new review

josh schneider just wrote a review of my novella and i thought i should share it.

in december j.a. and i [by and i i mean j.a.] are [is] going to release the pdf chapbook that came with all pre-orders as an html ebook for everyone to read because we [he] believe[s] in the spirit of giving.

the thesis is coming along. feeling pretty good about it. going to do some laundry and pack fr thanksgiving break. hope everyone is doing well. should really start posting more. maybe longer rambling things that don't have a point. that way it can be just like my writing. everybody wins!

the beach is nice i am getting a sort of a tan it makes me feel neat

I haven't been very good at this blog thing lately. Many things have happened. For one, I am at the beach. Up in Vermont, where I was not posting, I played lots of games that involved drinking and flinging hammers into the air. One night I had some Jager. My friend Keith bought because A it was Jager and B it came with a free tshirt and C duh. So then the other day I said KEITH I AM AT THE BEACH and Keith said SASHA I DID NOT KNOW THEY HAD BEACHES IN BROOKLYN [duh Keith] and then NO KEITH I AM AT THE BEACH IN NEW JERSEY ON THE LONG ISLAND WHICH IS ALL BEACH and then Keith said that it was a slippery slope from Jager to Jersey and he was not and is not wrong.

And so but anyway I read in New York on Tuesday and people said nice things about me. [also over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn they say more nice things about me, but the article itself is a thing I maybe have some problems with, and I do not know how much I want to talk about it, other than to say that I do think this guy seems like he genuinely cares about literature, but that he spends more time talking about himself and his opinions than he does examining or engaging with what was happening, and there's a huge preamble thing that just goes on and on, and I don't know.]

And so there have been lots of awesome write ups of the novella and I am maybe too lazy to type them all up and so here I am going to link you to the page on the site with all the reviews and things on them and hope that you maybe read them and think about buying the book or something, and in particular maybe the ones from elimae and the brooklyn rail, because ken sparling did the elimae one and he is amazing and because the one on the brooklyn rail just about. I had no idea someone would think enough of this book to write what got written. It just blew me away. Anyway.

That is all there is. On Monday we get furniture and can finally stop living out of boxes and have a real home type apartment. Everyone is excited!

Also, I am reading for s u p e r m a c h i n e on September 18. And for the La Petite Zine/Annalemma launch on October 17. Details will come. I hope you are all well.

so here're some things

Have you read Chris Heavener's thing about being less insular? You should.

secondarily, there was an awesome review of the novella over at Pank courtesy of Troy Urquhart.

Pretty much everything i own is in boxes. I own mostly books, and some plaid shirts.

I also want to say that Chris Heavener is a real nice guy with a real sweet beard.

all over the goddam internet

The first review of the book is up over at big other. I was not expecting such a thoughtful and in-depth review. Shit. Thank you, John Madera.

Also in terms of people reading things and then talking about them, here is something I wrote about the idea of reading.

I ate empanada's last night and they were real tasty but I got real gassy. So oh well. Things happen.

I just told Shane about that in a gchat and it made me think maybe there are some things I should keep to myself, but then I'd have to do something about it, like both actively in general and here in terms of deleting this and the above paragraph, and I just don't quite feel like it.

Thinking about watching Brief Interviews tonight on Netflix.

I hope everyone has a great day.