I'd like to say that I haven't updated because I've had a lot of writing things going on lately. Mostly, though, I've been playing Fallout 3. And, actually, I'm right now thinking about going home and playing Fallout 3 tonight, too.
Sorry.
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Happy Cobra Books is very happy to announce that it has published its second ebook. That book is a story called "Conor Oberst Sex." It's very good.
It is accompanied by an EP with music by my friend Michael Sanchez. The EP is called Music Is My Boyfriend. It's also very good.
Enjoy them both, please.
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Last week, a review of my book A Jello Horse appeared in The Believer, one of my favorite magazines. I'm humbled. Thank you, Jim Ruland.
This is doubly exciting because the book is now BACK IN PRINT!
Also humbling: Michael Kimball, a brilliant writer, wrote my life on a postcard.
Showing posts with label happy cobra books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy cobra books. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
fisheye
I have been away from my desk.
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A new Happy Cobra eBook is coming soon. It's by Kendra Grant Malone and Tao Lin.
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Readings scheduled:
Pilot Books on July 30 with Brandon Scott Gorrell.
Literary Death Match in Seattle, Jewelbox Theater, The Rendezvous, August 13. Facing Ryan Boudinot, Matt Briggs, and Peter Gajdics.
Also, come see Amelia Gray, Evelyn Hampton, and Lotte Kestner at Neptune Coffee in Greenwood on August 3, 7pm.
Also, come see Mary Miller and Jonathan Evison at The College Inn Pub, August 5 at 7pm.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Suitor
(Part one here. Part two here.)
At the end of the arm, the gone arm, the burned-up arm, the not-really-at-all-there-except-a-crusted-flipper-of-bone arm, there was still a finger. A phantom finger.
At the end of his invisible arm, a phantom finger. He felt it. He understood the edges of it. He "used" it.
He ran the phantom finger over the ledges of his doorways, and felt the ripples in the painted wood, and the gathering dust that had accumulated there. He'd pull his arm away, and the dust the his phantom finger had stirred up would trail after and hover down.
He pointed at people with his phantom finger, and they would feel the gesture, and turn to him, respond to him. They would, counter people at sandwich shops turned to their magazines on back counters, know the gesture had occurred and greet him and make his sandwich. Bank tellers with all there attention on their cell phones would feel the phantom finger tap them on their foreheads—in their foreheads sometimes—and look up and turn his loose change into folding paper money.
He wore rings on his phantom finger.
He beat drumbeats on his table with his phantom finger.
He flipped coins.
He changed people's analog clocks.
The enormity of it all. Really.
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This is done. Young Revolutionaries by Catherine Lacey, Chelsea Martin, and Ellen Kennedy is there to be downloaded. TOUGH! by Matthew Savoca is there to read online.
My book, Creation Stories, is there to be downloaded, too.
Next up is either a) a book by Blake Butler and Justin Dobbs or b) a book by Kendra Malone and Tao Lin. The B book will also feature four songs written by The Way It Is.
Links to all these people are available in the right hand column.
At the end of the arm, the gone arm, the burned-up arm, the not-really-at-all-there-except-a-crusted-flipper-of-bone arm, there was still a finger. A phantom finger.
At the end of his invisible arm, a phantom finger. He felt it. He understood the edges of it. He "used" it.
He ran the phantom finger over the ledges of his doorways, and felt the ripples in the painted wood, and the gathering dust that had accumulated there. He'd pull his arm away, and the dust the his phantom finger had stirred up would trail after and hover down.
He pointed at people with his phantom finger, and they would feel the gesture, and turn to him, respond to him. They would, counter people at sandwich shops turned to their magazines on back counters, know the gesture had occurred and greet him and make his sandwich. Bank tellers with all there attention on their cell phones would feel the phantom finger tap them on their foreheads—in their foreheads sometimes—and look up and turn his loose change into folding paper money.
He wore rings on his phantom finger.
He beat drumbeats on his table with his phantom finger.
He flipped coins.
He changed people's analog clocks.
The enormity of it all. Really.
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This is done. Young Revolutionaries by Catherine Lacey, Chelsea Martin, and Ellen Kennedy is there to be downloaded. TOUGH! by Matthew Savoca is there to read online.
My book, Creation Stories, is there to be downloaded, too.
Next up is either a) a book by Blake Butler and Justin Dobbs or b) a book by Kendra Malone and Tao Lin. The B book will also feature four songs written by The Way It Is.
Links to all these people are available in the right hand column.
Monday, March 09, 2009
TOUGH!
New Suitor post next week.
This week, I am pleased to announce the first official version of the Happy Cobra Books site.
On it, one can download my chapbook, Creation Stories. One will soon be able to download Young Revolutionaries by Catherine Lacey, Chelsea Martin, and Ellen Kennedy.
But, most importantly, one can read Matthew Savoca's Ebook, TOUGH!, which features illustrations from lots and lots of people—Gene Morgan, Tao Lin, Blake Butler, Colin Bassett, Jimmy Chen, Chelsea Martin, Ofelia Hunt, a video by Brandon Gorrell, more. More.
TOUGH! is a book of brief pieces, haiku of the apotheosis of rural American maledom. Very funny. Wonderful illustrations, too.
I had intended to have this up like six months ago. But things got in the way. Matthew Savoca has been more than patient. Thank you, Matthew. I'm sorry.
This week, I am pleased to announce the first official version of the Happy Cobra Books site.
On it, one can download my chapbook, Creation Stories. One will soon be able to download Young Revolutionaries by Catherine Lacey, Chelsea Martin, and Ellen Kennedy.
But, most importantly, one can read Matthew Savoca's Ebook, TOUGH!, which features illustrations from lots and lots of people—Gene Morgan, Tao Lin, Blake Butler, Colin Bassett, Jimmy Chen, Chelsea Martin, Ofelia Hunt, a video by Brandon Gorrell, more. More.
TOUGH! is a book of brief pieces, haiku of the apotheosis of rural American maledom. Very funny. Wonderful illustrations, too.
I had intended to have this up like six months ago. But things got in the way. Matthew Savoca has been more than patient. Thank you, Matthew. I'm sorry.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Fog
An odd turn of events: I actually don't know what to blog about this week.
After a few years of feigning the inability to blog in order to constrain and confine my imagination hereon, I find that I sort of don't know what to do this week.
The Man Who Couldn't Blog just can't seem to blog. Or write anything, really. For a while now.
Shit.
Well, instead of blogging, I will post this photo I took. It is of a repurposed street sign. It now warns about people coming out of the fog.
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Matthew Derby has a blog. Matthew Derby is a very good writer.
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Shya Scanlon has a blog. Shya is a very good writer.
His most recent update says that Dawn Raffel mentioned his chapbook, Poolsaid. Dawn Raffel is a very good writer.
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Someday very very soon, happycobrabooks dot something will be something. I swear. Any day now.
UPDATE:
There's something there, but it's not finished. Don't go to the Happy Cobra Books website yet.
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UPDATE:
Enjoy.
After a few years of feigning the inability to blog in order to constrain and confine my imagination hereon, I find that I sort of don't know what to do this week.
The Man Who Couldn't Blog just can't seem to blog. Or write anything, really. For a while now.
Shit.
Well, instead of blogging, I will post this photo I took. It is of a repurposed street sign. It now warns about people coming out of the fog.
***
Matthew Derby has a blog. Matthew Derby is a very good writer.
***
Shya Scanlon has a blog. Shya is a very good writer.
His most recent update says that Dawn Raffel mentioned his chapbook, Poolsaid. Dawn Raffel is a very good writer.
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Someday very very soon, happycobrabooks dot something will be something. I swear. Any day now.
UPDATE:
There's something there, but it's not finished. Don't go to the Happy Cobra Books website yet.
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UPDATE:
Enjoy.
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