I should carry cash more. I suck at blogging. All I can do is shout out self-promotional lists at you people. And, but, so…

1) Josh Maday’s review of The Suburban Swindle at New Pages:

“Corley has a superlative ear for the music of language. Her lines and rhythms are rich, lyrical, and energetic, carrying the reader along and juxtaposing interestingly with the tension in the stories themselves, reflecting the tension within the characters, between the hard façade and the longing lonely vulnerability behind it… Jackie Corley’s writing captures and conveys the impassable conflict of being human at every level.”

2) Reading in Providence in two weeks organized by William Walsh, author of Questionstruck:

Myopic Books
5 S. Angell Street
Wayland Square
Providence, RI
Saturday, April 18 @ 7 p.m.
Readers: Jackie Corley, Timmy Waldron and Brian James Foley

3) P.H. Madore’s dispatch litareview lives. I have a book excerpt appearing there soon. I got paid in real world dollars – ten of ‘em.

4) So New Publishing introduced the So New Writers Prize. The winner gets their novella published in a limited run of hand-bound books.

5) Contracts are rolling in for the not-so-secret-but-I’m-not-telling-yet anthology that Word Riot Press will publish in Spring 2010. Big names attached to this one.

6) Timmy Waldron has a story appearing as part of genius ml press publisher j.a. tyler’s Stamps Stories project.

7) Tobias Carroll interviewed Nick Antosca over at the scowl

8) I got Keyhole’s handwritten issue in the mail and thoroughly had my mind blown.

9) I like the look on the face of the old lady on the subway when Blake Butler curses: