tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29780408557383488152024-02-18T21:43:56.499-08:00The Ellipsis Press BlogAbouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-35001309167355489912012-11-15T05:00:00.000-08:002012-11-15T05:00:37.822-08:00Our blog has moved...find us now here:<a href="http://ellipsispress.tumblr.com/"> http://ellipsispress.tumblr.com/</a>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-342969697283935692011-11-13T15:31:00.000-08:002011-11-13T15:38:20.094-08:00THE DREAMING GIRL praised in The Review of Contemporary FictionD. Quentin Miller in THE REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION Fall 2011 (XXX1, no.3):<blockquote>"The hypnotic prose of THE DREAMING GIRL is effortless to read, especially once the reader gets used to the ways the author flouts convention... The story is archetypal, lovely on the surface, and vaguely disturbing on a deeper level. In a word, dreamlike."<br /><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2011/07/20/the-dreaming-girl-by-roberta-allen/"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 237px;" src="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/THEDREAMINGGIRL-cover-619x1024.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Pick it up today from <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2011/07/20/the-dreaming-girl-by-roberta-allen/">Ellipsis Press</a>, <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780963753663/the-dreaming-girl.aspx">Small Press Distribution</a>, <a href="http://http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Girl-Roberta-Allen/dp/0963753665/">Amazon</a>, or wherever fine books are sold.<br /></blockquote>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-62776516745233537502011-10-13T11:37:00.000-07:002011-10-14T04:18:07.577-07:00Launch Party for THE DREAMING GIRL with Roberta Allen & Lewis Warsh<p><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2011/07/20/the-dreaming-girl-by-roberta-allen/"><img src="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/THEDREAMINGGIRL-cover-619x1024.jpg" height="142" width="86" /></a></p>Please join us in celebrating the publication of <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2011/07/20/the-dreaming-girl-by-roberta-allen/">THE DREAMING GIRL by Roberta Allen</a>.<br /><p>Wednesday, November 30, 2011<br />7:00 pm<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/civitella_ranieri_reading1/">KGB Bar</a><br />85 East 4th Street<br />New York City, NY</p><strong>Roberta Allen</strong> is the author of eight books, including two collections of short fiction, <em>The Traveling Woman</em> (Vehicle Editions) and <em>Certain People</em> (Coffee House Press); a novella in short short stories, <em>The Daughter</em> (Autonomedia); a memoir, <em>Amazon Dream</em> (City Lights); the novel<em> <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2011/07/20/the-dreaming-girl-by-roberta-allen/">The Dreaming Girl</a></em> (Painted Leaf, 2000, and Ellipsis Press, 2011); and several writing guides. Allen was on the faculty of The New School for many years and has also taught at Columbia University. She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow in Fiction in 1998. An established visual artist, she has exhibited worldwide, with work in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.<br /><p><strong>Lewis Warsh</strong> is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781887123785/inseparable-poems-19952005.aspx"><span style="font-style: italic;">Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005</span></a> (Granary Books), <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781933132716/a-place-in-the-sun.aspx?rf=1">A Place in the Sun</a> (Spuyten Duyvil), <span style="font-style: italic;">The Origin of the World</span> (Creative Arts) and <span style="font-style: italic;">A Free Man</span> (Sun & Moon). He is editor and publisher of United Artists Books and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.</p>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-20461666906453774372011-10-10T18:24:00.000-07:002011-10-10T18:28:25.131-07:00Roberta Allen documentary: Layers and Lines<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/30309903?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" width="400"></iframe><br />Produced and directed by Ivan Weiss.<br /><br />Roberta Allen's new book <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2011/07/20/the-dreaming-girl-by-roberta-allen/">THE DREAMING GIRL</a> is available <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2011/07/20/the-dreaming-girl-by-roberta-allen/">here</a>:<br /><br />Upcoming events:<br />11/1 Roberta Allen, Lynn Crawford, and Norman Lock at St. Mark's Bookshop.<br />11/9 Roberta Allen, Kirsten Kaschock, John Haskell, & Robin Grearson at Soda Series in Brooklyn.<br />11/30 THE DREAMING GIRL launch party at KGB. Roberta Allen with Lewis Warsh.Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-7721176732907210172011-10-05T06:59:00.000-07:002011-10-05T07:14:48.896-07:00Stephen-Paul Martin's CHANGING THE SUBJECT in ABR<a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Changing-the-Subject-cover2-632x1024.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/07/26/changing-the-subject/"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 198px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 337px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Changing-the-Subject-cover2-632x1024.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><blockquote>"The six long stories in Stephen-Paul Martin's outstanding <em><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/07/26/changing-the-subject/">CHANGING THE SUBJECT</a></em> subtly challenge the conventions of the short story through seemingly simple prose that, in strange often hilarious digressions, knots in a fascinating, surreal, and masterful collection... <em><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/07/26/changing-the-subject/">CHANGING THE SUBJECT</a> </em>is a brilliant book..."<br /><br /><p align="right"><strong>--<a href="http://americanbookreview.org/issueContent.asp?id=195">Matthew Kirkpatrick, <em>American Book Review</em></a></strong><br /></p></blockquote><br /><br /><p align="center">Pick up a copy and read more about this book at <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/07/26/changing-the-subject/">Ellipsis Press</a>! Also available through <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Changing-Subject-Stephen-Paul-Martin/dp/0963753657">Amazon</a> and <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780963753656/changing-the-subject.aspx">Small Press Distribution.<br /></a></p></div>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-48245938360635649642011-10-03T12:19:00.000-07:002011-10-04T06:09:12.309-07:00Ellipsis Press at St. Mark's Bookshop on Tuesday 11/1<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Roberta Allen, Lynn Crawford, and Norman Lock will be reading at St. Mark's Bookshop on Tuesday, November 1st at 7PM. Come join us!</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />Tuesday<br />11/1/11!<br />7PM at<br /><a href="http://www.stmarksbookshop.com/">St. Mark's Bookshop</a><br />31 Third Avenue<br />New York, New York 10003<br />Tel: 212-260-7853<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.robertaallen.com/"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 132px; height: 183px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCev_UsoXL5LZe_v0aGlgq24XipesN1ArK_l-0qBrGmvZaY4BNaGd8pi4GgVlxi8M6vSemWhHUs7te2_UOlJhk2C0uqrOcWKF3m9SZwArIGVqBgutmDi9NeZPC36uW5xwTx4ggsEDSvb4/s320/RobertaAllen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659349820039941202" border="0" /></a><br />Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including <span style="font-style: italic;">Certain People </span>(Coffee House Press) and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Daughter </span>(Autonomedia). <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2011/07/20/the-dreaming-girl-by-roberta-allen/">The Dreaming Girl</a> is being re-released by Ellipsis Press in November 2011. Allen was on the faculty of The New School for many years, has taught at Columbia University, and is currently teaching private workshops. She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow in Fiction in 1998. An established visual artist, she has exhibited worldwide, with work in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. <a href="http://www.robertaallen.com/">http://www.robertaallen.com</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2011/07/20/the-dreaming-girl-by-roberta-allen/"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 188px;" src="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/THEDREAMINGGIRL-cover-619x1024.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>_________________________________________<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lynncrawford.net/"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi95YYTfLYCcdsbXNd9UwhVtEdg2bN2ZpnWRYq0J0zmdz3uqfTxeC6UneTtHEAn6nT6siAC-N-SvPtVo-VPfErD77_NUaZy29tLF6SrgPoUoIOL5YIq9ukd_zDqNcHRwl9hA0mGHyulc2lc/s200/034-Crawford-Lynn-200x300.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659353464836945698" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.lynncrawford.net/"><br /></a><div style="text-align: left;">Lynn Crawford is the author of several books of fiction, including <span style="font-style: italic;">Fortification Resort, Simply Separate People</span>, and most recently, <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781934029206/simply-separate-people-two.aspx"><span style="font-style: italic;">Simply Separate People, Two</span></a>. Her work appears in various anthologies including: <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/02/21/the-harp-altar-anthology/">The Harp & Altar Anthology</a> (Ellipsis Press), <span style="font-style: italic;">marks, Fence Fiction, The Brooklyn Rail Anthology, The Oulipo Compendium, lacanian ink</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Lilies</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Cannonball Review</span>. She is the editor of <span style="font-style: italic;">DETROIT: the journal</span> published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). <a href="http://www.lynncrawford.net/">http://www.lynncrawford.net/</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781934029206/simply-separate-people-two.aspx"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 156px;" src="http://www.spdbooks.org/images/tnjpeg/tn9781934029206.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>_________________________________________</div></div></div><br /><a href="http://www.normanlock.com/"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-wx2meQT9k4wPzlpmuJnS3-36_G_zb14tc8oONZ7iq6t9A0d_88joIMxKuq7J8efTSMe-ot-DqpTqtB7kLHVxGAjMYhD6LXRrs1h3AvMc6BvAWXecdjvqx9_O049v26y-2xFZcwsAjakE/s200/Lock-photo-2002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659452374130605954" border="0" /></a>Norman Lock has written novels, short fiction, and poetry as well as stage, radio and screen plays. He received the 1979 Aga Kahn Prize given by The Paris Review and, most recently, the 2010 literary fiction prize from The Dactyl Foundation for his 2009 novel <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/shadowplay/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Shadowplay</span></a>. He was awarded prose fellowships from the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Councils on the Arts, and— for 2011—a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His latest book-length fictions are <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/shadowplay/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Shadowplay</span></a> (Ellipsis Press), The King of Sweden (Ravenna Press), Grim Tales (Mud Luscious Press), and <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/fiction/piecessmallorchestra.htm">Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>(Spuyten Duyvil). Norman lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, with his wife, Helen. <a href="http://www.normanlock.com/">http://www.normanlock.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/shadowplay/"><br /></a><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/shadowplay/"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 152px; height: 238px;" src="http://ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/shadowplaydraftcover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-60671679695826171642011-08-26T21:08:00.000-07:002011-08-26T21:10:45.718-07:00Open Submissions 10/1 to 11/30Ellipsis Press will be accepting submissions this fall. Details here:<a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/submission-guidelines/"> http://www.ellipsispress.com/submission-guidelines/</a>.Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-22322267530749121182011-05-03T08:42:00.000-07:002011-05-03T08:44:08.973-07:00Two upcoming readings with Eugene Lim<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; "><img class="aligncenter" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/211073_180839655299232_6761075_n.jpg" alt="" width="84" height="97" /></h2><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://badshadowaffair.blogspot.com/2011/05/laird-hunt-tina-brown-celona-keith.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">Bad Shadow Affair Reading series<br /></a><a href="http://badshadowaffair.blogspot.com/2011/05/laird-hunt-tina-brown-celona-keith.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">at Lost Lake Lounge | 3602 East Colfax | Denver, Colorado</a></span></h2><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Saturday, May 7th, 7:30pm</span></h2><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; "><a href="http://badshadowaffair.blogspot.com/2011/05/laird-hunt-tina-brown-celona-keith.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); "><span class="Apple-style-span">Laird Hunt,</span></a></h2><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; "><a href="http://badshadowaffair.blogspot.com/2011/05/laird-hunt-tina-brown-celona-keith.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); "><span class="Apple-style-span">Tina Brown Celona,</span></a></h2><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; "><a href="http://badshadowaffair.blogspot.com/2011/05/laird-hunt-tina-brown-celona-keith.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); "><span class="Apple-style-span">Keith Newton &</span></a></h2><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; "><a href="http://badshadowaffair.blogspot.com/2011/05/laird-hunt-tina-brown-celona-keith.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); "><span class="Apple-style-span">Eugene Lim</span></a></h2><div id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://badshadowaffair.blogspot.com/2011/05/laird-hunt-tina-brown-celona-keith.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); "><span class="Apple-style-span">will read from their work!</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "></div><p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span">___________________________________________________</span></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.queenslibrary.org/UserFiles/event_pdf/009823-04-11_9823web.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); "><span class="Apple-style-span"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1039" title="QL reading" src="http://www.eugenelim.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/QL-reading.bmp" alt="" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; " /></span></a></p><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; "><p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Queens Poet Lore Presents QPLo @ QL:</span></p></h2><h2 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.queenslibrary.org/UserFiles/event_pdf/009823-04-11_9823web.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">A Reading with<br /></a><a href="http://www.queenslibrary.org/UserFiles/event_pdf/009823-04-11_9823web.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">Paolo Javier,<br /></a><a href="http://www.queenslibrary.org/UserFiles/event_pdf/009823-04-11_9823web.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">Eugene Lim,<br /></a><a href="http://www.queenslibrary.org/UserFiles/event_pdf/009823-04-11_9823web.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">Christine Hou</a></span></h2><p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; "></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.queenslibrary.org/UserFiles/event_pdf/009823-04-11_9823web.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">Thursday, May 19<br />6:30 p.m.<br />Flushing branch of the Queens Library</a><br />Rooms A&B, Lower Level<br />41-17 Main Street<br />718-661-1200<br />Join us and celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with a reading featuring Queens Poet Laureate <a href="http://queenspoetlore.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">Paolo Javier</a>, novelist <a href="http://www.eugenelim.com/">Eugene Lim</a>, and poet/art critic <a href="http://christinehou.com/about" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">Christine Hou</a>.</span> </p></span>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-7051123567083608532011-04-10T07:30:00.000-07:002011-04-10T07:38:26.257-07:00Roberta Allen reads on 4/12/11<a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122465751164224"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 231px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593964068421646226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHNiPBI5FP2m-Jd_0olDjgJJmIzWz_nKnviZats4pUV3OYVOuEa6mX-ZZ7K6VGeTbNoUsbw92PG3sEo9pCCVF-YQICoawjjckeUzJ8LbulnejFnQH3eRK-uWpxGzgj3CCG_mYIbRZ_B35u/s320/DREAMING+GIRL+PROMO+20110406.jpg" /></a> <br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Roberta Allen will read from The Dreaming Girl--a new edition of which is coming out on Ellipsis Press in fall 2011. </div><br /><div align="center">7PM CREON Gallery 238 East 24 St, 1B (near 2 Ave) New York, NY </div><br /><div align="center">More info at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122465751164224">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122465751164224</a></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center"></div>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-74187346790455728192011-04-09T16:38:00.000-07:002011-04-09T16:44:34.328-07:00PIECES FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA & Other Fictions by Norman Lock<div>New from Ellipsis Press author Norman Lock : PIECES FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA & Other Fictions -- out this month from Spuyten Duyvil.</div><div><br /></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 163px; height: 250px;" src="http://www.normanlock.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/piecesforsmallorchestra.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><blockquote></blockquote></span><span><span><blockquote>There are moments that remind me of Sax Rohmer or early 20th century science fiction, bits and pieces of language that seem to come out of Jules Verne or Gaston LeRoux. The language itself is quite stylized, replete with a carefully eccentric vocabulary that Lock does very well. He has an impressive ability to create a unique and original world. --Brian Evenson</blockquote></span></span><div><br /><div><div>Pick it up <a href="http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/fiction/piecessmallorchestra.htm">from Spuyten Duyvi</a>l.</div></div></div>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-79990738656440099972011-04-07T19:13:00.000-07:002011-04-07T19:15:05.292-07:00Joanna Ruocco wins FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "><span><span>Congratulations Joanna Ruocco!<br /><blockquote>Fiction Collective Two is pleased to announce Joanna Ruocco has won the second annual FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith-A Diptych. The prize includes publication by FC2 and $15,000. The judge was Ben Marcus.</blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.fc2blog.org/?p=182">http://www.fc2blog.org/?p=182</a></span></span><a href="http://www.fc2blog.org/?p=182" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; "></a></span>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-17639456527975743262011-04-05T11:56:00.000-07:002011-04-05T12:28:11.000-07:00HARP & ALTAR PARTY<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/02/21/the-harp-altar-anthology/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 250px;" src="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/The-Harp-and-Altar-Anthology1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://theswitchpdx.blogspot.com/2011/04/sat-april-9th-harp-altar-launch-party.html">Sat., April 9th - HARP & ALTAR PARTY: Lichtenstein, Schomburg, Zeiss + Music by Hardin</a><br /><br />An Event of Poetry, Art, & Music at <a href="http://theswitchpdx.blogspot.com/2011/04/sat-april-9th-harp-altar-launch-party.html">Switchyard Studios:</a><br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=109+SE+Salmon+St,+Portland,+OR+97214&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=109+SE+Salmon+St,+Portland,+OR+97214&gl=us&ei=AG2bTY63AeWQ0QGyytTjAg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ8gEwAA">109 SE Salmon St, </a><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=109+SE+Salmon+St,+Portland,+OR+97214&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=109+SE+Salmon+St,+Portland,+OR+97214&gl=us&ei=AG2bTY63AeWQ0QGyytTjAg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ8gEwAA"><br />Portland, OR </a><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=109+SE+Salmon+St,+Portland,+OR+97214&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=109+SE+Salmon+St,+Portland,+OR+97214&gl=us&ei=AG2bTY63AeWQ0QGyytTjAg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ8gEwAA">97214</a><br /><br />This Saturday, please come on out to <a href="http://theswitchpdx.blogspot.com/2011/04/sat-april-9th-harp-altar-launch-party.html">Switchyard Studios</a>, where we will host a celebration for the magazine Harp & Altar. Poets Jesse Lichtenstein, Zachary Schomburg will read, as well as fiction writer Michael Zeiss.<br /><a href="http://theswitchpdx.blogspot.com/2011/04/sat-april-9th-harp-altar-launch-party.html">http://theswitchpdx.blogspot.com/2011/04/sat-april-9th-harp-altar-launch-party.html</a><br /><br />Saturday, April 9th*HARP & ALTAR PARTY@ 6:00 - 8:00p.m.<br /><a href="http://www.jesselichtenstein.net/">Jesse Lichtenstein</a><br /><a href="http://lovelyarc.blogspot.com/">Zachary Schomburg</a><br /><a href="http://www.harpandaltar.com/interior.php?t=s&i=1&p=13&e=14">Michael Zeiss</a><br />Music by <a href="http://www.myspace.com/alinaestelle">Alina Estelle Hardin</a><br />& Artwork (TBA)<br /><br />Jesse Lichtenstein lives in Oregon where he writes poetry, fiction, journalism, and screenplays (and helps run the Loggernaut Reading Series). His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Paris Review, Diagram,EOAGH, Gulf Coast, Octopus, Boston Review, and other journals.<br /><br />Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit(Black Ocean 2007), Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009),Little Blind Thing (Poor Claudia 2010), a dvd of poem-films, and the forthcoming Viking (McSweeney's, 2012). He lives in Portland where he co-edits Octopus Books and Octopus Magazine.<br /><br />Michael Zeiss, a former resident of Portland, recently returned to the city after a decade in New York. Aconsultant for non-profit organizations, he spent five years at the American Red Cross working with people affected by the attacks of September 11. His fiction and criticism appear regularly in Harp & Altar.<br /><br />Founded in 2006, Harp & Altar is a Brooklyn-based online literary magazine edited by poet Keith Newton and novelist Eugene Lim. In its short tenure,Harp & Altar has emerged as an important new source for innovative and risk-taking literature, publishing poetry and fiction alongside criticism and reviews of writing and art. The Harp & Altar Anthology, featuring a selection of poems and stories from the magazine’s first three years, was published in 2010 by Ellipsis Press, and new issues continue to appear twice a year at <a href="http://www.harpandaltar.com/">www.harpandaltar.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(153, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 16px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;" ><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 21px;font-family:Garamond,serif;" ><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.ellipsispress.com/2010/02/21/the-harp-altar-anthology/" style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></a></span></p></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 15px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;" ><br /></span></span>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-25836101578680370132011-03-22T22:13:00.000-07:002011-03-22T22:24:12.721-07:00Norman Lock reads 3/23/2011 at The Brooklyn Winery<span><span>Come hear Norman Lock, Marcy Dermansky and Lincoln Michel read tonight in Brooklyn! <a href="http://tiny.cc/LockinBrooklyn">http://tiny.cc/LockinBrooklyn </a></span></span><br /><blockquote><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 23px; text-align: left;font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:14px;" ><div style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-8448" title="bad-marie-art" src="http://volume1brooklyn.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/bad-marie-art.jpg?w=198&h=300" alt="" style="display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 7px; max-width: 100%;" width="198" height="300" /><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-8449" title="lock-grim-tales" src="http://volume1brooklyn.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/lock-grim-tales.png?w=214&h=300" alt="" style="display: inline; float: right; margin-left: 7px; max-width: 100%;" width="214" height="300" /></div><div id="thisInformation" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; float: left; color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><p style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vol.1′s monthly reading series returns to the Brooklyn Winery on March 23rd, for an night of readings presented in conjunction with the fine writers, theorists, and critics at <a href="http://www.bigother.com/" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Big Other</a>.</p><p style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When: March 23rd, beginning at 7 PM.<br />Where:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://bkwinery.com/" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">The Brooklyn Winery</a>, 213 North 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY<br />Who: Marcy Dermansky, Norman Lock, and Lincoln Michel</p><p style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="more-8447" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><strong style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://marcydermansky.com/" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Marcy Dermansky</a></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is the author of the novels<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bad Marie</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twins</em>. Marcy’s short fiction has been published widely in literal journals and anthologies, including McSweeney’s, Indiana Review, Mississippi Review and Fifty-Two Stories. A former MacDowell fellow, Marcy is the winner of the Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and Story Magazine’s Carson McCullers short story prize.</p><p style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.normanlock.com/" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Norman Lock</a></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is the author of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The King of Sweden</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Ravenna Press),<em style="border-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shadowplay</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Ellipsis Press),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A History of the Imagination</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(FC2),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘The Book of Supplemental Diagrams’ for Marco Knauff’s Universe</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Ravenna Press),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Long Rowing Unto Morning</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Ravenna Press),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="border-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two Plays for Radio</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Triple Press), and–writing as George Belden–<em style="border-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Land of the Snow Men</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(from Calamari Press and in Japanese from Kawade Shobo Shinsha).</p><p style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://lincolnmm.blogspot.com/" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Lincoln Michel</a></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was born in Virginia and lives in NYC. He is a founding editor of Gigantic magazine and the books editor of The Faster Times. His writing appears in NOON, The Believer, Oxford American, Bookforum, elimae, Esquire.com, The Rumpus, Mississippi Review, McSweeneys.net, Hobart, Mid-American Review and elsewhere.</p></div></span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 23px; text-align: left;font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:14px;" ><div id="thisInformation" style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; float: left;"><p style="border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div></span></span>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-29063693322669207242011-03-06T07:20:00.000-08:002011-03-06T07:27:20.316-08:00AD JAMESON on CHANGING THE SUBJECT<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?fa=customcontent&GCOI=15647100883990&extrasfile=81E100B1-1D09-67E0-4355EA61BA17605D.html"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/Resources/titles/15647100883990/Images/15647100883990L.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />AD Jameson in RCF on Stephen-Paul Martin's CHANGING THE SUBJECT:<br /><br /><blockquote>"In this exceedingly clever and mesmerizing collection, Martin guides us through six long stories that each contain numerous other stories, and are themselves also one long, strange fiction... Charmed from the very first sentence, I read this book straight through in a single night, and then reread it as soon as I could. How marvelous to see the story so thoroughly reinvented and reinvigorated! <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Changing the Subject</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> is so far by far my favorite new book of 2010.</span></span>"</blockquote>Read the <a href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?fa=customcontent&GCOI=15647100883990&extrasfile=81E100B1-1D09-67E0-4355EA61BA17605D.html">rest of the review here</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Changing-the-Subject-cover2-632x1024.jpg"><br /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Pick up a copy <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/07/26/changing-the-subject/">here</a> today:<br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/07/26/changing-the-subject/"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 235px;" src="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Changing-the-Subject-cover2-632x1024.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-46709399431154858682011-03-03T12:26:00.000-08:002011-03-03T12:44:49.676-08:00The Nation on Joanna Ruocco<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/158975/wrinkles-time-joanna-ruocco"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 219px;" src="http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/issuance_cover_250x334/cover0321.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />A great review of Joanna Ruocco's <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/Ruocco/index.html">Man’s Companions </a>(</span>Tarpaulin Sky, 2010<span style="font-style: italic;">) </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/the-mothering-coven/">The Mothering Coven</a> </span>(Ellipsis Press, 2009) in the newest issue of <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/158975/wrinkles-time-joanna-ruocco"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Nation</span></a>.<br /><br /><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><blockquote><p><em></em>One of [<span style="font-style: italic;">The Mothering Coven</span>]’s first descriptive passages, which concerns the witches’ next-door neighbor, presents an image of a lettuce heart as a model of the universe:</p> <blockquote> <p>Mr. Henderson takes the lettuce heart. He had always thought the physical universe had no shape at all, just a multi-directional nothingness with deep space objects floating around at varying speeds. He realizes that he has been ridiculous. All these dark folded places, opening everywhere at once—of course, that’s what the physical universe looks like.</p> </blockquote> <p>“Opening everywhere at once” is a good description of <em>The Mothering Coven</em>, which navigates the many, fantastical realities that crowd within the illusory unity of our universe... The novel encompasses a multitude of worlds, its concision no obstacle to its holding capacity, since the latter depends not on mere size but on an endless series of folds, which language is no less capable of creating than is vegetation.</p>...Ruocco’s coven is a counterproposal to language as a homogenizing force—to words that would flatten out the leaves of the lettuce heart or chop them into uniform, bite-size pieces. Ruocco’s feat is to show how esoteric vocabularies unfold hidden pockets of experience.</blockquote>Read the full article at: <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/158975/wrinkles-time-joanna-ruocco">http://www.thenation.com/article/158975/wrinkles-time-joanna-ruocco</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/the-mothering-coven/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 213px;" src="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/the_mothering_coven_cover-20090814.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/the-mothering-coven/">Pick up a copy today!</a><br /><blockquote></blockquote>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-64833933726712410562011-01-27T11:00:00.000-08:002011-01-27T11:02:17.191-08:00Ellipsis Press at AWP in Washington D.C. Table H33<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUlviED8pn83_hqv7qIPAjf7BuDYigC3YDjm1znddvlebmCTwpW_-73PK2ousEnbWAcaE7ut3z5UMjOaD1bq2CkPBM0wqlDrP_F00ro3-6VsKWMx-TOzwxrAfTu9HCFp5fTQXLUFouVaV/s1600/AWP+2011.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUlviED8pn83_hqv7qIPAjf7BuDYigC3YDjm1znddvlebmCTwpW_-73PK2ousEnbWAcaE7ut3z5UMjOaD1bq2CkPBM0wqlDrP_F00ro3-6VsKWMx-TOzwxrAfTu9HCFp5fTQXLUFouVaV/s400/AWP+2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566942764465741298" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2011exhibitorslist.php">http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2011exhibitorslist.php</a>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-61690410744209913032011-01-05T05:18:00.000-08:002011-01-05T05:29:10.467-08:00Necessary Fiction reviews THE MOTHERING COVEN<a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/the-mothering-coven/"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 149px; height: 243px;" src="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/the_mothering_coven_cover-20090814.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><blockquote><div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">"There is quite a lot going on in <i>The Mothering Coven</i>: party preparations, art installations, visits from Ms. Kidney and her sled dogs, trips into town, shamanistic journeys, paleozoological studies and a score of research projects. Often, the tone of these activities is deceptively lighthearted. But this is not a book to read with blithe inattention, as much of what happens and what is said could be perceived as nonsensical whimsy. A slower, more careful read detects the fragile threads of what makes this a novel and not a playful and poetic montage... Despite the playfulness of the language and the sometimes comical, offbeat conversations, real moments of tenderness leap up from within these small scenes."</div></div>Read the full review by Michelle Bailat-Jones at <a href="http://tiny.cc/NFTMC">Necessary Fiction</a></blockquote><a href="http://tiny.cc/NFTMC"></a><br /><div><a href="http://tiny.cc/NFTMC"></a><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/the-mothering-coven/">Order THE MOTHERING COVEN from Ellipsis Press.<blockquote></blockquote></a><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/the-mothering-coven/"></a></div>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-8618658016802226552010-12-31T10:43:00.000-08:002010-12-31T10:52:18.055-08:00Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY wins the 2010 Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/shadowplay/"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 171px; height: 274px;" src="http://ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/shadowplaydraftcover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Pick up <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/shadowplay/">Shadowplay from Ellipsis Press here.</a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><blockquote><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/shadowplay/">Shadowplay</a> (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 <i><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/shadowplay/">Shadowplay</a></i> 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.</blockquote><blockquote>Read the full review by Tori Alexander at <a href="http://tiny.cc/dactylawardSP">http://tiny.cc/dactylawardSP</a></blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/shadowplay/"></a></div><div><blockquote></blockquote></div>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-14665916501379625032010-12-09T07:17:00.001-08:002010-12-09T07:24:04.418-08:00Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY reviewed in latest RCF<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?fa=customcontent&GCOI=15647100175900&extrasfile=BD9FA6F9-1D09-67E0-43A75DC3915586A7.html"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 175px;" src="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/Resources/titles/15647100175900/Images/15647100175900L.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><blockquote>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 <span style="font-style: italic;">Shadowplay</span> 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. <span style="font-style: italic;">Shadowplay</span> is another of the master locksmith’s nested boxes whose evocative, ensorcelling prose will withstand multiple readings, especially if read aloud."</blockquote>Read the entire review <a href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?fa=customcontent&GCOI=15647100175900&extrasfile=BD9FA6F9-1D09-67E0-43A75DC3915586A7.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">________________________<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/shadowplay/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 221px;" src="http://ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/shadowplaydraftcover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div>Pick up SHADOWPLAY (and check out our 2 for $20 holiday sale) at the <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/shadowplay/">Ellipsis Press website here</a>.<br /></div>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-9188199852796878882010-12-07T12:39:00.000-08:002010-12-07T13:15:36.958-08:00Harp & Altar #8 is up!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://harpandaltar.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 179px;" src="http://harpandaltar.com/images/splash/Cover%20FINAL.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>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.<br /><a href="http://harpandaltar.com/">www.harpandaltar.com</a></blockquote>Join Keith Newton, Shane Book, & Jared White for <a href="http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/a-reading-for-harp-altar.html">a reading at the Poetry Project</a> this Friday at 10 PM.<br /><br /><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;">A/bun/dance.<br /><br />Boo/kings.<br /><br />Come/dies.<br /><br />End/or/fin.<br /><br />Flag/rant.<br /><br />Me/anti/me.<br /><br />So/do/my.<br /><br />To/read/or.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">from <a href="http://harpandaltar.com/interior.php?t=s&i=8&p=55&e=81">FICT/IONS</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://harpandaltar.com/interior.php?t=s&i=8&p=55&e=81"><span style="font-weight: bold;">by Richard Kostelanetz</span></a></div></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-78638033840561164342010-12-05T18:27:00.000-08:002010-12-05T18:34:10.520-08:00BOMB magazine names CHANGING THE SUBJECT an Editor's Choice<a href="http://bombsite.com/issues/114/articles/4732"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 156px;" src="http://bombsite.com/images/attachments/0008/4343/001_FRONTCOVER_BOMB114_sidebar.jpg?1291332080" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">Changing the Subject </span>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.<span class="UIStory_Message"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><a href="http://bombsite.com/issues/114/articles/4732" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none;"><span>http://bombsite.com/issues/114/articles/</span><wbr>4732</a><br /></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;">Buy <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/07/26/changing-the-subject/">CHANGING THE SUBJECT here</a>.</span><br /></span><span><span class="UIStory_Message"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTND8q5MuOvl7aAkx_cuxFCwHzG4bWoXRbbMLQSj_z0xozRtYLpsYHVNR5xbDYH_mHlpaJT46E7MEB_n4yYgOgbCHhRZ7oJtiaTi3xJL5PtWqUpRVVDoxV-zrXcwrUG5gjcHyq7Z3qGFFv/s1600/Changing+the+Subject+20100914.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTND8q5MuOvl7aAkx_cuxFCwHzG4bWoXRbbMLQSj_z0xozRtYLpsYHVNR5xbDYH_mHlpaJT46E7MEB_n4yYgOgbCHhRZ7oJtiaTi3xJL5PtWqUpRVVDoxV-zrXcwrUG5gjcHyq7Z3qGFFv/s200/Changing+the+Subject+20100914.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547391353900005714" border="0" /></a></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: left;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;" ><br /></span></span>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-69328399781576425042010-12-05T18:19:00.000-08:002010-12-05T18:26:48.615-08:00KGB BAR LIT MAGAZINE reviews CHANGING THE SUBJECT<a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/07/26/changing-the-subject/"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFmxQOun6q5mRo1cGHaOO2V38voxMuzPt_hUX0Kq3CZGwIztq58otu4Xr06MbpT_LDzH908JcqVwOlafBFQ5MmA2OXi_bROh4CUYXFxeQdpovT9Yyni_bMZaFw0XnCzPArIkB3wRsSBTfA/s200/Changing+the+Subject+20100914.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547389204252051090" border="0" /></a><blockquote>"If his new short story collection <span style="font-style: italic;">Changing the Subject</span> 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."</blockquote>Read the rest at<a href="http://www.kgbbar.com/lit/book_reviews/changing_the_subject"> http://www.kgbbar.com/lit/book_reviews/changing_the_subject</a>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-15780584432196605632010-11-29T06:13:00.000-08:002010-11-29T06:16:26.609-08:00HARP & ALTAR at the Poetry Project -- DEC. 10<div align="center">Come join <a href="http://harpandaltar.com/">Harp & Altar</a> on Friday Dec. 10 for the </div><div align="center">Friday Night Series at the Poetry Project, </div><div align="center">where we'll be celebrating the release of our eighth issue </div><div align="center">with readings by Shane Book and Jared White.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Friday Dec. 10 at 10 PM</div><div align="center">The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church</div><div align="center">131 E. 10th St., </div><div align="center">New York</div><div align="center"><a style="COLOR: rgb(237,28,36)" href="http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/a-reading-for-harp-altar.html" target="_blank">http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/a-reading-for-harp-altar.html</a></div>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-29176389392387398572010-11-29T05:59:00.000-08:002010-11-29T06:11:42.858-08:00Joanna Ruocco and Keith Newton at Brown University on TuesdayEllipsis Press author, <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/the-mothering-coven/">Joanna Ruocco</a>, and <a href="http://harpandaltar.com/">Harp & Altar</a> editor & publisher, Keith Newton, will participate on a panel of editors of some great literary magazines at Brown University this Tuesday, 11/30: <a href="http://tiny.cc/n4ifn">http://tiny.cc/n4ifn</a><br /><br /><div><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p>Small Press Periodical Publishing: An Editor Panel and Reading featuring<br />editors of the journals Birkensnake (Joanna Ruocco), Conjunctions (Brian<br />Evenson), Harp & Altar (Keith Newton), Paris Review (Lorin Stein), and<br />Tarpaulin Sky (Joanna Howard).<br /><br />McCormack Family<br />Theater </p><p><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/02/21/the-harp-altar-anthology/">Buy a copy of The Harp & Altar Anthology! </a></p><p><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2010/02/21/the-harp-altar-anthology/"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 313px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 275px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/The-Harp-and-Altar-Anthology1.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /></a></p><blockquote></blockquote><br /><br /><p><br /></p></blockquote></div>Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2978040855738348815.post-37657921037041440292010-11-05T10:55:00.001-07:002010-11-05T15:19:29.018-07:00Three upcoming readings with Joanna Ruocco<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span class="Apple-style-span"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://badshadowaffair.blogspot.com/2010/10/erick-anderson-joanna-ruocco-tim.html">The Bad Shadow Affair </a></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">presents an evening of readings with </div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Joanna Ruocco, </div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Thibault Raoul, </div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Tim Roberts, and</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Margaret Ronda. </div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Details: Reading is November 6th</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">this Saturday at 7:30pm </div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">at Lost Lake Lounge </div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">address: 3602 E. Colfax Ave Denver, CO 80206 </div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Joanna Ruocco is the author of <a href="http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/Ruocco/index.html">Man’s Companions</a> (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010) and <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/the-mothering-coven/">The Mothering Coven</a> (Ellipsis Press, 2009). She co-edits <a href="http://www.birkensnake.com/">Birkensnake</a>, a fiction journal. She currently resides in Denver, Colorado.</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Thibault Raoult, born in Pithiviers, France, & raised in Rochester, NY, has published two chapbooks--"El P.E." via <a href="http://www.projectiveindustries.com/">Projective Industries </a>& "<a href="http://flesheatingpoems.blogspot.com/2007/11/ill-say-im-only-visiting.html">I'll Say I'm Only Visiting</a>" 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 <a href="http://www.blazevox.org/">BlazeVOX Books</a>.</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Tim Roberts is a writer and editor living in Denver. He is the publisher, with Julie Carr, of <a href="http://www.counterpathpress.org/">Counterpath Press</a>. His book Drizzle Pocket will be out from <a href="http://www.blazevox.org/">BlazeVox</a> Books this Spring.</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Margaret Ronda's book of poems, <a href="http://www.upne.com/0-9818591-5-1.html">Personification</a>, 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. </div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">______________________________</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Saturday, November 20th at 7pm </div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">The Dikeou Collection</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">The Colorado Building</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">1615 California Street (at 16th Street)</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Suite 515</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Denver, CO 80202</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Elizabeth ROBINSON</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Erik ANDERSON</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Joanna RUOCCO</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">__________________________________</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Saturday, December 4th at <a href="http://ada-books.com/">Ada Books </a></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">717 Westminster Street • Providence RI • 02903</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">with Brian Conn</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Time: TBA</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">__________________________________</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Buy Ruocco's <i>The Mothering Coven</i><a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/the-mothering-coven/"> here.</a></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 149px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 243px; CURSOR: pointer" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.ellipsispress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/the_mothering_coven_cover-20090814.jpg" />Abouthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765281139765379170noreply@blogger.com