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NICOLLE ELIZABETH
ANDERBO
FIVE-DOLLAR HOTEL
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/afact-020.html

XTX
THIEVES JARGON
AND THE SPIDER
http://www.thievesjargon.com/workview.php?work=1414

FREEBIRD BOOKS. BROOKLYN, NY. BARRY GRAHAM. GREG GERKE

http://www.freebirdbooks.com/events.html

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Sunday, December 6, 7 pm

Greg Gerke and Barry Graham read selected excerpts of their fiction

Greg Gerke lives in Buffalo. His work has or will appear in Gargoyle, Rosebud, Fourteen Hills, Night Train, Flash Forward Press 2009 Anthology and others. There’s Something Wrong With Sven, a book of short fiction has been published by Blaze Vox Books. His website is www.greggerke.com

Barry Graham teaches writing at Rutgers University and wrote The National Virginity Pledge (Another Sky Press). He is the 2008 recipient of the Jumpmettle Award for excellence in fiction and was recently named a finalist for the NGI Book Awards in Short Story / Fiction. Look for him online at www.dogzplot.com

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First 2,000 people get a free Snoop Dogg underground mix cd from his days with 2 Live Crew.

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Check out the new issue of WRITERS' BLOC. The web design is sick as fuck. Good job.

http://www.writersblocmag.org/index.html

"Side effects of BLOCATIN include Jim Harrington, difficulty breathing, Kirsty Logan, Ethel Rohan, stomach cramps, Jill Weinberger, abdominal pains, Sherri Collins, Ryan Burden, Greg Gerke, a rush of blood to the head, Timothy Raymond, Victoria Clayton Munn, clinical addiction, and Tirumal Mundargi.

BLOCATIN works by inhibiting frown receptors (gloomions), inducing a state of continuous smiling. This is made possible by the chemicals Carol Lynn Grellas, Benjamin Rathbone, Felino Soriano, Jeff Dutko, Russell Jaffe, and Yellow #5."

THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW. FALL 09

Fall issue of the LOS ANGELES REVIEW is ready to order. Still waiting for my contributor copy so I haven't had a chance to dive in yet, but it should be a great one. I'm honored to have work alongside all the amazing contributors:

■Michael Czyzniejewski
■Lydia Davis
■Barry Graham
■Naseem Rakha
■Deborah Ager
■Alex Lemon
■Jee Leong Koh
■Steve Almond

All other info including how to order is here:

http://redhen.org/losangelesreview/issues/issue/issue-no-6-fall-2009/#more-88

MORE STUFF TO READ

November issue of PANK:
http://www.pankmagazine.com/?cat=77

Featuring:

Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
CL Bledsoe
Tracy Bowling
J. Bradley
Jo Cannon
Robyn Detterline
David Erlewine
Russell Evatt
Ben Fama
Roland Goity
Nick Allen Herink
Sean Lovelace
Marie-Elizabeth Mali
Ravi Mangla
Matt Mendez
Shya Scanlon
Eric Shorey
Joe Stracci
Jeanann Verlee
Helen Vitoria

HOSTAGE. PETER SCHWARTZ. THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

New essay up from DOGZPLOT friend, contributor, and art editor, PETER SCHWARTZ. Please check it out over at THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Here's a chunk:

"Wednesday, October 14th, 2009. I'm in my room on Albert Street in Augusta Maine, being held hostage. A woman almost a decade my junior has just told me she was raped last night, but for some reason she is directing all her rage at me. I'm trying to be supportive but she's hitting me with everything she has, making fun of my anthropophobia and bi-polarity. It's actually not the words that hurt so badly, it's the fact that she would go after me like this. If she knew more about me, she'd have even better ammunition."

Read the rest here:
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/pschwartz/2009/11/hostage/

RECONSTRUCTION

INFO HERE:
http://greencitynews.blogspot.com/

THE ORANGE SPOTLIGHT

Thanks very much to JASON BEHRENDS for mentioning the DOGZPLOT 2009 anthology over at WHAT TO WEAR DURING AN ORANGE ALERT. And thanks very much Jason for not only generously supporting DOGZPLOT but for being a champion of indie lit as a whole. Thanks for the excellence.

Here's a bit of what he said:

"If I were to force myself to create a list of my 20 favorite small press writer's of 2009 many of them could be found in this collection. From Rusty Barnes to Jamie Iredell to Molly Gaudry to Sam Pink to xTx to Spencer Dew, this collection is overflowing with talent and creativity. Even the cover is done by an artist that I have had much respect for and interaction with this year Christy Call. This collection of flash fiction works well as a time capsule that perfectly represents on-line lit in 2009."

Read it all here:
http://www.orangealert.net/node/483

FOX FORCE FIVE. IT'S ALMOST TIME

FOX FORCE FIVE
CHAPBOOK COLLECTIVE
PAPER HERO PRESS
160 PGS.

FEATURING:

ELIZABETH ELLEN
ANDREA KNEELAND
BRANDI WELLS
SUZANNE BRUNS
LYDIA COPELAND

Here's what some folks already said:

"Moving from Elizabeth Ellen's aggressively sexual women to Andrea Kneeland's carefully enumerated tragedies, from Brandi Wells' non-realist replacement fathers to Suzanne Burns' witty fantasticism and Lydia Copeland's often second-person dreamings, this collection covers a swath of literary ground as broad and varied as the stylistic variances of its very talented writers. Fox Force 5 is a revelation, both sexy and funny, and from its pages leap forth these five great minds and hearts, shining out from underneath the gleaming surface of their suprising stories and their always inventive language."
--Matt Bell

"A joy to read. Each piece in this collection is its own world, beautifully wrought. Lydia Copeland's prose poetry shimmers off the page."
- Kathy Fish

"I'm drawn to the strong, sensual voice in these lovely, visceral pieces by Lydia Copeland, for the way she loads her prose with physical details that become much greater than their sum. Her unsentimental observations are to be savored - visions of family life, family solidarity, and unexpected violence. She shows us how the living go about the impossible through characters that are equally delicate and strong. The driving rhythm in these prose poems create the effect of music on the reader- the cumulative effect is stunning."
- Meg Pokrass

"If FOX FORCE 5 was a relationship Elizabeth Ellen would be the part where we are breaking, not yet broken but tearing apart, ripping; and Andrea Kneeland would be our aggressive sex, the angry rug-burned knees and all the yelling; Brandi Wells would be the place where we don’t know each other anymore but it seems like there is still something left, something shredded but worth saving; and Suzanne Burns would be that time when we still thought there was love, but it was a kind of beautiful, horrific, frightening love; and Lydia Copeland would then be, in our end and our beginning, coupling as a memory, the way back when our hands first met and there was no way of knowing what was ahead. How mesmerizing it is to live in this relationship, if only as we read it out."
- J. A. Tyler

PRE-ORDER HERE:

http://paperheropress.blogspot.com/

Sorry I'm dragging my ass with this one folks, but these are the kind of ladies worth waiting for.


Also, less than 20 copies of the DOGZPLOT 2009 ANTHOLOGY are left. All contributors copies and orders have been sent out. If you ordered the book during the two free books promo, which I think there are six of you, only one person has reported receiving theirs, so something has gone wrong, I think. If you are one of them let me know and I'll resend ASAP.

Order one of the remaining anthologies here:
http://www.dogzplot.blogspot.com/

CAN SUCH THINGS BE. ADAM ROBINSON. PUBLISHING GENIUS

PUBLISHING TYCOON

Adam Robinson: Baltimore Magazine, Nov 209, p103

PG

Congrats Adam. You're the man. That red coat is the shit.

TALKING THE TALK

Thanks very much to MARC SCHUSTER for reviewing the 2009 DOGZPLOT ANTHOLOGY over at SMALL PRESS REVIEWS. Here's a little something something from the review:

"My favorite piece in the collection is “Dead Ringer” by Ravi Mangla. Its premise is that the narrator has discovered a perfect double for his dead father walking the aisles of a Sam’s Club. Needless to say, wacky highjinks involving a sort-of blind date with the narrator’s mother ensue, and the result is a twisted window into middle-American family values.:

Read the rest here:
http://smallpressreviews.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/dogzplot-2009/


Also, check out MICHAEL KIMBALL's interview with BEN TANZER. Here's a piece:

Michael Kimball: Why are you so funny?

Ben Tanzer: The easy answer is that somewhere not so deep inside of me is a clown who just cannot stop crying. That said, assuming you’re correct, and my children are not, I’m sure it is some combination of being a male of a certain age; growing-up on John Hughes movies, The Jerk, Stripes, Animal House, Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip and Raw; watching Benny Hill and Saturday Night Live; reading MAD Magazine and National Lampoon; being Jewish, and from New York, with a father who idealized Lenny Bruce, I also think that I decided early on that humor could be disarming and distracting, useful for avoiding hard conversations and a great tool for not dealing with things you do not want to deal with. So, all of this, and whatever damage was caused at birth when I had to be delivered via forceps.

Here it is in its entirety. MOST VIOLENCE IS INTIMATE:
http://thefastertimes.com/writersonwriting/2009/11/02/most-violence-is-intimate-michael-kimball-interviews-ben-tanzer/

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New issue of DECOMP, featuring: DAVE CLAPPER, ANGIE BECKER STEVENS, BEN LOORY, LYDIA COPELAND, and others.
http://www.decompmagazine.com/

PAULA BOMER
THE MUSIC OF A DEAF GENIUS
EMPRISE REVIEW
http://emprisereview.com/?page_id=1788

That new issue of EMPRISE REVIEW also features: HEATHER FOWLER, RYAN W. BRADLEY, GREG GERKE, BRAD GREEN, KYLE HEMMINGS, ETHEL ROHAN, GARRETT SOCOL, ANGI BECKER STEVENS, and others. Check it out here:
http://emprisereview.com/?page_id=1566

ELIZABETH ELLEN
DROWN YOU
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/

MATT BELL
CAIN, CALEB, CAMERON
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/

ANGI BECKER STEVENS
ANTICIPATION
WIGLEAF
http://wigleaf.com/