Shellie Zacharia's Collection Now Playing

Now Playing is now shipping. All pre-orders went out last week. If you haven't ordered yet, you can pick up a copy right here for $13.95 and no extra charge for shipping.

 
The Short Review is running a review on Now Playing and an interview with Shellie …

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A Couple of Keyhole Ebooks

Hello Kindle readers, Keyhole 8 is now formatted for the Kindle, and it is available from Amazon for only $1.99. Buy it here. 
William Walsh's Questionstruck is also available for $4.99, via Smashwords, which offers formats for various e-reading devices. You can buy …

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Writers Respond: An Interview with Blake Butler

Blake Butler needs no introduction, which means all I need to say here is that the following interview was conducted using Google Docs between August 10, 2009 and October 18, 2009.

1.

Scorch Atlas

MOLLY GAUDRY: Hi Blake. Thanks for doing this. What would you like to …

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My Morning Song is Better than Yours

The soda machine is humming the wrong vowel. It hums. It makes a sound so electric it hurts like accidentally biting your tongue. And its amazing it belongs to no one. It is its own country. A few quarters and you’re not thirsty but all your quarters go in and never …

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Writers Respond: A Conversation with Amelia Gray

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The Featherproof Tour

MOLLY GAUDRY: Hi Amelia, thanks for agreeing to be a part of the Writers Respond family. You might notice that instead of "interview" up there in the title, we have "conversation" instead. Essentially, the Writers Respond interviews and the …

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Micah Ling's Chapbook, THREE ISLANDS

Micah Ling's first full-length collection of poetry was released by Buffalo small press sunnyoutside on September 10. The title, Three Islands (ISBN 978-1-934513-18-7), retails for $15 and follows the chapbook Thoughts on Myself (Finishing Line Press, 2009).
Three …

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Writers Respond: A Conversation with Joshua Michael Stewart

Joshua Michael Stewart, poet and editor of Big Toe Review (Where Prose Poems Go To Do Naughty Things), is the author of the chapbooks Ordinary Mysteries (White Heron Press, 2004) and Vintage Gray (Pudding House Press, 2007), as well as a full-length collection, Son of a …

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Forecast - Chapter 10

 
Forecast is being serialized semiweekly across 42 web sites. For a full list of participants and links to live chapters, please visit www.shyascanlon.com/forecast
 
Chapter 9 is at DOGZPLOT
 
The street was no longer than ten or eleven blocks; it ran parallel to …

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Writers Respond: An Interview with Darrin Doyle

Darrin Doyle and I crossed paths, very briefly, while he was finishing his PhD at the University of Cincinnati. An undergraduate at the time, I was granted permission to enroll in the graduate fiction workshop to see if graduate school was something I’d like. It is …

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Writers Respond: Lydia Millet on My Happy Life

Lydia Millet, winner of the PEN-USA Award for Fiction, is the author of the novels Omnivores; George Bush, Dark Prince of Love; Everyone's Pretty; Oh Pure and Radiant Heart; How the Dead Dream; and, the novel we're here to talk about today, My Happy Life. Ms. Millet was …

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Stephanie Johnson: New Release, Good Deals, and Live Readings Online

One of These Things Is Not Like the Others, has been officially released and is now shipping. Twenty-one stories, 178 pages, and it will only cost you $13.95. Shipping is free!
 

$13.95

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"Little Mother" from Toasted Cheese

Youth can have its advantages. Take the body, for example. At twenty, it can endure a night that lasts from seven p.m. until sunrise and still survive an eight hour work day before unconsciousness hits; usually in the shower ten minutes after a microwave dinner and a …

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Oklahoma

The sallow cowboy
asks you to dance so you
put the limes down &
accept. Flat in his
arms, tracing the
baseboards, faces leering
around you with beer
bottle noses & hands
made of foam. The room
queers quickly, blending,
then spirals, & the cowboy’s
hand on your back is a knob,
a …

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Writers Respond: An Interview with Kyle Beachy

MOLLY GAUDRY: Hi Kyle. Thanks for agreeing to this interview. When I first contacted you about it, I thought we would discuss your first book, The Slide, and leave it at that. Instead, over time, the interview evolved into a sort of multi-layered discussion. Likewise, …

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Toast

The green woman rides her bicycle to the store to buy milk and bread. She places the milk and bread in the basket attached to the front of the handlebars and rides home.
The telephone rings in the man's apartment. It is the man's best friend from 3rd grade whom he has …

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Keyhole @ Pittsburgh's Small Press Fair

Keyhole has a table at the small press fair in Pittsburgh next week, July 18 and 19. If you're nearby, come and show your support for a bunch of great presses.

http://www.spfpittsburgh.com
SPF - PITTSBURGH'S SMALL PRESS FESTIVAL
Region's Small Presses, Writers, and …

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A Field of Colors

I.
Saturday afternoon & I am at my field, a field of colors. I tell the girls OKAY, & they sprint down the slope. The ribbons tied to their hair wave back to me & say HELLO, or GOODBYE. They are my girls for the week & they spread the field, collecting rainbow shards …

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Writers Respond: An Interview with J. C. Hallman

J. C. Hallman is the author of The Chess Artist (St. Martin's, 2004), The Devil Is a Gentleman (Random House, 2006), and the recently published collection of stories, The Hospital for Bad Poets (Milkweed, 2009). This fall, Tin House Books will release The Story About …

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The Lesser Known Siblings Girl Gang

Solange Knowles, Haylie Duff, Ashlee Simpson, Ali Lohan and most of the Baldwin brothers have formed a girl gang that admitted a few boys.  The lesser Baldwins are proud to call themselves members though the girls remain skeptical.The sign on the door of their …

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Next To The Gutter

He arrived home from school, and entered the house, into its dead feeling. The hall as usual littered with purple Post-Its that had lost their stick. The first of his mother’s notes read “EAT,” followed by a sprinkling of others darkened with arrowheads that …

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