All Kind of News
[Roxane Gay / July 28th, 2009 / News ]Venerable online magazine Eyeshot has come to an end. It is a shame to see that this fine fine publication is calling it quits. We wish Lee Klein all the best in his future endeavors.
At Randall Brown’s new site Flash Fiction.net, Lauren Becker blogs about why she writes flash fiction.
DOGZPLOT is having a three-day reading extravaganza in Atlantic City.
How the NYTBR makes its selections.
ASF has compiled a list of ten free fiction contests.
Shane Jones and Blake Butler are starting a press, two titles per year. Behold Year of the Liquidator and their first title, One Hour of Television, by Kristina Born.
A writer overcomes his online magazine bias.
An index of poetry slam looks.
Dalkey Archive is having a great sale, which ends tomorrow. And here’s an amazing interview with founder John O’Brien: Part 1 & Part 2.
PANK 4 contributor Shanes Jones’s lovely book Light Boxes is going to be made into a movie produced by Spike Jonze.
Some highlights from Granta 107.
A writer speaks on the white washing of her book’s cover.
Erin Hosier discusses how writers can better advocate for book covers.
Joshua Ferris has a story in this week’s New Yorker.
E. Lynn Harris, who wrote about the black gay community and was a New York Times Bestselling writer, has died at the age of 54. His early books were such a fun read. I highly recommend them if you’re looking for some mind candy.
Kindle books will be included on USA Today’s best seller list.
Unpublished Vonnegut short stories will be released as E-books.
New issues of The Lifted Brow, The Foundling Review, Oak Bend Review, and the  Flash Fiction 40 Anthology have been released.
On the evolution of the e-book.
Steve Almond offers 12 steps on how to write sex scenes.
Some unusual calls for submission from Hayden’s Ferry Review.
A chapbook consignnment shop in St. Louis. Can’t wait to visit.
Requited Magazine is having a fundraiser on Friday, July 31.
Coming soon, an iPhone fiction project from featherproof.
Big news for a Dzanc writer.
Randomly, a database of medieval soldiers.
Love your news section! You and Erin Fitzgerald at Rarely Likeable (http://rarely.typepad.com) keep this lazy girl up-to-date on the latest, greatest, weirdest and coolest. And that, my friend, rocks very hard. Thanks!!
“If another can’t stay hard, allow him to use a ponytail holder for an improvised cock ring. And later on, if his daughter comes home and picks up his ponytail holder from his bedside table and starts absently chewing at the thing, well, so be it.”
the Steve Almond article is hilarious. i just read it a few weeks ago when an faculty member emailed it to me after my thesis reading. i then read it to my wife. there were lots of laughs.
thanks for the news.
I think it is damn strange that people are against the plans of the mosque, as the planned mosque isn’t purely a religious building. In fact, it is open to everyone, and even a basketball playfield is planned to be built inside the building. A community center sounds better, and sounds less scary.