A Lovely Interview with Keith AbbotPosted at 12:00 on May 25th
By Duncan Barlow
Please swing by Rob McLennan's blog and read the interview with Keith Abbott. Much is going on in the world of Abbott. His book is doing well and it's helping reintroduce people to the work of Brautigan!
 Featured BooksContagion and other stories By Brian Evenson
Fiction. CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES is one of Brian Evenson's most sought after and lauded collections of fiction. It has been out of print for nearly a decade. With short stories like the O. Henry Award winning "Two Brothers," Evenson takes his readers into a world that is at once apocalyptic, dark, observant, and grotesque without ever dipping into static genre conventions.
The Botanical Garden By Ellen Welcker
A book that is at times political but is always artistic, THE BOTANICAL GARDEN is a sea voyage through borders, boundaries, countries, anatomies, and species. It undoes the markers human kind has set and replaces them with new taxonomies, while always engaging the reader in beautiful poetics.
Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan By Keith Abbott
In Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, Keith Abbott paints a portrait of Richard Brautigan as a lovable and whimsical friend. Abbott explains the writer’s dedication to the art of fiction and his quest to break beyond the pop culture, hippie label that haunted him until his suicide in 1984. Brautigan’s tight prose inspired authors such as Haruki Murakami and his experimentation with the line won him accolades from authors like Ishmael Reed, Raymond Carver, and Michael McClure. His work is highly influential and Abbott draws a clear connection between Brautigan’s life and his writing. This book is essential for anyone who is interested in the work of Richard Brautigan. Raymond Carver writes, "Truly the best thing I've ever seen written of the man."
The Procession of Mollusks By Eric Olson
If Fletch took Lovecraft to see a movie and it turned out to be a double feature—'Slugs: muerte viscosa' and 'The Monster that Challenged the World'--this post-genre romp is what might have been extracted from their post-movie dreams. This is a smart, funny, and (most importantly) irreverently weird book.
—Brian Evenson, author of The Open Curtain and The Wavering Knife. Sleepers' Republic By David Gruber
In David Gruber’s Sleepers’ Republic nature is dreaming, and we are its dreams. Time is slowed down or speeded up: “suddenly, the sun / gives way to stars.” And: “What we knew moves sudden / without warning / throwing us to the ground / an emptiness in the sea / The air above us filled with fruit.” It may be that love “offers the opposite of a kiss,” yet Gruber’s upended universe is nonetheless an exhilarating medium in which the reader can both swim and breathe.
— John Ashbery author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and Notes from the Air Past Articles
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Mark Tursi Interview! Book Sale and Submission Update EBOOKS AND SUBMISSIONS SPAM! Brutal Synecdoche by Mark Tursi now available for pre-order Reading Period Now Open OPEN READING PERIOD New Review and Holiday News New Evenson Review Novembering CONTAGION NOW SHIPPING Botanical Garden Review and CONTAGION Release Preorder CONTAGION We're back Again! CONTAGION DELAYS • NO MAY/JUNE WEB ORDERS GOODNESS! AN UPDATE! Another Milestone We're back! Happy Holidays Ellen Welcker Orders and Special Deals Marisa Matarazzo Interview by Angela Stubbs Upcoming Releases, Delays, Contagion Page, Stuff Interview with Mary Caponegro A Lovely Interview with Keith Abbot Spring came in like a sleepy lover Ellen Welcker wins poetry prize; AWP PARTY FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!!!! Interview with Laird Hunt David Gruber Interviews Gregory Lawless Welcome to 2010 An Interview with Sandy Florian Gregory Lawless Interviews Leigh Stein David Gruber Review and Contest Free Books at Big Other! Amazon and SPD top 20 Gregory Lawless Interviews Dereck Clemons and Another Blog Sandy Florian and ANDER MONSON’S NECK DEEP Keith Abbott Davis, CA reading; Contest, New Updates POETRY CONTEST OPENS! Brautigan Achive and Poetry Contest An Interview with Kevin Goodan by Gregory Lawless Keith Abbott's Brautigan Book Available! Gregory Lawless Interviews Nate Pritts Latest Updates Keith Abbott Goes to the Printer! Distributor Contract Signed and Olson Review A few bits of news. Eric Olson Reading in San Francisco Drag Me to Hell - Review New Interview with David Gruber! Eric Olson Reading Brian Evenson's Last Days Review and Updates Days Passing Tag Line Contest Mollusks in the world Keith Abbott Joins AP Family! Coincidence A brief review of Italo Calvino's first book Discussion Panel and Contest Welcome to Astrophil Blog Welcome Readers and a Reading Welcome to Astrophil Press' New Website! |