Your Brain's Black Box

Interview with Ryan Ridge at The Collagist

2012-01-24T06:01:00.001-05:00

"Well I started the year off with a bang and by bang I mean Sean Kilpatrick’s fuckscapes. If there were more books like fuckscapes we’d see flatscreens floating in rivers and spontaneous orgies erupting in libraries. People would be fucking excited to read again."

Read the full interview here.

this is true

2012-01-10T23:55:00.004-05:00

a man in all black crept up and peered into different windows of my home for over twenty minutes while i rested on my couch. my neighbor noticed the man crouching and rising to his tiptoes. i noticed odd shadow. the thing about it is that i noticed the same shadow play yesterday.

2012-01-07T17:25:00.001-05:00

2011-12-28T10:42:00.004-05:00

I have a new story over at HOUSEFIRE. It's called 'There is a Year Without Light.' HOUSEFIRE has also accepted a story of mine called 'The Next Morning Everything Felt Shaded--My Vision Tinted. My Brain Split,' which is forthcoming I do not know when.

Link here.

'There is a Year Without Light' is an excerpt from my unpublished book entitled Black God.

Sean Kilpatrick

2011-12-15T17:56:00.001-05:00

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Order:

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2011-12-12T22:40:00.001-05:00

[ C. ] An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology

2011-11-29T21:53:00.003-05:00

from MLP news: [ C. ] An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology is shipping now & to celebrate, we've done two things: First, we hooked up with the wonderful & freakishly good Scott Garson to create a special edition of Wigleaf, including thirteen original Stamp Stories by thirteen of our [ C. ] authors, all online & free here. Second, we are putting [ C. ] on sale for the next few days, giving you one-hundred Stamp Stories by one-hundred of the greatest contemporary writers, all for $10 with free shipping here. Good right? We thought you'd like it. So, read the special Wigleaf, order a sale copy before our deal expires, & then wait hummingly at your mailbox for the likes of some beautiful new Mud Luscious.

Stamp Stories are texts of 50 words or less, printed on 1×1 cardstock, & shipped free from participating presses. We wanted to tie together the indie press community in a vibrant yet viable way, & so this venture was born. Through 2010, we solicited stamp-sized texts from 100 authors & distributed the physical Stamp Stories through more than 40 participating presses. [ C. ] collects all of these texts into one perfect-bound edition.

Participating Authors James Tadd Adcox, Jesse Ball, Ken Baumann, Lauren Becker, Matt Bell, Kate Bernheimer, Michael Bible, Jack Boettcher, Harold Bowes, Jesse Bradley, Donald Breckenridge, Melissa Broder, Blake Butler, James Chapman, Jimmy Chen, Joshua Cohen, Peter Conners, Shome Dasgupta, Andy Devine, Giancarlo DiTrapano, Claire Donato, Elizabeth Ellen, Raymond Federman, Kathy Fish, Scott Garson, Molly Gaudry, Roxane Gay, Steven Gillis, Rachel B. Glaser, Amanda Goldblatt, Barry Graham, Amelia Gray, Sara Greenslit, Tina May Hall, Christopher Higgs, Lily Hoang, Tim Horvath, Joanna Howard, Laird Hunt, Jamie Iredell, Harold Jaffe, A D Jameson, Jac Jemc, Stephanie Johnson, Shane Jones, Drew Kalbach, Roy Kesey, Sean Kilpatrick, Michael Kimball, M. Kitchell, Robert Kloss, Darby Larson, Charles Lennox, Eugene Lim, Matthew Lippman, Norman Lock, Robert Lopez, Sean Lovelace, Josh Maday, Dave Madden, JohnMadera, Kendra Grant Malone, Tony Mancus, Peter Markus, Chelsea Martin, Zachary Mason, Hosho McCreesh, Alissa Nutting, Riley Michael Parker, Aimee Parkison, David Peak, Ted Pelton, Adam Peterson, Ryan Ridge, Joseph Riippi, Adam Robinson, Ethel Rohan, Joanna Ruocco, Kevin Sampsell, Selah Saterstrom, Davis Schneiderman, Zachary Schomburg, Todd Seabrook, Ben Segal, Gregory Sherl, Lydia Ship, Matthew Simmons, Justin Sirois, Amber Sparks, Ken Sparling, Ben Spivey, Michael Stewart, Terese Svoboda, Sean Ulman, Deb Olin Unferth, Timmy Waldron, William Walsh, Rupert Wondolowski, James Yeh, & Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé.

Participating Presses Artifice Magazine, Artistically Declined Press, Atticus Books,Barge, Blood Pudding Press, Blue Square Press, Calamari Press, Cow Heavy, The Cupboard, Dark Sky Books, Dzanc Books, Ellipsis Press, Fairy Tale Review,Featherproof Books, Gigantic, Greying Ghost, Hobart, The Iron Rail, Ink Monkey Mag,Keyhole Books, Kitty Snacks, Lazy Fascist Press, Magic Helicopter Press,Monkeybicycle, Narrow House, Opium, Outside Writer’s Collective, Pank, Paper Hero Press, Pear Noir!, Pilot Books, Publishing Genius Press, Quick Fiction, Ravenna Books,Scrambler Books, Starcherone Books, Typecast Publishing, Tyrant Books, Word Riot Press, & Yes Yes Books

2011-11-13T23:08:00.002-05:00

Celebrate

2011-11-03T18:12:00.004-04:00

Until the end of the week our first two titles (Flowing in the Gossamer Fold and Theater-State by Jack Boettcher) are on sale for only $10 + free shipping, and [C.] An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology is on sale for $8 + free shipping.

BSP + MLP

2011-11-01T19:57:00.003-04:00

Blue Square Press became an imprint of Mud Luscious Press today! I am so happy and excited. I love everything they do. To celebrate this exciting news both Flowing in the Gossamer Fold and Jack Boettcher's book Theater-State will be on sale for $10 + free shipping as well as an $8 + free shipping steal on pre-orders of [ C. ] An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology - all this week only! Spread the word and pick up a book while the sale lasts!

Our new home is: http://mudlusciouspress.com/blue-square-press/

2011-10-29T17:30:00.001-04:00

Packing up. Dragging into the woods.

2011-10-26T21:51:00.001-04:00

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2011-09-12T17:55:00.001-04:00

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2011-09-10T13:45:00.003-04:00

1. Watched Escape from New York this morning over a breakfast of coffee, red wine and potato soup.

2. Dzanc Books is having a buy one get one free sale. I bought We Make Mud by Peter Markus and Dreams of Molly by Jonathan Baumbach.

3. Blue Square Press is now on Facebook. If you're into that sort of thing you should 'like' us.

4. The deluxe limited edition of fuckscapes by Sean Kilpatrick which includes Stab Pyramid, a hand sewn chapbook co-written by Kilpatrick and Blake Butler is only available as a pre-order or until all copies are sold. Stab Pyramid is limited to 100 copies and it's going fast.

2011-09-04T17:15:00.003-04:00

MudLuscious's imprint series NEPHEW is doing a lot of things right. I ordered Robert Kloss's How The Days Of Love And Diphtheria today and I am very excited to read it.

Vouched books, the Atlanta division, was at the Decatur Book Festival this weekend. It was good to hangout with them for few hours. Vouched is such a great idea. I love what they do and what they support.

Theater-State Review at Montevidayo

2011-09-02T15:37:00.002-04:00

James Pate wrote a very in depth review of Jack Boettcher's Theater-State today for Montevidayo. Comparisons to David Foster Wallace, Deleuze and Donnie Darko (as if directed by Matthew Barney).

2011-08-31T16:23:00.001-04:00

New Action, Yes.
New Action, Yes.
New Action, Yes.

Numbered Things

2011-08-30T14:24:00.002-04:00

1) The Decatur Book Festival is this weekend. If you're in the Atlanta area you should come out.

http://www.decaturbookfestival.com/2011/index.php

2) My good friends over at Safety Third Enterprises published a chapbook of poetry by Tom Cheshire.

Here's what Scott McClanahan said about it: “I typically hate poets for a number of reasons. 1.) They smell funny. 2.) They spread venereal diseases. 3.) They usually have the personalities of mold and could care less about flesh. Tom Cheshire is not a poet. He is a goddamn human being who writes beautiful words. These are poems that make feasts of this life, invite you to orgies, and provide penicillin for the horrible plagues that are inside of us all. If you don’t read these poems you’ll probably get cancer, or at least fifteen years bad luck. Go ahead. Do it. Read them. Your loins and your spirit will thank you. I haven’t felt this strong in years.”

http://safetythirdenterprises.com/

3) Blue Square Press catalog has been updated.

-Flowing in the Gossamer Fold: by Ben Spivey
-Theater-State: by Jack Boettcher
-fuckscapes: by Sean Kilpatrick (12/2011)
-Stab Pyramid (limited ed. of 100): by Sean Kilpatrick & Blake Butler (12/2011
-Slow Slidings: by M. Kitchell (2012)
-Irritant: by Darby Larson (2012)

I couldn't be happier with the new additions.

http://bluesquarepress.com/books

Two More Days of Open Submissions & Newscapes

2011-08-29T12:09:00.004-04:00

Blue Square Press will be accepting manuscripts for about 2 more days.

This has been an amazing month for us, not only has Jack Boettcher's Theater-State started to make waves but the pre-orders for Kilpatrick's fuckscapes and the limited edition chapbook Stab Pyramid have hit high gear.

There's been a lot of pre-press for fuckscapes which I am grateful for, thank you. Mentions at Outsider Writers Collective, Annalemma, Montevidayo and HTMLGIANT.

2011-08-22T22:36:00.001-04:00

From Annalemma, "I have it on good authority Bluesquare is going to be the best new weird/boutique publisher in the next couple years."

Fuckscapes by Sean Kilpatrick

2011-08-22T14:44:00.005-04:00

Over the weekend we started taking pre-orders for a Deluxe Limited Edition of Sean Kilpatrick's fuckscapes.

I will explain what this means. It's deluxe because it includes not only fuckscapes but also a beautiful hand sewn chapbook that Sean co-wrote with Blake Butler. The chapbook is called STAB PYRAMID and it's only available to the first 100 people who place a pre-order, limited.

Pre-orders are going fast. I hate to be pushy so I won't say anything else I'll just let you read these blurbs:

“The violent, sexual zone of television and entertainment is made to saturate that safe-haven, the American Family. The result is a zone of violent ambience, a ‘fuckscape’: where every object or word can be made to do horrific acts. As when torturers use banal objects on its victims, it is the most banal objects that become the most horrific (and hilarious) in Sean Kilpatrick’s brilliant first book.”

-– Johannes Goransson, author of A New Quarantine Will Take My Place

-“Pregnancy dream of poetry has this Sean Kilpatrick book by the fist. You learn to signal to others from the woken state, here, line-by-line. Do you have any extra money? Buy this book! If you have to skip lunch, buy THIS BOOK! “I held my breath so hard I ended up in the country.” Some poetry you read is forgotten, and never remembered. Some poetry, this poetry, Sean Kilpatrick’s poetry, is a manual for exciting the engine to throw you out of the vanquished pleasures. Here is your I.V. drip of sphinx’s blood.”

-– CAConrad, author of The Book of Frank

2011-08-14T12:43:00.002-04:00

1. Theater-State release at Lemuria Books in Mississippi went off without a hitch. That's a nice bookstore. My first time there. First time meeting Jack. Dark light-less dirt road. Running horses at unknown noise. Newspaper delivered at 3AM terrified drunk off champagne. Talked some shit.

2. Reading Sean Kilpatrick's story Hubby from No Colony #1 over and over.

3. God defining surprise for December 2011. Involving words that might as well be geography.

Taking a Coffee

2011-08-02T12:18:00.003-04:00

I received a bag of David Lynch Signature Cup Organic House Blend.

Blue Square Press is Now Open to Submissions!

2011-08-01T07:31:00.001-04:00

Send submissions to editor@bluesquarepress.com

Submission period ends in 31 days.

2011-07-30T13:09:00.001-04:00

"I'm much more confident in front of a camera, hidden by a character, enhanced by makeup, so I can go much further than I can in real life. Sexual acting is painful, because even though you're pretending, you have the skin of the person in front of you, and it's not the skin you wish you had. After that, you run into the shower to get rid of everything" --Ludivine Sagnier

Theater-State

2011-07-28T00:05:00.003-04:00

is shipping!

A sincere thank you to everyone who placed a pre-order.

2011-07-27T01:37:00.000-04:00

2011-07-24T13:06:00.001-04:00

I don't like reading the future.

Mississippi People

2011-07-23T10:19:00.003-04:00

Blue Square Press will be in Jackson Mississippi August 9th at Lemuria Books celebrating the release of Jack Boettcher's novel, Theater-State.

Link to Lemuria: here.

The event starts at 5:00 PM. It would be rad if you could come. Talk to us.

Interview with Jack Boettcher

2011-07-21T07:47:00.001-04:00

Jack Boettcher was interviewed by The Unpublishables regarding Theater-State.

Our white teeth soured in the salt water as we sank into the ocean, slipped, and swam again—breaking the surface, meeting the sun's light.

2011-07-19T23:23:00.009-04:00

I have a New story over at Robot Melon.

Gary Lutz Interview @ 3am

2011-07-15T17:27:00.003-04:00

There's a new interview with Gary Lutz at 3am. He says things like "The sentence wants to slow you down so that you might witness everything the writer has caused to happen inside it. Chance and randomness and accident should have little or no part in what goes on inside the sentence." He also talks about his new book forthcoming from Calamari, Divorcer. I did not know it was about to exist.

Theater-State is Off to the Printer

2011-07-10T20:00:00.002-04:00

We've put the final touches on Jack Boettcher's debut novel Theater-State and we can't wait to begin shipping this surreal and endearingly beautiful object.

2011-07-10T00:24:00.000-04:00

Fires by Nick Antosca

2011-07-09T15:06:00.004-04:00

A couple of years ago I won Nick Antosca's novel Midnight Picnic in a contest and when he shipped me the novel he included his debut novel Fires, too (shameless self promotion here: but Nick is also one of the authors who blurbed my book). I read Midnight Picnic first, loved it and subsequently read Fires. Fires has a different tone from Midnight--it's more Bret Easton Ellis. Anyway, Fires is great and it's been out of print for 2 years or so but now it's coming back this October from the small press Civil Coping Mechanisms. Look for it when it drops. Here's a link for more information.

2011-07-06T07:51:00.000-04:00

I answered a question at the Laughing Yeti

2011-07-03T15:20:00.002-04:00

"They make us want to stay forever kneeling. If it looks as if we are on our knees saying our prayers, look again." --Peter Markus The Singing Fish page 6

2011-07-03T15:01:00.001-04:00

We've been working on Theater-State for a year now and it's almost to the printer. I couldn't be happier.

Aaron Cohick is Making Beautiful Things

2011-06-27T09:48:00.002-04:00

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2011-06-24T14:40:00.001-04:00

2011-06-24T00:45:00.001-04:00

felt the salt touch our salt

2011-06-23T07:47:00.002-04:00

Theater-State Coming Soon

2011-06-20T22:45:00.009-04:00

What is Theater-State?

Theater-State by Jack Boettcher will be here before you know it. Go ahead and support Jack and Blue Square Press by (clicking these words and) marking it to-read on your Goodreads page.

Praise for Theater-State:

"[The] paranoid lyricism of Boettcher’s odd and compelling novel, like the Mayan ceremonial white roads, leads you not necessarily to a destination but on a journey. It’s an amazing journey. I don’t think you have any choice but to take it" –Matthew Rohrer

"Boettcher’s reticulated sentences themselves contract and unfurl with sometimes enticing, sometimes ensnaring beauty" –Joyelle McSweeney

Theater-State is available for pre-order,

or

you can pre-order Theater-State with Flowing in the Gossamer Fold for $20.

About The Knox Writers' House

2011-06-16T12:57:00.005-04:00

"It started with a poem, lazy kids who would rather have someone read to them than read themselves, and a dream (cue Ride of the Valkyries). A dream that the poetry and stories around us could be available to anyone with a computer. That our friends’ voices could deliver their art directly into the ear of anyone who would listen. We began recording our friends, but we quickly grew hungrier.

In the summer of 2010, Emily Oliver, Sam Conrad, and Bryce Parsons-Twesten drove more than 2,000 miles, drank more than 15 gallons of orange juice, ate more than 2 bottles of ibuprofen and recorded over 75 hours of audio -the poems, stories, and interviews of more than 80 writers. From Chicago to Madison to the Twin Cities to Kalamazoo to St. Louis to Kansas City, they covered the Midwest and sought to discover where writing lives. On the campus of the college where they met, they would be shocked to find that someone they knew by sight, someone they had even met a few times, was a writer and they were out to show the world how close everyone is to art, out to show the world who in their city was composing poems, crafting stories and incubating novels. They sought to understand how place influences art, how what you create changes depending on where you are from and where you live and who you read and talk to. In the interviews, they asked writers to introduce themselves and say where they were from, then go backwards and trace the path they took to get there. They asked how their location affected them and what the community was like where they lived -how they interacted with art on a daily basis and what it meant for them to live in Chicago, to know poets in Kalamazoo, to have grown up in New York.

Then, this winter, they took the south. They travelled some 5,000 miles, from Galesburg to Alabama, to New Orleans across to Atlanta, stopping along the way to talk with people, to listen hard and ask what it means to be a writer there, to ask themselves the ridiculous question: can a place have a voice?

The culmination of these road trips is this website. Here, you will find everything they recorded and every interview written out. Click around to find who lives where, who’s writing what and who’s reading who. If you’re a writer and you’re interested in being recorded and adding to the map, please write us. If you know a writer interested in being recorded and adding to the map, please write us. If you like what we’re doing and want to support the life of this project with money and trail mix, please write us. The project owes great thanks to the McNair program and Richter Grant fund and everyone who volunteered their couches and floors along the way. Now, it is powered by sweat and great mix cds, and it’s not stopping here."

This is seriously cool project. When they came to Atlanta they recorded Blake Butler, Heather Christle, Chris DeWesse, Jamie Iredell and myself. The recordings of Heather and Chris are available to listen to now--the rest are forthcoming.

Check out Heather and Chris, here.

The Angel in The Dream of Our Hangover aphorisms, by Mark Leidner

2011-05-23T18:11:00.008-04:00

the angel in the dreams of our hangover

The Angel in The Dreams of Our Hangover, the sophomore release from SATOR PRESS, is a quick read full of wisdom.

The design and layout of this book is beautiful. Each aphorism leads very well into the next.

Throughout the 80 or so aphorisms some themes arise and they arise quickly--they are the poet, the West (Western wisdom) and Christ.

The poet: "poets are the unacknowledged law school students of the world."

The West: "whatever ends the West will be remained / the West."

Christ is mentioned the least but is also mentioned first, "a thousand people in a room, a thousand parodies of Christ." One-third of the way into the book "...the West absorbs Christ," and seventeen pages later, "one does not begin a poem, one abandons one's life."

There are dozens of other subjects but the above feel reused with great purpose.

The depth of this small book is what makes it genius. Showing us not only Leidner's powerful use of language, image, and subject, but also giving us a hint at the enigmatic and exciting direction of SATOR PRESS.

Mark Leidner has crafted a sharp read unlike anything I've read so far this year. Highly recommended.

Buy: SATOR PRESS

Montevidayo Interviewed Blue Square Press

2011-05-15T23:34:00.003-04:00

David Peak and I were interviewed by Joyelle McSweeney for Montevidayo regarding publishing and genre.

Released Today

2011-05-15T14:28:00.006-04:00

Warm Milk Press is happy to announce a new book, ZZZZZZZZZZZZ [the stars] by J. A. Tyler. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ is a collaborative project that spans 3 small presses and 1 Online journal.

Here is Tyler's description of the project:

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ is wreckage. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ takes place as five distinct works, all built around the same core story. Each narrative is that of a girl who holds the last water in the world, a herd of chaos that takes it from her, and the boy who comes to resuscitate it all. But each story takes this kernel and shreds it in a new direction, incorporates other elements, reshapes the narrative in its own image. And each press that came aboard this project, releasing this wreckage into readers’ hands, worked on the same principle of core unity with distinct press-specific alterations. All that is left is the beautiful static hum: zzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Thanks to the following presses and their editors and journals, where you can gather
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ:

links:

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ [a well]: Greying Ghost (Carl Annarummo)
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ [the stars]: Warm Milk Printing Press (BS, KW, JW)
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ [this town]: The Collagist (Matt Bell)
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ [an island]: NewLights Press (Aaron Cohick)

New Review

2011-05-15T10:04:00.002-04:00

Baby Got Books reviewed Flowing a couple of days ago. I am grateful. They said it "is fiction that comes from a dark place. I don’t know whether to describe it as a prose poem or a fever dream. I read it in one sitting...and then I went back and skimmed a few sections, postponing sleep as long as possible...it’s a gripping read."

Matthew Rohrer

2011-04-27T23:11:00.003-04:00

Matthew Rohrer will be reading live on HTMLGIANT tomorrow (Thursday) at 9PM eastern. Check it. Rohrer also blurbed Jack Boettcher's debut novel Theater-State which drops in August. He liked it.

2011-04-25T17:11:00.003-04:00

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65 persons in one collaborative fuck.

2011-04-24T09:08:00.002-04:00

Blue Square Press Supports books

2011-04-20T22:12:00.000-04:00

Blue Square Press will buy a copy of Darby Larson's The Iguana Complex (published by Nephew) for the first two people who purchase- and leave a comment on this post- both Flowing in the Gossamer Fold and Theater-State for $20 at the following link, here. The first two people who follow the (here) link, purchase and comment will receive Darby Larson's book for free. Darby Larson is awesome. Check out Abjective if you don't already.

About Nephew: "Nephew, an imprint of Mud Luscious Press, publishes raw & aggressive pocket-sized titles in limited-editions of 150 copies or for a sales period of 90 days, whichever comes first. There will be no subsequent editions."

As I type this there are 50 copies or 34 days left, whichever comes first.

Have a good day.

What is Theater-State?

2011-04-18T16:58:00.003-04:00

If you pre-order Jack Boettcher's debut novel Theater-State you will not only be supporting Blue Square Press but you'll also have a nice surprise in your mailbox when it arrives this upcoming August.

Not familiar with Jack? Read these: Jack in SLEEPiNGFISH, Jack in DIAGRAM.

Pre-Order HERE

2011-04-18T16:51:00.005-04:00

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

by j.a. tyler

coming may 15th from

warm milk press/ greying ghost press/ new lights press/ the collagist

thanks to truett dietz for the cover

2011-04-18T15:53:00.001-04:00

2011-04-17T20:06:00.000-04:00

are digital books something people like more?

half-darkness

new home

right aligned text

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Goodreads

2011-04-17T17:04:00.002-04:00

If you're a person who uses Goodreads you can now add Jack Boettcher's book Theater-State to your list. Or you can think about adding it. I'd be happy if you added it. Give you some cake.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11077089-theater-state

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

2011-04-17T11:47:00.000-04:00

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US

2011-04-12T09:15:00.005-04:00

Lori reviewed US by Michael Kimball at The Next Best Book Blog. I was already looking forward to this book but now I'm grinding my teeth.

It can be pre-ordered HERE.

2011-04-11T08:45:00.002-04:00

There was a write up of Theater-State on HTMLGIANT yesterday, here.

2011-04-10T18:44:00.002-04:00

I live in a city. About an hour and a half ago I was walking home from the bookstore. I was on the sidewalk and noticed two individuals on the same side of the street walking toward me and then casually off of the sidewalk to the side of a condo. This struck me as odd so I crossed the street. As I became parallel to where those two people were I heard a gun shot. I looked quickly in their direction. The man was holding a gun at a 45 degree angle and said something like "fuck." I began running home.

I do not know if he was aiming at me, probably not.

Theater-State by Jack Boettcher Pre-Order

2011-04-06T22:51:00.006-04:00

Cover design by the incredible Chi Birmingham.

I am excited to announce that Blue Square Press is taking pre-orders for its sophomore release Theater-State by Jack Boettcher. Theater-State is one of the best books that I've ever read and I cannot wait for people to have it in their hands. You can read an excerpt and pre-order it, here.

The book was blurbed by Joyelle McSweeney and Matthre Rorher. Here's what they said:

“Theater State reveals the panopticon not as an instrument of surveillance but as a mesmerizing holograph from which we prisoners of “reality” (and of high school) cannot tear our eyes. In this inside-out world, violence is an encircling Megahighway and the center mutable, vulnerable, and virtual, always flowing somewhere else. As young Janus negotiates the heights and sinkholes of adolescence, including an affair with a regional pop-avatar, servitude to a morphing, megalomaniacal principal, and a class project managing a convulsive neocolony, Jack Boettcher’s reticulated sentences themselves contract and unfurl with sometimes enticing, sometimes ensnaring beauty. As the civics teacher Ms. Denton TX threatens: “Learning is an adventure.”

–Joyelle McSweeney, author of Nylund, the Sarcographer, The Red Bird, and The Commandrine and Other Poems

“Even though the principal in Boettcher’s Theater-State has a white tiger slumbering in his office, the school that Janus and Katydid and Cassie attend, with Ms. Denton, TX as their teacher, is all too familiar – terrifyingly familiar. The mind-bending cross over between the world of statecraft and a private science academy becomes all too real for Janus…when it is revealed that it is drivers that shape the roads and not the other way around…and when the general paranoid lyricism of Boettcher’s odd and compelling novel, like the Mayan ceremonial white roads, leads you not necessarily to a destination but on a journey. It’s an amazing journey. I don’t think you have any choice but to take it.”

–Matthew Rohrer, author of Destroyer and Preserver, Rise up, and A Green Light

Pre-order Jack's book by following this link.

If you take a second and help spread the word in whatever way you like to spread words that would be greatly appreciated.

"...Jamie Iredell's second book..."

2011-04-03T22:00:00.001-04:00

Book Review

2011-03-30T10:15:00.006-04:00

The Next Best Book Blog reviewed my book today.
Thanks Lori.

2011-03-21T23:48:00.000-04:00

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2011-03-18T22:26:00.000-04:00

We Have Failed

2011-03-18T21:27:00.004-04:00

I'm excited about this,

J.A. Tyler has a new book out. It's called, A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed (Fugue State Press). Fugue State Press has consistently inspired and impressed me over the years.

J.A. is so sure that you'll love his sophomore novel that he'll write you another book if you don't enjoy it.

In his own words, "If you don't like my book I'll write you another book on the inside of that book. Order it, read it. If you don't like it, ship it back to me and I'll write a new book for you on the inside of that book. Yes. This is how much I believe in these words."

You can order A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed by following the link below:
http://www.fuguestatepress.com/man.html

2011-03-07T23:13:00.000-05:00

During one of those days seven children were born at the same time and then the rain stopped.

I Will Write You or Someone You Know a Letter or a Story

2011-03-01T10:20:00.006-05:00

For a donation of $3.50 (using the Paypal button below). I will hand write, and mail you a 100 word story or letter, addressed to you, your girlfriend, boyfriend, grandmother, or a particular body part.

When using Paypal leave me a short note and let me know if you want it addressed to a particular person or body part (otherwise you'll leave the subject up to me).

Donations go toward paying my rent of $925 a month. Currently at $47.50 of $925.

2011-02-20T13:12:00.001-05:00

what to do next, but I was only

2011-02-19T09:20:00.002-05:00

reading tonight at the wren's nest in atlanta. starts at 6:00pm.

heard a woman scream terrible outside my house last night. I went to window and people were running and afraid. the police came. they looked through the yards with flashlights.

2011-02-18T23:11:00.001-05:00

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2011-02-03T16:26:00.001-05:00

http://www.foreveryyear.eu/2011/01/1607-co-james-chapman.html

Nephew

2011-02-03T13:00:00.001-05:00

MLP's Nephew imprent.

I'm pretty sure I know who/ what this is. But let's keep it a secret.

"It beguttons the buttoning of alarms or the on of the radio. Somewhere pianoish, Rachmaninoffish. Awake. A little chilly. In the hall where the hall rolls bathroom-toward near the mirror and our donkey, a bit of trouble, of seeing himself clearly. Nevermind that. He dabs drips which are of a muskier something. The mezzo-soprano sang, then bang, ended, the audience sang, off with their pointed hats."

XXX XXXXXX XXXXXXX by XXXXX XXXXXX, coming very soon.

2011-02-02T19:17:00.004-05:00

Found out about Tiny Hardcore Press today. They published Normally Special by xTx. I blurbed xTx's first printed release (the now sold out He Is Talking to the Fat Lady*) so I'm going to check out Normally Special as soon as I can.

Also found out that the new Dogzplot Anthology is available for $8.

I have a reading forthcoming with some killers. Jamie Iredell, Amy Mcdaniel, Matt Debenedictis. Come if you're in Atlanta.

*Actually it's now available as an e-book with audio.

If you've read Flowing or might want to read Flowing you can add it on Goodreads, and make me smile or frown.

Video Review of Flowing in the Gossamer Fold

2011-01-24T20:44:00.002-05:00

Watch Michael Filippone video review Flowing:

2011-01-23T17:10:00.000-05:00

I hear that No Colony #3 will be at AWP.

Book Of The Week & Dogzplot Anthology

2011-01-18T23:25:00.003-05:00

Over at Fiction Writers Review Flowing is featured as 'Book of the Week.' Really happy about that. Thanks to the editors over there. Follow the link and you could win one of 3 first edition signed copies.

Found out that I'm included in the new Dogzplot anthology. Here's the list of contributors:

BILL BARR
LAUREN BECKER
ERIC BENNETT
ALEC BRYAN
ELIZABETH ELLEN
ASHLEY FARMER
SASHA FLETCHER
JON-MICHAEL FRANK
REBECCA GAFFRON
ROXANE GAY
MADDIE GORMAN
BARRY GRAHAM
PAUL GRINER
SHELLY HOLDER
JAMIE IREDELL
DREW KALBACH
STEFAN KIESBYE
JEREMY KELLY
CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY
MAXINE LOPEZ-KEOUGH
ANDREA KNEELAND
LEN KUNTZ
DARBY LARSON
MK LAUGHLIN
BRIAN LE LAY
ROBERT LOPEZ
ROBERT JOHN MILLER
KYLE MINOR
DAVID PEAK
SHANNON PEIL
SAM RASNAKE
MICHELLE REALE
S. CRAIG RENFROE, JR.
DANIEL ROMO
LINDA SANDS
KELLY SCHIRMANN
MARNIE SHURE
ANI SMITH
E. SODERBACK
BEN SPIVEY
PARKER TETTLETON
XTX

I don't think it's available for purchase yet, but it will be. Looks like Sam Pink designed the cover.

One of Those 2010 Posts

2011-01-08T10:56:00.007-05:00

Usually people say "xxxx year was good."

2010 was good.

Fat french fries a lot. Wasabi-mayo.

Ton of nachos, favorite were 1/2 bbq 1/2 chicken.

Rodents living in ceiling, making their way through.

Had it snowed while I was gone? It was snowing. And I felt that cold with my hands.

Knocks at the door at odd hours. I say "Who is it?" No one responds, but more knocking. 7:00 AM. 11:00 PM.

1. Flowing in the Gossamer Fold at Annalemma is on a list of "Noteworthy books read (in chronological order)."

2. Mike Young said "Not bad, pretty Lutz-y."

watched these people read: zs, em, ks, md, hc, cd, bb, ji, am, jb, at, ...

The new room was blue. The owner did not allow me to paint it. I signed my name on a line that said I wouldn't.

Putting the final touches on Jack Boettcher's debut novel.

Best book David Peak read this year was a good choice. I think I read it in 1995. Had some fun WADs and 56k deathmatches.

3. Dennis Cooper listed Museum of Fucked as one of his favorite fictions of 2010.

Flames in all directions. Kept feeding. Offered the entire house. Under the fire and into the floor—into the hideout not even the house knew to swallow.

"I think everyone in the country should have to do a year in the hole," G.G Allin.

2011-01-05T21:46:00.001-05:00

future tense books

2010-12-29T16:17:00.004-05:00

What a great surprise! Museum of Fucked by David Peak made Dennis Cooper's list of favorite fiction of 2010!

2010-12-28T01:20:00.000-05:00

TODAY I GOT IN BED AT 1:24 AM

2010-12-27T09:56:00.000-05:00

TODAY I GOT IN BED AT 11:24 PM

2010-12-26T16:50:00.001-05:00

TODAY I GOT IN BED AT 1:26 AM

2010-12-25T00:54:00.000-05:00

TODAY I GOT IN BED AT 12:53 AM

2010-12-24T00:56:00.000-05:00

TODAY I GOT IN BED AT 12:54 AM

2010-12-23T22:24:00.002-05:00

TODAY I GOT IN BED AT 1:16 AM

The Knox Writers’ House, a List, a List.

2010-12-13T20:11:00.020-05:00

1.

Three rad students from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois (Sam Conrad, Emily Oliver and Bryce Parsons-Tweston) came to my house today to record my voice. They started driving around the Midwest in June talking to over 80 writers about their work, recording audio poems and stories in each place they stopped. Now they're in the South. This massive project will result in an impressive collection of voices that will be presented and archived on their eventual website "The Knox Writers' House." They are backed by grants and stuff. They sleep on couches. They are super nice.

They recorded me reading the following: Excerpted chapters from Flowing in the Gossamer Fold, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 & 11 (the book has 40 chapters). Two short stories: Tattered, Velvet, Ocean & Smother.

They also ask each writer they record to read somethings from people they admire: I read dolemite by Sean Kilpatrick, Three Boys Who Thought Experimental Fiction Was For Pussies by Dennis Cooper, and The Well by Jesse Ball.

I'll let you know when the recordings are up, probably sometime early to mid next year. I don't want to spoil the surprise but when The Knox Writers’ House launches you're going to be treated to some awesome stuff.

2.

Maybe consider subscribing to the 2011 Mud Luscious complete print collection.

3.

Maybe consider adding Flowing in the Gossamer Fold to your goodreads queue, that would be nice.

4.

Robot Melon.

5.

Blue Square Press is very excited about Jack Boettcher's forthcoming book Theater-State. We'll have a lot more information about it at the beginning of the new year.

6.

I started a collaboration thing with Brandi Wells.

7.

The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge.

8.

Dogfish Head 90 min IPA.

9.

A lot of fires. It is cold.

10.

All of her teeth were scattered.
And then people were holding them like diamonds.

11.

Burnaway authors on art: Shane Jones, Heather Christle.

12.

13.

Uhh.

14.

Robert Lopez.

15.

Happy holidays.

16.

A full plate of pulled pork bbq nachos was a bad idea. 1/2 plate would have sufficed.

Super Arrow

2010-12-12T20:43:00.002-05:00

Super Arrow was a new website design. It looks really good.

Super Arrow published a pretty long piece of mine in their 1st issue.

Super Arrow is about to publish issue 3.

Super Arrow accepts submissions.

Super Arrow hosted a conversation with some people.

2010-12-09T09:41:00.002-05:00

Check out Robert Kloss's winter residency over at Necessary Fiction:
http://necessaryfiction.com/writerinres
http://necessaryfiction.com/writerinres
http://necessaryfiction.com/writerinres
http://necessaryfiction.com/writerinres

Kloss is for real.

2010

2010-12-05T11:33:00.004-05:00

I made a list of things in 2009. Here is my 2010 list.

(Some) Books:

Eugene Marten, Firework. I had the pleasure of chatting with Eugene at a reading in Atlanta. If you get a chance to see him read, do it. His delivery is as deadly as his sentences.

Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim.

William Gibson, Spook Country.

Amanda Goldblatt, Catalpa. Amanda edits Super Arrow. I like Amanda.

Peter Markus, The Singing Fish and Good, Brother.

Matt Bell, Wolf Parts. It's sold out but you can download the audio book for free here.

Dennis Cooper, Ugly Man: Stories.

Shane Jones, the failure six. This is my favorite Shane Jones book.

Justin Taylor, Everything here is the best thing ever. I'm not a huge fan of story collections but this one is great. Looking forward to whatever Justin does next.

Zachary Schomburg, Scary, No scary. One of my favorite collections of poetry, it will not let you down.

Patrik Ourednik, Europeana.

Movies:

Cache

The Secret in Their Eyes

Holy Mountain

Sunnyoutside

2010-12-01T20:35:00.002-05:00

There are a lot of awesome book deals over at sunnyoutside including J.A. Tyler's The Zoo, a Going (the tropic house) which I read earlier this year and enjoyed very much.

70 minutes

2010-12-01T16:58:00.005-05:00

~~Blue Square Press is feeling the holiday cheer. For the next 70 minutes Flowing in the Gossamer Fold will be on sale for $7 with free shipping (use the PayPal button below).~~

Absurda

2010-11-21T11:37:00.001-05:00

GIANT

2010-11-17T13:56:00.005-05:00

Over the last week or so I was interviewed by Blake Butler via e-mail, which was rad. The results of the interview are now readable over at HTMLGIANT, here.

Maybe you would like to spread the word about my book. I think that it would be very nice and kind of you if you do, thanks.

xTx

2010-11-17T13:37:00.003-05:00

I didn't even get a chance to say anything about it. Maybe you got a copy? I just got word that xTx's first chapbook sold out in about 36 hours. Safety Third Enterprises published it. You can still purchase their first chapbook, J. Bradley's The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You Is a Robot for $7. And you should before it sells out too.

2010-11-15T12:21:00.003-05:00

New issue of The Collagist. Check out the review for Josh Russell's My Bright Midnight. Andrew Borgstrom: 571 Points, Thank You for Being Her[e].