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On Saturday at 5pm, just at tail-end of the October 15th Global Day of Protest, I will be hosting a reading with Ethel Rohan and Kathy Fish at Unnameable Books – 600 Vanderbilt Ave (between Dean St & St Marks Ave) in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Please come down to here these fine writers.  RSVP Kathy [...]

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Welcome, fellow duds, also-rans, has-beens, and cast-offs. I had followed Roxane Gay’s intriguing online posts over the recent years, and somehow stumbled upon the fact that she teaches at Eastern Illinois University. Delighted by this relative proximity to my Chicago-area enclave of Lake Forest College, I invited her to join a panel on publishing (given [...]

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Hello, losers. Remember those George Burns Oh, God! movies?  Richard Thomas (maybe) does. (This also calls to mind Julian Jaynes’ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind [1976], a favorite of William S. Burroughs). Even if we can’t all quite agree with Thomas’ assessment of the “rules” of writing (I’m in [...]

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Our Island of Epidemics By Matthew Salesses 40 pp. PANK. Paper, $10.00 ISBN 978-0-9824697-3-6 Our Island of Epidemics is a collection of short, interconnected fictions that offers readers the collective consciousness of an island people who suffer from short-term memory loss, unrequited love, obsession, upstoppably growing hearts (or farts), delirious joy, confused identities, ganglions, lost [...]

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Congrats to Big Other’s own Tim Jones-Yelvington, who will guest edit PANK’s October “special online issue featuring Queer prose, poetry, and art.” The full details, below. Looking forward to it, Tim. Submissions are now open for PANK’s October special online issue featuring Queer prose, poetry & art, guest edited by Tim Jones-Yelvington. Submit fiction, poetry, art and [...]

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About a month ago, writer Claire Light blogged about the dearth of writers of color submitting to mainstream magazines and publishers and proceeded to make a pretty interesting (and to my mind, kind of crazy) statement with regard to writing that I’ve thought about and thought about over the past several weeks and haven’t been [...]

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Outside where I work there are two homeless people jamming. One is playing flute, the other, guitar. There’s no better backdrop for thoughts on collaboration, even if I do wish they’d quiet down and stop drowning out my music. Collaboration is, for me, a fairly foreign beast. One I appreciate and look up to, but [...]

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