New Stuff I've Had or Will Soon Be Having a Hand In

I edited and published, for the Faster Times, Sasha Fletcher's review of Gordon Lish's Collected Fictions -- "What It Is I Cannot Tell You." Includes full-color original art by Antonia Blair.

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I helped edit and compile, for Gigantic, the new online issue, featuring Nathan C. Martin's interview with Amy Hempel, the fourth installment of Leni Zumas and Luca Dipierro's graphic series Until I Find It (pictured above), new fiction by Ashley Farmer, plus an illustrated very short story by John Dermot Woods.

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Lincoln Michel and I will DJing our usual "Kings County Society for Fitness, Science & Musical Merriment" party at the Manhattan Inn this Friday night in Greenpoint. Flyer by Andrew Bulger.

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Save the date! Gigantic is teaming up with Open City to present Sweet Home New York: A Reading at this year's LitCrawl in the Lower East Side. Date for the reading is September 11th. Flyer by Sybille Schenker.

Interview with Diane Williams

art by antonia blair

I conducted an interview with NOON editor Diane Williams for the Faster Times, in which she possibly calls me a "ho." The interview is entitled "I Dream Too About the Ideal Text" and features original art by Antonia Blair and a photograph by Alison Kuo.

TFT: At a writing conference at Brown University in 1988, a critic once asked of Donald Barthelme: “Why do you write? Who is your audience?” To which Barthelme answered matter-of-factly: “I know exactly who I’m writing for. They are extremely intelligent and physically attractive.” I have heard another writer, Lee K. Abbott, say that he writes for “the lady on the bus.” Who is it that you write for?

DIANE WILLIAMS: Why not for you?!