Starting tomorrow I'm going on tour with my band, Sweatpants. If you live in one of the cities below, you should come see us:
Baltimore, MD on Saturday -- Charm City Art Space
Arlington, VA on Sunday
NYC on Tuesday -- The Cake Shop
Philly on Wednesday
Richmond, VA on Thursday
Charlottesville, NC on Friday
DC on Saturday -- La Casa
(I didn't set up these shows so I really don't know the clubs we're playing [except as marked]. Email me or leave a comment and I will let you know where in each city, if you want to try to come.)
But anyway, if you're not in one of those cities, here's a tip:
Mail me your manuscript. Like through the post office. If you have a manuscript that you already sent me, like for a PDF Chapbook or a paperback, there is a pretty good chance that I haven't read it yet. Sorry, things have been crazy. But if you mail it to me, there is a 90% chance that I will read it while on the road. I might read it out loud to Dave (drums) and Jamie (bass), and depending on their reaction, I might accept it. I will comment on it no matter what, should you be the sort that likes comments. (I try to be nice, but if you prefer impersonal responses, just note that on p1.)
Include a SASE, please, if you want the whole msp back. If you don't, I'll just email you my notes.
This isn't just for people that I haven't responded to yet. If you haven't submitted already, you are still welcome to send me something now and get on the fasttrack. But I promise to read the work of people who already submitted first.
I'll be getting mail on Monday and Wednesday, so depending on where you live, try and time the mail so it gets there then, or before then.
The address is:
Publishing Genius
Attn Adam Robinson
2200 Maryland Ave C1
Baltimore, MD 21218
Friday, August 21, 2009
Has Shane Jones Sold Out?
Rozalia Jovanovic asked me questions about the Light Boxes explosion at The Faster Times. I haven't said much about the whole thing here at the Genius blog, but just because I didn't know how to approach it.
So I'm grateful to Rozalia to be able to address it in such a cool forum. Read it here.
So I'm grateful to Rozalia to be able to address it in such a cool forum. Read it here.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
How Some People Like Their Eggs Book Cooked
Order up! Sean Lovelace's collection of 10 flash fictions from Rose Metal Press is ready. How Some People Like Their Eggs. I just ordered mine and can't wait to dig in. 52pp with a letterpressed cover.
I used to like mine over easy but no one can make them right anymore. They're always served runny. Yuck! So now I order over medium.
Also, Renato Umali knows exactly how he likes his eggs, because he keeps a statistical diary about it and other matters.
I used to like mine over easy but no one can make them right anymore. They're always served runny. Yuck! So now I order over medium.
Also, Renato Umali knows exactly how he likes his eggs, because he keeps a statistical diary about it and other matters.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young
Easter Rabbit, a collection of microfictions by Joseph Young, will be available this December.
For information or review copies, email books@publishinggenius.com.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Kim Chinquee at Everyday Genius
Michael Kimball's been editing Everyday Genius this month. It's been great having guest editors these last couple months (thanks Stephanie Barber for July). Today he brings a story by Kim Chinquee, called "Blast."
It would take more words to summarize her story than she used to write it. Her flash fiction always impresses me with how much can be done with so few words. She strikes me as one of the greatest plot-makers working in the genre.
It would take more words to summarize her story than she used to write it. Her flash fiction always impresses me with how much can be done with so few words. She strikes me as one of the greatest plot-makers working in the genre.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Microfiction
Over at HTML Giant, Sam Pink is thinking about what flash fiction means compared to a short story. I have a lot of difficulty with flash. Last week I went back and forth with Sasha Fletcher about the value of the genre. I understand it that for him, it's a matter of accumulation -- his stories work in aggregate and the real payoff is when several pieces add up to something bigger than the sum of the parts. For me, when I write flash, I try to nail every single word. Every word should be the totality of the story (I'm applying some Emersonian "height of thought" here). About every word I ask, "Is this the most interesting word choice?" I ask myself if each element of the story is as interesting as it should be, and if the story itself is worth telling.
(UPDATE: That's not to say that Sasha doesn't care about the language in his things. I imagine he feels the same way as I do in that regard. And also, he just told me that during our conversation he was talking about PROSE POETRY. The fact that we were able to carry on a conversation about two different things without knowing it, I think, is indicative of all the problems in these little genres.)
To Pequin last year I submitted a 447-word piece about a guy who meets a girl at an art show. Every element was painstakingly considered, to the extent of my ability. Yet, with an extremely generous letter, Steven rejected the piece, saying among other things, that "Right now I'm after some kind of really tight mindblowing hard-worked text, probably with strong plot and other narrative elements, or something with just genius language." I thought my piece was exactly that, so it was a little painful to read a contrary perspective from an editor I admire.
The thing is, though, that the kind of precision I nailed in the story (IMHO), doesn't always come across in a submission of only one piece. From reading a lot of flash fiction that people submit for Everyday Genius, I know that I don't always catch the intricacies of the work that, I assume, are so familiar to the author. Exquisite prose is a requirement, probably the most important element of a very short story, but alone it does little to garner attention, let alone publication. There's no point in saying well a thing that's boring.
Aside from Amelia Gray's ability to craft great sentences and engaging situations, I think the thing that keeps me coming back to AM/PM is the way she reuses characters from piece to piece. This technique creates a much larger effect; the book is practically a Russian novel with the interweaving lives of suburban emotional tribulation. Individually, the stories in the book are enough to show that Amelia is a capable writer and that she's probably a funny person, but without the full context, I'm not sure I would love any single piece the way I love the book as a whole.
Joseph Young's collection, Easter Rabbit, which Publishing Genius will release in December, works in a completely different way than Amelia's. Joe writes much less into his stories than Amelia does, or pretty much any other author I can think of. I think what happens with these gaping holes is that diligent readers can, if they want, uncover their own intertextuality. If I wanted to apply the same eye to his stories as I used in reading AM/PM, I might conjecture that the "he" in the story about the keys is the same guy with the foot pain. Ultimately, though, my reading of Joe's "microfictions" (as he terms them) is that so little is given, and given so beautifully, that filling in the gaps is not the point. No amount of mesh will hold the caulk and anyway, each story is complete. Reading Easter Rabbit, I have learned not to look for gaps, not to follow story like a sleuth for meaning or literary gadgetry. This is post-structuralism 101. The really cool thing, I learned, is to not not look for, but more simply to not find, value.
Joe has insisted to me that the value of microfiction isn't in mood, which I identify strongly in his work. He also told me that whatever he does, he doesn't know why he does it. I'll leave it for the comment box for Joe to refute this, but I'm pretty sure his writing about the genre (including at Frigg, in this hilarious debate with Randall Brown) hasn't done much to identify what the value is. Microfiction will "carve out whole worlds in a space small enough to fit the eye," he says in that debate, and it "is an experience of time closest to zero," but for a genre so popular in literary circles, and so complicated to define, what is that saying about the worth of a story like this, called "Sine":
I used to care about Zen Buddhism but then I got, like, a job. The fact that I don't care about Koans anymore but that I like Easter Rabbit tells me that there is something more than nothing happening in good microfiction, and it is this: beauty.
(UPDATE: That's not to say that Sasha doesn't care about the language in his things. I imagine he feels the same way as I do in that regard. And also, he just told me that during our conversation he was talking about PROSE POETRY. The fact that we were able to carry on a conversation about two different things without knowing it, I think, is indicative of all the problems in these little genres.)
To Pequin last year I submitted a 447-word piece about a guy who meets a girl at an art show. Every element was painstakingly considered, to the extent of my ability. Yet, with an extremely generous letter, Steven rejected the piece, saying among other things, that "Right now I'm after some kind of really tight mindblowing hard-worked text, probably with strong plot and other narrative elements, or something with just genius language." I thought my piece was exactly that, so it was a little painful to read a contrary perspective from an editor I admire.
The thing is, though, that the kind of precision I nailed in the story (IMHO), doesn't always come across in a submission of only one piece. From reading a lot of flash fiction that people submit for Everyday Genius, I know that I don't always catch the intricacies of the work that, I assume, are so familiar to the author. Exquisite prose is a requirement, probably the most important element of a very short story, but alone it does little to garner attention, let alone publication. There's no point in saying well a thing that's boring.
Aside from Amelia Gray's ability to craft great sentences and engaging situations, I think the thing that keeps me coming back to AM/PM is the way she reuses characters from piece to piece. This technique creates a much larger effect; the book is practically a Russian novel with the interweaving lives of suburban emotional tribulation. Individually, the stories in the book are enough to show that Amelia is a capable writer and that she's probably a funny person, but without the full context, I'm not sure I would love any single piece the way I love the book as a whole.
Joseph Young's collection, Easter Rabbit, which Publishing Genius will release in December, works in a completely different way than Amelia's. Joe writes much less into his stories than Amelia does, or pretty much any other author I can think of. I think what happens with these gaping holes is that diligent readers can, if they want, uncover their own intertextuality. If I wanted to apply the same eye to his stories as I used in reading AM/PM, I might conjecture that the "he" in the story about the keys is the same guy with the foot pain. Ultimately, though, my reading of Joe's "microfictions" (as he terms them) is that so little is given, and given so beautifully, that filling in the gaps is not the point. No amount of mesh will hold the caulk and anyway, each story is complete. Reading Easter Rabbit, I have learned not to look for gaps, not to follow story like a sleuth for meaning or literary gadgetry. This is post-structuralism 101. The really cool thing, I learned, is to not not look for, but more simply to not find, value.
Joe has insisted to me that the value of microfiction isn't in mood, which I identify strongly in his work. He also told me that whatever he does, he doesn't know why he does it. I'll leave it for the comment box for Joe to refute this, but I'm pretty sure his writing about the genre (including at Frigg, in this hilarious debate with Randall Brown) hasn't done much to identify what the value is. Microfiction will "carve out whole worlds in a space small enough to fit the eye," he says in that debate, and it "is an experience of time closest to zero," but for a genre so popular in literary circles, and so complicated to define, what is that saying about the worth of a story like this, called "Sine":
A white line, across the cement, under the park, through the door, faint and hardly there, to its red center.It's worthless! That story and $2.50 will get you a cuppa joe. But -- why care so much about "value?" At what point in the history of art criticism did we start to rely on value when something resists understanding? Oh Aristotle, what are the possible responses to "Sine"? I ask because it seems to me that the possible responses, like all of the possible readings, are the best ones, equally. They are all the best -- as if that matters.
I used to care about Zen Buddhism but then I got, like, a job. The fact that I don't care about Koans anymore but that I like Easter Rabbit tells me that there is something more than nothing happening in good microfiction, and it is this: beauty.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Genius Article at Inside Higher Ed
Scott McLemee, who's amazing work across so many genres of books/academic outlets/media/punk band fandom always amazes me, wrote a very nice article about Publishing Genius at Inside Higher Ed.
Give it a read. I'm blown away.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Bad News
My PC is broken. There is something wrong with the motherboard. At first I thought it was the power supply, which is replaceable and wouldn't be a big deal, but I've determined that the capacitors on the motherboard are leaking.
I've had my PC for three years, which means that there are a lot of applications on it that I need and which, well, maybe I didn't pay for, meaning they're going to be difficult to restore.
Thankfully, of course, everything is backed up. I still have all the chapbooks I was laying out and stuff. It's just going to take a few weeks to get everything running again.
And there are two people who have ordered printings of This PDF Chapbook. I'm sorry they haven't shipped yet. I'm working on it.
Now I have to learn how to use my MacBook as a PC.
Dzanc Books -- Best of the Web nominees
I nominated three pieces for Dzanc's Best of the Web 2010. It's these:
Cindy Loehr, "Shrub Prayer"
Laura Ellen Scott, "The Temple Dog"
Joseph Young, "Galaxy"
It was really hard to make the selection, so I picked two runners up that could have won on any given Sunday.
Jamie GP, "To Be Continued"
Theresa Columbus, "Scene 6"
Cindy Loehr, "Shrub Prayer"
One of these prayers takes the shape of a shrub. It has tiny yellow flowers and it grows through a fence.
Laura Ellen Scott, "The Temple Dog"
Ricky the ex-porn star went to the wrong library when Family Friendly Libraries as absorbed into Parents Against Bad Books In Schools and he started getting action now emails from all over creation. It was confusing.
Joseph Young, "Galaxy"
The cop went to talk to another cop, a lady one. She was cute and redheaded, gray slacks fitted slim in that way around the thighs. She could even be pretty. His girlfriend rang again, but he left it, and she quieted.
It was really hard to make the selection, so I picked two runners up that could have won on any given Sunday.
Jamie GP, "To Be Continued"
Hope grew up on the East Coast and attended public school. She had great teeth.
Theresa Columbus, "Scene 6"
So there was a lady with very, very long hair, hair that went all the way to the floor. So a man plucked one hair from her head, and he was an auctioneer, and asked the people who would want to buy the hair for a dollar?
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Recently I wrote a bio for my band
It is this:
Sweatpants is a straight up, sweet ol' rock band but maybe a little punkier than they want to be. Like, they keep listening to Phil Collins and the latest Top 40 singles and try to cover Bruce Springsteen and Alex Chilton songs, but instead they just play faster and harder and more ferociously. Adam Robinson (former Flying Party), Dave NeSmith (of Bats & Mice, Rah Bras, Sleepytime Trio) and Jamie Gaughran-Perez (Lenny Hoffman) dude it out so you don't have to. Sometimes intricate, sometimes hooky, always brash, Sweatpants want to rock your cradle, want to ease you into that neverland between the gym and the shower, the couch and the grave.
This is our website: WE AR SWEATPANTS.
Currently reading: One of These Things is Not Like the Other by Stephanie Johnson.
I think I'm cooler because of this video, even though I had nothing to do with the song, the video, the band, or anything to do with it at all. Cooler I mean than I was before, not cooler than you.
2:11 LOLOLOLOLLOL
Commas.
I would read Sam Pink's serious new manuscript. I wonder why he hasn't sent it to me. I'm the sort of person who can MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.
Currently reading: submissions. There were some by Gregory Sherl, poems that came in in May and I read but forgot to respond to. They are amazing. His poems are what keeps me going. (Almost everyone else's aren't, sorry.) I think I'm going to start holding people to a higher standard.
Been up since 6:30. I think I'm starting to get things done.
Gonna go to a diner soon, eat something and read some more Stephanie Johnson.
OH! Saw GI Joe last night with JSir, who is actually a lot like Sgt Slaughter (who wasn't in the movie). Anyhoo, it was not as bad as I thought it would be.
Whoever has a novel/la manuscript that is funny, serious, ~30,000 words long, not ironic funny but clever funny is okay, heartwrenching, basically a shorter version of The Brothers K, or I would also take The Road, whoever has that novel you can send it to me at my PERSONAL email address. I'm reading for a summer 2010 release so this offer won't last long.
Seriously, your over-serious or over-coy book will be disregarded and rejected and not responded to. Send your best work. Bloom said "All bad poetry is unfailingly sincere" -- I want sincere but not bad, and not poetry.
I think 7 out of 10 people have books about WWII but no one ever sends them to me. If you have a book about WWII I will read it and I will have to laugh every 2-3 pages in my head at least. I will have to think you're a better writer than me from now on.
I don't want any books about celebrities. Those books are good but I don't like celebrities AT ALL. I DISLIKE THEM.
Last night I came to the uncomfortable realization that I'm too old for deejays playing like dance music or house music at bars. I walk in and then walk right back out. It's like so many bars want to recreate that scene in XXX starring Vin Diesel when they're like chasing them and they run through a crowded club and all the lights are flashing and the heads are bobbing to some industrial music or whatevs and they pan up to where the deejay is and he's bald and it's sooo incredible you wish you were there (except of course someone's about to pull out an Uzi).
Anyway, who do you gotta kill to get some pants over here.
Sweatpants is a straight up, sweet ol' rock band but maybe a little punkier than they want to be. Like, they keep listening to Phil Collins and the latest Top 40 singles and try to cover Bruce Springsteen and Alex Chilton songs, but instead they just play faster and harder and more ferociously. Adam Robinson (former Flying Party), Dave NeSmith (of Bats & Mice, Rah Bras, Sleepytime Trio) and Jamie Gaughran-Perez (Lenny Hoffman) dude it out so you don't have to. Sometimes intricate, sometimes hooky, always brash, Sweatpants want to rock your cradle, want to ease you into that neverland between the gym and the shower, the couch and the grave.
This is our website: WE AR SWEATPANTS.
Currently reading: One of These Things is Not Like the Other by Stephanie Johnson.
Currently listening to the new Jarvis Cocker record and liking it a lot.
Here's an awesome video of Dave's last band. I'm sure I've posted this here like twenty times.
I think I'm cooler because of this video, even though I had nothing to do with the song, the video, the band, or anything to do with it at all. Cooler I mean than I was before, not cooler than you.
2:11 LOLOLOLOLLOL
Commas.
I would read Sam Pink's serious new manuscript. I wonder why he hasn't sent it to me. I'm the sort of person who can MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.
Currently reading: submissions. There were some by Gregory Sherl, poems that came in in May and I read but forgot to respond to. They are amazing. His poems are what keeps me going. (Almost everyone else's aren't, sorry.) I think I'm going to start holding people to a higher standard.
Been up since 6:30. I think I'm starting to get things done.
Gonna go to a diner soon, eat something and read some more Stephanie Johnson.
OH! Saw GI Joe last night with JSir, who is actually a lot like Sgt Slaughter (who wasn't in the movie). Anyhoo, it was not as bad as I thought it would be.
Whoever has a novel/la manuscript that is funny, serious, ~30,000 words long, not ironic funny but clever funny is okay, heartwrenching, basically a shorter version of The Brothers K, or I would also take The Road, whoever has that novel you can send it to me at my PERSONAL email address. I'm reading for a summer 2010 release so this offer won't last long.
Seriously, your over-serious or over-coy book will be disregarded and rejected and not responded to. Send your best work. Bloom said "All bad poetry is unfailingly sincere" -- I want sincere but not bad, and not poetry.
I think 7 out of 10 people have books about WWII but no one ever sends them to me. If you have a book about WWII I will read it and I will have to laugh every 2-3 pages in my head at least. I will have to think you're a better writer than me from now on.
I don't want any books about celebrities. Those books are good but I don't like celebrities AT ALL. I DISLIKE THEM.
Last night I came to the uncomfortable realization that I'm too old for deejays playing like dance music or house music at bars. I walk in and then walk right back out. It's like so many bars want to recreate that scene in XXX starring Vin Diesel when they're like chasing them and they run through a crowded club and all the lights are flashing and the heads are bobbing to some industrial music or whatevs and they pan up to where the deejay is and he's bald and it's sooo incredible you wish you were there (except of course someone's about to pull out an Uzi).
Anyway, who do you gotta kill to get some pants over here.
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Come Hear Me Play Songs b/w isReads OMG
I always used to play songs
You know, by myself
That was back in the day
At least 4 years ago
I'm doing it again
On Sunday
At 6pm
Yes
Wait, where?
At El Rancho Grande, in Baltimore, at Falls and The Avenue
Would be awesome to have people see this, my comeback show
Justin Sirois is reading from MLKNG SCKLS, to boot
And not to bury the lead or whatever, but isReads 5 is now LIVE
At least on the BIR site, the official site hasn't been uploaded yet
And neither has the Nashville site
But the Pittsburgh site and the Baltimore site is live
Give it a looksie
This is not the "official announcement"
This is for the people who read this blog
You can go look at it early
There will be more content added for Pittsburgh
And whatnot
So anyway, let me know about broken links you find
CHECK THIS OUT
THIS IS AWESOME
THANKS TO SHERRIE FLICK AND ADAM ATKINSON
WHO DID THE PITTSBURGH IS READS VERSION
THEY ARE AWESOME, TIRELESS
THEY MADE THIS PROCLAMATION HAPPEN:
WHEREAS, Gist Street Reading Series, Open Thread and isReads have teamed up to form a local edition of isReads, The Journal Outdoors, and
WHEREAS, the isReads, The Journal Outdoors program has already been successfully held in Nashville and Baltimore, and
WHEREAS, the mission of The Journal Outdoors is to place poetry and fiction where people would not expect it: at bus stops, in grocery carts, under rocks and in doorways, and
. . . [it goes on]
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby declares July 21, 2009, "Journal Outdoors Day" in the City of Pittsburgh.
Can I like use this to get into college or something?
You know, by myself
That was back in the day
At least 4 years ago
I'm doing it again
On Sunday
At 6pm
Yes
Wait, where?
At El Rancho Grande, in Baltimore, at Falls and The Avenue
Would be awesome to have people see this, my comeback show
Justin Sirois is reading from MLKNG SCKLS, to boot
And not to bury the lead or whatever, but isReads 5 is now LIVE
At least on the BIR site, the official site hasn't been uploaded yet
And neither has the Nashville site
But the Pittsburgh site and the Baltimore site is live
Give it a looksie
This is not the "official announcement"
This is for the people who read this blog
You can go look at it early
There will be more content added for Pittsburgh
And whatnot
So anyway, let me know about broken links you find
CHECK THIS OUT
THIS IS AWESOME
THANKS TO SHERRIE FLICK AND ADAM ATKINSON
WHO DID THE PITTSBURGH IS READS VERSION
THEY ARE AWESOME, TIRELESS
THEY MADE THIS PROCLAMATION HAPPEN:
WHEREAS, Gist Street Reading Series, Open Thread and isReads have teamed up to form a local edition of isReads, The Journal Outdoors, andWHEREAS, the isReads, The Journal Outdoors program has already been successfully held in Nashville and Baltimore, and
WHEREAS, the mission of The Journal Outdoors is to place poetry and fiction where people would not expect it: at bus stops, in grocery carts, under rocks and in doorways, and
. . . [it goes on]
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby declares July 21, 2009, "Journal Outdoors Day" in the City of Pittsburgh.
Can I like use this to get into college or something?
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Matthew Simmons Wrote About MLKNG SCKLS (plus an addition to yesterday's post)
Hey, Matthew Simmons wrote some really smart stuff about MLKNG SCKLS. Check it out here. My favorite part is the first paragraph, where he says,
And yesterday I neglected to mention the great interview between Matt DeBenedictis and Jamie Iredell at The Chapbook Review. Sorry Jamie! Sorry people! It is a great interview and you should read it to find out what's behind those detailed and precise short fictions that Jamie writes.
The language is not dense, but it has a deep and impressive lyricism. Sirois hasWith regard to Matthew's book, A Jello Horse, there are plans in the work to add a sort of coda. So it'll be a little longer. Pre-sales for the new edition will start soon.
a gift for lyrical writing that in no way seems forced. The alliteration and
internal rhymes that occur in the well-constructed sentences work in ways
they don't in a lot of prose lyricism. He is restrained, picking the right
spots to deploy a rhetorical figure to advantage.
And yesterday I neglected to mention the great interview between Matt DeBenedictis and Jamie Iredell at The Chapbook Review. Sorry Jamie! Sorry people! It is a great interview and you should read it to find out what's behind those detailed and precise short fictions that Jamie writes.
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
News
A couple cool things to point out:
1. This PDF Chapbook by Francis Raven, The C and O Canal, was reviewed at THE CHAPBOOK REVIEW by Michael Leong. John Madera continues to do amazing work there, putting together great reviews and interviews. I love The Chapbook Review and sincerely appreciate the forum where short books are considered seriously. Okay, well, some of the reviews don't seem altogether "serious" (see Ryan Manning's, which purports to be an erotic thriller), but definitely the one that Michael Leong wrote is serious and considerate, and worth serious attention.
2. Josh Maday interviewed Andy Devine for elimae. This is an extraordinary interview. Definitely one of my all time favorites. Devine's book WORDS is forthcoming from PGP in 2010 (sidenote: you can see all of the [tentative] forthcoming PGP books at the new catalog). The interview begins:
1. This PDF Chapbook by Francis Raven, The C and O Canal, was reviewed at THE CHAPBOOK REVIEW by Michael Leong. John Madera continues to do amazing work there, putting together great reviews and interviews. I love The Chapbook Review and sincerely appreciate the forum where short books are considered seriously. Okay, well, some of the reviews don't seem altogether "serious" (see Ryan Manning's, which purports to be an erotic thriller), but definitely the one that Michael Leong wrote is serious and considerate, and worth serious attention.
2. Josh Maday interviewed Andy Devine for elimae. This is an extraordinary interview. Definitely one of my all time favorites. Devine's book WORDS is forthcoming from PGP in 2010 (sidenote: you can see all of the [tentative] forthcoming PGP books at the new catalog). The interview begins:
Josh Maday: To whom am I speaking?
Andy Devine: Andy Devine -- and just to be clear, not the actor, but the writer.
Maday: Thank you for clarifying. You must get that a lot, being mistaken for someone else.
Devine: It's just the name that's the issue. I'm unmistakable in other ways. For instance, I usually don't write in sentences. They can be quite limiting.
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