“When Novelists Sober Up”
Casey McKinney08.05.09
Good read from Intelligent Life Magazine, an offshoot of The Economist. Like the comment by Hemingway – "he can tell when…
Unhealthy Appetites: Dennis Cooper’s Ugly Man
Donal Mosher07.29.09
Dennis Cooper has been exploring new narratives through novels, poetry and theater for decades now. A diamond tipped, pyscho-sexual bodynaut, he can be counted as perhaps the furthest notch along the spectrum of the historically adventurous – black cat side of – Grove Press that has included authors such as Jean Genet, William Burroughs, and the Marquis De Sade. Now with his first collection of stories on the major press Harper Perennial, Ugly Man, Cooper is not pulling any punches for a broader audience. San Francisco based filmmaker and writer Donal Mosher reviews.
Derek McCormack and Kevin Killian reading at City Lights
Casey McKinney07.21.09
Derek McCormack and Kevin Killian at City Lights, SF
Book: Dennis Cooper: Ugly Man
Casey McKinney06.10.09
Author Dennis Cooper was in the states briefly from Paris, reading from his first book with Harper Perennial, a collection of short fiction called…
The Rumpus – Whoah
Casey McKinney05.22.09
The Rumpus and Fanzine just discovered each other, Whoah!
The Last Warlock: A Brief History of Clark Ashton Smith and The Golden Age of Weird Fiction
Adam Ganderson04.05.09
Clark Ashton Smith, born and lived in Auburn, California, an old mining town founded at the height of the gold rush era. It is known as the "Endurance Capital of the World" and touts itself as a place where old traditions live on, where the good parts of living in a small town endure and time moves just a bit slower. A strange setting for one of the giants of Weird Fiction. Adam Ganderson offers a retrospective look at Clark Ashton Smith—his life in a small town, and his influences on science fiction, fantasy, and popular culture.
50 Reasons Your First Book Won’t Get Published
Casey McKinney03.19.09
From Bookgasm, here are 50 reasons your first book might not get published. Which is kind of, what, funny? sad? scary? but then hell there’s a…
Josh Cohen on HTML Giant
Casey McKinney02.22.09
Okay so no posts lately as I’ve been trying to get my head around this economic collapse and since there’s absolutley too much to say right now…
Book: Trinie Dalton et al: MYTHTYM
Casey McKinney01.30.09
A new collection drawing from Trinie Dalton’s theme based zines about Unicorns, Werewolves, and the natural world in a beautiful collection…
