Title: The NY Tyrant Vol. 4, Issue 1 $15.00 Theme: I don’t know, Zombie Red Dawn?
Occasional Literary Magazine Reviews: The NY Tyrant #4
Occasional Literary Magazine Reviews: The Normal School
Title: The Normal School Fall 2012, Issue #9
Occasional Literary Magazine Reviews: Zoetrope: All-Story
Title: Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2012, Vol. 16 No. 3 $8.00
A Partial Recap: The Southern Festival of Books
The Southern Festival of Books was this past weekend in Nashville, TN. I went to it; at least I went on Saturday, parked in a parking garage, ate a granola bar, and thought about last year when I made a fool of myself in front of Chad Harbach. But that was then. And this is now. Or at least it was “now” a few days ago.
Occasional Literary Magazine Reviews: Tin House Vol. 14, #1
Title: Tin House, Vol. 14, #1: Fall 2012 $12.95 Theme: Portland Brooklyn
That Time Steve Roggenbuck was in the New York Times Style Magazine
How did this happen? The alt lit master of ceremonies, Steve Roggenbuck, was in the NY Times Style Magazine this past weekend.
The Best Alt Lit Short Stories 2012
Alt Lit Gossip gathered some of the best alt lit stories from the past year or so and threw them into one convenient PDF. You might recognize a few names like Frank Hinton or Richard Chiem–both have books out very soon. Ben Brooks and Sam Pink and Megan Boyle are alt lit mainstays. You probably won’t recognize someone like LK Shaw or Justin Carter or Spencer Madsen–they only have a few indie e-chaps to their names, but all signs point […]
Patrick Wensink’s “Broken Piano for President” and the Art of Ripping Off
Yes, I bought the Patrick Wensink novel. The one called Broken Piano For President. Yes, this is the novel that Jack Daniels decided was copyright infringement. Yes, the copy I bought still has that cover. No, I did not know of Wensink before this recent explosion of national attention. But, yes, I had heard of Lazy Fascist press (HEY PPL GOOGLING “LAZY FASCIST PRESS” and “PATRICK WENSINK”–BUY SAM PINK & SCOTT MCCLANAHAN, TOO, THEY’RE TOTALLY WORTH IT) before all of […]