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THE DREAMING GIRL praised in The Review of Contemporary Fiction

2011-11-13T15:31:00.000-08:00

D. Quentin Miller in THE REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION Fall 2011 (XXX1, no.3):‎

"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."
Pick it up today from Ellipsis Press, Small Press Distribution, Amazon, or wherever fine books are sold.

Launch Party for THE DREAMING GIRL with Roberta Allen & Lewis Warsh

2011-10-13T11:37:00.000-07:00

Please join us in celebrating the publication of THE DREAMING GIRL by Roberta Allen.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
7:00 pm
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street
New York City, NY

Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including two collections of short fiction, The Traveling Woman (Vehicle Editions) and Certain People (Coffee House Press); a novella in short short stories, The Daughter (Autonomedia); a memoir, Amazon Dream (City Lights); the novel The Dreaming Girl (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.

Lewis Warsh is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary Books), A Place in the Sun (Spuyten Duyvil), The Origin of the World (Creative Arts) and A Free Man (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.

Roberta Allen documentary: Layers and Lines

2011-10-10T18:24:00.000-07:00

Produced and directed by Ivan Weiss.

Roberta Allen's new book THE DREAMING GIRL is available here:

Upcoming events:
11/1 Roberta Allen, Lynn Crawford, and Norman Lock at St. Mark's Bookshop.
11/9 Roberta Allen, Kirsten Kaschock, John Haskell, & Robin Grearson at Soda Series in Brooklyn.
11/30 THE DREAMING GIRL launch party at KGB. Roberta Allen with Lewis Warsh.

Stephen-Paul Martin's CHANGING THE SUBJECT in ABR

2011-10-05T06:59:00.000-07:00

"The six long stories in Stephen-Paul Martin's outstanding CHANGING THE SUBJECT 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... CHANGING THE SUBJECT is a brilliant book..."

--Matthew Kirkpatrick, American Book Review

Pick up a copy and read more about this book at Ellipsis Press! Also available through Amazon and Small Press Distribution.

Ellipsis Press at St. Mark's Bookshop on Tuesday 11/1

2011-10-03T12:19:00.000-07:00

Roberta Allen, Lynn Crawford, and Norman Lock will be reading at St. Mark's Bookshop on Tuesday, November 1st at 7PM. Come join us!

Tuesday
11/1/11!
7PM at
St. Mark's Bookshop
31 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212-260-7853

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Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including Certain People (Coffee House Press) and The Daughter (Autonomedia). The Dreaming Girl 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. http://www.robertaallen.com

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Lynn Crawford is the author of several books of fiction, including Fortification Resort, Simply Separate People, and most recently, Simply Separate People, Two. Her work appears in various anthologies including: The Harp & Altar Anthology (Ellipsis Press), marks, Fence Fiction, The Brooklyn Rail Anthology, The Oulipo Compendium, lacanian ink, Lilies and Cannonball Review. She is the editor of DETROIT: the journal published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). http://www.lynncrawford.net/

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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 Shadowplay. 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 Shadowplay (Ellipsis Press), The King of Sweden (Ravenna Press), Grim Tales (Mud Luscious Press), and Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions (Spuyten Duyvil). Norman lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, with his wife, Helen. http://www.normanlock.com/

Open Submissions 10/1 to 11/30

2011-08-26T21:08:00.000-07:00

Ellipsis Press will be accepting submissions this fall. Details here: http://www.ellipsispress.com/submission-guidelines/.

Two upcoming readings with Eugene Lim

2011-05-03T08:42:00.000-07:00

Bad Shadow Affair Reading series
at Lost Lake Lounge | 3602 East Colfax | Denver, Colorado

Saturday, May 7th, 7:30pm

Laird Hunt,

Tina Brown Celona,

Keith Newton &

Eugene Lim

will read from their work!

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Queens Poet Lore Presents QPLo @ QL:

A Reading with
Paolo Javier,
Eugene Lim,
Christine Hou

Thursday, May 19
6:30 p.m.
Flushing branch of the Queens Library
Rooms A&B, Lower Level
41-17 Main Street
718-661-1200
Join us and celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with a reading featuring Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier, novelist Eugene Lim, and poet/art critic Christine Hou.

Roberta Allen reads on 4/12/11

2011-04-10T07:30:00.000-07:00

Roberta Allen will read from The Dreaming Girl--a new edition of which is coming out on Ellipsis Press in fall 2011.

7PM CREON Gallery 238 East 24 St, 1B (near 2 Ave) New York, NY

More info at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122465751164224

PIECES FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA & Other Fictions by Norman Lock

2011-04-09T16:38:00.000-07:00

New from Ellipsis Press author Norman Lock : PIECES FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA & Other Fictions -- out this month from Spuyten Duyvil.

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

Pick it up from Spuyten Duyvil.

Joanna Ruocco wins FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize!

2011-04-07T19:13:00.000-07:00

Congratulations Joanna Ruocco!

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.

http://www.fc2blog.org/?p=182

HARP & ALTAR PARTY

2011-04-05T11:56:00.000-07:00

Sat., April 9th - HARP & ALTAR PARTY: Lichtenstein, Schomburg, Zeiss + Music by Hardin

An Event of Poetry, Art, & Music at Switchyard Studios:
109 SE Salmon St,
Portland, OR 97214

This Saturday, please come on out to Switchyard Studios, 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.
http://theswitchpdx.blogspot.com/2011/04/sat-april-9th-harp-altar-launch-party.html

Saturday, April 9th*HARP & ALTAR PARTY@ 6:00 - 8:00p.m.
Jesse Lichtenstein
Zachary Schomburg
Michael Zeiss
Music by Alina Estelle Hardin
& Artwork (TBA)

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.

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.

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.

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 www.harpandaltar.com

Norman Lock reads 3/23/2011 at The Brooklyn Winery

2011-03-22T22:13:00.000-07:00

Come hear Norman Lock, Marcy Dermansky and Lincoln Michel read tonight in Brooklyn! http://tiny.cc/LockinBrooklyn

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 Big Other.
When: March 23rd, beginning at 7 PM.
Where: The Brooklyn Winery, 213 North 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY
Who: Marcy Dermansky, Norman Lock, and Lincoln Michel
Marcy Dermansky is the author of the novels Bad Marie and Twins. 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.
Norman Lock is the author of The King of Sweden (Ravenna Press),Shadowplay (Ellipsis Press), A History of the Imagination (FC2), ‘The Book of Supplemental Diagrams’ for Marco Knauff’s Universe (Ravenna Press), The Long Rowing Unto Morning (Ravenna Press), Two Plays for Radio (Triple Press), and–writing as George Belden–Land of the Snow Men (from Calamari Press and in Japanese from Kawade Shobo Shinsha).
Lincoln Michel 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.

AD JAMESON on CHANGING THE SUBJECT

2011-03-06T07:20:00.000-08:00

AD Jameson in RCF on Stephen-Paul Martin's CHANGING THE SUBJECT:

"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! Changing the Subject is so far by far my favorite new book of 2010."

Read the rest of the review here:

Pick up a copy here today:

The Nation on Joanna Ruocco

2011-03-03T12:26:00.000-08:00

A great review of Joanna Ruocco's Man’s Companions (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010) and The Mothering Coven (Ellipsis Press, 2009) in the newest issue of The Nation.

One of [The Mothering Coven]’s first descriptive passages, which concerns the witches’ next-door neighbor, presents an image of a lettuce heart as a model of the universe:

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.

“Opening everywhere at once” is a good description of The Mothering Coven, 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.
...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.

Read the full article at: http://www.thenation.com/article/158975/wrinkles-time-joanna-ruocco

Pick up a copy today!

Ellipsis Press at AWP in Washington D.C. Table H33

2011-01-27T11:00:00.000-08:00

http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2011exhibitorslist.php

Necessary Fiction reviews THE MOTHERING COVEN

2011-01-05T05:18:00.000-08:00

"There is quite a lot going on in The Mothering Coven: 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."
Read the full review by Michelle Bailat-Jones at Necessary Fiction

Order THE MOTHERING COVEN from Ellipsis Press.

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

2010-12-31T10:43:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-09T07:17:00.001-08:00

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!

2010-12-07T12:39:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-05T18:27:00.000-08:00

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

2010-12-05T18:19:00.000-08:00

"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

2010-11-29T06:13:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-29T05:59:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-05T10:55:00.001-07:00

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

2010-10-13T05:12:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-07T06:12:00.000-07:00

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

2010-10-01T07:28:00.000-07:00

"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

2010-09-20T05:31:00.000-07:00

"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

2010-09-13T08:08:00.000-07:00

"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

2010-09-03T18:54:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-08-05T17:22:00.000-07:00

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

2010-08-05T17:05:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-26T18:44:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-01T16:02:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-11T05:11:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-03T06:55:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-06-02T07:12:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-23T09:22:00.000-07:00

"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

2010-04-06T08:20:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-18T11:21:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-03-15T18:47:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-15T18:42:00.000-07:00

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.

SHADOWPLAY reviewed by Dawn Raffel in The Brooklyn Rail

2010-02-04T06:23:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-31T18:21:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-15T13:40:00.001-08:00

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

Joanna Ruocco's THE MOTHERING COVEN named one of the best books of 2009 by Time Out New York

2009-12-17T05:20:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Joanna Ruocco! Her THE MOTHING COVEN makes TIME OUT NEW YORK's list of Best Books of 2009:

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/books/81531/best-and-worst-books-of-2009

Makes a great gift too:
http://www.ellipsispress.com/2009/09/01/the-mothering-coven

THE COLLAGIST podcasts Norman Lock reading from SHADOWPLAY

2009-12-16T11:24:00.000-08:00

A big thanks to Matt Bell for THE COLLAGIST and its most recent podcast, featuring Norman Lock reading from his SHADOWPLAY. An excerpt from Norman Lock’s new novel Shadowplay also appeared in the October 2009 issue of The Collagist.

Podcast here: http://thecollagist.com/wordpress/?p=479

Little Burn Films' 60 Writers / 60 Places

2009-12-11T05:33:00.000-08:00

Little Burn Films' 60 Writers / 60 Places will screen today at noon at Pratt University and tomorrow 12/10 6:30PM at PPOW Gallery.

Ellipsis Press authors Eugene Marten & Eugene Lim, along with several contributors to our upcoming Harp & Altar anthology--Eileen Myles, Joanna Howard, and Leni Zumas--will be featured.

See trailers and more info here:
http://www.littleburnfilms.com/60Writers60Places.html

PPOW Gallery is at 511 W 25th St, Rm 301 :: New York, NY 10001 :: 212.647.1044

Two upcoming readings

2009-12-08T07:02:00.000-08:00

This Friday 12/11 @ 7PM Eugene Marten reads with Erich Hintze and musician Phillip Stearns as part of the Littoral series at Issue Project Room. Marten's new book FIREWORK due out soon from Tyrant Books.
http://issueprojectroom.org/2009/11/04/littoral-with-phillip-stearns/

On Monday 12/14 @ 8PM Eugene Lim reads with Justin Sirois at The Poetry Project.
http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/eugene-lim-justin-sirois.html

Buy Eugene Marten's WASTE and Eugene Lim's FOG & CAR from Ellipsis Press:
http://www.ellipsispress.com/

The Quarterly Conversation reviews Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY.

2009-11-25T06:55:00.000-08:00

"Lock’s language reflects the fabulous nature of the myth, intricate in description but never hard to understand, full of repeated images that, however simple, resonate deeply within the story."
http://quarterlyconversation.com/shadowplay-by-norman-lock

Purchase SHADOWPLAY from Ellipsis Press.

Eugene Lim reads at Poetry Project on 12/14

2009-11-20T06:21:00.002-08:00

Eugene Lim reads at Poetry Project on 12/14 with Justin Sirois. Come by!

http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/eugene-lim-justin-sirois.html

December 14, 2009
8:00 pm | Monday

Ruocco and Lock in The Midwest Book Review

2009-11-20T06:21:00.001-08:00

The Midwest Book Review recommends both Joanna Ruocco's THE MOTHERING COVEN and Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY in their "Small Press Bookwatch."

http://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/nov_09.htm#Fiction

Guerrilla Girls on Tour names THE MOTHERING COVEN one of 2009's best books

2009-11-20T06:16:00.002-08:00

Guerrilla Girls on Tour corrects PW's weenie roast--and names Joanna Ruocco's THE MOTHERING COVEN one of the best books of 2009.

http://guerrillagirlsontour.blogspot.com/2009/11/best-books-of-2009.html

New MLP chapbooks from Ellipsis Press authors

2009-11-20T06:16:00.001-08:00

Joanna Ruocco's THE BAKER'S DAUGHTER and Eugene Lim's AND THEN SHE WAKES UP are two new chapbooks just out from J. Tyler's Mudluscious Press. Including shipping, only three bucks!

http://www.aboutjatyler.com/index_files/Page326.html

Interview with Norman Lock at The Collagist with Matt Bell

2009-10-28T08:12:00.000-07:00

Norman Lock, author of the recent SHADOWPLAY (Ellipsis Press) interviewed by Matt Bell over at The Collagist. Here are two bits:

Life apart from the page has become difficult – this, I know to be the result of self-consciousness, which in my case is a flinching from the assault of consciousness on a sensibility insufficiently armed against its painful disclosures. I’m sure this is true for many other sensitive people; I’m just one who has happened to make self-consciousness a subject of fiction.

and another bit:

To say that I am a writer and am interested in stories is not the tautology it might appear. At least for one who was once suspicious of stories. I came of age when language was foregrounded and stories were mere plots and to be despised. Even before language was preeminent, characterization was everything; the psychological work of fiction, this was the ideal to which a young writer with very little experience of world literature – with no experience at all of anti-naturalistic forms – aspired. My mistrust of stories may have been a misunderstanding of what fiction is; even psychological fiction tells stories – yes? I may have confused story with plot, or perhaps not. Do we not seem to prefer “fiction” and “narrative” to “story” in our description of what we do? In our minds don’t we make a distinction between literary fiction and mere stories, which are what general readers seek in the best-sellers we disdain? (Perhaps writers younger than I are today suspicious even of the literary.)

Read the rest of the interview at: http://thecollagist.com/wordpress/?p=371

Norman Lock, Joanna Ruocco, and Gary Lutz read for Ellipsis Press

2009-10-22T17:51:00.000-07:00

Book party for Shadowplay & The Mothering Coven.

Norman Lock, Joanna Ruocco, and Gary Lutz
read for Ellipsis Press Saturday, October 24th, 2009 4-7PM
Readings start at 4PM.

at Barbès | DIRECTIONS: 376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY

Come celebrate the launch of new Ellipsis Press titles by Norman Lock and Joanna Ruocco. A hypnotic tale of artistic obsession, Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY tells the story of a Javanese shadow-puppet master. "Wise up and get all you can of Lock," says Gordon Lish. Joanna Ruocco's THE MOTHERING COVEN is a "work of wonder" (Carole Maso), a singular act of prose daring. Also reading will be special guest and short story master: Gary Lutz.

Excerpt of SHADOWPLAY in The Collagist

2009-10-16T09:33:00.000-07:00

The rods were awkward in Guntur’s hands, and the puppets faltered behind the screen. No longer supple, his hands had forgotten how to divine the presence of the unseen. His voice also faltered. It would advance haltingly, as if words were stones above the surface of a river to be crossed with deliberation. During his exile, Guntur had lost the habit of speech. But an uncommon — even unnatural — sympathy for the wayang had not lessened during the years he had kept himself apart from people and puppets, both. If anything, it had increased while he taught himself to enter the minds of his puppets, especially that of Arjuna with whom he most identified...

Read the rest at http://www.thecollagist.com/archive/October2009/Lock/index.html

Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY and Joanna Ruocco's THE MOTHERING COVEN officially released today!

2009-10-15T12:50:00.000-07:00

Buy from Ellipsis Press at: http://www.ellipsispress.com/

And come to the launch party on Saturday 10/24 from 4-7PM:

A hypnotic tale of artistic obsession, Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY tells the story of a Javanese shadow-puppet master. "Wise up and get all you can of Lock," says Gordon Lish. Joanna Ruocco's THE MOTHERING COVEN is a "work of wonder" says Carole Maso, a singular act of prose daring. Also reading will be special guest and short story master Gary Lutz.

Saturday, October 24th, 2009 4-7PM
at Barbès | 376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY

Derek White reviews SHADOWPLAY

2009-10-14T11:28:00.000-07:00

Shadowplay in Bangkok

Seeker and Scriber Derek White -- about on one of his many and various peregrinations -- reviews SHADOWPLAY:

"Lock is a master storyteller that transcends place & time. more than a storyteller, Lock seeks to reveal new meanings & truths in his explorations, to unveil the unseen [not to expose, but to reVEIL[& thus reveal]. he doesn't just seek to entertain, you get a sense he is deeply (& oddly) compelled towards his plots."

Read the rest here: http://5cense.com/09/BangTokDon/Re_Siam.htm

Eugene Marten's WASTE reviewed in THE QUARTERLY CONVERSATION

2009-10-12T08:49:00.000-07:00

Eugene Marten’s Waste is blurbed up by the Lish School (including Lish himself) so I was expecting a quirkily written, intelligent effort more concerned with the structures of its sentences than narrative cohesion; what I got is a brutal, disturbing little novel that works beautifully both for those who read for story and those who read for the artistry—or at least those who read for those things but who can deal with a shocking amount of physical and psychological trauma distilled down into sharp, tight sentences.

Read the entire review at http://quarterlyconversation.com/waste-by-eugene-marten

THE KING OF SWEDEN reviewed at Bookslut.com.

2009-10-07T06:14:00.000-07:00

Norman Lock's previous book THE KING OF SWEDEN (Ravenna Press) reviewed at Bookslut.com.

"Lock demonstrates a keenness for bringing the inanimate to life… The fresh language that Lock employs makes reading it more akin to lyric poetry than no...vel. … [A] brilliant miniaturist…"
--JESSE TANGEN-MILLS at Bookslut.com
http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2009_10_015190.php

Eugene Marten in The Brooklyn Rail

2009-10-05T19:05:00.000-07:00

Excerpt from Eugene Marten's forthcoming novel Firework (New York Tyrant) in the current Brooklyn Rail

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/10/fiction/from-firework

Dennis Cooper gives a nice shout out to WASTE on his blog

2009-10-05T07:29:00.000-07:00

Along with Blake Butler's SCORCH ATLAS, Tao Lin's SHOPLIFTING..., and Matt Bell's THE COLLECTORS, DC cites Eugene Marten's WASTE among books he's "read recently and loved."

Norman Lock, Joanna Ruocco, and Gary Lutz read for Ellipsis Press

2009-09-01T09:51:00.000-07:00

Book party for Shadowplay & The Mothering Coven.

Norman Lock, Joanna Ruocco, and Gary Lutz
read for Ellipsis Press Saturday, October 24th, 2009 4-7PM
Readings start at 4PM.

Ellipsis Press will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival

2009-09-01T09:43:00.000-07:00

We'll be selling lovely, soft papery wares--
including our new fall 2009 titles:

Norman Lock's Shadowplay and

Joanna Ruocco's The Mothering Coven.

Brooklyn Book Festival Directions

Corey Frost and Joanna Sondheim will be reading at the Boog City Festival.

2009-09-01T09:33:00.000-07:00

Saturday, September 12th and 13th, 2009 | 12-6PM

at Unnameable Books | 600 Vanderbilt Ave. in Brooklyn

Books--including new titles by Joanna Ruocco and Norman Lock--will be on sale.

Corey Frost will be reading at around 1:40PM on Saturday. He is the author of The Worthwhile Flux (conundrum, 2004) and My Own Devices (2006). He has been a featured spoken word performer at festivals and events across Canada and the US, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and his performances have aired on the CBC, the ABC, and local stations around the world. He is currently writing a doctoral dissertation at the CUNY Graduate Center, entitled The Omnidirectional Microphone: Performance Literature as Social Project. His work appears in the forthcoming Harp & Altar Reader (Ellipsis Press).

Joanna Sondheim will be reading at around 12:30PM on Sunday. Her work has appeared in Unsaid, can we have our ball back, sonaweb, Harp & Altar, The Portable Boog Reader 2, and Bird Dog, among others. Her chapbooks, The Fit and Thaumatrope, were published by Sona Books. Her poetry appears in the forthcoming Harp & Altar Reader (Ellipsis Press).

Other Harp & Altar and Ellipsis Press contributors also participating. See full schedule at: http://welcometoboogcity.com/bc59.pdf

Eugene Marten's WASTE reviewed in the Ottawa XPress

2009-07-29T12:03:00.000-07:00

Geoffrey Brown's summer reading list in the Ottawa XPress includes Eugene Marten's Waste:

Eugene Marten's slim novella Waste (Ellipsis Press) details the day-to-day existence and experiences of Sloper, a janitor in a big-city office building. With unnerving clarity and precision, Marten starkly executes a chilling portrait of loneliness and anonymity, reminding us, in the process, that that which we might ever so casually discard and dismiss may not necessarily respond so casually in kind.

Check out the whole list at http://ottawaxpress.ca/books/books.aspx?iIDArticle=17883

Harp & Altar #6 is up!

2009-06-22T08:54:00.000-07:00

Harp & Altar announces the release of its sixth issue

It was a nice two-syllable name. Hart Crane. Even one. He was the son of a candy-maker, the one who invented life-savers. Hart Crane drowned, so that was pretty strange. I read everything he wrote which was only White Buildings and The Bridge which I found a little impossible. And then the fat biography and his letters. I had never read anyone's letters before.. I was 27. It was good being a journalist or whatever I was now because I could do all the reading that was too much in college because now I was getting paid to know. I could see in my reading that Hart was trying to write the great long American poem and I think it was beyond him. Not because he wasn't great, but the long poem idea seems a little stretched thin and who needs it, really. But Hart kept finding patrons and getting grants. He was like a comic ingenue. He winds up completely isolated on an tropical island in a hurricane or else getting thrown out of Mexico on his Guggenheim he was such a drunk. Meanwhile, writing writing the bridge. Why has no one ever made this film. He was a very familiar man. I felt I knew him. A prematurely white-haired fag, shy-faced and handsome. Wearing one of those Russian sailor shirts he was always leaning against a tree or posing in a group, distractedly touching his own face. He seemed to be gazing into another world. My father looked that way in our family pictures. I figured it meant you were gay. There's one of me when I was thirteen sitting with all of my friends and I was doing it. Looking right through the camera, back at myself but pleased. Usually the other people in the picture seem to be actually in the world. They're stopping the balloon from floating off.

Eileen Myles, from "hart!"

Also: poetry by Kate Greenstreet, Jennifer Hayashida, Karla Kelsey, Justin Marks, Patrick Morrissey, Rob Schlegel, and Andrei Sen-Senkov, translated by Zachary Schomburg; prose by Roberta Allen, Stephen-Paul Martin, Joanna Ruocco, and David Wirthlin; Jared White on Brandon Shimoda and Michael Zeiss on Kafka; an excerpt from Lisa Jarnot's biography of Robert Duncan; and Michael Newton's gallery reviews.

www.harpandaltar.com

Eugene Lim's Fog & Car reviewed in The Review of Contemporary Fiction

2009-06-18T10:27:00.000-07:00

Lim peels relentlessly at his story’s realism until it tugs loose, revealing much stranger happenings underneath… a disturbing mystery pitched somewhere between Mulholland Drive and City of Glass... [I]t never loses its appealing initial tone of aching loneliness, even as its characters and its goings-on grow increasingly supernatural.

Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 2009 issue
http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/show_review/89

Eugene Marten reads for latest UNSAID issue

2009-06-10T07:58:00.000-07:00

Ellipsis Press author Eugene Marten reads as part of the great UNSAID's issue launch this Monday at KGB.

http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/unsaid_launch_party/

Fog & Car reviewed on NewPages

2009-06-01T11:13:00.000-07:00

How Lim manages to negotiate the reversals, to maintain believability, to take the reader with him, is only part of his success, for it is, ironically, the story’s lack of resolution that brings satisfaction… It balances, albeit in a detached tone, compassionate depictions of moral dissolution with Murakami-styled fabulist plot departures, dramatic reversals, and coincidental connections. It leaves the reader with a balled up jumble of narrative threads, but in such a sophisticated and befuddling manner as to force Murakami’s own mind into a tailspin. Fog & Car is an extraordinary debut.

WASTE reviewed on Word Riot

2009-05-15T18:24:00.000-07:00

[T]the banality of the day-to-day workaday eccentricities of a troubled janitor's lonely life is recorded with devastating precision... One might think that mentioning the novella's startling nods to "A Rose for Emily" and Psycho, would ruin its surprises, but the details of Waste's strengths lay not beneath a spoiler alert but within its acute attention to language, its profound empathy and understanding for its protagonist, and its underlying critique of the endless cycle of consumption and waste.

New Norman Lock website

2009-04-02T06:10:00.000-07:00

Ellipsis Press will be publishing Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY later this year. His latest novel is called THE KING OF SWEDEN from Ravenna Press. His website just got a relaunch and it's a good place to get acquainted with his fantastic and various work. A bit of praise from it:

"All hail Lock, whose narrative soul sings fairy tales, whose language is glass."
–Kate Bernheimer

"[Lock's] prose is melodial, and alert to every signal from the unseen."
--Gary Lutz

"Lock's weapon is words, and he uses them well....like a nightmare that wakes you up shaking, forcing you to reassess your life."
—LA Life

"Lock’s language, though basically sleek and minimal, combines the high gloss and perspicuity of the Edwardian age with the robustness and vigor of American inventiveness, leavened by a facility for maximizing – to marvelous effect – the dichotomy between the sign and its object."
–– John Olson, First Intensity

"In truth? In truth, Lock writes it, Lish reads it! – which is a damn sight more than Lish will say for Proust."
–– Gordon Lish

Ellipsis Press featured in Time Out New York

2009-04-02T06:04:00.001-07:00

In a cover story about do-it-yourselfers' various workarounds, Ellipsis Press author and publisher Eugene Lim gets profiled. Full story at:
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/features/72815/take-charge/2.html

Video of Lim and Marten reading at McNally Jackson last week

2009-03-17T14:56:00.001-07:00

Courtesy of Derek White:

The good, the bad, and the slightly confusing....

2009-03-17T14:19:00.000-07:00

The ever generous, flâneuring Derek White takes a walkabout NYC and does some ruminating on Fog & Car:

On the plane here I watched some movies, most not worth mentioning besides Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I did see some program on Andy Warhol though, and they were talking about his movies, the ones where he would put a camera on people, unscripted, without guidance, and then leave the room. They'd leave the camera on them for hours, until something had to give. Somebody commentating on it was saying something about how Warhol dances this fine line between what’s exciting and boring. And how this is sexual or some such thing. I'm not sure why I'm telling you this, except to say that maybe Fog & Car skates this same fine line. Through rout reiteration, Lim pushes boring to the extreme that it becomes exciting. How does Lim do this? To quote his character, “the normal always let my mind go the farthest, always the immediate physical world was navigable without thinking, so that thinking would head elsewhere, deep into its own self-contained jungle.”
more at: http://www.5cense.com/zero_sum.htm

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A critical, sometimes complimentary review of WASTE by Vanessa Place in The American Book Review. Arguably it underestimates the use of class in the book--but judge for yourself:

http://americanbookreview.org/sampleReview.asp?Issue=10&id=20

It starts out with some friendly fire:

Eugene Marten is a writer's writer, a writer after whom many other writers would be happy to clean up, his books provoking the sort of breathless admiration usually reserved for the deceased... Marten writes precisely. He writes to the point. His sentences are crisp and clean as fresh cider. His paragraphs unfold with the grace of small paper swans. He writes of things in their thingness, abject in their sobbing objectivity. If his books were marsupials, they'd be opossums. If furniture, Ottomans. He eschews similes and metaphors like these, preferring the raw truths of things simply said.

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Also Thomas McGonigle writes something about both Waste and Fog & Car. For example:

I have tried to read each of the books.
I know that Marten has published an earlier book with Turtle Point Press.
I am interested in why I have not read more. The Marten book is in the tradition of Bataille’s The Story of the Eye.
I am probably not strong enough to read about a janitor and what he collects.
FOG & CAR by LIM is more appealing but I can’t get beyond the names: MR FOG and SARAH CAR.

The rest at his blog: http://abcofreading.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-and-old-lim-marten-and-fine.html

Eugene Marten + Eugene Lim read at McNally Jackson on Thursday March 12th

2009-02-21T15:19:00.000-08:00

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HARP & ALTAR & MAD HATTERS’ REVIEW PRESENT

2009-01-05T06:34:00.001-08:00

HARP & ALTAR & MAD HATTERS’ REVIEW PRESENT

February 13, 2009

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

at the KGB Bar

Come by and hear some great writers of unconventional fiction chosen by the editors of Harp & Altar and the Mad Hatters' Review.

Joshua Cohen is the author of four books, including the novels Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto (Fugue State Press, 2007) and A Heaven of Others (Starcherone, 2007). Another novel, Graven Imaginings, is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press. Essays have appeared in The Forward, Nextbook, The Believer, and Harper’s. North Vain, Bluff, from which the piece that appears in the current issue of Harp & Altar is excerpted, is the second book of a series entitled Two Great Russian Novels. He lives in Brooklyn.

Tim Horvath, whose fiction appears in the current issue of MHR, won the 2006 Raymond Carver Short Story Award and the ‘06 prize of the Society for the Study of the Short Story. His stories are out or forthcoming in Alimentum: The Literature of Food, Fiction, Web Conjunctions, SleepingFish, Sein und Werden, and elsewhere. He teaches a class for Grub Street Writers in Boston centered on the application of findings from brain science to writing and literature. His novella Circulation, called “a glittering narrative performance” by David Huddle, will be released as a short book by Sunnyoutside Press in January 2009. He is currently working on a novel in which one or more (it is unclear which) microscopic counter-novels fester in the interstices of the typeface and must be eradicated lest the infra-structure come crashing down.

Joanna Howard is the author of Frights of Fancy, a collection of short prose forthcoming from Boa Editions. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, Chicago Review, Unsaid, Quarterly West, American Letters and Commentary, Fourteen Hills, Western Humanities Review, Salt Hill, Tarpaulin Sky and elsewhere. A chapbook In the Colorless Round, with artwork by novelist and artist Rikki Ducornet, is available from Noemi Press. Her “Seascape” appeared in Harp & Altar #2.

Mary Mackey, with poems forthcoming in MHR Issue 11, is a poet and novelist who lives in Berkeley, California. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Breaking The Fever (Marsh Hawk Press); one experimental novella, Immersion; and fourteen novels, including A Grand Passion(Simon & Schuster), The Year the Horses Came (HarperCollins), The Notorious Mrs. Winston(Putnam/Berkley Books), and The Widow’s War (Putnam/Berkley Books--in press for Fall 2009). Mackey’s works have been translated into eleven foreign languages including Japanese, Hebrew, Greek, and Finnish. She has lectured at Harvard and the Smithsonian, is past president of the West Coast branch of PEN, a Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Professor Emeritus of English at California State University. A member of the Writers Guild of America, West, she wrote the screenplay for the award-winning feature film Silence. More information about her can be found at www.marymackey.com. and at www.marshhawkpress.org.

Harp & Altar #5 now up!

2008-12-19T06:02:00.000-08:00

harp & altar #5 has new poetry, fiction, and essays for your recurrent, sweet, sad days... including new fiction from joshua cohen, evelyn hampton, lily hoang, peter markus, bryson newhart and some re(-dis)covered robert walser translations. also: poetry by stephanie anderson, jessica baron, julia cohen, claire donato, elizabeth sanger, peter jay shippy, and g.c. waldrep; patrick morrissey on john taggart and matthew henriksen on anywhere; michael newton's gallery reviews; and artwork by a.l. steiner + robbinschilds...

Robert Walser
From "Oskar"
He began this strange behavior at a very early age by going his own way and finding such evident pleasure in being alone. In later years he recalled very clearly that nobody had made him aware of such things. All by itself the strange need to be alone and apart had appeared, and was there... Even though it was winter, he would have no heating. He did not want any comforts. Everything around him had to be rough, inhospitable, and miserable. He wanted to bear and endure some thing, and ordered himself to do so. And that, nobody had told him either. All alone he had the idea that it would be good for him to order himself to bear hardship and malice in a friendly and good-hearted manner. He considered himself to be at a kind of upper-level school. He went to university there, as a weird and wild student...

Bryson Newhart
from "Paterfamilias"
After compulsory relocation to Hornville, Misery's family lived in a skyscraper made of living flesh. The building's eyes served as windows that were barely transparent, and although it was said that the heavens were out there, no one could see them. The people who lived in the building wore internal helmets injected into their ears by the doorman, who was also a skilled surgeon. On any given day, one was either deaf to the world, or everything was painfully amplified, but it was worth it. The human head was indestructible. When people died, the government shot their heads into the sun...

Evelyn Hampton
From "Discomfort"
While I am talking with him I am also walking, and I've lost track of where I am by the time our conversation pauses. Curtains get in the way, obstructing light as clutter obstructs movement. He is not someone I have ever been comfortable with—I can't recall his name—so I am more aware of my body while I'm walking and intonation while I'm talking than I am when with a familiar person, whose ways of judging me won't surprise me. It doesn't help that he's a back-patter and an arm-grabber, likes to touch while conversing...

at http://www.harpandaltar.com

Fog & Car reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail

2008-12-12T12:08:00.000-08:00

Oisin Curran writes, "Fog & Car alternates between Car and Fog, establishing a contrapuntal rhythm that incrementally resolves into a lucid, supple prose emblematic of their slow recovery from each other. Ironically, over the course of the novel they become more alike. And just as the reader is settling into what appears to be a subtle, penetrating meditation on contemporary relationships, everything is thrown into disarray by the appearance of a deus ex machina in the form of a third major character..."

More at http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/12/books/fiction-accidents-will-happen

Ellipsis, Calamari, and 3rd Bed Books at the 21st Annual Indie & Small Press Book Fair

2008-12-01T18:24:00.000-08:00

Saturday 12/6 from 10AM-6PM &

Sunday 12/7 from 11AM-5PM

We'll have a table with papery, soft wares. A good chance to pick up Ellipsis titles as well as books by Peter Markus, Miranda Mellis, Robert Lopez, Norman Lock, J'Lyn Chapman, Derek White, James Lewelling, Gary Lutz, David Ohle and many an other.

Come by!

http://www.nycip.org/bookfair/

Directions: http://www.nycip.org/contact/directions.php

http://www.calamaripress.com/

http://www.ellipsispress.com/

Blake Butler reviews Fog & Car

2008-10-21T19:38:00.000-07:00

Last night I sat down to start reading Eugene Lim's FOG & CAR, the other of the two debut books from Ellipsis Press along with Eugene Marten's WASTE, which I loved and talked about a while back, I hadn't meant to read for very long but found myself unable to stop reading the book. FOG & CAR is a strange amalgam of several ideas, it begins with a dissolved marriage from which both ends begin to branch and splinter and spread back into each other in weird ways. I was surprised to be so captivated by a book about a ruined marriage, which it is only on the surface, what it really is is a puzzle and a book of worming forms, sometimes the tense shifts or lines are layered and/or repeated, there is a lot of subtle innovation, refreshing....

More at: http://blakebutler.blogspot.com/2008/10/eugene-lims-fog-car-boinking-in-baby.html

Launch Party for WASTE and FOG & CAR

2008-10-21T16:04:00.000-07:00

Eugene Marten reads from Waste.

Eugene Lim reads from Fog & Car.

...and some audio:

Jason Rice reviews WASTE at the Three-Guys-One-Book blog

2008-10-20T17:16:00.000-07:00

Eugene Marten writes with a chiseled flair that is basically unheard of in today's fiction market, at least in the books you'll find on the shelves in your local stores. There isn't a simple way to describe it, or how to believe the feelings you have once inside these sentences. Then you marvel at how you got so caught up in this main characters mundane attempt to clean up after people.

More at: http://threeguysonebook.blogspot.com/2008/10/waste-by-eugene-marten.html

Come help us celebrate the launch of Waste and Fog & Car

2008-10-09T07:44:00.000-07:00

Come help us celebrate the launch of Waste and Fog & Car on

Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 7:30PM at Freebird Books

on 123 Columbia Street in Brooklyn. Directions here.

Fog & Car reviewed on Bookslut

2008-10-09T07:41:00.000-07:00

Erin McKnight writes, "In this debut novel documenting the aftermath of a shattered marriage—its disintegration evident in the artifacts of memory and loss strewn across an abandoned landscape—Eugene Lim doesn’t as much collect and catalogue the fragments of lives shared, as artfully piece them into a puzzle reflective of players whose moves were induced by seemingly inconsequent forces… [A] phenomenal ability to nestle revelatory gems in the corners of his muscular text." More at: http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2008_10_013525.php

Upstart Publishers E-Panel

2008-10-09T07:38:00.000-07:00

We participated on an e-panel with several other new presses–organized by Dan Wickett of DZANC books. Participants included:

Kathleen M. Rooney and Abigail Beckel – Rose Metal Press
Aaron Burch and Elizabeth Ellen – Short Flight/Long Drive Books, a division of Hobart
Johannah Rodgers and Eugene Lim – Ellipsis Press
Aaron Petrovich and Alex Rose – Hotel St. George Press
Giancarlo Di Trapano – Tyrant Books
Victoria Blake – Underland Press
Peter Cole – Keyhole Books

The LATIMES bookblog wrote it up:

Why found an independent press? And why do it now? Ellipsis Press’ Eugene Lim has an answer:

I’d like to think an indie movement is going on. Twelve years ago there was an issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, titled “The Future of Fiction,” and edited by none other than David Foster Wallace. In it, there’s a hilarious and dead-on piece by Dalkey head John O’Brien, which stated among other things that the “end of literary books in commercial publishing is a historical inevitability.” And so it has come to pass. The bigger houses will cease (have ceased!) to publish literary fiction. It is not profitable for them to market and produce a title that will sell to 5000 people (even if Rick Moody strong-arms a National Book Award for them). S’okay though. The old publishing joke goes, How do you make a small fortune in publishing? Answer: Start with a large one. And then you and your crony get to laugh bitterly together. But it’s the wrong question. A small and lively (and one hopes resurging) group of people care about the novel as art. And with the new methods of production and distribution, it’s getting easier for writers to connect with readers.

here’s the panel in its entirety: http://emergingwriters.typepad.com/emerging_writers_network/2008/09/e-panel-publish.html

Derek and Eugene at the Brooklyn Bookfest

2008-10-09T07:32:00.001-07:00

"The next day we got up early and took the subway to Brooklyn. Met Eugene Lim and lugged our collective books (Calamari, Ellipsis, 3rd Bed and Kwani?) to the Brooklyn Book Festival. Thanks to all that braved the epic heat to stop by. Tao Lin stopped by and as always picked up a couple of books. So even if he is involved in dubious literary hijinx such as selling a book he hadn't even written yet for $12,000, his profiteering goes to a worthy cause. Albeit a financially losing cause (didn't even make enough to pay for the table). No matter. A bunch of people stopped by asking for Binyavanga, since he had a scheduled speaking engagement at the festival. He emailed me the night before saying he couldn't get a visa. Good thing I had some Kwanis that I brought with me to hawk. Teju Cole was one of those that stopped by asking for Binya. He had his book with him, but wouldn't sell it to me, damn it. Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly Ducking stopped by. Amy Hempel even stopped by our table. At one point, I think it was while I was talking to Justin Taylor, it felt like the book festival was taking place inside a sauna bath. Most everyone was dripping sweat, but trying to make the best of it. Afterwards I felt like we had all run a marathon. Luckily I was dressed for the occasion, like a recovering junky tennis player in all black, in mourning for DFW. "
From Derek White's blog. More at: http://www.5cense.com/NYC_Revisisted.htm

Matt Bell reviews Waste at NewPages.com

2008-10-09T07:27:00.000-07:00

Eugene Marten's second novel Waste will entrance you from the very first page, drawing you in with its tight, evocative language and magnificent pacing. For the first third of the book, you'd be excused if you thought that all you were getting was a wonderfully written but generally quiet book about a creepy janitor working late nights in a high-rise office building. You'd be wrong, but your mistake would be understandable, and quickly rectified: What follows is one of the most disturbing stories I've read.
More at: http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/Default.htm#waste

The Cleveland Scene's profile of Eugene Marten

2008-10-09T07:26:00.000-07:00

IN THE MODERN WORLD of letters, Eugene Marten is an anomaly. No MFA, no writing program, no writers’ group, no conferences, no divine inspiration, no family storytelling tradition, no rich mommy or daddy, no agent. Nothing but Marten writing for two to three hours every day before work. A day’s work before the paying job, usually something manual (not menial) — printer, locksmith, janitor, security guard, driver. The kinds of jobs, necessary but not highly valued, that if properly performed render the doer largely invisible. Not unlike the job of writing a book.
More at: http://www.freetimes.com/stories/11/26/books-the-wasteland-novelist-eugene-marten-finds-poetry-in-manual-labor

Blake Butler reviews Waste

2008-10-09T07:24:00.000-07:00

I read WASTE by Eugene Marten (brand new from Ellipsis Press) day before yesterday, I am most impressed by Marten's ability to write about overlooked everyday people in a way that makes their lives seem layered like a secret door, like every person is a door into some small compartment where they keep things they value, where they sleep. WASTE is maybe a 2 hour read and will jar your teeth out some, no, really. It has a blurb by Gordon Lish, what do you think about that. It is about a janitor who goes around in this one buildings working with trash. I will read anything Eugene Marten's for the rest of my life, I feel like he is important. His sentences are sentences in the realest application of the word, in that each one kind of condemns itself on the paper or in you in your own mind.
More at: http://blakebutler.blogspot.com/2008/08/smarmump-eliminator.html

Steve Himmer reviews Waste

2008-10-09T07:22:00.000-07:00

Reading Eugene Marten’s Waste is like reading the margins of Then We Came to the End, or inspecting the after dark corners of the corporate office building where Waste’s cleaning crew protagonist Sloper works.
More at: http://www.tawnygrammar.org/notes/2893/waste-by-eugene-marten

Is-that-so-wrong blogs about Waste

2008-10-09T07:19:00.001-07:00

Although in recent years I've turned into a voracious reader, it only happens once or twice a year that I find a work of literary fiction that grabs me by the lapels and pulls me to the end in a breathless flurry of page-turning. This year’s most recent recipient of this honor: Waste by Eugene Marten.

More at: http://isthatsowrong.blogspot.com/2008/09/necrophilia-for-all.html

Josh Maday blogs about Waste

2008-10-09T07:13:00.000-07:00

"I can say that Waste tracked little hexes of dried blood across my brain with rugged work boots. It's definitely a dark novel.... The writing is a precise and rusty cutting instrument. Marten's sentences are clipped and rich. Distilled to the essence. The deadpan matter of fact tone creates the perfect feeling of Sloper's numb indifferent sickness that goes unchecked in his isolation."
More at: http://joshmaday.blogspot.com/2008/09/somebody-yelled-and-music-faded.html

Ellipsis Press announces new books from Marten and Lim!

2008-10-09T07:06:00.000-07:00

Praise for Eugene Marten's Waste

"Dark and difficult, with clipped sentences and pungent passages, [Waste] concerns a janitor whose use of office workers' waste and personal objects is queasy…. a look at humanity from the slick insides of a wastebasket."
Angle: a Journal of Arts + Culture

"Only Eugene Marten can keep a reader enthralled with the minutiae of a janitorial existence. From the most unlikely of subjects Marten constructs, with great care and taking joy in every sentence, a spellbinding work. Precisely and exquisitely detailed, Waste is a stark little masterpiece."
–Brian Evenson

"There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten's prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction."
–Sam Lipsyte

"When a poet pal had put a copy of Waste into my hands, I right away went nuts until I had gotten myself in touch with its author for to add to my household a supply of enough copies to scare all my writer friends with. Here, said I, in wild proclamation, is one for history and a half."
–Gordon Lish

"This is surely one of the darkest and most jarring books I've read. It is also pitch-perfect. Waste wastes nothing–not a syllable, a beat, a ragged breath."
–Dawn Raffel

Purchase from Ellipsis Press or buy through SPD, Powell's, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.

Praise for Eugene Lim's Fog & Car

"In this astonishing, assured first novel Eugene Lim intertwines elegant poetics with a fantastic plot, rife with love, mystery, malaise, and the supernatural. His gift for ingenious, startling permutations of language and plot make for a memorable, mesmerizing read. It was hard for me to put Fog and Car down; harder for me to stop thinking about."
—Lynn Crawford

"The events of this novel take place in a space contrary to action, illuminating the silences of the page and the nothing that haunts the borders of "doing something." A beautifully paced and thoughtful work."
—Renee Gladman

"In Fog & Car Eugene Lim scalpels deep into the loneliness of coupledom, into divorce, into obsession and stalking, into casual hookups, into homoerotic shocks. The book slowly heats its duos until they come to a rolling boil, blistering out surprises and unexpected complexities. Mr. Lim is definitely a writer to watch."
—Steve Katz

"In Fog & Car, Eugene Lim renders the uncanny convergences of the lives of partners and strangers in a language entirely new. This is a deep, engulfing novel of breathtaking, even spooking precision—an altogether heady and heart-shaking debut."
—Gary Lutz

Purchase from Ellipsis Press or buy through SPD, Powell's, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.

The Ellipsis Press Blog

THE DREAMING GIRL praised in The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Launch Party for THE DREAMING GIRL with Roberta Allen & Lewis Warsh

Roberta Allen documentary: Layers and Lines

Stephen-Paul Martin's CHANGING THE SUBJECT in ABR

Ellipsis Press at St. Mark's Bookshop on Tuesday 11/1

Open Submissions 10/1 to 11/30

Two upcoming readings with Eugene Lim

Bad Shadow Affair Reading seriesat Lost Lake Lounge | 3602 East Colfax | Denver, Colorado

Saturday, May 7th, 7:30pm

Laird Hunt,

Tina Brown Celona,

Keith Newton &

Eugene Lim

Queens Poet Lore Presents QPLo @ QL:

A Reading withPaolo Javier,Eugene Lim,Christine Hou

Roberta Allen reads on 4/12/11

PIECES FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA & Other Fictions by Norman Lock

Joanna Ruocco wins FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize!

HARP & ALTAR PARTY

Norman Lock reads 3/23/2011 at The Brooklyn Winery

AD JAMESON on CHANGING THE SUBJECT

The Nation on Joanna Ruocco

Ellipsis Press at AWP in Washington D.C. Table H33

Necessary Fiction reviews THE MOTHERING COVEN

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

Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY reviewed in latest RCF

Harp & Altar #8 is up!

BOMB magazine names CHANGING THE SUBJECT an Editor's Choice

KGB BAR LIT MAGAZINE reviews CHANGING THE SUBJECT

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

Joanna Ruocco and Keith Newton at Brown University on Tuesday

Three upcoming readings with Joanna Ruocco

CHANGING THE SUBJECT in the Midwest Book Review

The Fifth Annual NY Book Fair Expo

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

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

CHANGING THE SUBJECT reviewed by Jefferson Hansen

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

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

"Micropress" feature in the American Book Review

Joanna Ruocco reads this Friday

SHADOWPLAY reviewed in Rain Taxi

Eugene Marten + Susan Froderberg + Gordon Lish

Praise for THE MOTHERING COVEN

Harp & Altar Launch Party!

Waste reviewed by Spinetingler magazine

Ellipsis Press table and reading at AWP

Ellipsis Press profiled at Hayden's Ferry Review

Harp & Altar #7 is now live!

The Harp & Altar Anthology

Announcing the publication of The Harp & Altar Anthology

SHADOWPLAY reviewed by Dawn Raffel in The Brooklyn Rail

Joanna Ruocco featured on Apostrophe Cast

mlp's {first year} anthology

Joanna Ruocco's THE MOTHERING COVEN named one of the best books of 2009 by Time Out New York

THE COLLAGIST podcasts Norman Lock reading from SHADOWPLAY

Little Burn Films' 60 Writers / 60 Places

Two upcoming readings

The Quarterly Conversation reviews Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY.

Eugene Lim reads at Poetry Project on 12/14

Ruocco and Lock in The Midwest Book Review

Guerrilla Girls on Tour names THE MOTHERING COVEN one of 2009's best books

New MLP chapbooks from Ellipsis Press authors

Interview with Norman Lock at The Collagist with Matt Bell

Norman Lock, Joanna Ruocco, and Gary Lutz read for Ellipsis Press

Excerpt of SHADOWPLAY in The Collagist

Norman Lock's SHADOWPLAY and Joanna Ruocco's THE MOTHERING COVEN officially released today!

Derek White reviews SHADOWPLAY

Eugene Marten's WASTE reviewed in THE QUARTERLY CONVERSATION

THE KING OF SWEDEN reviewed at Bookslut.com.

Eugene Marten in The Brooklyn Rail

Dennis Cooper gives a nice shout out to WASTE on his blog

Norman Lock, Joanna Ruocco, and Gary Lutz read for Ellipsis Press

Ellipsis Press will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Corey Frost and Joanna Sondheim will be reading at the Boog City Festival.

Eugene Marten's WASTE reviewed in the Ottawa XPress

Harp & Altar #6 is up!

Eugene Lim's Fog & Car reviewed in The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Eugene Marten reads for latest UNSAID issue

Bad Shadow Affair Reading series
at Lost Lake Lounge | 3602 East Colfax | Denver, Colorado

A Reading with
Paolo Javier,
Eugene Lim,
Christine Hou

Announcing the publication of
The Harp & Altar Anthology