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.

I Looked Alive by Gary Lutz

is being reprinted by Black Square Books/Brooklyn Rail 10/1/2010.


There's a good collection of blurbs/ reviews/ info of I Looked Alive at Hammer Books:

"… From the same school as Raymond Carver and Gordon Lish, with the former's dirty realist landscapes and the latter's playful perversity." —New York Times Book Review

"A playful use of language in the service of a grim vision of contemporary life. There's no doubt that Lutz offers a distinctive, disturbing vision." —Kirkus Reviews

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An interesting analysis of Gary Lutz's work by Ryan Kamstra.

In celebration of Independence Day, why not support the independent press? At Emerging Writers Network Dan Wickett has collected a generous list of publishers with that you can choose from.

I ordered Catalpa by Amanda Goldblatt.

(This list could be infinite, but sometimes you have to make choices). I recommend WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED by Sasha Fletcher. And one of my all time favorite books, Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz.

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