Writing from a writer’s perspective. Literature from a literary angle.
WHY SELF-PUBLISH?
First, I want to address the elephant in the room. For many years, self-publication was considered a symptom of wealthy mediocrity. Not that there weren’t exceptions. Perhaps you’ve heard of Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain?… Read the rest
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Check out my nerdy essay on punctuation, spacing, and text-justification at bookish us.
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Tonight! The Gothic Funk Nation presents Tuesday Funk #8, featuring Kristy Bowen, Liz Levine, and Roberta Wilson.
7 PM at Flourish Bakery Cafe
1138 W. Bryn Mawr (near the Red Line)
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I will be reading at this month’s installment of the Guerrilla Lit series. Barring sudden and inexplicable fame, this is the last time I’ll be reading in New York, inasmuch as I’m moving to Chicago two days later. The reading is:
7:30 PM Wednesday, 11/28
170 Ave.
My profile.
My 2007 novel? Beowulf. There will be plenty of cheating and shenanigans this time through.
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I’ve been having dizzy spells lately.
I hadn’t had one in years and then about a month ago, at a reading, during an almost claustrophobically erotic piece by a friend of mine, I suddenly saw stars and felt like I would pass out.
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As I mentioned before, “Nogood Boyo” wrote a dirty limerick that was slated to be published in the Dick Pig Review.
Well, the magazine has been published and you can read it here. While NSFW, it is nevertheless the most aesthetically pleasing and challenging dirty literary magazine you’ll ever read.
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So I’ve mentioned off and on that I’m working on The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders at work, and am also developing an outline for a novella Notes For Students (and/or) White Swan. (I decided that combining the two titles might mitigate their negatives in an interesting/funny way).
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Just think. In a couple years when I’m mind-defyingly successful and famous, you’ll all be able to say you knew me back in the DIY days. I don’t think I really need to sleep anymore. It wastes hours every day.
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A servant now appeared with Annette, and conducted Emily to her chamber, which was in a remote part of the castle, and at the very end of the corridor, from whence the suite of apartments opened, through which they had been wandering.
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