December 28, 2009
Back when The Social Registry was supposed to release the second Christy & Emily record, Superstition, in the U.S. this past November, I wrote a review of the record for the Panorama issue of McSweeney’s. I don’t know what happened in the time since, but I can no longer find any reference to the record on The Social Registry’s site. This is a shame if it prevents people from hearing this outstanding album.
Looking back at the by-track enjoyment chart I made for Superstition, I feel like I was maybe a little harsh on the tracks I liked least. It holds up extremely well over time. Go out and buy it if you can find it (frustratingly, you probably can’t).
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October 19, 2009
This past weekend I received a package from Montreal containing three author copies of a PistolPress anthology entitled The Future Hygienic. This was a welcome surprise, as I had received no communication from the Pistol Press gang in many, many months and was concerned that the anthology would never see the light of day. I was doubly psyched to see that a pal from back in the day, Miranda Mellis, was also in the anthology. I would tell you to go buy a copy but there is no sign of it on the PistolPress site. It has a nice feel, though, and is loaded with worthwhile material.
Oh, right. I have a story in this anthology, entitled “A Woman in the Snow” – it’s the second part in my Cosmonaut trilogy. Part One was published in the Columbia Journal a few years ago. Don’t worry – you won’t understand Part Two any more having read Part One.
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October 6, 2009
This Sunday I’ll be reading in Cambridge as part of the Small Animal Project reading series. I will be reading a portion of a story that’s slated to appear in Issue #3 of The Collagist. The story is set in 1987, shortly before the release of Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam epic Full Metal Jacket, and is called “Full Metal Jhacket.”
Sunday, 11 October
3 pm
Outpost 186
186 1/2 Hampshire St., Inman Square
Cambridge, MA
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October 1, 2009
Not Coming to a Theater Near You is a website devoted to forgotten, neglected, or rarely seen films that deserve a second look. Every October, they feature a daily horror film review, and I had the honor of kicking things off with Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond, a weird, campy adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story that had a profound effect on me when I first saw it on VHS in 1986. The conditions were perfect: My parents were out of town for the weekend; the clerk at the local video store was extremely lenient; and I was thirteen years old – an awkward, gangly hormonal powderkeg. The garish parade of blood-drenched, flesh-bursting, brain eating creatures was as accurate an illustration of my id as anything I’d seen. It will always have a special place in my heart.
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September 4, 2009
Roberto Bolaño's Badass CRT
I reviewed Bolaño’s first novel, just released by New Directions, over at The Fanzine, which is, by the way, a zine of which you should definitely become a fan.
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July 21, 2009
“January in December” was selected, some time ago, for inclusion in Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2008 anthology. The editors organized a blog tour, wherein authors from the anthology wrote guest posts on blogs across the internet (for real).
Here’s my post on why I wrote “January in December,” at Matt Bell’s blog.
And here’s a compilation of smaller posts on Largehearted Boy by authors from the anthology – my post on Todd Rundgren is about a third of the way down.
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