Posted in Awards, Contests, Death, Essays, Fellow Students, Genre, Iowa Writers' Workshop, Links, Literary Magazines, Nonfiction, Poetry, Pop Culture, Publications, Race, Radio, The American Reader, Themes, Writers, tagged friends on May 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Friend and all-around amazing writer/thinker/critic Tony Tulathimutte has an incredible essay up at The American Reader: “THE CURSES, THE FATES, THE RACES, THE FAKES, THE FACES, THE NAMES OF ‘THE GAME OF DEATH’; OR, THE GAME OF DEATH.”
Henry Finch’s poem “Key Largo” was the runner-up in the Missouri Review’s 2013 Audio Competition.(I’ll be sure to post the audio when it’s online; it’s really incredible.)
50 Authors Annotate Their First Editions (from The Guardian).
Posted in Articles, Freelancing, Links, Nonfiction, Publication, Publications, VICE, tagged california, travel on April 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
My piece “The Imaginary Republic of Molossia,” about my visit to the intrepid little micronation surrounded on all sides by the state of Nevada, is now up at VICE! Many thanks to the always-wonderful President Baugh for inviting me to his beautiful country, and being so willing to talk to me about it.
Posted in "Five Stages of Grief", Erotica, Essays, Fellow Students, Fleshbot Fiction, Genre, Humor, Iowa Writers' Workshop, Literary Magazines, Microfiction, Nonfiction, Olivia Glass, Photography, Publication, Publications, Teaching, The Paris Review Daily, Travel Writing, What I'm Reading, Writers, tagged former instructors, nature, travel on April 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
A new (again, NSFW) mini-fiction from the world of Five Stages of Grief is up at Fleshbot: “New York.”
An old professor of mine has a beautiful essay up at The Millions about being a writer in the classroom. (I was one of those pairs of eyes, once!)
Evan James does it again, ladies and gentlemen: “No Amusement May Be Made.”
As always, an amazing story from Etgar Keret is up at Electric Literature.
Posted in "Dating Men with Biblical Names", "Vacation", "Ys", Death, Essays, Genre, INCH, Literary Magazines, Microfiction, Nonfiction, Publication, Publications, Queerness, Sexuality, Themes, Wigleaf on April 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I have three pieces of microfiction in two different publications this month: “Ys” and “Vacation” at Wigleaf (alongside a “postcard”) and “Dating Men with Biblical Names” in the most recent INCH. You can buy a very tiny, adorable copy of INCH here (I’m in Issue #20) and see the Wigleaf pieces here, here, and here.
Posted in "Five Stages of Grief", Erotica, Essays, Fleshbot Fiction, Genre, Heart of Glass, Links, Nonfiction, Olivia Glass, Press, Reviews, Sex, Slate, Themes, tagged reviews, sex on March 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
A new Heart of Glass is up at Fleshbot. This week’s topic: opening up lines of communication about desire. Link NSFW, of course.
Amanda Hess talks Fifty Shades of Grey, Fleshbot Fiction, and the future of erotica with Lux Alptraum over at Slate.
Five Stages of Grief has its first review at Goodreads! Romance author Iris Blaire calls it “angsty and hotter than hell.” If you’ve read FSOG, please consider reviewing it at Smashwords and/or Goodreads.
Lastly: an awesome essay on sex and the literary writer from Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop founder Julia Fierro is up at The Millions.
Posted in "Five Stages of Grief", Art, Columns, Erotica, Fleshbot Fiction, Genre, Links, Miscellaneous, Nonfiction, Olivia Glass, Photography, Queerness, Sex, Themes, tagged sex on March 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On the Olivia Glass news front:
An excerpt from Five Stages of Grief was the featured Friday Erotica at Unbound. I especially love the graphic!
Another microerotica from theFive Stages of Grief universe is up at Fleshbot: “Pennsylvania.”
Also: awesome literary graffiti.
Posted in Columns, Erotica, Fleshbot Fiction, Gender, Genre, Heart of Glass, Links, Nonfiction, Olivia Glass, Press, Publication, Salon, Sex, tagged sex on March 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Fleshbot Fiction founder Lux Alptraum spoke to Salon’s Tracy Clark-Flory about the imprint: “This Isn’t ‘Mommy Porn.’”
A new “Heart of Glass” is up at Fleshbot. (Link NSFW, as always.)
Posted in Books, Craft, Death, Essays, Ethics, Gender, Genre, Links, Nonfiction, Pop Culture, Privilege, Themes, What I'm Reading, Writing, Young Adult, tagged writers on March 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times thinks that short story collections are experiencing a renaissance. Salon (rightly) calls bullshit on that idea.
The essay as reality television.
There’s a really great profile of Aaron Schwartz in the New Yorker.
Old, but utterly engrossing: on Munchausen Syndrome by Internet.
How a cloying and “girly” children’s series is teaching this writer’s son about sexism.
Carmen Maria Machado
