Easter Rabbit, Joseph Young. This is an IMPORTANT book. Some reviewer predicted early in Richard Brautigan’s career that he was creating a new genre, that one day we’d read novels, poems, short stories, and “brautigans.” He was right, even if common parlance has yet to catch up. Enter the new mode of writing: ‘joe-youngs.’ These [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Easter Rabbit’
5 Books Published in 2009 that Wrecked My Brain a Little
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Robinson, Brandon Downing, Catherine Kasper, Easter Rabbit, Fence, Joseph Young, Justin Sirois, Lake Antiquity, Light Boxes, MLKNG SCKLS, Noemi, Notes From the Committee, Publishing Genius, Shane Jones on December 31, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The Easter Rabbit Is Here!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Robinson, Caleb Stine, Christine Sajecki, Easter Rabbit, Graham Coreil-Allen, Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Joseph Young, Kathy Fahey, Lauren Boilini, Linda Franklin, Luca Dipierro, Magnolia Laurie, Nancy Murray, The Pants on December 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From Adam Robinson: Heya, Tis the season to celebrate the birth of Joseph Young’s first book, Easter Rabbit. The party is at the Hexagon, in Baltimore (1825 N Charles St) THIS SATURDAY NIGHT. It opens at 7pm, the show starts at 8:30. It’s free, and the book will be available at a discount. Before the [...]
Little Easter War Machine Rabbit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Joseph Young, Easter Rabbit, Ravenna Press, M Sarki, Little War Machine, Micro-fictions on December 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There has been quite a bit of attention draw to Joseph Young’s Easter Rabbit, a collection of micro-fictions from Publishing Genius Press, so I wanted to take the opportunity to draw readers to another older book (2004) that has many of the same components of well-written, tightly-wound, intensely-structured lit: Little War Machine, by M Sarki, [...]
Joseph Young’s Easter Rabbit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Easter Rabbit, Joseph Young, Publishing Genius Press on November 17, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Joseph Young’s Easter Rabbit is available for pre-order from Publishing Genius. It’s a beautiful book of micro-fictions, most no longer than fifty words and none longer than two-hundred. Young’s micros are dominated by He and She scenes ranging from the domestic to the absurd and to the absurdly cruel as in “Loss”: She burned the shirt in the [...]