April 22, 2011
New Chapter From the Novel in Progress Up at Everyday Genius Today
It’s always a real pleasure to get some work up and out in the world, so here’s a new piece from the novel in progress that Adam Robinson published at Everyday Genius, which is an awesome website that day after day publishes quality pieces of writing from a wide variety of writers. Just one little dose of literary goodness for your reading pleasure, never too large of a distraction, always something worth noting about the pieces that get picked. It’s a daily Internet stop for me.
Read THE LAST FRONTIER TOWN: A PAGE IN A DIARY now, at Everyday Genius.
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March 18, 2011
The New Flash-Fiction Assembled Novel Project: Two Lost Teens
 Truck Lost in Snowstorm (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps) Some of you close to me know that I have recently begun writing shorter form fiction, and with an over-arching context holding all the smaller parts together, this thing looks like it will hold up as a novel with all the verse fiction pieces assembled as one unit. That being said, I’ve been doing a ton of research, both reading and film-related, and heard a terrifying story of a young couple who died out in a snowstorm.
Apparently, they had tried some serious drugs for what may have been the first time. They got pulled over on the highway after leaving a party; their tail light was out and they cruised through a stop sign. The cop lets them go, giving them a warning and a fix-it ticket. The drugs haven’t fully kicked in yet, and the cop has no idea what will happen to the two twenty-year-olds later that same evening. (more…)
March 17, 2011
New Piece of Fiction Published Over at Housefire
 Photo Via Housefire Housefire is a prompt-based, invite-only publication venue that is fast approaching legendary awesomeness. The prompts are so courageous and the energy so inspiring that I can think of few situations I’m prouder to be a part of. This is my first piece to go up on the Housefire site, with more new work set to go up on the site in the near future. Love these guys, and Riley Michael Parker, Housefire’s Publisher, is a Dark Lord of Fiction Magick, to be sure.
ALONE FEELS DISCOMFORTABLE is the short story that went up — it’s a brief tale of a deaf man who visits a museum and encounters an at-first less-than-concerned docent who has no idea of his disability. Wracked with guilt and anxiety upon discovering the man is deaf, the two struggle to convince each other that their take on the impending situation (there is an artist lecture/talk taking place, and a sign interpreter is supposed to be there) is the more correct, more truthful one, opening up an odd discussion about how meaning is made, and what the value of being “right” actually amounts to in many experiences. (more…)
March 10, 2011
An Interview With Dave Eggers From 2000
 Writer Dave Eggers Recently, Matt Ferner, a columnist over at Smalldoggies Magazine, sent me an old interview conducted by someone I believe at the Harvard Advocate, with Dave Eggers. This took place right as A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius was becoming a phenomenon, and McSweeney’s was in full swing. It’s long, and it’s worth every minute of your time, especially if like me, you are trying to make things that have value and you just don’t care what anyone else things. Some notable quotes, and then a link to the interview in its entirety afterward.
“We care about doing what we want to do creatively. We want to be interested in it. We want it to challenge us. We want it to be difficult. We want to reinvent the stupid thing every time. Would I ever think, before I did something, of how those with sellout monitors would respond to this or that move? I would not. The second I sense a thought like that trickling into my brain, I will put my head under the tires of a bus.”
“The thing is, I really like saying yes. I like new things, projects, plans, getting people together and doing something, trying something, even when it’s corny or stupid. I am not good at saying no. And I do not get along with people who say no.”
“What matters is that you do good work. What matters is that you produce things that are true and will stand.”
“What matters is that you want to see and make and do, on as grand a scale as you want, regardless of what the tiny voices of tiny people say. Do not be critics, you people, I beg you.”
Read the complete interview with Dave Eggers from 2000 here.
(Photo Via: Portfolio)
May 31, 2010
New Byloos Fiction Published
 Pop Serial Cover Image Recently, a new down-loadable magazine called Pop Serial was born. In print form, it is a limited-edition art/literature print magazine edited by Stephen Tully Dierks. You can Email the editor here: stephen.dierks@gmail.com. More importantly, if you visit the Pop Serial website here, you can access a free download of the magazine, featuring my story, “Loved in Spite of Great Fault.”
The magazine is jam packed with buttery, crispy-bottomed goodness, including text and or visual material from the likes of: Tao Lin, Carlos Kotkin, Sarah Meadows, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Holly Kass, Zachary German and a host of other really interesting folk from all over the country.
Here is a little bit of the intro to the piece that I wrote, Loved in Spite of Great Fault,” which is a story about a recovering addict whose life has fallen apart. He struggles for control and for understanding in a universe that has proven itself to be, over and over again, replete with chaos and fraught with confusion. And then, he adopts a kitty cat. (more…)
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