Just when you thought you had over a year before getting offended by a book from me (I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin, November 2011), I go and do something crazy like sign with another publisher to release a novel in March 2011. Stranger Will, a noir story of apathy and abortion, is coming early [...]
It’s official. Negotiations have been negotiated. Signatures have been signed. Bells have been sleighed. I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin will be published in late 2011 by Black Coffee Press. I’ll keep this announcement short and tidy; there is plenty of time for me to drone on about how proud I am of this book. [...]
Back in February during the AWP Conference in Denver, CO, I read a non-fiction piece called “The Author Who Gets Free Drinks: a (Hopefully) True Story.” Fine man extraordinaire Stephen Krauska was in the audience. After the reading, I spoke with him for a bit, and got the (eventually proven true) impression that he’s an [...]
Professional Orange Alert kind gent, Jason Behrends, invited me to contribute to his weekly arts and literature podcast. I’ve been dabbling in podcasting lately (contributing to The Velvet Podcast and getting things in line for next week’s AWP Conference, where I’ll have an audio feed to document the event), so to have this additional swath [...]
Someone needs to murder Pablo D’Stair. He’s making all of us, who for so long have relied on passion as a vehicle for discussing literature, look like asses. I’ve never met a person more in love with books (possibly more in love with the idea of- and the ideas within- books than the books themselves). [...]
Mlaz Corbier, well-read crazy man and all-around glorious inbastard, offered to translate my story, “The Camel of Morocco,” into Dutch (mainly for a university class, but I like to pretend my work is so captivating that it demands translation). I don’t read Dutch, so it is entirely possible that Mlaz may have turned this story [...]
A couple fellow Cutlies (www.chuckpalahniuk.net members are called Culties, the site is called The Cult; I’m not at risk of drinking tainted Kool-Aid, I promise) very recently started a new online lit mag site called Lobster Cult. It’s too early to tell what sort of material will become their foundation, but if my personal knowledge [...]
