#89 Beecher's, Tex, Austin, Glaser

Thanks again to Amelia Gray and Lesley Clayton for a fantastic night in Austin.  The Five Things reading was really great, and I was very happy to be a part of it. 

Dear Reader, if you're in Austin, going to Austin, considering Austin in some other way, be sure to catch one of their future shows. 

In other news, a series of mine was published in the very first issue of Beecher's Magazine.  There's all kinds of greatness in there: 

Joshua Cohen, Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Me!, Alexis Orgera, John Dermot Woods, Dana Ward, Elliott Stevens, Creed J Shepard, Lincoln Michel, James Yeh, Adam Robinson, and much more!

My piece is called: Playing With Myself: A Series, and at one point in it, someone fucks a firetruck.

Good News!!!

Rachel B Glaser will still be reading at Tex on Saturday, along with Amelia Gray.  

We're bummed American Airlines wasn't more helpful in getting Rachel settled on a new flight, but we're happy to have her via Skype!  We'll have projectors, fog machines, crazy lighting, Wizard of Oz style!

If you haven't already, be sure to check out her book Pee On Water.  I bought it last December and have read it several times since then.  Really inventive and engaging writing.  Here's a new review at Chamber Four.

Also, pick up some of Amelia Gray's books: AM/PM and Museum of the Weird

For those who don't know, here's the info for the show on Saturday:

TEX GALLERY
TEXTINCTION

SATURDAY
MAY 28TH, 2011
...1012 EGAN ST.
DENTON, TX

PAINTINGS
SCULPTURE
MUSIC
FICTION
LECTURE
DANCE
VIDEO
PERFORMANCE

AFTER PARTY
SPONSORED BY
ARMADILLO ALE
WORKS

DJ
GAVIN GUTHRIE

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5 PM
POETRY/LINGUISTICS WORKSHOP
DR. HAJ ROSS

7 PM
READING
AMELIA GRAY
RACHEL B. GLASER
MARK SO

9 PM
DANCE
CHOREOGRAPHED BY
AMANDA JACKSON
CHRISTIE NELSON-SALA
GABRIELLE AUFIERO
WHITNEY BOOMER
MELISSA WATT

PERFORMANCE
ZOE BERG

* * * * * * * * * * * * *

FEATURING WORK BY:

ZOE BERG
BERNARDO CANTU
SCOTT EASTWOOD
FIELDS HARRINGTON
TJ HUNT
BRITTANY KIELER
ANNA KRACHEY
LINDSAY LAVEN
DORIAN MCKAIE
ANDREW MILLER
BLAKE NORMILE
BRENT OZAETA
ANTHONY ROMERO
ALAN SKELTON

AND MORE...

* * * * * * * * * * * * *

BOOK RELEASE PARTY
TEX GALLERY REVIEW
YEARBOOK EDITION

FEATURING WORK/PERFORMANCES/WRITING BY:

ZOE BERG
DESIREE MICHELLE ESPADA
SANDY EWEN
RACHEL FISHER
JEN GANN
PHILIP HUDDLESTON
FIELDS HARRINGTON
KITTY HUFFMAN
MICHAEL INSCOE
KAMAMA
LAURA H. KIM
ADAM KULLBERG
BEN MARCUS
TAYLOR MCCLURE
TATSUYA NAKATANI
BRENT OZAETA
BRIAN RYDEN
MICHAEL SCHARNBERG
ALAN SKELTON
DAMON SMITH
HILLARY STRINGER
ZACH VANDEZANDE
COLIN WINNETTE
YET

AND MORE...

BE THERE!  We have air conditioning... 

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If you're unable to pick up a Tex Gallery Review at the show on Saturday, you can order them online.  We accept PayPal.  Send $14 ($10 book/dvd + $4 shipping) to texgallery.dues@gmail.com.  We'll ship one straight out to you!  And, while supplies last, we'll even toss in a few extra goodies for ya!. What a deal!
 

#88 PANK

New piece up at PANK Magazine, an excerpt from the new novella.  As a bonus, check out the audio version, read by Georgia Wall.

#87 Upcoming Readings

So very excited to announce a couple o' great readings coming up in May:

On May 25th in Austin, TX, I'll be reading with Rachel B Glaser, Brittany Callender, Audra Schroeder, and Steve Moulds as a part of Amelia Gray's reading series Five Things at the Spider House Ballroom (formerly the United States Art Authority) 510 W. 29th St., Austin, TX, 78705) at 7:30pm.

***UPDATE***


May 28th - 


Tex Gallery (1012 Egan St., Denton, TX) is holding a real hum-dinger of an opening, featuring work by some fabulous artists from far and wide, including Anna Krachey and Alan Skelton.  There will be performances as well, and readings by the fabulous and dangerous Amelia Gray and Rachel B Glaser.  


Really can't express how excited I am for this.  !!!.


The evening will begin at 5pm with a workshop/lecture by Dr. Haj Ross (University of North Texas).  Come one, come all.  

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And, as you may already know, Ben Clark and I are hitting the road in July for a bearded tour of the midwest.  I'll post a tour schedule as soon as I have one.  I hope we're coming to a town near you.  

#86 Submission

At a point where I feel/know a new manuscript is finished.  Labored, spilled, refined, trimmed, ignored, revisited, submitted.  Submitted a few places.  Now is the season of waiting.  And there's some sense of abandoning an aspect of one's self to fate...or to wait.  For now, the future of the MS is out of my hands.  I've likely got months ahead of me of wondering.  It's that feeling of checking the mailbox everyday for the decoder ring at the other end of all those boxtops you sent in months ago.  Okay, so I've never mailed in boxtops for a decoder ring...but I do check the mail everyday.  I look for something, even if I don't know what...Amazon books that will arrive so late I've forgotten I ever ordered them, letters from friends in undergrad who swore they were going to keep this novelty letter writing campaign going, etc.  I've got new work underway, but that's only a few hours each day, and a few more spent revising.  The rest of it is refresh, refresh.  Not to draw parallels between my experience and that of the characters in that story...just the familiar behavior.  Maybe it would be better suited to compare to the closing scene of The Social Network.  I only watched that movie once, and I actually failed to notice what I'm just now realizing, revisiting that final scene.  On first viewing, I thought he had tried to friend the law clerk, rather than...well, who the whole movie is vaguely about.  Why didn't he try to friend the law clerk?  Come on, Zuckerberg.  

I'm going on a reading tour this summer with Ben Clark, to celebrate the release of his new book Reasons to Leave the Slaughter (Write Bloody).  We're mainly doing mid-west tour dates.  I'll post the schedule once it's all confirmed, for now we're working things out, growing our beards, gassing the Prius, and waiting, waiting, waiting.  Really happy for Ben, and really excited for the tour.  Ben's a showman, I'm a somethin', so it should make for a pretty good time.  

First year of grad school all but done.  Crit's on Thursday.  Performance/Video/Reading/Talk/Bow/AndBeDone.

Then there's this whole other week of school.  Not sure what that's about.