Today in Publisher’s Lunch…this looks funny! I can already see the film adaptation. In the time-honored Hollywood tradition of thirty-somethings playing teenagers, I see a starring role for Casey Affleck and one of the ladies from Gossip Girl. Matthew McConaughey in his breakout performance as the principal. Larry Doyle’s second novel GO, MUTANTS!, set in an all-American high school whose juvenile delinquents are the offspring of the giant-brained aliens and atomic monsters immortalized in the golden age of Hollywood B-movies, again to Lee Boudreaux at Ecco, for publication in 2010, by Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Company. To the...
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hobart
I luhrv this spiffy online journal, Hobart, which I just discovered this morning, as of five minutes ago, which makes it the first literary journal I have “discovered” before 4:45 a.m. It appears to be published monthly. The design is simple and delightful. Apparently they do print issues too. I’ve been up for quite some time, working on my new book and battling what appears to be a burgeoning case of walking pneumonia. And this upcoming event at St. Mary’s College of Moraga, sent to me by event host Mary Volmer (author of Crown of Dust) : “Channeling Mary...
Visual Thesaurus
A few weeks ago, the folks over at Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus asked me for a list of my favorite reads for their Dog Eared column. You can see a sample of my picks by going to www.visualthesaurus.com and looking at the right-hand column. What’s Visual Thesaurus? It’s really cool website where language opens up in completely cool and unexpected ways through literary-minded links. It’s a subscriber service, but you can read the front page for free, or sample the whole shebang, also for free.
Tin House “Off the Grid” Theme Issue
The deadline for submissions to Tin House’s Spring 2008 “Off the Grid” issue is November 1. We’re looking for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by or about people or institutions that function (or don’t function) out of the bounds of “normal” society. For the “Lost & Found” section we are looking for brief appreciations of texts written outside of conventional publishing–prison, exile, mental institutions, in secret.
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Today I came across a poem by an old friend, JoLee Passerini, in the Crab Orchard Review. Back when I knew her, almost twenty years ago at the University of Alabama, she was JoLee Gibbons. We worked on the Marrs Field Journal together. That was when we all were getting our first tastes of literary possibility; it’s always nice to open a literary journal and come across the name of one of my friends from the undergraduate years in Tuscaloosa. Here’s the first stanza from her poem, “Eating Locusts”: Grommet, socket, sprocket, marriage– lugnuts, lugwrench, stopwatch, truckstop, egret, lake...
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