New blurb and,

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“Part Jungian allegory, part surreal dreamscape, part Odyssean tramp, Ben Spivey’s Flowing in the Gossamer Fold is a romp through distorted time in a landscape carved by sudden oceans built from perpetual rain, where a cityscape has sidewalks littered with disappearing sages, and an edenic forest is graffitied with the father’s word. The sentences of Malcolm Blackburn’s midlife crisis are charged with the energy of a young man—the young man who penned this fucked up vision of pain and forgiveness, of what is ultimately the lesson of life: it’s beautiful, and it sucks.”

-Jamie Iredell, author of Prose. Poems. a Novel., and The Book of Freaks

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Iredell's The Book of Freaks is forthcoming from Future Tense Books sometime this year, look for it.

Really excited about the upcoming Mud Luscious releases of Ben Brooks Island of Fifty and Sasha Fletcher's When All Our Days Are Numbered coming out next month.

Blue Square Press will be reading manuscripts in August. Take that anyway you want.

I've decided that in addition to signing all of the pre-orders for Flowing in the Gossamer Fold that I'll include a torn out page or two from the journals I wrote in while working on the novel.

Matt DeBenedictis, J. Bradley and I will be reading in Atlanta mid-July, more about that as the plan develops.

Gold Wake Press is publishing an excerpt from my unpublished novella, tentatively titled "Gossamer," (I have a few other titles in mind) in its next issue of Unscroll. I'm excited about this. I started writing the novella in January; I finished a first draft sometime in March, and have been revising it since, continuing to do so still. Revision is my favorite place to be. Like Hemingway said, “the first draft of anything is shit.”

The Featherproof book's dollar store show/tour is happening right now and it has a stop near Atlanta. I'll be attending, if anyone near the Atlanta area reads this, you should go too.

I want to point attention to Jamie Iredell's new chapbook, 'When I Moved to Nevada,' at Greying Ghost Press. It's a limited print so pick it up while you still can. Jamie will be at the Featherproof reading in Atlanta.

Jesse Ball's story 'The Well' in New York Tyrant Vol. 2 No. 6 has stuck with me since I read it a few weeks ago.

1. I have a micro-fiction in the 6s volume 2 collection which can be bought from Amazon.

2. Also check out 'Before I moved to Nevada,' by James Iredell from Publishing Genius.



3. And some art.