News

Yep. The guy who brought you this & this & this (& our associate editor) is now reading submissions for the next issue of Mud Luscious Press online. We haven't accepted anything yet either, so there are 12-15 spaces wide wide open. Submit here.

Also, in case you didn't know, Andrew Borgstrom is currently spear-heading the Mud Luscious Press Stamp Stories Project & would love for you to suggest authors for inclusion here.

Three of my zoo stories will appear in the next three issues of Quick Fiction, beginning with ‘The Mountain Lion’ in issue 17, available & shipping now. Happy to be in this stellar journal & part of such a happening crowd. See this issue’s table of contents & do some ordering of it for $8 here. These stories are all part of the forthcoming Dzanc novel(la) THE ZOO, A GOING, but it won’t be out until 2013, so these are the perfect bite-sized pieces while you wait.

There is new work in Fringe today too - a piece of my nearly-completed novel WATER called ‘Terry & Tawny & Lucinda’. & you can read another sample of that beast in the latest issue of Diagram too, right here.

Also, THE JIMMY INTERLUDES, a novel(la) that has yet to find a publisher but that I still have a great deal of faith in & love for, is excerpted in Corduroy Mtn. Print Issue Two which can be ordered for $7 here.

Lastly, the new Dzanc Books BEST OF THE WEB 2010 (guest edited by Kathy Fish) is out now & includes my piece ‘Jimmy and His Father and the Ways About Them’ reprinted from Kill Author & also gives a notable stories nod to both ‘The Sea Lions’ from BluePrint Review & ‘Jimmy, How He Wants a Piece of Sun Folded in His Hands’ from You Must Be This Tall to Ride. Order it up from the fine folks at Dzanc here.

Thanks for letting me vent my work. Hope you enjoy.

Gregory Sherl's bad-ass book THE OREGON TRAIL IS THE OREGON TRAIL won't be out from the Mud Luscious Press novel(la) series until 2012 - I know, we wish the years could move faster too - but in the meantime you can snag Carl Annarummo's classic Greying Ghost rendering of three of these Oregon Trail poems in pamphlet form with any purchase from the beautiful Greying Ghost catalog.

If you don't know Carl's work, he does amazing amazing design & his textual choices are explosive.

So go forth, get ye some Greying Ghost & some free Gregory Sherl & a taste of the Mud to come.

& be careful, there's a fever brewing on this Oregon Trail.

My story 'Jimmy & His Father & the Ways About Them' is reprinted from kill author in Dzanc Books' BEST OF THE WEB 2010 guest-edited by Kathy Fish & with series-editor Matt Bell. Here is a little something about the genesis of my piece:

'Jimmy & His Father & the Ways About Them' is a ruptured story. In all of the Jimmy stories, which collectively tell the last moments of Jimmy's existence, it is about wreckage. Jimmy's mother is dead & Jimmy's father has lost his mind & Jimmy doesn't know how he exists beyond this quiet chaos. So the idea behind these Jimmy stories was to always tell a little more about the town, a little more about Jimmy's family, but never to tell the whole story straight through because this is not how Jimmy experiences the world, nothing is straight & honesty told through, & I wanted the reader to feel what it is like to be Jimmy, to be in Jimmy's shoes, where walking down into a lake until the lake is above your head feels not like breaking but like being fixed, like resolution. That is how it is to be Jimmy.

& if you don't like my writing so much (what are you doing here again?), you should still buy this tremendous anthology because it has work from Ander Monson, Peter Markus, Stephen Graham Jones, Jac Jemc, Lily Hoang, Molly Gaudy, Sasha Fletcher, Robert Olen Butler, Sean Lovelace, Brian Evenson, & a wealth of other brilliant writers.

Eat up a copy here.