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Eric Beenyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09055245837586676172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159814006963878291.post-83689184061555925722012-04-07T20:52:00.000-07:002014-02-11T20:05:43.080-08:00

I have a new piece in Wigleaf today, "You Will Be Alone for the Rest of Your Life," an excerpt from an unpublished novel, Trawling Oblivion. Other excerpts have appeared in Alice Blue Review, elimae, Fix it Broken, >kill author, Matchbook, Necessary Fiction, Storyglossia, among other places. Also, Michael Allen Rose and his Party Wolves give a round-table group-reviewed of my

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Broken Pencil Issue #54 is out, and includes a piece from my unpublished novel, The Immortals Act Their Age, called “Fulton Downhill.” Ken Sparling, one of my favorite writers, solicited me for this issue. Also, Dogzplot’s "Vagina Saint" issue is up, including work from DJ Berndt, Lindsay Hunter, Elizabeth Ellen, xTx, Robert Duncan Gray, Rachel Hartley-Smith, Jonathan Deane, Jereme Dean, and

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J.A. Tyler interviewed me about my mock novel, Lepers and Mannequins, up at the MonkeyBicycle blog. This is the first time anything I've written has ever appeared at/on/in MonkeyBicycle. And I've tried. This feels pretty good. I wish I'd discussed more about how the novel is a mock novel, how it mocks narrative and plot devices by using narrative and plot devices to do so. I guess that's all else

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Spike Marlow, one of seven other 2011 New Bizarro Series Authors (author of Placenta of Love), reviewed my (mock) novel, Lepers and Mannequins, and interviewed me re the novel at her blog. Bizarro Central also covered the interview, and also reposted my interview with Justin Grimbol. Spike also posted a story from my unpublished novel of stories, The

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It gets to the point where you’re not sure what exactly it is an apple a day is supposed to keep away. You can remember only three kinds of fish, and you’re not getting any younger. You sleep on a bed. You try fitting a snow globe into your mouth. You begin to ask all the important questions. How did [c]hristians ever meet before the advent of christianmingle.com? Why would [g]od wait so

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Adam Robinson reviewed my (mock) novel, Lepers and Mannequins, over at the Publishing Genius blog, featuring correspondence between the two of us from Sept. 2009 regarding an early draft of the novel. Thanks again, Adam...

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I’m giving away five copies of my (mock) novel, Lepers and Mannequins—recently published by Eraserhead Press as part of the 2011 New Bizarro Author Series—, to the first five people (# of copies available listed below) to leave a comment on this post. After leaving a comment, please send your snail-mail spot to ericbeeny[at]gmail.com. Here is a grainy digital photo of me

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Justin Grimbol, one of seven other 2011 New Bizarro Series Authors (author of The Crud Masters), reviewed my (mock) novel, Lepers andMannequins, and interviewed me at his blog.

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My seventh book, and first print novel (mock novel, really), Lepers and Mannequins, one of eight in this year’s New Bizarro Author Series published by Eraserhead Press, is now available at Amazon, Powell's Books and Barnes & Noble. Here is the cover, its image designed by my friend, Kenny Dumas: In 2009, I published The Dying Bloom (e-Novel, Pangur Ban Party). In 2010, I

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Matt DeBenedictis, author of the chapbooks Congratulations! There's No Last Place if Everyone is Dead, A Perfect Disgrace and I Am a Cloud, and editor/publisher of Safety Third Press, recently interviewed me about my two recently self-published poetry collections, Pseudo-Masochism and How Much the Jaw Weighs. We talk politics, sex, religion, fatherhood, and literature. A while back, Matt wrote a

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Five pieces from my unpublished novel, Trawling Oblivion, appear in >kill author Issue #15, along with poetry by Peter Schwartz, David Tomaloff and many others. Other excerpts from Trawling Oblivion have appeared in Alice Blue Review, elimae, Fix It Broken, matchbook, Necessary Fiction and Storyglossia.

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My novel, Lepers and Mannequins, has been accepted for the 2011 New Bizarro Author Series to be published by Eraserhead Press this November. Thanks to editor Kevin Donihe for accepting it, and Lazy Fascist editor/publisher Cameron Pierce for recommending it to Kevin, then suggesting I send it to Kevin. It will be released this November during Bizarro Con 2011. I wrote the entire first draft of

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I have a story up at matchbook this week, an excerpt from my unpublished novel, Trawling Oblivion called "Bridge." Thanks to editors Brian Mihok and Edward Mullany for allowing me to be the first writer whose work has appeared in matchbook twice. Other excerpts from Trawling Oblivion have appeared in Alice Blue Review, elimae, Fix It Broken, Necessary Fiction and Storyglossia.

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For various reasons, I’ve decided to self-publish my once-forthcoming collection of love/sex-themed prose/poetry, Pseudo-Masochism. A chapbook-length version of the manuscript was accepted by Medulla Publishing late last year to be published this past February, but that has not worked out as I’d hoped. So, I’ve decided to expand the original chapbook manuscript into a full-length collection and

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A chapter from my unpublished novel, The Immortals Act Their Age, called "The Abortion" is up @ Metazen today. Metazen published two other chapters from this novel as well: "Corporate Ladder" and "Inventing the Victim." Thanks to Frank Hinton and all the other editors of Metazen, including DJ Berndt and Len Kuntz...

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Issue #3 of Greg Dybec's Fix It Broken is live and features work by xTx, Sheldon lee Compton, Brian Oliu, Heather Fowler, Ben Tanzer, Cassandra Dunn, Chad Redden, Joe Kapitan, Amy Bernhard, and a portion of an unpublished novel I wrote, Trawling Oblivion, called "Porcelain." (Other excerpts from Trawling Oblivion can be read in Alice Blue Review, elimae, Necessary Fiction, Storyglossia.) The

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Mark Leidner’s first book collects aphorisms on art, literature, politics, religion, and love, among other subjects. Here, Leidner describes his work: the purpose of the aphorism isn’t to illustrate a deep or beautiful thought, but to unburden the aphorist from the horror of a wordless equivocationThis horror is the horror of absence, of ineffability resulting from the absence of meaning, of love

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I have a new essay up @ The Nervous Breakdown called "Earthritis: A Distant Close-Up of Human Civilization (w/ Supplemental Materials)." This essay contains the lines: "Jackson Pollack was less an artist than a psychic predicting the Exxon Valdez disaster," and "The mantis is an atheist praying it’s wrong." Thank you...

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1) Up @ Dogzplot News, Reviews and Other Lies is an essay called “White, Used, Dirty: A Plastic Fork in the Road.” I’m not really sure what it’s about. There's things about, like, nature and [g]od, and peanut butter and fiction. Oh, and crying.2) Up @ The Nervous Breakdown is an essay called “Press Rewind.” It's about a somewhat recent obsession I had with Transformers toys. At the beginning, I

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Writing (any artform [antfarm]) can be a way of never knowing or arriving at the purpose of art, or life, but to continually attempt to find it over and over, and always differently because meaning is never the same, nor is the context in which one meaning exists. It’s maybe a way of avoiding meaning, preventing creative settlement. So if we never arrive at or find what we think we're looking

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You miss the feeling of starting a blog, the excitement, the almost idyllic fear of creating a blog, of choosing that first template, picking out colors, adding and moving gadgets around in the design—before knowing anything about HTML alterations / customizations—, thinking about what to write for that very first blog post, filling the sidebar with links to your published work, emailing writers

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Hemingway’s style is that of apparent absence: A seeming omission of the interior lives of his characters. These interiorities, however, are not entirely removed; they are merely displaced in subtext. Within this distillation, under the subtext, there remain glimpses of emotion obscured by a material world metonymically designed to reflect the interior space it shrouds.Hemingway’s focus on and

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Thanks to Ryki Zuckerman for inviting me to read at the Crane Library for Just Buffalo's Wordflight Series this past Monday (June 13th), and thanks to Adam Ashley for filming it. Here are two snippets of the political poetry portion of the reading: I also read from Snowing Fireflies, Of Creatures, and an excerpt from a small novel I recently finished called Children. My friend Tom Luckie (

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Issue #14 of KNOCK is now available, and it contains two poems from my poetry collection, Of Creatures (Gold Wake Press, 2010): “Shook Out the Ashes, She Did Little” and “In the Dark Because the Water Proves.” More and more, I’m shocked any time an editor actually accepts my work. Thank you, Bryan Tomasovich and Kristen Reid, editors of KNOCK, for shocking me.Also in this issue are poems by Chris

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