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HTMLGIANT on World Takes
0940 days
HTMLGIANT’s pr reviews World Takes by Timmy Waldron (May 2009, Word Riot Press):
“Here is a collection perfectly shaped, with a strong, punch of a first story, “Amanda”, that perfectly sets the dark, funny tone for the book. …
“Throughout the collection, Waldron’s characters exhibit a simmering wrongness and inevitable falling apart. Whereas Cormac McCarthy’s work always portrays an aspect of chaos theory, Waldron’s stories better exemplify the theory of entropy. …
“World Takes represents how independent presses can do more than publish books that are too experimental (although many of these stories are formally interesting, for sure) for the major publishers, but also can publish books that make you think, “why doesn’t this guy have a major publisher?” (Elizabeth Ellen does that to me.) And the answer to that would be that they can’t publish every good thing out there, can they? That all presses are run by humans, and many a press will pass up, wrongly, a very good book. I have no idea whether or not Waldron tried to get a major publisher in the first place, but that is’t totally my point. What I mean to emphasize here is how Indie Presses can be of a different benefit to the readers of the world: they can publish the surplus of excellent manuscripts, that for whatever non-reason, are not getting published by Random House.”
Reading on June 7 in Brooklyn
0987 days
Word Riot Press reading
Freebird Books and Goods
123 Columbia Street (between Degraw and Kane Sts)
Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, New York
Sunday, June 7 @ 7 p.m.
Readers: Nick Antosca, Timmy Waldron & Jackie Corley
Go, Timmy, go!
11031 days
WORLD TAKES author Timmy Waldron has recently been honored by the New Jersey State Assembly:
New Jersey General Assembly
Assembly Resolution
By Assemblyman Gusciora
WHEREAS, The General Assembly of the State of New Jersey is pleased to honor and salute Timothy Patrick Waldron, an esteemed lifelong resident of West Trenton, Mercer County, in recognition of his highly acclaimed first book, World Takes; and
WHEREAS, A graduate of Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Timothy Patrick Waldron is a renowned author and editor whose work has been circulated widely on the Internet and in print, his debut book of thirteen short stories was published in March 2009 by Word Riot Press; and
WHEREAS, Timothy Patrick Waldron’s World Takes has been noted as being both darkly humorous and endearing as it leads readers through America’s interior landscape with tales that explore people of all backgrounds; and
WHEREAS, Within all spheres of his life and work, Timothy Patrick Waldron has established a model to emulate and set a standard of excellence toward which others might strive; and
WHEREAS, It is altogether proper and fitting for this House to pause in its deliberations to praise the creative work of Timothy Patrick Waldron, and to commend him as an individual of strong character and exceptional determination; now, therefore
Be It Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: That this House hereby salutes Timothy Patrick Waldron, pays tribute to his meritorious record of achievement, and extends sincere best wishes for continued success in his literary career; and,
Be It Further Resolved, That a duly authenticated copy of this resolution, signed by the Speaker and attested by the Clerk, be transmitted to Timothy Patrick Waldron.
All I got are dollars
01044 days
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
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:
Boston and back
01069 days
Timothy Gager invited me back to the Dire Reading Series in Cambridge, Mass. on Friday. T’was awesome. Wish I had more time to wander around Boston but this weekend was too cramped.
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Advance review copies of Timmy Waldron’s WORLD TAKES are in the mail. The files for the final copies are at the printer and the books should be ready in a few weeks.
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Big news on the horizon for WRP’s next title. It’s an anthology with some big names attached. I’m keeping mum until the contracts are signed and make their way back to me.
Pre-order Timmy Waldron’s World Takes
01191 days
Timmy Waldron’s short story collection World Takes is now available for pre-order at Word Riot.
Check out this gorgeous cover design by David Barringer:
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