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  New Releases/Small Press News/Promotions/Announcements/Interviews

  I thought it might be worthwhile to start a thread where we could let each other know about upcoming events/books/interviews/etc. related to small presses, avant-garde fiction, or your own work for those writers in the group. (E.g., Upcoming Issue #24 of McSweeney's will feature 2 stories by Donald Barthelme, as well as essays about him). So post away...

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  mmolino54 

  Sept. 5 marked the 50th anniversary of the Jack Kerouac's On the Road (a book I have not yet read). BookForum has a wonderful online article about him here:
  http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/014_03/831
  
  Original publisher Viking has also released the complete, unedited version of this novel, which has not been previously available to the public.

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  coreymesler 

  Everyone: please buy and read Selah Saterstrom's new novel, The Meat and Spirit Plan (Coffee House Press). It is a sock to the third eye.

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    mmolino54 

    From the publisher:
    "In lyric, diamond-cut prose, Selah Saterstrom revisits the mythic, dead-end Southern town of Beau Repose. This time, the story follows a strung-out American teenager influenced by heavy metal, inspired by Ginger Rogers, and hell-bent on self-destruction. Forced into rehab and private school, her life, at least on the surface, changes course, eventually leading to theology studies in Scotland. But as the feverish St. Vitus’s dance of her adolescence morphs into slow-motion inertia abroad, an illness brings her home again—to find a way to become the lead in a dance of her own creation. "
    
    Thanks for posting, Corey. -marc

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  mmolino54 

  Mark Amerika's new book, 29 Inches was released a couple of weeks ago by Chiasmus press (they also have a new podcast here: http://chiasmuspress.wordpress.com/).
  
  Book description from Amazon:
  
  "29 Inches is a 21st century tour de farce that traces the nomadic wanderings of a group of online characters whose contemporary lives are driven by technosexual lust. Everybody has their RIMMjob (a personal digital assistant that does it all), including Bram and Kendall, who have recently escaped from the new age religious brainwash of Trungpa Jimmy and his tribe of ultramarathon runners. To survive in the post-dotcom economy, as well as fulfill their wish to Save The Planet, Bram and Kendall start their own webcam performance art project cum amateur porn site with over 20% of the proceeds going to radical environmental groups. Meanwhile, they suffer a temporary split-up themselves and Bram, in search of Kendall, takes a wild hallucinatory trip through what he refers to as "Buddhist Amerika!" "

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  mmolino54 

  Issue #113 of Evergreen Review marks their 50th anniversary:
  http://www.evergreenreview.com/contents.htm

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  mmolino54 

  Longtime screenwriter Millard Kaufman publishes his debut novel, Bowl of Cherries at age 90.
  
  A summary from the publisher (McSweeney's):
  Kicked out of Yale at age fourteen, Judd Breslau falls in with Phillips Chatterton, a bathrobe-wearing Egyptologist working out of a dilapidated home laboratory. There, young Valerie Chatterton quickly leads Judd away from his research and into, in order: the attic, a Colorado equestrian ranch, a porn studio beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, and a jail cell in southern Iraq, where we find him awaiting his own execution while the war rages on in the north. Written by a ninety-year-old debut novelist, ex-Marine, two-time Oscar nominee (screenwriting, Bad Day at Black Rock and Take the High Ground!), and co-creator of Mr. Magoo, Bowl of Cherries rivals the liveliest comic novels for sheer gleeful inventiveness — this is a book of astounding breadth and sharp consequence, containing all the joy and derangement and terror and doubt of adolescence and of our time.
  
  An interview with Millard on YouTube:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVieIDgBV2Y

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  mmolino54 

  TinHouse Books publishes Lucy Corin's debut story collection, The Entire Predicament. I'm only halfway through Corin's Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls, but I can tell you she's a keen observer of the human character and has a wonderfully dark sense of humor.

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  Rita Schiano 

  The Reed Edwards Company, small press founded March 2007. THree signed authors...me (Rita Schiano), Janina Stankiewicz Chung, and Justin Clifford (editor of an upcoming anthology). I am proud to be the first author this company has published. Check them out at www.reededwards.com

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    mmolino54 

    Congrats, Rita! And welcome to the group. Thanks for posting.
    
    Reed Edwards looks like an interesting publisher. Your own novel sounds quite engaging and I like the cover, too.
    -marc

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  mmolino54 

  Some of Autonomedia's latest releases:
  
  Mariarosa Dalla Costa (ed.), "Gynocide: Hysterectomy, CapitalistPatriarchy and the Medical Abuse of Women" A concise volume of essays on women and "male science," drawing ontheoretical perspectives developed in recent decades by radical Italianfeminists. This book discusses hysterectomy as a form of "sexocide" thathas been in practice from the 1800s through contemporary times, andrelates it back to the witch hunts that plagued Europe from the 14th–17thcenturies. The essays (and accompanying glossariesand testimonials) collected in "Gynocide" examine the historical, legal,ethical, psychological and medical aspects of deeply rooted sexistpractices in defining and treating issues of contemporary women's health.Translated by Danila Obici and Ralph D. Church from the 3rd Italianedition of "Isterectomia, Il problema sociale di un abuso contro ledonne," contributors include Paolo Benciolini, Mariarosa Dalla Costa,Daria Minucci, and Riccardo Smaritani. 150 pp, $14.95For more information or to buy the book, go to:http://autonomedia.org/node/60
  
  Geert Lovink & Trebor Scholz (eds.), "The Art of Free Cooperation" What are the rules of collaboration in “free cooperation”? If you areanxiously awaiting an answer to this question, or debates linkingweb-based, cooperation-enhancing technologies to the broader world of political activism, check out this book. Put together as a response towhat the editors identified as a "crisis in new-media art education," FCcontains essays from media theorists and critics Howard Rheingold,Christoph Spehr, Brian Holmes and the editors. The book provides concretetactics and techniques for voluntary associations, be they cultural,political, social, economic, and examines the dynamics (or, themethodologies and politics) that can emerge within such groups, and alsocomes with DVD packed with additional texts, highlights from aninternational "Free Cooperation" conference, and a feature-length filmcollage, narrated by Tony Conrad. Limited copies are available. 274 pp, $20For more information or to buy the book, go to:http://autonomedia.org/node/41
  
  "Akiba: A Gnostic Novel" A new "gnostic novel" by the Swiss author of the utopian classic“bolo'bolo.” Since there are still few bolos here on planet Earth, why not visit the meta-universe “Limboland” for some insight on how to create newutopias? “Akiba” combines the age-old schemes of millennial and modernutopias with recent research in ecology, quantum physics and computing,the mathematics of the Big Bang, Peak Oil theories, and the work of RogerPenrose, J. R. Searle, and others. 278 pp, $15.95For more information or to buy the book, go to:http://autonomedia.org/node/58

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  mmolino54 

  When Karma Comes Back Around (written by fiction effect member TahirBooks)
  
  THIS BOOK OF FICTION CAN BE PURCHASED AT WWW.AMAZON.COM
  
  When I arrived at the club it was packed. I had to park at least two blocks from the main entrance. I walked in, navigated through the crowd and found a spot by the bar. I didn’t see Daren anywhere, so I waited around, ordered a white wine and chilled.
  10 minutes had passed and there was still no sign of Darren. An older guy with a three piece lime zoot suit, matching Kango and fake alligator shoes walked up to me. He came up close to my face.
  “Can I help you?” I asked.
  His fake gold chains were almost as appealing as his gold tooth that shined brightly every time the disco ball rotated around.
  "Hey Babygirl!" he said.
  I scrunched up my face. "Do I know you?"
  "No, but give me a few minutes sweet thing and you will."
  I laughed loudly, "Uh no thank you, I have a man."
  "What your man got to do wit me?"
  "First of all sir, you're old enough to be my father."
  He smiled showing off the sparkle in his tooth again. "Then it won't be a long shot for you to call me Daddy."
  I shook my head, put my hands up in the air and walked away towards the other end of the bar. I kept watching the door to see if Darren would show up. I pulled out my cell phone to call Darren when I felt someone looking at me. I looked up from my phone to see a woman openly staring me down.
  "Can I help you?"
  There was a young woman standing near me at the bar. She wasn’t as tall as me but then again I am 5’9. She was about 5’5 and I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt on that. She was cute. I wouldn’t refer to her as attractive just average. She was light skin with thick wavy hair. She looked as though she could pass for Puerto Rican but her nose and full lips gave her away.
  “Excuse me?” she says.
  “You were staring at me.”
  She looked at me in a gaze again. “I was? I’m sorry…you’re prettier than I imagined.”
  A confused expression rolled across my face. “What? Do I know you?” I asked.
  “No, no you don’t but I see why he keeps you under wraps.”
  I could hardly hear her over the music. I could tell that she was yelling but acting as though she didn’t want to get to close to me in order to speak in a semi-normal tone.
  “If you claim that I don’t know you, then who are we talking about?”
  Her expression changed, face softened. She said, “You don’t know do you?”
  This trick was starting to aggravate me. “Know what? I don’t even know who you are; I don’t know what we’re talkin about.”
  She gives me a half smile, not a nice to meet you type of smile, but a you-dumb-clueless-bitch type of smirk.
  “Darren,” she says.
  I frowned, “You know Darren? How do you know Darren?”
  She licked her lips and shakes her head. “Let’s go towards the back of the club so that we can hear each other better,” she says.
  I nodded my head in agreement. I followed her towards the rear of the club and away from the loud music and noise. I wanted to know…to know how this woman knew my man. I was prayin’ to God that she was his sister or cousin or some distant relative. We found a booth near the V.I.P. section and sat down.
  “I wasted not time. “So, how do you know Darren?”
  Their was a long pause like she was trying to think of a nice way to tell me.
  “He’s my man.”
  I froze, I couldn’t move. Hell, I could hardly breathe.
  I put my hand in the air. “Excuse me but Darren is my man and has been for the last few months. Look, I know you might have had some type of crush on him, he’s an attractive man, but he’s also my attractive man,” I said with an assertive business head nod.
  “Your man...your man? You don’t even know him.” She was talking through clenched teeth like she was trying to restrain herself. “Have you ever been over his house before?” she paused, “My house?”
  “Your house? I don’t know what type of game you’re playin’ but yes I have been to Darren’s house,” I said.
  “You’ve been in my house before…when was this?”
  Once again I corrected her. “His house and yes I go over there all the time. Not once have I seen your picture or an inkling that you ever existed in his life.”
  “You’re a liar Ms. Lola.”
  I looked her dead in her face. “What did you call me?”
  She smiled like she knew something I didn’t, sat back in her seat and continued. “That’s what he calls you right? Msss. Lola…is that a nickname or a pet name that he gave you?”
  “Look bitch, I’m through playin’ games with you! If you’re an old girlfriend that still wants him forget about it. He…is…mine! He’s with me and I have no intension's of letting go of him anytime soon.”
  With that said I got up and started to walk away.
  “Did he tell you about our daughter?”
  

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  mmolino54 

  Salman Rushdie has a new nove out:
  The Enchantress of Florence
  
  Description from Amazon.com:
  "A tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital, a tale about a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, and her impossible journey to the far-off city of Florence.
  
  The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power.
  
  Vivid, gripping, irreverent, bawdy, profoundly moving, and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders by one of the world’s most important living writers. "

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