Monthly Archives: September 2006

Good Vibrations & Your Bad Self

September 21, 2006
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If you’ve never attended a reading at a sex shop, well love, here’s your chance. It’s the book release party for Stephen Elliott’s racy new story collection, My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up. I’ll also be reading, as will Justin Chin and Carol Queen. Says Stephen: “This is an erotica reading, in a sex shop. You can buy books and lubes and things you may or may not want to admit to using. Everybody is planning on reading something very graphic. This may or may not be your cup of tea. I hope that doesn’t...

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Solution Simulacra

September 21, 2006
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Solution Simulacra

Gloria Frym, whose previous collection, Homeless at Home, won an American Book Award, has just published Solution Simulacra, and will be reading in the Poetry Flash series at Black Oak Books (1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley) on Sunday, September 24 at 7:30PM. Joining her will be Beat poet and jazz guitarist David Meltzer. Read Gloria’s piece about Meltzer’s music here. Also, I had the pleasure of publishing one of Frym’s short-short stories on Fiction Attic some four years ago, in the second issue of the magazine. Read it here. About the book: “This poet’s brilliant solution in SOLUTION SIMULACRA is...

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getting to the other side

September 17, 2006
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“He had always been awkward about crossing public space, and could not do it without feeling somehow cheesy and hucksterish, as though he were crossing a makeshift dais in a Legion Hall to accept a diploma from a bogus school of real estate…” “If you can still see how you could have once loved a person, you are still in love; an extinct love is always wholly incredible.” ~Michael Chabon, “Ocean Avenue,” A Model World

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Kenyon Review goes cyber

September 14, 2006
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The long-established and much-respected Kenyon Review now has a fantastic literary blog.

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Midori by Moonlight

September 14, 2006
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Wendy Tokunaga has something to celebrate. She’s just signed a two-book deal with St. Martin’s. The first novel, Midori by Moonlight, will be released in Spring 2008. Wendy is a San Francisco writer who is currently in the MFA program in writing at University of San Francisco.

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