"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

is shipping!

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

I don't like reading the future.

Mississippi People

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

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.

I have a New story over at Robot Melon.

Gary Lutz Interview @ 3am

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

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.

Fires by Nick Antosca

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.

I answered a question at the Laughing Yeti

"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

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