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.
Showing posts with label Jack Boettcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Boettcher. Show all posts
7/23/11
6/20/11
Theater-State Coming Soon
What is Theater-State?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.
4/11/11
4/6/11
Theater-State by Jack Boettcher Pre-Order
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:
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
If you take a second and help spread the word in whatever way you like to spread words that would be greatly appreciated.
12/13/10
The Knox Writers’ House, a List, a List.
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.
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.
11/6/10
Blue Square Press News #2
1. Design has begun for the cover of Theater-State by Jack Boettcher. Jack's book is one of the best books I've ever read. It will be available next year.
2. You can download a PDF of one of Sean Kilpatrick's pieces that's in the most recent New York Tyrant, here.
3. Flowing in the Gossamer Fold is in Bookslut review limbo.
2. You can download a PDF of one of Sean Kilpatrick's pieces that's in the most recent New York Tyrant, here.
3. Flowing in the Gossamer Fold is in Bookslut review limbo.
9/28/10
-I've been nominated for a Best of the Net 2010 for my piece in For Every Year (thanks Crispin).
-Newest issue of Dogzplot.
-Abjective blog.
-Jack Boettcher is the author of Theater-State, the second book from Blue Square Press and he recently had a killer piece published in the ongoing SLEEPiNG FiSH ix, check it out.
-Newest issue of Dogzplot.
-Abjective blog.
-Jack Boettcher is the author of Theater-State, the second book from Blue Square Press and he recently had a killer piece published in the ongoing SLEEPiNG FiSH ix, check it out.
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