Publishing Genius and WNDR Museum introduce “Under/Standing,” an audio exhibit of ten writers reading their work. It’s, er, on display in San Diego … inasmuch as recordings can be displayed.
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Beatrice in Sweden
Recently Stephen Dixon's novella, Beatrice, which Publishing Genius released a couple years ago, was translated in Sweden by Norpus förlag, a...
Index to The One-Hour MFA
Here is the index to Michael Kimball’s The One-Hour MFA, a collection of essays about how to write fiction. He makes tons of references to great...
Announcing the Winner of the Chris Toll Prize
Today is Chris Toll's birthday, so it is especially nice to announce the winner of the third annual Chris Toll Prize. This year the prize committee...
Writing makes me feel powerful, drawing makes me feel free: A Comics Interview with Jarod Roselló
The latest from Publishing Genius is Jarod Roselló's The Well-Dressed Bear Will (Never) Be Found, our second full-length comic book...
Three Writers You Should Know
Have you been interested in the first series of Ebook Flights? Check out Nick Sweeney’s short interview with all three authors: Gabe Durham, Lily Hoang, and Bob Schofield.
An excerpt from Mullany’s new one
Here’s an excerpt from Edward Mullany’s new book. This is the first chapter of the first book of the second novella, “The Book of Numbers.”
New Books!
It’s finally time for new books from Publishing Genius! This announcement has been a long time coming, and it’s been a slow pleasure to put this...
“Diane” by Rick Stoeckel
This story is part of a series of investigations, reflections, and reminiscences by writers, artists, and musicians who were influenced by...
An Interview with Julian Berengaut
The second novel from Julian Berengaut, smartly titled This Isn't Easy for Me, is about the lives of two women, Renata and Sabine. In a review that...
The Letters Festival
In Atlanta this weekend I attended The Letters Festival -- three days of readings and discussions and a book fair (which fellow Atlanta-transplant...
“You learn what you’re good at and what you’re bad at. And as long as you use both, you will make interesting stuff.” John Dermot Woods Talks to Edward Mullany
A few weeks ago, my friend and neighbor, and fellow Publishing Genius writer/drawer/dry humorist, Edward Mullany was good enough to sit with me...
Interview with Adam Robinson
In 2012 Joe Ponepinto, former book review editor of the LA Review of Books, asked me some interview questions for an article he was working on....
Everyday Genius Update
Molly Brodak edited Everyday Genius in October and did an amazing job. The work, almost exclusively poetry, was of a subtly unified tone, and if you...
Tell Us What to Draw & We’ll Draw It!
Tweet to #EdwardAdamJohn this week, while they’re on their book tour, and tell them what to draw. They’ll draw it and post it to Instagram. Any subject — all is fair game!
A Satisfying Sense of Control: Adam Robinson Interviews John Dermot Woods
I had the chance to ask John Dermot Woods some questions about his new book, Activities, a stunning and evocative collection of comics. Not having a lot of experience with comics, this was probably the most challenging book PGP has put together. But John knows his stuff, and we took our time with it, and the printer did a great job, and the results are amazing. Check out this sample of the book and then read our interview.
An Insane Process Close Enough to Nonsense: Matthew Savoca Interviews Matt Cook
One thing Publishing Genius authors are doing over the course of the year is interviewing each other in a chain. In this installment, Matthew Savoca (author of the winning novel I Don’t Know I Said talks to Matt Cook about his collection of poetry. At one point, Matt says, “I’m wondering if I have fifteen minutes of reality in me somewhere.”
Sampson Starkweather on Matt Cook
Reading Matt Cook is like hanging out in his brain, and hanging out in Matt Cook’s brain is like…reading Matt Cook. Essentially, it’s an Ouroboros of awesome.
Interview with Michael J Seidlinger
Michael J Seidlinger has recently relocated to New York City from Virginia. He manages the press Civil Coping Mechanisms. He is the author of My Pet Serial Killer and The Laughter of Strangers, forthcoming from Lazy Fascist in November 2013.
Interview with Guillaume Morissette
Guillaume talks with me about his forthcoming novel, anxiety levels and the common ties between literature and video games. His work has appeared in Maisonneuve Magazine, carte-blanche, Little Brother Magazine, Metazen, ThoughtCatalog, HTMLGiant and many other publications. He lives in Montreal.
R. M. O’Brien’s reading of Megan McShea’s Poem, a poem
Livepoem of “Damn Pigeon for Company” by R. M. O'Brien Plush, what a word to start a poem w/ cozy—smacks of luxury—decadence but cheap too—a plush...
Interview with LK Shaw
LK Shaw is the creator and editor of Shabby Doll House, an online collective of prose, poetry and original artwork. She has a forthcoming ebook...
Interview with Tommy Pico
Tommy “Teebs” Pico writes the zine/tumblr "Hey Teebs" and is the editor of birdsong: an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine...
Interview with Spencer Madsen
Spencer Madsen is the Brooklyn-based writer responsible for the creation of Sorry House, an independent publishing press. He is the author of 'a...
I love the streetlamp deeply: Megan McShea Interviews Matthew Savoca
One thing Publishing Genius authors are doing over the course of the year is interviewing each other in a chain. In this installment, Megan McShea talks to Matthew Savoca about his new book.
Interview with Chad Redden
Chad Redden is busy. In addition to being the managing editor at NAP, he also masters the web for Pop Serials 3 and 4 and the NAP echaps. His book,...
Let Language Misbehave: Stephanie Barber Interviews Megan McShea
One thing Publishing Genius authors will be doing over the course of the year is interviewing each other about their new books. In this installment, Stephanie Barber talks to Megan McShea.
A Wrap uP
Two hours ago I started writing about AWP and all the cool people I saw. Deleted that though. Instead, here's a picture of a room. Just—good job...
Homer, Emily, Polly, Paul
Recently Polly Duff Bresnick (translater of The Odyssey) sat down to interview Paul Legault (translator of Emily Dickinson's poems), but something...
Drawing a Book Cover for the Esteemed Adam Robinstein
I’ve known and been friends with Adam Robinson for going on fifteen years now. Though I’ve been drawing all my life, I cut my indie art teeth with...
Other Splendid Cities
Megan McShea thinks about her new book and some old ones. Discussed: Chris Toll, Pablo Neruda, bookstores, Emily Dickinson, and her writing style....
Unedited List of Everything Chris Toll Ever Emailed Me About the Baltimore Ravens
It’s Super Bowl Sunday and Baltimore is about to play San Francisco. I thought I’d post everything Chris Toll ever emailed me about the...
Book Club Guide for Stephanie Barber’s NIGHT MOVES
Stephanie Barber offers some thoughts about her new book, Night Moves, a compilation of YouTube user comments about the Bob Seger song of the same...
Book Giveaway: New York Tyrant
*UPDATE* A little behind schedule, I just asked on Facebook for two numbers. The first response was 9 and 6, dude, so that means the winners were...
A Video for Dorothea Lasky’s new book, “Thunderbird”
I made a video for Dorothea Lasky's new poetry collection, Thunderbird, which is available from Wave Books. http://youtu.be/daDVEEW5Jn0 Here are 25...
Book Giveaway: Sheila Heti
**UPDATE** Congratulations to Matthew Salesses—a panel of the ghosts of Lucille Clifton all agreed that his one word answer, "better," best fit the...
Book Giveaway: Birds LLC package
**UPDATE** No one happened to name the bird I was thinking of, a scarlet tanager, but I wasn't even sure that was a bird as opposed to a tree or...
A Visionary Friend Is Gone, Long Live His Vision
for Chris Toll Though not a licensed phrenologist and not able to afford calipers, I would have to start with his head, his majestic hairless skull....
I ain’t making no metaphor: An Interview with Mitchell S. Jackson
Oversoul, the new book by Mitchell S. Jackson (here's his sweet website), is remarkable for lots of reasons. Jackson writes with a contagious...
Reading Treees
Stephen Michael McDowell gave me his novella at the Literary Tailgate on Thursday. It’s called Treees and it’s handmade with half-letter pages...