James Stegall of So New Media has a new essay up at Nerve.com: Personal Inventory: The Erotic Appeal of the Lands’ End Catalogue
This is a pornography of regret, and the longer you stare, the more seductive it becomes. These sixty pages are a self-pity trap; any sane lonely man would do well to avoid them.
Scott Bateman has a DVD out. Onward with the promotional details:
Scott Bateman: Re-Animator is a compilation of the very best of Bateman’s work from 2006 and 2007, and includes work from his hit TV show Scott Bateman Presents Scott Bateman Presents and his regular web gig at Salon.com. This DVD contains over 60 minutes of animation and includes guest voices like Kristen Schaal, Andrea Rosen, Reggie Watts and more!
Pre-order now; starts shipping the TODAY. Scott Bateman: Re-Animator is perfect for holiday gift-giving!
Word Riot
http://www.wordriot.org
In this month’s issue:
* Fiction by Chuck Augello, Randall Brown, Lawrence Buentello, Andrew Coburn, Maria Deira, David Gianatasio, Drew Lackovic, Mathias Nelson, John Nyman, Mitch Omar, Nick Ostdick, Philip Oyok, Sean Ruane and Corey Zeller
* Experimental writing by Christopher Higgs
* Poetry by Adetokunbo Adetuyi, Zoe Alexandra, Harold Bowes, Doug Cornett, Michael Estabrook, Annmarie O’Connor, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Alaina Schneider and James Ray Scott
* Creative non-fiction by Ryan Michael Commins
* An interview with Jen Michalski by Joseph Young
* Reviews of We Swallow(ed) Spiders In Our Sleep by Zachary C. Bush; ABUSE ART. not children by Robert Pomerhn; and CELEBRATION OF SAMATHA by t. kilgore splake
Social Networking:
http://www.myspace.com/wordriotpress
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5943923626
Outsider Writers has a petition urging Amazon.com to create an “Alternative Literature” category for books.
The petition is a month old but I’m swift like that.
Everybody’s lighting a torch to Amazon’s new e-reader before it even gets its bearings. I don’t get the fury against the thing. If I had the money, I’d be snatching up the Kindle in a second.
In the mean time, I’m converting Word Riot Press books into HTML format, putting the files through Amazon’s digital text platform and making them available for sale on the Amazon Kindle store. I’m going to try to get Word Riot’s monthly issues available through the Kindle store (for like a dime an issue or whatever the lowest price is that I can list them for).
A lot of folks seem to read Word Riot when they’re taking a breather at work. Think of other period of downtime when readers might be up for losing themselves in a short story — while commuting, for example. I like the idea that an online magazine could be made available on a hand held machine and read any time, anywhere on a screen that looks like paper. Maybe this can be a means to spread the reach of online lit mags. Or maybe I’m thinking all crazy-like while I’m jonesing for Turkey Day.
It looks like So New Media will be putting out a collection of my stuff in the spring. It’ll be called ‘The Suburban Swindle‘ after a story I wrote a few years ago. I still like that title. The collection will have short stories and a couple novel excerpts.
Still working out the details, and I have to edit and send off the complete manuscript to SNM publisher James Stegall, but I’m pretty excited about this. Should be fun.
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