. Do! Of course, we still
"do" the zine. Cough. Shouldn't drink so early in the day. In the UK it's
well into the evening...
Yes, there might be a zine, soonish. Don't hold thine breaths.
Sneaky note: At the end of the month (so long!, maybe sooner!) we will have
galleys of our reprint of Sean Stewart's Mockingbird and even though we
still haven't sent out last month's free book winner (he's in Japan and we
keep "losing" the chocolate!) we could send out a few of these if we were
persuaded. So, no pressure, no strict adherences to our daft requests, just
you and the power of your words and 1 good book with a new afterword. Ooh!
#*&^%*%*&^)(*(+)*%&^#%$@&^^%T(*&_(+*&#_*&@_)(@!38__)!*
With the recent uptick in LCRW subscriptions (now running ~550/week with 20%
favoring the chocolate addiction), we have switched to the Network TV
OverKill-a-Hit-Show Model. Beginning next week, LCRW will go out daily in
its new scantily-clad, non-copyedited, tabloid-sized glory. Features
include: New Nude Words Daily, How Do They Do That--and Why?, The Other Four
W's, Pictures of My Lawn, and a daily poem from a nether god or a rich
politician.
Each issue will bring you pithy columns by calumnists (sic) paid to
write about whatever they're pushing, be it religion, consumer goods, ad
nauseam! Subscriptions will remain the same price as ad pages have leapt an
astonishing 3 million %. But don't worry, fiction fans, we'll also be
producing twice-yearly special fiction issues (free to subscribers and
available at about three bookshops and no newstands) which will fill that
small hole in your reading time.
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/subscriptions.htm
Oh, and the next one will have a great b&w cover on white paper and will not
be perfect bound! We lied on our webpage!
#*&^%*%*&^)(*(+)*%&^#%$@&^^%T(*&_(+*&#_*&@_)(@!38__)!*
An interview with Judith Berman:
http://www.twilighttales.com/magazine/toc.php?sectioncode=crayons
+ link to the entire text of Judith Berman's groovy story now up on the
Black Gate website: http://www.blackgate.com/fiction/2004/poisonwell2.htm
We published a chapbook by Judith once upon a time. In September, she'll
have a book out, yay!
#*&^%*%*&^)(*(+)*%&^#%$@&^^%T(*&_(+*&#_*&@_)(@!38__)!*
Bouncing Backward in Time
No, this isn't about the time-traveller convention we went to on May 7th at
MIT. (Most fun part of that was hiding in the bushes.)
This is about Kate Wilhelm's STORYTELLER: Writing Lessons and More from 27
Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop (rolls right off the tongue. Anyway
you weren't mean to be licking your computer screen). It's gone back to to
August to make sure peeps get enough time to review it and so on -- and so
that we have enough time to make it pretty, pretty.
STORYTELLER digs a little dirt (not much, this is a class act!), tells a
few stories, and gets to the nitty-gritty about writing and teaching
writing. Here's a tiny part (from the broken-out section at the end on
writing) that has rung a few bells in early readers:
» The Writing Life
Taking the Time
No one gives writing time to a new writer, or in many cases to an
established writer. Each and every one of us has to take it, forcibly if
necessary, by wile, bribery, any method that works. You have to take the
time, to weigh it against whatever else is happening, to give it up
somewhere else, sacrifice time with other people, time for movies, time for
television, fun, games, partying, sleep or something. There is always some
time every day to set aside and declare one¹s own, but it requires a lot of
self-discipline to seize it and keep it. If not every day, then three days a
week, and if that¹s still impossible, one day a week.
It¹s hard in the beginning because there is no payback or tangible
reward for all that time spent alone in thought or at a keyboard, and life
keeps getting in the way. But it is absolutely necessary to find the time
and keep it inviolable and recognized by the private world of the writer
that it is not to be invaded.
Paradoxically, and cruelly, the ones you love the most and who love you
are the greatest problem. They see you suffering, alone, withdrawn,
apparently getting nowhere, and they want to help. Something is offered, and
if you say no, feelings get hurt, guilt arises.
You have to decide which guilt to live with: the guilt of denying the
companionship or the guilt of yielding and not writing or working at an
aspect of writing.
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Preorder the book at any bookshop (yay, cultural spaces!) or from here:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/preorder.htm
[Those dates for Mockingbird and ravel Light will have to change, too!]
#*&^%*%*&^)(*(+)*%&^#%$@&^^%T(*&_(+*&#_*&@_)(@!38__)!*
Researchers Find That Chocolate Compound Stops Cancer Cell Cycle in Lab
Experiments
http://gumc.georgetown.edu/communications/releases/release.cfm?ObjectID=4477
Also, while beer may (evidence is spotty, but this is all about denial, so
we won't probe too far), again, may prevent Alzheimers, it doesn't seemed to
have stopped our increasing forgetability (including how to use the
language) or senile dementia.
http://www.beerisgoodforyou.com/health/alzheimers.htm
"A new study presented at the World Alzheimer¹s Congress 2000 in Washington
DC, shows that those who consume one to two glasses of beer or wine per day
have a 30 percent lower risk for Alzheimer¹s disease, compared with
non-drinkers."
If beer is not to your taste, how about 3.5 bottles of wine a week? (Hmm,
must get job where 200 bottles of wine per year seems affordable and where
sleeping-in is ok.)
This study (published in the journal Neurology) says: "people who drank up
to 21 glasses of wine a week had a measurably lower risk of dementia."
Doesn't say anything about delirium tremens or explain the dancing elephants
commonly sighted by the 75-year-old, ex-3-martini-lunch crowd, but, remember
(it was a while ago), it's only about denial and picking the right fact out
of the crowd.
Now, what else is good for us? Tea? Tannin-dyed teeth are stronger says a
study backed up by no evidence and in fact non-existent. Chocolate, covered.
Beer? Covered. Non-homegrown tomatoes? How bad can they be except for the
implanted fish genes* and the poisons? Pass. Next.
* Can vegetarians still eat supermarket tomatoes? Not that anyone really
wants to eat the red watersacks passed off as the glorious love apple, but
... sometimes ... the ... wait ... for ... summer ... is ... loooong!
#*&^%*%*&^)(*(+)*%&^#%$@&^^%T(*&_(+*&#_*&@_)(@!38__)!*
General linkage:
Montague, MA: You know it's all coming together when even the website
provokes a moment or two of wunder: http://theladykilligrew.com/index.php
Gwenda Bond interviewed Kelly Link. Did we link to it?
http://www.edrants.com/reluctant/001414.html
"Heads Down, Thumbs Up" by Gavin J. Grant
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/grant3/
Occasional updates:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/notajournal.htm
What else? We are at work. How about you? Seen any good films recently? Oh,
wait
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Apology for Lack of Schmooze
A Rattlebag of links
Mothers & Other Monsters
Book jackets
Fountain Award
Reviews
Push, Push
Teenage Fanclub
Freezing things
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Dear readers, skimmers, deletedeleters, and character-recognition programs:
Hello! So, we have this bunch of new books coming. And some of them will be
on NPR (um, To Be Arranged, as it were) and others will be on the shelves of
Your Local Bookshop (and even some further away from You).
What we forgot to do in the last four years was schmooze the hell out of
everyone we ever met. Especially peeps* in the media, Medea, Mediums, Middle
Easterns, booksellers, window washers and other power movers, shakers, and
mowers.
So (fave word. Up there along with "Anyway."), this is our apology.
We apologize for not schmoozing, for not plying, for the lack of
pliedness (plung?), not having plied aforementioned peeps with whiskey
sours, hot chocolate, envelopes (overstuffed and veritably bulging full of
cash), electric cars, fax machines, tchotckes, $6,000 bathrobes,
dictionaries, removable body modifications and any other bribes, presents,
gifts-with-attitude and so on that we should have been spreading far and
wide.
So maybe these books won't be Oprah books -- although we've always
thought the mother-daughter-voodoo mix in Mockingbird might be a good fit.
http://lcrw.net/seanstewart/mockingbird.htm
Maybe they won't even be mentioned in the LCRW newsletter. But you
probably have to buy a gift for someone this year, so make it a puppy. Wait!
Not funny. You can't just shelve a dog or use it to level a coffee table
once finished. Give a book! A Small Beer Book! Lots of choices! Apologies
for tiring number of exclamation points.
PS. The books look better in reality than on the web.
*Using the pre-Scott Westerfeld** definition of "people."
** Post Scott Westerfeld the definition is quite different. In September
when you read his latest novel, Peeps, this will make like ghee and clarify.
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A Rattlebag* of links
New books: http://lcrw.net/lcrw/preorder.htm
Expensive books! http://lcrw.net/special/index.htm
Books and zines: http://lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htm
Not our stuff: http://lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping2.htm
Coming soon: T-shirts, poker cards, anything else we can think of:
http://lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping.htm
* Thanks to Rich Rennicks at Malaprop's for bringing this back into our
usage.
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July 1
July 1 is the publication date for Maureen F. McHugh's debut collection,
Mothers & Other Monsters. She's reading ==tonight== in Asheville, NC (with
Christopher Rowe and Kelly Link) and has a reading in Cleveland in a couple
of weeks.
http://malaprops.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp;jsessionid=1536B89B1123
CD09AC89E9C47788E808.t6?s=storeevents&eventId=301023
How good is she? The Ruminator Review (see Your Local Bookshop...)
picked her story "Oversite" to reprint and asked Maureen to write pithy and
explicatory comments for it.
http://www.ruminator.com/?p=21
Mothers... is also a July Book Sense Notable Book (thanks to some excellent
booksellers) and is receiving some excellent reviews.
http://lcrw.net/mchugh/index.htm
The first edition is an extra-special signed edition:
http://lcrw.net/special/mchugh/index.htm
For those who'd rather read it onscreen, we'll post an electronic edition
which will sell for some kind of discount over the paper version. Watch the
page above.
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July 1 is also the pub date for Kelly Link's second collection, Magic for
Beginners. In hardcover in shops now. Yay! Reviews coming in will be posted
online. There are cards (which come with the limited edition) and T-Shirts
available (see that Rattlebag of links above) and new stories galore.
http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/mfb/index.htm
Read "The Faery Handbag"
http://www.lcrw.net/fictionplus/link-handbag.htm
Readings: http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/calendar.htm
More readings will be added in October and November. Bookshops can
always email us to see if we can get there.
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One of the most fun, frustrating, time-consuming, and sometimes satisfying
aspects of making books (pretty things) is designing jackets. Adam Langer,
not a designer but rather one of these author types interviewed a number of
designers:
http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/community/commentary_display.jsp
?vnu_content_id=1000939314
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Seen outside HQ: a bear; a raccoon plus three raccoonlets; squirrels;
chipmunks; this is no rabbitry, yet there are baby rabbits (aka kits); boids
of the cardinal and other varieties; giant frog + many tadpoles; a jungle;
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Douglas Lain's story, "Music Lessons," from LCRW 14 was given an Honorable
Mention from the Fountain Award and can now be read at his site:
http://www.douglaslain.com/music.htmlhttp://www.speculativeliterature.org/Awards/SLFFountainAward/2004.php
Doug has a collection coming next year from Night Shade. We are looking
forward to it.
Congratulations to Jeff Ford whose lovely story, "The Annals Of Eelin-Ok,"
took the prize. Read it here:
http://www.speculativeliterature.org/Awards/SLFFountainAward/stories/TheAnna
lsOfEelin-Ok.html
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Of which, we are almost talking, a zine: LCRW 16! Coming within months.
Maybe even weeks. Old-fashioned black and white pages. Text with
punctuation. Glossy ads for fabric softeners and virility enhancers.
Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price $134. Printed in 2-point type and taped
shut with duct tape to build anticipation (and microscope sales). Almost at
the printer. (May actually appear in July. Or August.)
Tie-in (and tie on) rosebud wristlets (made of edible rice paper) will
be given out with every Veggie Delite Subway sandwich.
Fiction from (hopefully this will not come as a surprise to any of these
writers): Eric Gregory, Cara Spindler, Yoon Ha Lee, Scott Geiger, Kat Meads,
Eric Schaller, John Kessel, Matthew Kirby, David Lunde, Christina Manucy,
Jenny Ashley, + Sean Melican. Poetry from Michaela Kahn, Sandra Lindow,
Chris Fox, + Ursula K. Le Guin. Advice from Dear Aunt Gwenda.
http://www.lcrw.net/issues/lcrw16.htm
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Clarion, donations, and so on.
We are donating $5 to the Clarion Writers' Program for each copy of Kate
Wilhelm's new memoir/book on writing Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More
from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop sold either through our
website or at conventions this year.
Pre-orders also receive "The Red Line of Death Editor's Pencil."
http://www.lcrw.net/wilhelm/index.htm
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Reviews:
Trash Sex Magic
http://www.broaduniverse.org/broadsheet/0505ah.htmlhttp://www.sff.tigerheron.com/editors-fantasy-picks-0506.php.
The Mount
http://www.challengingdestiny.com/reviews/themount.htm
Perfect Circle (aka Firecracker in the UK)
http://sfrevu.com/Review-id.php?id=2696
2nd part of an interview with Judith Berman (Lord Stink, Bear Daughter):
http://www.twilighttales.com/magazine/toc.php?sectioncode=crayons
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Spelling and so on. If you find a spelling mistake or some such error in one
of our books (or even on the site), won't you please tell us? Once we've
stopped gnashing our teeth over it we'll be quite grateful.
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Other things that we are still putting in envelopes and sending out: Carol
Emshwiller's debut novel, CARMEN DOG:
http://www.lcrw.net/peapod/emshwiller/carmendog.htm
Theodora Goss's first chapbook (of which we are running low), The Rose in
Twelve Petals: http://www.lcrw.net/smallbeer/chapbooks/theodoragoss.htm
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Wanted: Someone familiar with Fictionwise's formatting to get (some of) our
books onto the site. Inquiries accepted 2-4 PM, Mon-Fri. Help?
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Push, Push: Have you read Jon Courtney Grimwood's Pashazade?
Great stuff. The three books (Pashazade, Effendi, and Felaheen) were
published in the UK and are now coming out as trade paperbacks from Bantam
in the US. The second, Effendi, recomplicates everything in the first, as
well as explaining more of the world and the main characters.
They're set Right Now and could be read as Blade Runner, post-cyberpunk
techno-thrillers except that in this world the Ottoman Empire never fell.
It's a smart page-turner where intrigue, politics, and religion all come
crashing together. Recommended for readers of Jim Kelly, John Le Carre, and
William Gibson.
Pashazade!
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0553587439-2&partner_id=26490
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Teenage Fanclub have a mellow new album out on Merge, Man Made.
Listen to it: http://www.mergerecords.com/jukeboxes/tfc_mm/tfc_jukebox2.htmlhttp://www.mergerecords.com/catalog.php?item_id=348&method=item
No, we don't know them. We often fire up the Hummer and crush small electric
cars under our wheels while listening to them, though. Poptastic.
Condensed from the Merge Records page:
TEENAGE FANCLUB and THE ROSEBUDS To Tour North America This Summer -- the
first full headlining tour for Teenage Fanclub in North America since 1994!
They'll be supported on tour by Merge label-mates The Rosebuds, who have a
new EP, The Rosebuds Unwind, and a forthcoming CD, Birds Make Good Neighbors
(Merge Records, September 13).
Gallus, baby, gallus.
Teenage Fanclub (w/The Rosebuds)
07.18 * Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
07.20 * Washington, D.C., @ 9:30 Club
07.22 * New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (See you here!)
07.23 * New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
07.25 * Toronto, ONT, @ Mod Club Theatre
07.26 * Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
07.27 * Chicago, IL @ The Metro
07.29 * Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
08.02 * Vancouver, BC, @ Richard's On Richards Cabaret
08.03 * Seattle, WA @ Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room
08.05 * San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's 365 Club
08.06 * Los Angeles, CA @ The Knitting Factory
08.07 * Los Angeles, CA @ The Knitting Factory
08.08 * Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern
*Additional tour dates will be announced!
Frustratingly enough Kelly Hogan and John Wesley Harding (he who is also
known as Wesley Stace, author of a big fun book, Misfortune) are playing a
couple of dates in NY and Boston at the beginning of August when Small Beer
will have decamped to the UK. http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/tour/
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Freezing things.
Which is a disguised way of saying free book.
Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison. A fantastic novel. Price change note (we
are KMart). Previously: $14. Now: $12. If you pre-ordered (and thank you),
we'll be sending a $2 bill (or something) with your book.
Second in our Peapod Classics line (and we are lining up #3, yay!). As
with Carmen Dog, comics star Kevin Huizenga is the cover artist.
Travel Light is a continually surprising book that we've been pushing on
friends for years. We're sending it out as a young adult novel (same as
Carol Emshwiller's The Mount was reprinted by Penguin Firebird as a YA
novel) to surprise and knock little socks off -- although we didn't read it
until we were old, old and crumbling. How is it free? Why is the free part
buried in text and not set apart by Asterix (and Getafix) or Crazy Type Fun?
Because it's 4.33 AM, that's why. You can acquire your galley in two ways:
tell us something fun (that we can put on the web) about one of the
following: Naomi Mitchison, Constantinople (and not that song), or bears.
Or, secondly, order two books by July 31 and get Travel Light por nada! (Add
a note asking for it, cheers.)
http://www.lcrw.net/peapod/mitchison/index.htm
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This morning's linkdump and lunchtime reading has been brought to you by
Small Beer Press.
Short link: http://www.lcrw.net
Long link: http://www.smallbeerpress.com
Chocolate link: http://rococochocolates.com
Random link: http://www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk
-- Take care of one another --
July 1, 2005: RELEASE IMMEDIATELY
Small Beer Press
176 Prospect Avenue
Northampton, MA 01060
T: 413-584-0299
F: 413-584-2662
http://www.smallbeerpress.com
Award-winning Author Releases Collection as Free Creative Commons-Licensed
Download
Award-winning short story writer Kelly Link's new collection MAGIC FOR
BEGINNERS (July 1, 2005, Fiction/Short Stories, $24, ISBN: 1-931520-15-1,
illus. by Shelley Jackson), is being celebrated in a peculiar way by
publisher Small Beer Press.
Small Beer, based out of Northampton, MA, is quite happily giving away
copies of Link's debut collection STRANGER THINGS HAPPEN as a Free Download
using a Creative Commons License.
Link, 35, recently found out she her story, "Stone Animals" from
Conjunctions 43, has been selected for the next volume of the Best American
Short Stories. Her new collection has received a starred review from
Publishers Weekly -- and praise from writers such as Michael Chabon and
Alice Sebold. Her stories are published in everything from literary journals
(Fence), genre anthologies (The Faery Reel), zines (One Story, Say) to
McSweeney¹s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales and have been awarded the
Tiptree, World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards.
Publisher Gavin Grant, 34, says they he and Link were inspired by author and
copyright activist Cory Doctorow who had put each of his books online under
a Creative Commons license.
"We're a tiny independent press," said Grant. "Of course we want to explore
different methods of getting our books out to readers -- and in spreading
the word about Creative Commons."
He continued, "We don't expect this to kill sales.. If anything (fingers
crossed), it may help. After all, the book is already available in hundreds
of libraries, on print.google.com, Amazon.com's Search Inside program, and
even on BookCrossing. None of these programs have stopped the book from
finding readers."
Readers have the choice of STRANGER THINGS HAPPEN as a Plain text, HTML,
RTF, & PDF files.
http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/sth/index.htm
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kelly Link¹s debut collection Stranger Things Happen is in its fourth
printing and has been translated into Japanese. Her stories have appeared in
many magazines and anthologies including Fence, The Vintage Book of Amnesia,
Conjunctions, McSweeney¹s, and "Stone Animals" has been selected for
inclusion in The Best American Short Stories.
A graduate of Columbia University and the MFA program at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, she once won a free trip around the world by
answering the question "Why do you want to go around the world?" ("Because
you can¹t go through it.") Link lives in Northampton, MA.
ABOUT SMALL BEER PRESS:
Since its founding in 2000, Small Beer Press has published Kalpa Imperial,
Ursula K. Le Guin¹s translation of Angélica Gorodischer¹s award-winning
novel; Carol Emshwiller¹s The Mount (Philip K. Dick Award winner, reprinted
by Penguin Firebird); and Book Sense Notable Picks Perfect Circle by Sean
Stewart and Mothers & Other Monsters by Maureen F. McHugh, among others.
Since 1996 we have published a small lit-zine, LCRW and recently kicked off
a classic reprint series, Peapod Classics.
Links:
Free Download http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/sth/index.htm
Bio + Photos http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/bio.htm
Small Beer Press http://www.smallbeerpress.com
Cory Doctorow http://www.craphound.com
Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org
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Reading tonight and tomorrow:
Maureen McHugh, Tues, 7/19, 7 PM, Mac's Backs, Cleveland Heights, OH
Kelly Link, Wed. 7/20, 7 PM, KGB Bar, NYC
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>>From Jim Munroe at No Media Kings:
I met Nicholas Johnson at a Seattle zine fair nearly a decade
ago. He was peddling Shark Fear, Shark Awareness at the time,
and through a mail correspondence I kept up through his zine
projects that were engrossing accounts of his time as a sperm
donor (Burning the Ancestral Chi) and an ESL teacher
(Kongju-si: Letters from Korea). His fast and trashy vid making
was a big inspiration to my own initial forays into making
little movies, and he actually wrote a DIY article for this
site. Big Dead Place (Feral Press, 2005) is his latest and
greatest project to date. Nicholas spent the last couple of
years living in Antarctica, doing the joe-jobs that keep the
research labs based there functioning: washing dishes and
compacting garbage. I knew from the couple of e-mails that he'd
sent that his stories about the place would be hilarious and
fascinating: what I didn't expect was how deftly he would weave
together the historical tragedies of Sir Robert Scott's bungled
exploration with the bureacratic tragedies of bungled room
assignments. Populated by lewd characters and outlandish
scenarios, it nonetheless ignores the easy targets in favour of
putting forth a journalistic work of depth and craft. I shot
him a couple of questions via e-mail....
http://nomediakings.org/books/scurvy_not_covered_by_medical.html
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Get a free book:
Free Book: http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/sth/index.htm
Or buy some:
http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htm
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There's a reception for a
photography show by Christa Parravani next weekend at the Forbes Library in
Northampton. Get gothicky and all that:
http://www.forbeslibrary.org/events/gallery.shtml#parravani
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Review of Maureen F. McHugh, MOTHERS & OTHER MONSTERS
http://tangentonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=504&Itemi
d=263
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Something about War of the Worlds, the book, baby, the book. And a spin off
into the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-grant10jul10,0,2206505.st
ory?coll=cl-bookreview
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Kelly Link's MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS was reviewed in Entertainment Weekly.
"Dazzling.... Link's world is one to savor."
-- Entertainment Weekly, (Editor's Choice) p76, 7/15 issue
And will be a Book Sense August pick:
MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS, by Kelly Link (interior illustrations by Shelley
Jackson) (Small Beer Press, $24, 1931520151) "Kelly Link is my favorite new
fantasy writer. She mixes up fairy-tale monsters and our modern world to
create unique, humane stories that illuminate the joy and pain of everyday
stuff. These stories are magic." --Michael Wells, Bailey-Coy Books, Seattle,
WA
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TRASH SEX MAGIC REVIEW ON SEX KITTEN. Rowr, and all that:
http://sex-kitten.net/2453459191843.html
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We will be taking the shopping pages (books, shirts, cards, etc) down in
late July through August. Heck, we may even update the website a bit.
Kelly's website, www.kellylink.net, will become Much Better Looking in
August or so thanks to Theo (http://www.theblackarts.com).
3 new books still to hit the shelves:
Storyteller by Kate Wilhelm (writing lessons and gossip, too)
Mockingbird by Sean Stewart (inheriting the voodoo gods in Houston, Texas)
Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison: a book we've passed on to many readers and
now get to bring it to many more. (Thanks to Holly Black and Ursula K. Le
Guin for reading and providing great comments and to Joe Monti for taking it
seriously!) http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/preorder.htm
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Brought to you by the letters tfad era ew and the concept Mirror Writing.
Oooh, impressive.
Small Beer Press
http://www.smallbeerpress.com
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