Andy Devine Week (5)

Check out Andy Devine's story, As Day Same That the the Was Year, at Chapbook Genius. Stories so good live in WORDS, which PG just released on April 20.

Andy Devine Week (4)

There's 45 minutes left in Day 4 of the too-short Andy Devine Week.

Check out Andy Devine's life story, which Michael Kimball wrote on a postcard.

And the book that Andy Devine wrote is WORDS.

Andy Devine Week (3)

Today for Andy Devine Week we're featuring two reviews.

J.A. Tyler at The Rumble calls the book "a kind of life-raft for the literary weary."

And Dylan Landis, at her blog, says "I am amazed to find myself joyful over the whole thing." And, "The book made me bizarrely happy."

Where can you get a copy? You can still get it at the PG site for $8, which is nuts. It's 107 pages long or something. I need to change that, and will, soon.

Andy Devine Week (2)

It's Day 2 of Andy Devine Week, which is just too short.

Today at JMWW, Andy exposes us to what inspired the book.

Enjoy it while it lasts. And why not head over to Goodreads and add it to your library?

At Goodreads, Gabriel Blackwell calls the book, "Just fucking incredible."

Thanks Gabriel!

Andy Devine Week (1)

Publishing Genius's newest book, WORDS, officially comes out tomorrow, which means right now it's Andy Devine Week.

Andy Devine Week doesn't happen often enough, and it's too short. (So if you want to post something about the mystery of Andy Devine, let me know and I will get you the kit.)

Today, enjoy Nik Perring's appreciation of the book.

And also enjoy this photo of me and Andy, taken after his reading at Baltimore's central library. This was my first opportunity to meet this author, and I found him to be a cantankerous egotist.

More Words on Words

Dylan Landis, author of the complex and beautiful book, Normal People Don't Live Like This, wrote a fantastic review of Words at her Notebook. It's remarkable how well she describes the book:

Devine, a “conceptual fictional writer” and alphabetical essayist, writes novels and stories, then implodes them into lists of words and punctuation marks. Rigorous about revision, he whittles a couple down to their titles. His life’s work is the subject of much study. (Surprised?) Accordingly, Kimball, as editor, adds to this collection a scholarly afterword, quoting from rare Devine interviews; and I am amazed to find myself joyful over the whole thing.

WORDS reviewed at The Rumble

J.A. Tyler reviewed WORDS by Andy Devine over at THE RUMBLE. Aside from explaining the book and how it works, which isn't easy, Tyler says nice words like, "challenge," "cruise," "faces," and "unglue."

Thanks, J.A. Tyler.