Read This Right Now
Mar 31
Literature Coachella Review, Elizabeth Crane, Star Babies by Elizabeth Crane 1 Comment
Four Things You Should Like (plus one you’ll love)
Mar 30
Literature, Publishing, Web Goodies collagist, metazen, wilderness house, zombies 4 Comments
Will you survive the Zombie Apocalypse?
I’m digging The Collagist and you should too.
Something cool at Metazen.
New Wilderness House Literary Review.
Dispatch goes print!
Touch Yourself to an Oxbow Video
Mar 29
Music, Web Goodies A Long Slow Screw, eugene robinson, Hydrahead Records, Oxbow 5 Comments
Why when it comes to music videos are fan videos better than the ones the label shells out for? Not that the glorious, furious, and sexy ava
nt-garde outfit Oxbow have ever had a label pay for a video.
“Wait. This is a place of talking of words” I imagine you saying (thinking). Well Oxbow frontman Eugene Robinson is quite the lit man. Last year his debut novel A Long Slow Screw came out; it reads like a ’70s disco-punk-robbery story. Robinson also wrote the book Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking and has spewed things for Vice and Hustler.
Back to the video. It’s for Coalking from the band’s 12″ only album Songs for the French. This video is a barrage of anger, contrasting lights, castration, and possible jerking off. Hit play. Turn your computer up. Yell through your teeth and breathe through your chin.
http://www.vimeo.com/7818936Bizarro?
Mar 29
Literature, Publishing, humor, writing afterbirth books, bizarro, carlton mellick, comedy, d harlan wilson, ersaerhead press, horror, kevin donihe, raw dog screaming, superman 7 Comments
Superman often had to do battle with his darker half, Bizarro Superman. That, however, has nothing to do with this. What we are talking about here is Bizarro fiction. Bizarro purports to be an entirely new genre, but is it really?
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Molotov Cocktail Aping Thirst For Fire?
Mar 25
Publishing molotov cocktail, taylor durden, thirst for fire 7 Comments
Ah, what the fuck?
copy cat
“Incendiary” and blue flames?
Taylor Durden, recently having stepped down as editor, brought it to my attention. Briefly I entertained the notion that she herself was behind this.
Is it completely possible that the Molotov Cocktail came up with these things independently of Thirst For Fire? Or is it more sinister than that? Someone needs to cough up some information before Taylor takes a trip up northwest.
Web Stuff In Lit Thoughts
Mar 25
Literature, Web Goodies, poetry, writing birds llc, matthew simmons, molotov cocktail, one ded cow, rusty barnes, writing, zines 1 Comment
Matthew Simmons talks about Teabaggers and Magical Thinking.
One Ded Cow looks like it might be insane.
The Molotov Cocktail is igniting flash fiction.
Very interesting happenings at Sleep Snort Fuck.
Rusty Barnes talks about birds.
Get Published and Get Free Books
Mar 24
Free Books, Literature, Publishing, promotion contest, Free Books, hate, love, tao lin 1 Comment
Trick with a Knife is running a contest. We are fascinated with the phenomenon that is Tao Lin. Some hate him. Some love him. We want to know what you think. Tell us, in great detail what you think of Tao Lin and you could win big.
We will consider every essay we receive. It is our plan to publish the best (most interesting) Pro-Tao essay and the best (most interesting) Anti-Tao essay on our site.
The winners will get publication, a stack of books chosen from my personal collection (mostly small press books, some signed) and status as a contributor to the site.
The runner up essays will get a mention (and possible contributor status as well).
Send your essays to TWAK@disproductions.org.
Good luck and fight the power.
Writers Don’t Write About Work Anymore Because They Don’t Work Anymore Or Something
Mar 23
Literature blake butler, jimmy chen, labor, lit drift, roxane gay, scott mclanahan, sweat, the jungle, the new york times, truman capote, upton sinclair, work, writing 3 Comments
There isn’t much interesting about being a professor or whatever sweatless position most writers of literary fiction inhabit. I’ve 
always felt that sweating for my dinner freed up my mind to write about the day later. Of course these days, being a government employee, I rarely do any such thing, and it’s been fucking murder on my creativity. Before going on, it’s important to annotate the previous and fomenting writings on this topic: this snippet at Lit Drift and this essay in the New York Times. I want to take a moment to clarify that to say “at” is appropriate when speaking of a website, and to say “in” is appropriate when speaking of a newspaper, but to use them interchangeably should probably only be done when you’re being funny. And you’re not very funny.
Now, now, moving on.
Video Proof: Scott McClanahan Reading Stories in Atlanta
Mar 22
Literature, Web Goodies Scott McClanahan 7 Comments
Scott McClanahan recently read in Atlanta. Seeing Scott read is quite an experience; it’s not so much a performance, even though there are elements of that sprinkled in as Scott hunches and gets to grabbing distance to the audience, but this is old fashioned story telling. You know the primordial ooze that performance art, spoken word, and talking your way out of a speeding ticket was born from.
Kidney Stones is the opening tale from Scott’s second collection aptly labeled Stories II. We will have a full interview with the wonderful West Virginian man on this site very soon, but until then enjoy Scott tale of the glory and the gospel born in a bathroom of a coal mining state.
What’s YOUR Source of Creativity?
Mar 22
Art, Film, Music, Web Goodies, humor, writing Art, creativity, humor, Music, organization, panic, shekhar kapur, ted, writing 3 Comments
For Shekhar Kapur, it seems to be sheer panic.
http://www.ted.com/talks/shekhar_kapur_we_are_the_stories_we_tell_ourselves.html
I can’t help but agree, and I find myself wishing that my creativity came from a calmer, perhaps more organized place. So I’m wondering, is it like this for all of us? Where does your creativity come from?
