tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132341992024-03-07T04:08:56.668-05:00Yellow Redneck BluesJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.comBlogger450125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-87957726289413490632014-01-21T23:33:00.002-05:002014-01-21T23:33:07.819-05:00
New site here. That is all.
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-7581977072898171082013-10-30T10:31:00.000-05:002013-10-30T10:32:33.343-05:00October Update: Upcoming Events and Recent Publications
PUBLICATIONS
-New print issue of Gigantic, Gigantic Talk (I was the coeditor and publisher of this) (October)
-New online issue of Gigantic, Mini-Monster Halloween Issue, guest-edited by Adrian Van Young (October)
EVENTS
Fri, Nov. 1
DJing w/ Lincoln Michel
Manhattan Inn, 632 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Midnight until late, free
Sat, Nov. 2
HostingJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-29830881164409425392013-10-07T16:46:00.000-05:002013-10-07T16:48:39.465-05:00Gigantic Talk Mixtape for Electric Literature
Electric Literature invited Lincoln Michel and me to make a talk-related mixtape to celebrate Gigantic's newest print issue, Gigantic Talk. Iggy Pop speaks to Canadian television, Charles Bukowski reads to a DOOM beat, the Raincoats transform a Kinks classic, Kool Kyle goes to a job interview, Bob Dylan gives props to Honest Abe, the Shangri-Las relate an epic tale of star-crossed crosstown Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-10032760738323824312013-07-31T17:05:00.003-05:002013-10-30T10:21:05.435-05:00Story in the VICE Reader
I have a new story up on VICE! It's about a president's daughter, an art fair, and one particularly insufferable couple.
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-56163600982784823412013-07-28T17:27:00.002-05:002013-07-28T17:27:46.279-05:00Interviewed at Volume 1 Brooklyn
I was interviewed by Matt Thompson at Volume 1 Brooklyn about process, progress, and shit my dad says.
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-16648129257824090582013-07-09T23:05:00.002-05:002013-07-09T23:05:35.849-05:00My Andy Kaufman Podcast Is Up on the Organist
My first ever podcast piece is on the Organist! Listen in as I interview producer/comedy all-star Vernon Chatman about the new Andy Kaufman comedy record and mix in some hilariously irritating (and irritatingly hilarious) clips with Andy from the album--all with minimal um's, like's, and lengthy pauses. Also on the show is Ross Simonini's interview with Harmony Korine, Jack White in Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-58967173963231676652013-05-26T15:23:00.000-05:002013-05-26T15:28:22.494-05:002 Readings 2 Weeks (+ 2 Updates)
Two readings in the next two weeks. To paraphrase a sign I once saw hanging in an IKEA, I pledge to never, ever stop providing you and your family and friends high-quality readings at an affordable cost--in this case (and in most cases), free.
Here are two more examples of this unwavering dedication:
1) FRI 5/31 / 7PM / READING
Readings by:
Rosebud Ben-Oni
Metta Sama
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-65428850882306422622013-05-18T07:37:00.001-05:002013-05-19T02:59:21.445-05:00Three stories at BOMB, two in NOON
Happy to have three stories up on the BOMB Magazine site. On the bottom of the page are links to an interview conducted with my good friend Michael Barron and two poems by Jenny Zhang. (Art by Dominic Fortunato.)
I also have two stories in this year's edition of NOON, alongside some of my favorites, including Lydia Davis, Lincoln Michel, Deb Olin Unferth, Christine Schutt, Anya Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-59059875982522897392013-04-26T07:06:00.001-05:002013-04-26T08:05:16.422-05:00April 2013 Mix
I made a mix for April with a few nods to summer, as well as two phrases I had not previously known to exist together "Neil Young" and "Dance Mix." Here's the track list (with props/apologies to the Art Decade blog, which I've cribbed from not insignificantly):
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If you missed it, the new spring issue of Gigantic is up, featuring our first all-slush selection of fiction and a Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-81310913986778635582013-03-28T08:57:00.001-05:002013-03-28T09:24:28.876-05:00NOON 2013 Reading & Party
http://www.centerforfiction.org/calendar/a-celebration-of-noon
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-2614899390610192842013-02-14T04:35:00.002-05:002013-05-12T18:50:38.598-05:00New Sam Pink books
Sam Pink's new novel Rontel is out from Electric Literature today and due in my inbox any moment now. Excited to read it, and I was happy to buy it and support him.
In other Sam Pink news, my interview with him, "They Tell Me They Thought I Was a Psycho," originally for the Faster Times, is being reprinted in Gerald McClellan Versus Nigel Benn, a new collection of his stories, which I Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-8024424630694595832013-02-05T03:36:00.000-05:002013-02-05T03:38:45.529-05:00I Interviewed Julie Hecht for Gigantic
My short interview with one of my favorite contemporary American writers, Julie Hecht, is now up on the Gigantic site. Among the topics discussed: garbage bags, rats, cabs, Mayor Bloomberg, Roz Chast, David Letterman's conversation with George W. Bush, and Woody Allen's "hick girls." You know, all those things we know and love about New York.
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Julie
Hecht is the author of Do Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-10813422436701526432013-01-03T22:52:00.003-05:002013-01-03T22:54:24.533-05:00New PublicationHappy New Year! Here are four very short things/one-liners that just went up on the Wonder tumblr. Thanks to editors Andrew Durbin and Ben Fama for publishing these! Hope you enjoy.Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-65945958505184555672012-12-06T02:17:00.000-05:002012-12-06T02:17:52.860-05:00Gigantic Everything Is Coming
Info here:
Launch party here.
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-46897682688245531502012-09-07T01:37:00.000-05:002012-09-07T01:38:57.367-05:00Writers Reading Other Writers
Gigantic and The Believer present Writers Reading Other Writers, a night of literary bridges, featuring original and "cover" readings. A part of Lit Crawl NYC 2012.
featuring
+++ Justin Taylor
+++ Catherine Lacey
+++ Sparrow
Saturday, September 15, 2012
7–7:45pm
Botanica Bar (21+)
47 East Houston
NYC
http://goo.gl/maps/rdsCi
http://thegiganticmag.com/
http://Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-24458542257945637692012-08-28T21:45:00.001-05:002012-12-19T18:14:17.915-05:00It is a land, if God exists, he created in anger"Kinski always says it's full of erotic elements. I don't see so much erotic--I see it more full of obscenity. And nature is violent here, base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here--I would see fornication, asphyxiation, choking, and fighting for survival... and growing... rotting away.... The birds don't sing here, they screech.... It is a land, if God exists, he created in anger.... It's the Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-90195660067994336772012-08-28T02:18:00.001-05:002012-08-28T02:18:22.992-05:00Like that of a file in an office
"The route taken by Mickey Mouse is more like that of a file in an office than it is like that of a marathon runner.... All Mickey Mouse films are founded on the motif of leaving home in order to learn what fear is."
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Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-59485527141160336132012-08-28T02:13:00.002-05:002012-08-28T02:22:31.960-05:00And what is a punchline, then?"Nietzsche once said, 'A joke is an epitaph for an emotion.'"
–Jessica Hagedorn, "Homesick" (1993)Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-7536738892614292752012-08-18T11:14:00.003-05:002012-08-18T11:26:38.668-05:00New publications
My story "Crawlspace" is in the summer 2012 issue of Fence, alongside, among others, Denis Johnson(!), Jacob Severn, Ana Božicević, and Lonely Christopher.
My story "I Did Not Want to Be Wrong and I Did Not Want to Be Embarrassed" is in the 2012 edition of NOON alongside, among others, Deb Olin Unferth, Lincoln Michel, Ann DeWitt, Lauren Spohrer, Anya Yurchyshyn,Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-82027470500664267962012-06-05T00:47:00.000-05:002012-09-05T14:39:50.178-05:00As if too much bewildered by his new responsibilities"In a railroad accident to a travelling menagerie in the United States some time in 1884, a tiger, whose cage had broken open, is said to have emerged, but presently crept back again, as if too much bewildered by his new responsibilities, so that he was without difficulty secured."
–William James, on "Habit," from The Principles of Psychology (1890)Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-53985876753772318442012-04-20T11:39:00.000-05:002012-08-18T11:37:25.127-05:00New story up at Tin House
If you're bored at work today, my story "I Was Confused and Just Wanted to Know" is now up on the Tin House website. It's about a bike, some
boys, and is fairly short.Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-56231467617697927592012-04-06T00:54:00.000-05:002012-04-06T00:54:14.720-05:00Why are you 35 years-old and too wild?"Kerouac wouldn't have stayed with our family. He wouldn't have stayed
with any family—he was too wild. I didn't like that. I was like, 'Why are you 35
years-old and too wild?'"
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Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-52693061471782707842012-03-31T10:09:00.000-05:002012-03-31T10:10:24.877-05:00Happy moments and memorable occasions"Any bright girl who really applies herself to the handling of the checking problem can have a very pleasant time with it and fill the week with happy moments and memorable occasions. The most important point to remember in checking is that the writer is your natural enemy."
-from Christian Lorentzen's essay in the London Review of Books on "the auteur theory of fact-checking," some differences Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-12266754768532032932012-03-18T17:00:00.001-05:002012-08-18T11:26:38.651-05:00New essay in PEN AmericaAn essay I wrote about Flannery O'Connor is in the new issue of PEN America.
The first line:
There’s a great moment in her 1964 story “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” where Flannery O’Connor writes of a snobby wannabe writer’s complicated feelings toward his ancestral Southern home: “He never spoke of it without contempt or thought of it without longing.”Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13234199.post-69648140224632976972012-03-14T09:52:00.003-05:002012-03-14T10:04:06.155-05:00Want to come to my DJ night?
The
weather is summery and daylight has been saved. But what of the short,
dark night? Where loneliness and the lack of dancing lurks, the Kings
County Society for Fitness, Science & Musical Merriment is there, to
shine a DJ light. As usual, we’ll be spinning our
patented mix of Northern soul,
post-punk, hip hop, weird disco, and ‘80s that doesn’t suck,
scientifically calibrated to Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123685333024451434noreply@blogger.com1