DIVORCER by Gary Lutz & A MORTAL AFFECT by Vincent Standley
Gary Lutz’s new collection of “seven harrowing and hyperprecise short stories about ruinous relationships and their aftershocks,” Divorcer, is available now.
Deron has the honor of being the first one to order one.
And I forgot to mention here, but Vincent Standley (of 3rd bed fame) also has a new book I just recently published, called A Mortal Affect.
Sleepingfish X
I’ve started Sleepingfish back up (online) & posted some work by Vincent Standley (an excerpt from his forthcoming novel, A Mortal Affect, which is coming soon from Calamari Press) & a collage of sorts called Heartscald by Gary Lutz (whose new book, Divorcer, is also forthcoming from Calamari). Stay tuned.
NOON 2011
Besides having a rather handsome hyena on the cover, the new NOON features fellow flocker Brandon Hobson (where is he these days anyway?) as well as Gary Lutz, Kim Chinquee, Christine Schutt & other usual suspects, as well as some new faces including my fellow Roman friend Chiara Barzini.
Chiara will be reading at the launch party with Brandon, and Diane Williams on May 5 in NYC.
I’d also like to take the opportunity to announce that Calamari Press will be publishing new books later this year by both Chiara Barzini and Gary Lutz, that will include these stories in NOON.
Next Sleepingfish Exit
I’m reading now for the next issue of Sleepingfish, issue 8, co-edited with Gary Lutz. All clusterflockers welcome, especially if goats & vampires are involved.
Ex-pat Chicken-scratch Black Bean Tortilla Soup
Peter Markus, Bob, or Man on Boat
Peter Markus, author of Good, Brother, published by our own Derek White at Calamari Press has a new book called Bob, or Man on Boat coming out from DZANC Books this June. Some great writers have some great things to say about Markus and his books.
Brian Evenson: Markus has a remarkable ability to strip life down to its basics, to the point where the metaphors we manufacture as the looking-glass for our existence end up standing in for existence itself.
Michael Kimball: In Bob, or Man on Boat, Peter Markus creates an obsessive (and obsessively rendered) song about a man, a boat, and a fish — a contemporary retelling of Moby Dick.
Gary Lutz: Peter Markus, who wrote of brother-hood with rare wisdom and purity of style in the linked stories of The Singing Fish, now trains his extraordinary powers on the heartaching relationship between fathers and sons with even more enchanting results. Bob, or Man on Boat is a marvel of thrillingly limpid prose — a profound and unforgettable first novel.
