some things i wanted you to know –
good friend david gruber emailed to tell me that astrophil press is holding a poetry contest for a first or second book. the winner will be chosen by awesome poet eleni sikelianos. astrophil press is run by my old labelmate/excellent novelist duncan barlow, and he’s a stand-up fellow who is doing good things with books, so why don’t you go on and send him your best manuscript? details here.
while you’re over there, why don’t you pick up david’s book, sleepers’ republic. trust me, someday the swedes are going to realize the folly of their ways and start awarding the nobel prize to americans again. this will happen sometime around 2033. by then, david will be in contention and your first edition copy of his first book will be very valuable. i guarantee it. (and don’t come at me with your print is dead bullshit. it smells too good to go away. print, not bullshit.)
thanks for noticing.
finally, maybe i should tell you that there is stuff by me in the lamination colony “this is not not a contest” issue? that the stuff by me is a hint of what will be in that collection of short stories i keep mentioning? that there is stuff by bobby alter, mark doten, james chapman, mel bosworth, darby larson, sasha fletcher, drew kalbach, andrew borgstrom, and ben segal, too? and it’s free? all of the above. go see.