Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY wins the 2010 Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award!

Pick up Shadowplay from Ellipsis Press here.

Shadowplay (Ellipsis Press, 137 pages) by Norman Lock, the 2010 Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award recipient, is a dense fable, mixing magic realism with self-reflexivity. The entire story is given to us in miniature at the beginning, such that the novella itself is really a constant retelling–a folding and refolding–rather than an unfolding. A shadow puppet master named Guntur falls in love with Candra, who comes into his theater one day to buy puppets. When she dies of typhoid fever six days later, he falls into despair for many years, until finally he understands how to enter the world of the dead, through his shadow art, to abduct her shadow, bringing her back to the theater where she becomes his prisoner for many months... This plot unfurls slowly: it starts, stops, returns and starts again, usually with a new detail, or sometimes less detail, sometimes abstracted, sometimes enlarged. The effect is of narrative feathering, one moment being layered on top of another until the whole body is finally covered... Lock’s Shadowplay is a masterful rendering of the life of one story teller, trying desperately to fit within the intricate pattern of tradition, daring to transcend it by embracing it too much, until he is finally becomes a shadow in the story... an enchanting ritual of forms whose beauty will linger in the memory for a very long time.

Read the full review by Tori Alexander at http://tiny.cc/dactylawardSP

Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY reviewed in latest RCF

John Madera writes: "Storytellers remind us that data retrieval is really a kind of betrayal, that truth and meaning are elusive, and that we see our selves, our relationships, our surroundings, as if through curtains. Norman Lock's Shadowplay penetrates these diaphanous folds by casting light on the folly of irreconcilable love, the melancholic ache of nostalgia, and the burning yearning of art, of making something out of nothing... Swathed in darkness, Lock traverses liminal realms with glassine sentences reminiscent in form and substance of the like found in Gene Wolfe’s and Ursula K. Le Guin’s fiction, sentences you may be tempted to set off into line-broken verse. Shadowplay is another of the master locksmith’s nested boxes whose evocative, ensorcelling prose will withstand multiple readings, especially if read aloud."

Read the entire review here.

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Pick up SHADOWPLAY (and check out our 2 for $20 holiday sale) at the Ellipsis Press website here.

Harp & Altar #8 is up!

With poetry and fiction by Roseanne Carrara, Andy Fitch, Eileen G'Sell, Amy King, Richard Kostelanetz, Lawrence Mark Lane, Jesse Lichtenstein, Charles Newman, Leslie Patron, Rob Stephenson, Stephen Sturgeon, and G.C. Waldrep. Also: Jessica Baran on Brandon Downing; Dan Magers on Paul Killebrew; Patrick Morrissey on Ben Mazer; Lauren Russell on Kostas Anagnopoulos; Michael Newton's gallery reviews; and art by Jesse Lambert.
www.harpandaltar.com

Join Keith Newton, Shane Book, & Jared White for a reading at the Poetry Project this Friday at 10 PM.

A/bun/dance.

Boo/kings.

Come/dies.

End/or/fin.

Flag/rant.

Me/anti/me.

So/do/my.

To/read/or.

from FICT/IONS

by Richard Kostelanetz

BOMB magazine names CHANGING THE SUBJECT an Editor's Choice

Changing the Subject doesn’t live up to its title, it consumes it. Though the stories make high use of syntactical or symbolic repetitions, they are also powerfully digressive, hallucinatory.
http://bombsite.com/issues/114/articles/4732

Buy CHANGING THE SUBJECT here.

KGB BAR LIT MAGAZINE reviews CHANGING THE SUBJECT

"If his new short story collection Changing the Subject has an ambitious title, Stephen-Paul Martin gets away with it. And it’s not only because of his change-ups between eco-terrorism, women with nice teeth, dogs, Macbeth, various assassinations of President Bush, and animated billboards depicting Custer taking Tylenol before his last stand."

Read the rest at http://www.kgbbar.com/lit/book_reviews/changing_the_subject

HARP & ALTAR at the Poetry Project -- DEC. 10

Come join Harp & Altar on Friday Dec. 10 for the

Friday Night Series at the Poetry Project,

where we'll be celebrating the release of our eighth issue

with readings by Shane Book and Jared White.

Friday Dec. 10 at 10 PM

The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church

131 E. 10th St.,

New York

http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/a-reading-for-harp-altar.html

Joanna Ruocco and Keith Newton at Brown University on Tuesday

Ellipsis Press author, Joanna Ruocco, and Harp & Altar editor & publisher, Keith Newton, will participate on a panel of editors of some great literary magazines at Brown University this Tuesday, 11/30: http://tiny.cc/n4ifn

Small Press Periodical Publishing: An Editor Panel and Reading featuring
editors of the journals Birkensnake (Joanna Ruocco), Conjunctions (Brian
Evenson), Harp & Altar (Keith Newton), Paris Review (Lorin Stein), and
Tarpaulin Sky (Joanna Howard).

McCormack Family
Theater

Buy a copy of The Harp & Altar Anthology!

Three upcoming readings with Joanna Ruocco

The Bad Shadow Affair

presents an evening of readings with

Joanna Ruocco,

Thibault Raoul,

Tim Roberts, and

Margaret Ronda.
 


Details:
Reading is November 6th

this Saturday
at 7:30pm


at Lost Lake Lounge

address: 3602 E. Colfax Ave
Denver, CO 80206
 


Joanna Ruocco is the author of Man’s Companions (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010) and The Mothering Coven (Ellipsis Press, 2009). She co-edits Birkensnake, a fiction journal. She currently resides in Denver, Colorado.

Thibault Raoult, born in Pithiviers, France, & raised in Rochester, NY, has published two chapbooks--"El P.E." via Projective Industries & "I'll Say I'm Only Visiting" via Cannibal. A former Dolin Scholar at the University of Chicago, he holds an MFA from Brown University. Person Hour, his first book, will be published via BlazeVOX Books.

Tim Roberts is a writer and editor living in Denver. He is the publisher, with Julie Carr, of Counterpath Press. His book Drizzle Pocket will be out from BlazeVox Books this Spring.

Margaret Ronda's book of poems, Personification, won the 2009 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Recent poems can be found in Aufgabe, Gulf Coast, and Berkeley Poetry Review. She just moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where she is teaching poetry and American literature at Indiana University.

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Saturday, November 20th at 7pm

The Dikeou Collection

The Colorado Building

1615 California Street (at 16th Street)

Suite 515

Denver, CO 80202

Elizabeth ROBINSON

Erik ANDERSON

Joanna RUOCCO

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Saturday, December 4th at Ada Books

717 Westminster Street • Providence RI • 02903

with Brian Conn

Time: TBA

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Buy Ruocco's The Mothering Coven here.

CHANGING THE SUBJECT in the Midwest Book Review

Midwest Book Review says CHANGING THE SUBJECT is "a fascinating read that will certainly prove difficult to put down, highly recommended." Order today!
http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/07/26/changing-the-subject/

The Fifth Annual NY Book Fair Expo

Ellipsis Press will be at the New York Book Fair Expo at the Queens Museum.

Come by on Sunday from 11 - 6.

More info here.

Joanna Ruocco's THE MOTHERING COVEN reviewed at newpages.com

"Ruocco paints her pages with bright, strong women who clearly revel in mischievous and playful language... In Ruocco’s deft hands, The Mothering Coven takes readers on a delightful romp through a uniquely imagined universe."

Read the rest of the review at: http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/2010-10/#To-Light-Out-by-Karen-Weiser

Review of CHANGING THE SUBJECT at Vernon Frazer's Bellicose Warbling

"Stephen-Paul Martin's latest work, Changing the Subject, reaffirms my belief that he is the American master of the short story. Although I've often compared his work to Borges and Calvino, to try to give readers unfamiliar with his work a frame of reference, Martin's style and vision are entirely and uniquely his own... Martin takes the deep, the difficult, the absurd and the ridiculous and synthesizes them into eminently readable entities that challenge our assumptions about the reality of the world we inhabit."
Read more at http://bellicosewarbling.blogspot.com/2010/09/recommended-reading.html

Pre-order today for free-shipping. Publication date: 10/10/10

CHANGING THE SUBJECT reviewed by Jefferson Hansen

"As usual, these Martin stories are hilarious, philosophically rich, absorbing, and just plain fun... Martin is developing the ability to make his philosophically complex stories more and more accessible (and that's a compliment)... He is at the forefront of American storytellers."

More at http://experimentalfictionpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/09/stephen-paul-martin-changing-subject.html

Pre-order Stephen-Paul Martin's CHANGING THE SUBJECT before 10/10/10 and get free shipping. http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/07/26/changing-the-subject/

Ellipsis Press will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival on 9/12/10

We'll be sharing a table with Starcherone Press at the Brooklyn Book Festival on 9/12/10 from 10AM-6PM. Table #152. We'll have books, including our latest: Stephen-Paul Martin's devious collection of stories, CHANGING THE SUBJECT. Come by!

Directions and info here: http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org

CHANGING THE SUBJECT by Stephen-Paul Martin available for pre-order!

Publication date: 10/10/10.
Pre-order and get free shipping!

More info: http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/07/26/changing-the-subject/

"Micropress" feature in the American Book Review

Includes: Action Books (Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson), Belladonna Books (Rachel Levitsky), BlazeVOX [books] (Geoffrey Gatza), Calamari Press (Derek White), Chiasmus Press (Lidia Yuknavitch), Counterpath Press (Julie Carr and Tim Roberts), Ellipsis Press (Eugene Lim), Fairy Tale Review Press (Kate Bernheimer), Les Figues Press (Vanessa Place and Teresa Carmody), Futurepoem (Dan Machlin), Mud Luscious Press (J. A. Tyler), Other Voices Books (Gina Frangello), Siglio Press (Lisa Pearson), and Slope Editions (Ethan Paquin).

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Unfortunately that haven't made it available online, but the current issue of American Book Review features essays from several small presses ("micropresses," they've called it), including Ellipsis Press. Here's an excerpt from our statement:

Ellipsis Press: Like other micropresses, Ellipsis Press is taking advantage of cheaper production methods to promote works that succeed in making new forms in order to express something previously unexpressed, to expand the realm of the articulable. The truth is such literature has always been unprofitable, but as [Dalkey Archive publisher] O’Brien also wrote in 1996, “The purest form of American censorship is reducing books to their marketplace value.” Thankfully and importantly, a growing number of upstarts are taking a radical and only recently sustainable position: defining literary value independent of the dollar.

Joanna Ruocco reads this Friday

Joanna Ruocco reads this Friday in Brooklyn as part of the Stain of Poetry reading series.

http://stainofpoetry.wordpress.com/
July 30, Friday
at Goodbye Blue Monday
Amy De’Ath, Octavio R. Gonzalez, Gordon Massman, Tracy O Connor, Joanna Ruocco, Kate Schapira & Dustin Williamson!

http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/the-mothering-coven/

SHADOWPLAY reviewed in Rain Taxi

When Guntur, the main character of Norman Lock’s Shadowplay, commits himself to the life of a dalang, a Javanese shadow-puppeteer, the narrator spells out his future: "Guntur would be . . . a shadow—a ghost—a teller of stories about shadows and ghosts to people who will be shadows and ghosts for him always." Guntur, perhaps like all storytellers, is bound to tell his story from behind a screen, separating himself from the world even as he aims to represent it. Just as a dalang retells ancient and iconic stories in his puppet-theatre, Shadowplay is itself a fable that stages the storyteller's struggle between imagination and reality, experience and its record.

http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2010summer/lock.shtml

Buy Shadowplay from Ellipsis Press.

Eugene Marten + Susan Froderberg + Gordon Lish

In association with Park-Lit, the New York Tyrant will be holding the first outdoor reading of ParkLit's summer reading series.
Wednesday, June 16th
6:30PM
Jackson Square Park in the West Village (On 8th Ave. and Horatio)

Master of Ceremonies: Gordon Lish
Readers: Eugene Marten and Susan Froderberg
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126305724059559&ref=mf

Eugene Marten is the author of In the Blind and Waste. His third novel Firework will be released from Tyrant Books on June 25th, 2010 Susan Froderberg's novel Old Border Road will be published by Little, Brown in December, 2010. Her stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, as well as the New York Tyrant.

Time Out New York gives Marten's latest FIREWORK five stars:
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/books/86268/eugene-marten-firework-book-review

Praise for THE MOTHERING COVEN

Nice words for THE MOTHERING COVEN in this review for Joanna's Ruocco's fantastic latest: MAN'S COMPANIONS:

"The prose of Joanna Ruocco’s remarkable debut novel The Mothering Coven is so exuberant and thoroughly enlivening in its contagious and cheeky love for the mutability of language’s meanings that its plot often seemed to serve a subsidiary role to its stylistic rollicks; one could read for sound and linguistic play alone – its rhetorical approach to story seemed a narrative unto itself, and one could enjoy and take from this element of the novel as much – indeed, far more than – one could from practically any other published work out there, contemporary or otherwise... a kind of sui generis gem."

Read the rest at: http://www.artandculture.com/feature/2467

Harp & Altar Launch Party!

Celebrating the launch of our latest issue and
The Harp & Altar Anthology
6/19 With readings by:

Ana Božičević
Dan Hoy
Eileen Myles
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

And special musical guest: Miracles


Saturday June 19th, 2010
6:30 - 9:00PM
267 Douglass Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Part of the Yardmeter Editions Reading Series


Now Available:
The Harp & Altar Anthology
ISBN 978-0-9637536-4-9
Poetry & Fiction | 336 pages | $17
Edited by Keith Newton and Eugene Lim

The Harp & Altar Anthology ($17 + shipping):

Collecting the ground-breaking poetry and fiction from the first six issues of the online journal Harp & Altar. With writing by Roberta Allen • Stephanie Anderson • Jason Bacasa • Andrea Baker • Jessica Baran • Jessica Baron • Shane Book • Donald Breckenridge • Michael Carlson • Joshua Cohen • Julia Cohen • Adam Clay • Lynn Crawford • Oisín Curran • Claire Donato • Farrah Field • Corey Frost • David Goldstein • Andrew Grace • Kate Greenstreet • Sarah Gridley • Emily Gropp • Evelyn Hampton • Jennifer Hayashida • Stefania Heim • Lily Hoang • Joanna Howard • Dan Hoy • Thomas Kane • Steve Katz • Karla Kelsey • Joanna Klink • Jennifer Kronovet • Norman Lock • Jill Magi • Justin Marks • Peter Markus • Eugene Marten • Stephen-Paul Martin • Zachary Mason • Miranda Mellis • Sara Michas-Martin • Patrick Morrissey • Ryan Murphy • Eileen Myles • Bryson Newhart • Linnea Ogden • Cameron Paterson • Johannah Rodgers • Joanna Ruocco • Elizabeth Sanger • Rob Schlegel • Zachary Schomburg • Kate Schreyer • Andrei Sen-Senkov • Brandon Shimoda • Peter Jay Shippy • Joanna Sondheim • Mathias Svalina • Bronwen Tate • G.C. Waldrep • Derek White • Jared White • Joshua Marie Wilkinson • Paul Winner • David Wirthlin • Michael Zeiss • Leni Zumas

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About our presenters:

Ana Božičević was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1977. She emigrated to NYC in 1997. Her first book of poems is Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009), a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her fifth chapbook, Depth Hoar, will be published by Cinematheque Press in 2010. With Amy King, Ana co-curates The Stain of Poetry reading series in Brooklyn. She works at the Center for the Humanities of The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Dan Hoy lives in Brooklyn and is co-founder of SOFT TARGETS. His publications include Glory Hole, published with Jon Leon’s The Hot Tub (Mal-O-Mar, 2009), Basic Instinct: Poems (Triple Canopy, 2008), and Outtakes(Lame House Press, 2007).

Eileen Myles’s collection of essays The Importance of Being Iceland, for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant, is just out from Semiotext(e)/MIT. Eileen also writes novels (Chelsea Girls, Cool for You) and libretti (“Hell”) and many many poems (Sorry, Tree, Not Me). She ran St. Mark’s Poetry Project in the ’80s. In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for president. She’s Professor Emeritus of Writing and Literature at UC San Diego. She lives in New York.



Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi received her MFA from Brown University and currently teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Rhode Island School of Design. Her work can be found in the Wave Books Anthology of Political Poetry, Sleepingfish, Xcp: A Journal of Cross-Cultural Poetics, Paul Revere’s Horse, and PoetryProject.com. In 2010–2011 she will be traveling on a Fulbright Grant to Barcelona, Spain, where she will finish her second novel, The Holy City, Dream & the Traveler.



After ten-plus years of periodic collaboration on poetry, art and music projects, Miracles’ Adam Stolorow (vocals, keyboards) and Baxter Holland (bass) arrived in Brooklyn by way of late ’90s Providence and the requisite diet of utopian thinking and freak flag waving. Ready archivists of existence, Miracles throw their bodies into nature’s cycle of collapse and renewal. Dirty bass, overdriven keyboards, sparse vocals and maniac drums try to compete with the crash and clatter of human fortunes and failures. Miracles have a new record, Ovum, due out on Creative Capitalism in June, and will be performing a new long piece for theHarp & Altar launch party. Miracles work in skyscrapers but worship like beasts.

Waste reviewed by Spinetingler magazine

"Waste is one of those books that tolls the iron bell, a strong sense of foreboding murmurs right below the surface. You sit there waiting for the other foot to drop and you’re not disappointed when it does."

Read the rest at Spinetingler here.

Ellipsis Press table and reading at AWP

Should you be attending the AWP conference in Denver, come by our table!

(Exhibit Hall A, A6).

On display will be our lovely soft and papery wares -- including the new Harp & Altar Anthology.

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Also, several poets from the anthology will be reading at the

HISTORIC FALCON

on Thursday, April 8th, 2010 from 6:30-9:00 p.m.

Mercury Cafe (upstairs Dance Hall)

2199 California St.

Authors representing Birds, LLC; Brave Men Press; Harp & Altar; Immaculate Disciples Press; Mississippi Review Poetry Series; and New Issues Press: Julia Cohen, Brian Foley, Elisa Gabbert, Kate Greenstreet, Dan Magers, Justin Marks, Linnea Ogden, Christopher Salerno, Kim Gek Lin Short, Sam Starkweather, Janaka Stucky, and Chris Tonelli.

Ellipsis Press profiled at Hayden's Ferry Review

Hayden's Ferry Review profiles several small presses, including Ellipsis, here:
http://haydensferryreview.blogspot.com/search/label/Small%20Press%20Month

HFR: What advice do you have for emerging writers looking to be published by a small press? What is it about a work that makes you want to publish it?

Ellipsis Press: One person's gutsy transgression is another's mere novelty. What we're looking for is structural or stylistic innovation which also has an intellectual and emotional payoff. This pleasure should be fairly immediately apparent, i.e. not overly delayed or latent (though we can be teased). We will often jump randomly to pages and read whole paragraphs; if your work has a consistency of purpose and language, we'll read more...

Harp & Altar #7 is now live!

From Fra Keeler by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

‘It’s on the edge of a canyon,’ the realtor said, raising his eyebrows when I offered to buy the home without having looked at it first.

‘Fine,’ I said, though I wasn’t sure exactly what the realtor meant. Then I didn’t say anything for a long time because I was thinking of Fra Keeler’s death. And it seemed the realtor wanted to repeat what he had just said, his eyebrows even more tense. ‘Some things aren’t worth looking into,’ I said, and the realtor’s eyebrows slackened a bit. Then I asked, ‘Where are the papers?’ ‘Here they are,’ he said. ‘I’d like to sign them,’ I said, and he pushed them across the table with his middle finger. What an ugly finger, I remember thinking while I signed the papers, and then I got up and I left.

We are said to die of one thing on paper, but it is entirely of something different that we die, I thought as I left the realtor’s office. And it is dangerous to take the discrepancy between the two for granted, what one actually dies of and what one is said to have died of on paper; there is hardly ever a correspondence. And I’m thinking now that some people’s deaths need to be thoroughly investigated. I’m more than certain that I thought this then too, as I left the realtor’s office, but the thought wasn’t as highly illuminated in my head. I’m thinking now, it isn’t every day one comes across a death that is especially timely and magnificent, for example Fra Keeler’s death. And then, one really has to wonder, one has to begin to think, to retrace the mental footsteps of the deceased person, e.g. Fra Keeler, since the chance that such a timely death would remain unexplained on paper is that much more significant.

More at http://harpandaltar.com

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Harp & Altar #7 is now available — with fantastic poetry and fiction by Cynthia Arrieu-King, Ana Božičević, Matthew Klane, Michael O’Brien, Alejandra Pizarnik translated by Jason Stumpf, Brett Price, Jared White, Edmond Caldwell, Susan Daitch, Luca Dipierro, Craig Foltz, A.D. Jameson, Matthew Kirkpatrick, and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. Also: Farrah Field on Julia Cohen; Patrick Morrissey on Joshua Harmon and Rob Schlegel; Michael Newton’s gallery reviews; and art by Brandon Downing.

The Harp & Altar Anthology

Announcing the publication of

The Harp & Altar Anthology

ISBN 978-0-9637536-4-9

Poetry & Fiction | 336 pages | $17

Edited by Keith Newton and Eugene Lim

The Harp & Altar Anthology ($17 + shipping):

Pubdate: June 1, 2010.

Pre-Order today! Book ships upon publication.

Collecting the ground-breaking poetry and fiction from the first six issues of the online journal Harp & Altar. With writing by Roberta Allen • Stephanie Anderson • Jason Bacasa • Andrea Baker • Jessica Baran • Jessica Baron • Shane Book • Donald Breckenridge • Michael Carlson • Joshua Cohen • Julia Cohen • Adam Clay • Lynn Crawford • Oisín Curran • Claire Donato • Farrah Field • Corey Frost • David Goldstein • Andrew Grace • Kate Greenstreet • Sarah Gridley • Emily Gropp • Evelyn Hampton • Jennifer Hayashida • Stefania Heim • Lily Hoang • Joanna Howard • Dan Hoy • Thomas Kane • Steve Katz • Karla Kelsey • Joanna Klink • Jennifer Kronovet • Norman Lock • Jill Magi • Justin Marks • Peter Markus • Eugene Marten • Stephen-Paul Martin • Zachary Mason • Miranda Mellis • Sara Michas-Martin • Patrick Morrissey • Ryan Murphy • Eileen Myles • Bryson Newhart • Linnea Ogden • Cameron Paterson • Johannah Rodgers • Joanna Ruocco • Elizabeth Sanger • Rob Schlegel • Zachary Schomburg • Kate Schreyer • Andrei Sen-Senkov • Brandon Shimoda • Peter Jay Shippy • Joanna Sondheim • Mathias Svalina • Bronwen Tate • G.C. Waldrep • Derek White • Jared White • Joshua Marie Wilkinson • Paul Winner • David Wirthlin • Michael Zeiss • Leni Zumas

SHADOWPLAY reviewed by Dawn Raffel in The Brooklyn Rail

This is a cerebral work, and Lock is a heady writer, yet he evokes a deeply sensual world in which the smell of cinnamon all but sings in the breeze and the sea beckons like a lover... Shadowplay is informed by so many stories... that I initially feared I’d need to haul out my old Bullfinch’s Mythology and a dozen other reference works. But I didn’t. The novel stands on its own and does its tricky work unaided, like the afterlife of a dream. I suspect Lock is less interested in the reader catching everything than in catching the reader. He does.

Read the rest here: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/02/books/tokens-feb-10

Pick it up from Ellipsis Press.

Joanna Ruocco featured on Apostrophe Cast

Joanna Ruocco featured at Apostrophe Cast. Hear the author read from THE MOTHERING COVEN at http://www.apostrophecast.com/index.html.

In The Mothering Coven, Joanna Ruocco builds us a vacation cottage in a mad village inhabited by brilliant kooks such as Mrs. Borage, who mixes metaphysics with the chores, and ace reporter, Duncan Michaels, whose articles are never read. When it is time for you to leave this place, we think you will find the characters following you. Please enjoy Joanna Ruocco.

http://www.apostrophecast.com/index.html

mlp's {first year} anthology

Ellipsis Press authors Joanna Ruocco, Norman Lock, and Eugene Lim have writing in the anthology [First Year] out from MLP, a collection of their initial run of excellent chapbooks:

But it from MLP: http://www.aboutjatyler.com/books/mlp-anthology-1