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Archive for October 2009

Daniel Bailey is a drunken face to love

In Interviews on 29 October, 2009

Read­ing THE DRUNK SONNETS (pub­lished by Magic Heli­copter Press) makes me want to sit on Daniel Bailey’s lap, take the whis­key bottle from his hand, put it down on the table, grab his face between my palms, squeeze his cheeks and mouth into a fish pout and stare at his irises for a really long time until I find out what’s behind them or he sheep­ishly tries to smile and shifts beneath me.

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Best of the Web

In Bloc business on 20 October, 2009

Writers’ Bloc is proud to announce its nom­in­a­tions for this year’s Dzanc Books Best of the Web.

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The Big Clock

In Process on 14 October, 2009

We star­ted a lit­er­ary journal called ‘Black Cock’. Like ‘Black Clock’, only with ‘Cock’ instead of ‘Clock’, and with black cocks inter­spersed through­out the pages, owing not to any par­tic­u­lar affin­ity or affec­tion for black cocks … it just seemed to fit.

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Interview: Blake Butler

In Interviews on 7 October, 2009

Blake But­ler was kind enough to do an inter­view with me at his home in Atlanta. The inter­view took place in mid-June, 2009.

But­ler is the author of EVER (Cala­mari Press) and Scorch Atlas (Feather­proof Books). He is the editor of the inter­net journal Lam­in­a­tion Colony, and he co-edits the print journal No Colony. He blogs here.

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