8. lake antiquity video 9. lake antiquity review in bookforum
There’s still time to pre-order Lake Antiquity at a discount and receive it in time for gifties. $35 plus free shipping. (This book is still on its way across the water to us from Singapore but will for sure come shortly.)
“Stacy Szymaszek, in her black Buddha-emblazoned t-shirt, returned to the podium to introduce Catherine Wagner. She talked about Wagner’s ’singular[ity]‘ and her ‘removal of inhibitions’ – hers and ours – while, appropriately, referencing Freud. She made an apt comparison of Wagner to Lorine Niedecker – if Niedecker ‘had…kept a secret sex diary,’ that is – because of Wagner’s ability to use rough, raw language in tightly tuned lines.”
read the rest here
and go here to find out where to find Catherine Wagner and Rebecca Wolff at a reading near you!
by Anna Elena
What causes chills to thrill spells up your spinal binary child?
What metaphorical you might you transform into after a parade of costume?
Here’s a list of films to reel you phantasmagoric:
Let the Right One In (2008)
Suspiria (1977)
The Haunting (1963)
Session 9 (2001)
The Host (2006)
Rec (2007)
Jesus Camp (2006)
Wicker Man (1973)
Costumes to question interactivities:
The Suggestion Box (Wear a box, ask for suggestions)
The Kid Who Doesn’t Fit In (Stick protruding shapes onto your clothes)
Unicorn On the Cob (Tape a corn on the cob to your forehead)
My Self in Twenty Years (Spooky)
A Cloud (Wrap yourself in web netting—get cumulous yo)
My Self Stuck In Adolescence (Creepy)
Super Obvious (Tape an O to your chest, Say obvious things, Obviously)
Hot & Dog (Two people: One is hot: One is a dog: blur the boundaries—woof!)
I know you are but what am I? (You just have to say this—?)
Gerard de’Nerval (walk your dog, who’s dressed as a lobster, with the queen of sheba’s garter around your neck)
Sylvia Plath (Oven box on head)
Virginia Woolf (Rocks in sweater pockets)
Anne Sexton (Sexy bob, Inebriated confessions)
@ the 2nd Annual Small Press Fair, part of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival
w/ great deals on books and subscriptions
Saturday, October 17, 2009
10:30am – 5:00pm
45 Middle St., Lowell MA
Click here for the festival schedule.
“SLS is pleased to announce its 2010 unified (SLS-Montreal, SLS-Lithuania, and SLS-Kenya) literary contest, held this year again in affiliation with Fence.
We are excited this year to have Mary Gaitskill judging the contest fiction, and Mary Jo Bang judging the poetry.
Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work published in Fence, as well as the participating literary journals in Canada,Lithuania and Kenya. Additionally, they will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any of the SLS-2010 programs – inMontreal, Quebec (June 13 – 27); Vilnius, Lithuania (August 1 – 14); or Nairobi-Lamu, Kenya (December).
Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the program of their choice, and third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount.
A number of select contest participants, based on the overall strength of their work, will be offered tuition scholarships, as well, applicable to the SLS-2010 programs.
Contest Deadline: February 28, 2010.
Please visit the SLS website, at http://www.sumlitsem.org/slscontest.html, for detailed information on how to enter.
Good luck, much success with your work — and we hope to see some of you at one (or more) of our programs in the future!”
for Rob McLennan and here’s just one of them:
This question strikes me as obscene. What home are you referring to? Are you suggesting that my home has a ‘fragrance’? I love it.
Here’s the rest.
by Colie
We’re heading down to Brooklyn early tomorrow morning for an entire weekend of book-y delight:
On Saturday, you can find us at the 6th Annual BOOG CITY SMALL, SMALL PRESS FAIR, where Jennifer Kronovet, a contributor to our spring issue, will read from her work.
SIMULTANEOUSLY and ONLY 3 BLOCKS AWAY, we’ll be carousing in honor of A BEST OF FENCE: The First Nine Years, a massive two-volume anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and essays from Fence’s editors, past and present. (At the Boog fair, you can buy a copy of the anthology at a steep discount and get directions to the party. It’s to be a Garden Party, but alas the rain doth fall.) Readers at the party will include Lynne Tillman, Matthew Rohrer, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Max Winter and Sarah Gambito.
On Sunday, when the sun will most certainly reappear, we’ll be sitting happily at the BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL, sharing a table with the wonderful Open City and selling books & subscriptions for nearly nothing.
Please come and see us at one or more of these fun places! We’ll be the ones with the smiles on.
Google, the world’s friendliest search engine, is in the process of negotiating a settlement that will determine how ditigized books are accessed and marketed, which books become digitized, and who stands to profit.
It’s a frightening mess, and The Open Book Alliance is in our court.
See SPD’s blog post of the OBA’s mission statement (incredibly concise and well-crafted) for information about the settlement and its massive flaws. Many thanks to Jeffrey Lependorf for getting the word out.
says Rodrigo Toscano, in this great profile written by Jason Boog for the Poetry Foundation website.
