tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15021774076404604242024-03-12T18:56:08.256-05:00This Blog Will Change Your LifeBorn December 2006TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.comBlogger2964125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-78570697087645586902016-01-10T10:20:00.000-06:002016-01-10T23:47:01.127-06:00We are new website. And more to come.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It's true. We are new <a href="http://tanzerben.com/" target="_blank">Ben Tanzer website</a>. We are also going to begin moving some of our blogging to the <a href="http://tanzerben.com/" target="_blank">new site</a>, and the rest of it to another site to come. We think it's all going to be awesome, though all we know for certain, is that it just might change your life, if only for a moment at that.</span></span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-10408912624546136272016-01-08T18:34:00.003-06:002016-01-08T18:34:54.797-06:00 Best box art ever? Also, SEX AND DEATH is in the house.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-25837212396838793782016-01-07T23:14:00.001-06:002016-01-07T23:15:41.932-06:00The Davis Schneiderman is INK.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://jadedibispress.com/product/ink/" target="_blank">INK.</a> is the third book in Davis Schneiderman's DEAD/BOOKS trilogy and <a href="http://jadedibispress.com/product/ink/" target="_blank">it</a> just might change your life.</span></span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-14481259993200780132016-01-06T18:26:00.002-06:002016-01-06T18:27:45.295-06:00We are Author Panel: Personal Histories: Where Memoir and Fiction Meet - and in quite ridiculous company - at the quite stellar and quite sure to change your life 2016 Voices of the Middle West festival on Saturday, March 12th in Ann Arbor.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It may even be possible that "quite stellar" is a massive understatement, so, please do take a </span><a href="http://midwestgothic.com/2010/12/voices-of-the-middle-west-event-information/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;" target="_blank">look here for the details</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> and then please do decide for yourself what's what. </span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-11498110545505300842016-01-05T23:29:00.001-06:002016-01-05T23:29:49.653-06:00SEX AND DEATH is quite pre-order.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Quite <a href="http://sunnyoutside.com/releases/079/o.html" target="_blank">geeked and appreciative</a> we are.</span></span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-22461086598925027192016-01-04T23:58:00.000-06:002016-01-05T00:06:55.371-06:00So, we're talking The New York Stories, only to find out that the most excellent Sam Slaughter is "pumped" to read SEX AND DEATH, which we respond to by failing to not show how geeked we are to learn that.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
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The New York Stories is <a href="https://twitter.com/slaughterwrites">@slaughterwrites</a> year-end list shout-out and most grateful indeed. <a href="https://t.co/FrOd2aBARZ">https://t.co/FrOd2aBARZ</a></div>
— Ben Tanzer (@BenTanzer) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenTanzer/status/682337594613448704">December 30, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/slaughterwrites">@slaughterwrites</a> Thanks brother, and it strikes me, that this could go on forever. Which for the record, is fine with me.</div>
— Ben Tanzer (@BenTanzer) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenTanzer/status/683805687395299328">January 4, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/slaughterwrites">@slaughterwrites</a> Quite beautiful that is, and you are, Sam Slaughter. Thanks so much, and as always, I hope you dig it.</div>
— Ben Tanzer (@BenTanzer) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenTanzer/status/684115602080833536">January 4, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We are so <a href="http://tbwcylinc.libsyn.com/this-podcast-will-change-your-life-episode-one-hundred-and-twenty-four-a-lot-of-misfit" target="_blank">podcast</a> and new year. We are also <a href="http://www.melbosworth.com/p/welcome.html" target="_blank">Bosworth</a> and <a href="http://www.ryanridge.com/" target="_blank">Ridge</a>, old friends and new. Not to mention Evil Knievel, Frances Farmer, sort of, Johnny Depp, William Burroughs, The Third Mind, and the third eye, collaboration, success, happiness, Twitter love and small press everything. So, do check <a href="http://tbwcylinc.libsyn.com/this-podcast-will-change-your-life-episode-one-hundred-and-twenty-four-a-lot-of-misfit" target="_blank">it</a> out, <a href="http://tbwcylinc.libsyn.com/this-podcast-will-change-your-life-episode-one-hundred-and-twenty-four-a-lot-of-misfit" target="_blank">it</a> just might change your life.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1315187932?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1" target="_blank">It</a> is good to be <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1315187932?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1" target="_blank">loved</a>. Excerpt? Always.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Only one thing could make it better: the author reading them aloud
(discussed this and more on Twitter - there's also a video of author
reading one of the stories available). Okay, enough semi-coherent
fan-girling from me, yeah I liked the stories." </span></span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-37563305788146224202016-01-01T23:42:00.001-06:002016-01-01T23:45:51.315-06:00After the Flood is Pete Lit Good Reading 2015. It is also quite good company and much appreciated too.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It's all true. So please do take a <a href="http://www.petelit.com/2016/01/good-reading-2015.html" target="_blank">look</a>. There you go. Thank you. Feels good, right?</span></span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-46716183168419108102015-12-31T15:08:00.000-06:002016-01-02T22:56:36.486-06:00These Things We Loved in 2015 Will Change Your Life.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><br />We though we might have some kind of new opening this year, but how can we, the year is the year, and so in
an otherwise terrible year in so many ways, for so many people, at
least there are books, and television, music and movies. Though not
enough, never enough. But here we are anyway, ignoring the rest of the
year if only for a moment to share what there is, and what there was,
with you, now, totally.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Memoirs that read like essays that read like memoirs and essay collections that read like memoirs that read like fever dreams, flash fiction and everything in between.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Hollywood Notebook/Wendy C.
Ortiz, Benchwarmer/Josh Wilker, This Must Be The Place/Sean H. Doyle, Romantic Violence/Christian Picciolini, Belief is its own kind of truth, Maybe/Lori Jakiela </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;">Crystal Eaters/Shane Jones, Loss Angeles/Mathieu Cailler, The Dark Will End The Dark/Darrin Doyle, Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty/Brian Alan Ellis, How To Carry Bigfoot Home/Chris Tarry, Fourteen Stories, None Of Them Are Yours/Luke B. Goebel</span><br />
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<b>Books as collaboration by authors who may or may not have facial hair and/or appear in other categories.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;">Camouflage Country/Ryan Ridge and Mel Bosworth, Tables Without Chairs #1/Brian Alan Ellis and Bud Smith</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;">And one more by Bud Smith because he's having that kind of year, yo.</span></b><br />
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movies we are happy we got to see during a year where we did even better
than last year, though still didn't see enough to satisfy our movie Jones.</b></span></span><br />
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The End of the Tour, Straight Outta Compton, Ex Machina, Sleeping With Other People, Slo-West, Tangerine, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Brooklyn, Trainwreck, Mission Impossible: VI</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Inside Out</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Life In a Walk, Going Clear, Paper Tigers</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Entourage </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Fantastic Four. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Spotlight, Carol, The Big Short</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Reboots that left us nostalgic and full of glee and sad.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Star Wars, Creed</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">The reboot that was not only bat shit crazy, but hands down our favorite movie of the year.</span></span></span></b><br />
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we got to listen to live, which was way less than last year, though we did get to listen to it with the quite lovely Debbie Pritzker, which made it all better. </b></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Bill Joel/Wrigley Field</span></span><br />
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shows we kept on watching, that was actually good, and we watched a lot of television this
year, that got in the way of reading, thinking, and sometimes sleeping,
but ultimately made us very happy.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"></span><span style="background-color: white;">Game of Thrones, Justified, Girls, The Walking Dead, Mad Men, </span><span style="background-color: white;">Orange is the New Black<span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">, Homeland, Louis, Orphan Black, Rectify, The Affair </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;">The television show we watch and love so much we are tearing-up now just thinking about it, though that is because we have something caught in our eye, so fuck you.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;">Possibly the single best scene in any show this year. Just saying.</span></span></span></b><br />
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Drinking From a Bitter Cup/Angela Jackson-Brown, A Tree Born Crooked/Steph Post, Train Shots/Vanessa Blakeslee, If I'd Known You Were Coming/Kate Milliken, Lungs Full of Noise/Tessa Mellas</span><br />
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<b>Quite terrific books by quite terrific literary citizens.</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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WTF with Marc Maron, Other People, The Slate Culture Gabfest</span>, Serial, StartUp, All Write Already<br />
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The Moment, Mystery Show, You Must Remember This</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;"><br />My Brooklyn Writer Friend/Greg Gerke, Kill Marguerite/Megan Milks, Single Stroke Seven/Lavinia Ludlow, Scary People/Kyle Muntz, The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic/Jessica Hopper, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/Philip K. Dick, Rift/Kathy Fish + Robert Vaughan, Messila/Robert James Russell, Marvel And A Wonder/Joe Meno </span></span></span></span><br />
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most finally, there are many people to thank for making this a good
year in spite of all that has been going on and feels like still will
be. And we are most definitely overlooking some, a lot maybe, and we
apologize for that, but there you go.</b></b></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br />Matt
Rowan, Jacob Knabb, Dave Housley, Jason Behrends, Anna
March, Victor David Giron, Jason Pettus, Moeses Soulright, Nathan Holic,
Ryan W. Bradley, Steve Lafler, Lavinia Ludlow, Rob Funderburk, Greg
Olear, William Walsh, John Barrios, Joseph
G. Peterson, Michael Seidlinger, Gabino Iglesias, Adam Lawrence, Dave McNamara, Peter Tieryas Liu, Mike Smolarek, Duncan MacKenzie, Jeffrey
Barken, Nik Korpon, Andrew Keating, Joseph Bates, Paul Luikart, Justin
Lawrence Daugherty, Matty Byloos, Naomi Huffman, Brad Listi, Loren
Kleinman, Michael Czyzniejewski, Ken Wohlrob, Myles and Noah Tanzer,
David Masciotra, Clayton Smith, Mel Bosworth, Benoit Lelievre, Todd Summar, Megan Stielstra, Hosho McCreesh, Catherine Eves,
David S. Atkinson, Debbie Pritzker, Peter Schwartz, BL Pawelek, James
Yates, Kristin Fouquet, Clayton Smith, Seth Berg, James Goertel,
Amber Sparks, Robert Vaughan, Jillian Lauren, Meg Tuite,
Robert Duffer, Brian Alan Ellis, Joseph Michael Owens, Angela Jackson-Brown, Keir Graff, Joana Topor MacKenzie, Joanna
Shroeder, Johnny Misfit, The Book Cellar, Michael Paige Glover, Jennifer
Banash, City Lit Books, Judith Tanzer, Kimberly Ann Southwick, Erika T. Wurth, Leesa Cross-Smith, Brian
Gresko, Chris L. Terry, Mark Heineke, Mike Bushnell, Richard Thomas,
Adam Tanzer, Patricia Ann McNair, James Tadd Adcox, Sean H. Doyle, Chris Oxley, John Reed, Jerry Brennan, Lauren Becker, Robert James Russell,
Brian Gresko, Lori Hettler, Bill Hillmann, Brad King,
Shawn Syms, Steve Karas, Barry Graham, David Tomas Martinez, Wendy C. Ortiz, Matt Micheli, Christine Rice, D. Foy, Robyn Pennacchia, Cari Luna, Angela Vela, Rachel Slotnick, Behn Reza, Boswell Book Company, The Mooney's, Eric Shonkwiler, Cyn Vargas,
Allison Joseph, Sara June Woods, Steve Himmer, Sara Lippman, Mikaela Shea Fowler, Giano
Cromley, Zoe Zolbrod, Tom Williams, Jennifer Pastiloff, Joshua Mohr, Susan Rukeyser, Patrick
Wensink, Mark Cronin, BJ Hollars, Amy Guth, Robert James Russell, RA Washington, Davis Schneiderman, Ray
Charbonneau, Sam Slaughter, Gina Frangello, Steph Post, Rachel Hyman, Nick Ostdick, John Tribble, Scott
McClanahan, Pete Anderson, Jill Howe, Amy Eaton, the Tomaloff's, Susan Messing, Paula Bomer, Wyl Vilacres,
Brandon Will, Sass Brown, Melissa Faliveno, Timothy Moore, Christian Picciolini, J. Bradley, Jason Fisk, Gint Aras, Mark Schwab, Yogi Roth, Eric Spitznagle, Ryan Ridge, Lisa Fay Coutley, Tim Kinsella, Jeffrey Pfaller, Dane Bahr, Lee Krecklow, Keidra Chaney, Rob Funderburk, Jonathan Travelstead, Daniel Nester, Shane Jones, Christopher Bowen, Liz Mason, Chris Tarry, Al Kratz, Leah Angstrom, David Olimpio, Jessica Kashiwabara </span></span> </span> </span></span> </span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-65123872502990330432015-12-30T10:25:00.000-06:002015-12-30T10:26:35.357-06:00"An intimate glimpse into the lives of writers, runners, sons, brothers, husbands, and fathers." The New York Stories is TNBBC Top Reads of 2015, quite fine company and so Ludlow.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It really is </span><a href="http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-tnbbc-twist-on-top-2015-lists.html" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;" target="_blank">Top Read</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">, much appreciated, </span><a href="http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-tnbbc-twist-on-top-2015-lists.html" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;" target="_blank">fine company</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">, thrilled, and </span><a href="http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-tnbbc-twist-on-top-2015-lists.html" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;" target="_blank">Ludlow</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">, be still our hearts. Excerpt? Of course. Endlessly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 18.2px;">We have the privilege of seeing some at their most honest and vulnerable and others as they make mistakes, come of age, regress in maturity, and carry forward hope that they will make better choices next time."</span> </span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-88834332029442738392015-12-28T23:41:00.000-06:002015-12-28T23:41:18.435-06:00"My destiny was to make people happy." Meadowlark Lemon (1932-2015)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-40697778212702697422015-12-27T21:28:00.000-06:002015-12-27T23:07:18.993-06:00These Books Will Change Your Life - USA-1000 by the Sass Brown, Hustle by the David Tomas Martinez and errata by Lisa Fay Coutley.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">We suppose this applies to us as much as anyone we know. But it also occurs to us that there is nothing more American than all that. We want it all and we think we deserve it. Why this occurs to us at the moment is in relation to the poetry collections we have just consumed, or to paraphrase the poet Mark Strand, and by extension <a href="http://bentanzer.blogspot.com/2014/09/this-book-will-change-your-life-rabbit.html" target="_blank">the Greg Santos</a>, the poetry we have been eating and the resulting happiness that has accompanied it.<br /> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">All of which is to say that we were honored, if not outright geeked, to attend <a href="http://grassroots.siu.edu/devilsKitchenFest.html" target="_blank">the 2015 Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival</a>, and spend time with so many talented authors, including, but not limited to - and yes we are thinking of the <a href="http://meganmilks.com/" target="_blank">Megan Milks</a> - the poets we read, ate and ran with - Sass Brown, David Tomas Martinez and Lisa Fay Coutley.<br /> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It is in their respective collections - <a href="http://www.sassbrown.com/sb/usa-1000.htm" target="_blank">USA-1000</a>, <a href="http://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/hustle-david-tomas-martinez" target="_blank">Hustle</a> and <a href="http://lisafaycoutley.com/errata/" target="_blank">errata</a> - that we started thinking about America. Or what America looks like in 2015 anyway. A mash-up of love and family, sex and immigrants, gender, pornography, pop culture, race, parenting, humor and violence. The fight for self-awareness. Grappling with trying to understand our true, and truest, identity. And how the good people of Devil's Kitchen - we're thinking of you Allison Joseph and Jon Tribble - may or may not have consciously sought to present this vision of America, but they have, and it is available, all of it, to all of us and sure to change lives. </span></span></div>
TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-21544244026514521292015-12-26T22:32:00.000-06:002015-12-26T22:32:00.918-06:00This Podcast Will Change Your Life Days of (both) Future (and) Past. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Glad to be on <a href="https://twitter.com/BenTanzer">@BenTanzer</a>'s podcast. Love city background as we talk online violence, films, journalism, fight club. <a href="https://t.co/9wuw7t6MuJ">https://t.co/9wuw7t6MuJ</a></p>— Amy Guth (@amyguth) <a href="https://twitter.com/amyguth/status/678470021815926784">December 20, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">i was reminded by <a href="https://twitter.com/BenTanzer">@BenTanzer</a> how much I miss writing and geeking out over music.</p>— Not Kendra (@kdc) <a href="https://twitter.com/kdc/status/679154190866776064">December 22, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-54859399141505958472015-12-25T11:59:00.003-06:002015-12-25T12:00:19.304-06:00The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. All Soulmates. And full of Williamson.<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/adamlawrence/22912753231/" title="photo.JPG"><img alt="photo.JPG" height="320" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5697/22912753231_da138bec8e_n.jpg" width="240" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />The new edition of <a href="http://thiszinewillchangeyourlife.blogspot.com/2015/12/soulmates-by-kristen-williamson.html" target="_blank">This Zine Will Change Your Life</a> is live, and we are </span><span style="background-color: white;">thrilled
to have new poem</span>, Soulmates <span style="background-color: white;">by new friend Kristen Williamson, and (almost) as always, photo action from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamlawrence" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Adam Lawrence</a>, music curation from <span style="color: #888888;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jason.behrends" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jason Behrends</a> </span>and presidential primaries so soon prose love from <a href="http://www.petelit.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pete Anderson</a>.
We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and
links. Finally, please note, we are hoping more of you will submit
comix, and music, novel excerpts, and art, and video, yes, video, and
combinations there of. And most finally, Merry Christmas, if that's your jam, yo.</span></span></span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-2553215553153437502015-12-24T10:02:00.000-06:002015-12-24T11:22:43.932-06:00And now we pause for (semi-) annual holiday wishes from faux TBWCYL, Inc. celebrity spokesman Steve Martin.<div style="line-height: 18.48px;">
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we at TBWCYL, Inc. had one wish that we could wish this holiday season,
it would be that all the children to join hands and sing together in
the spirit of harmony and peace. If we had two wishes we could make this
holiday season, the first would be for all the children of the world to
join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace. And the second
would be for 30 million dollars a month to be given to us, tax-free in a
Swiss bank account. You know, if we had three wishes we could make this
holiday season, the first, of course, would be for all the children of
the world to get together and sing, the second would be for the 30
million dollars every month to us, and the third would be for even more
encompassing power over every living being in the entire universe. And
if we had four wishes that we could make this holiday season, the first
would be the crap about the kids definitely, the second would be for the
30 million, the third would be for all the power, and the fourth would
be to set aside one month each year to have an extended staff-wide
31-day orgasm, to be brought out slowly by Rosanna Arquette and that
model Paulina-somebody, we can't think of her name. Of course our lovely
wives, and husbands, can come too and they are all behind us one
hundred percent here, we guarantee it. Wait a minute, maybe the sex
thing should be the first wish, so if we made that the first wish,
because it could all go boom tomorrow, then what do you got, y'know? No,
no, the kids, the kids singing would be great, that would be nice. But
wait a minute, who are we kidding? They're not going to be able to get
all those kids together. We mean, the logistics of the thing is
impossible, more trouble than it's worth! So -- we reorganize! Here we
go. First, the sex thing. We go with that. Second, the money. No, we got
with the power second, then the money. And then the kids. Oh wait, oh
jeez, we forgot about revenge against my enemies! Okay, we need revenge
against all of our enemies, they should die like pigs in hell! That
would be our fourth wish. And, of course, our fifth wish would be for
all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the
spirit of harmony and peace. Thank you everybody. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">(Borrowed (and slightly tweaked) from Steve Martin's monologue on the 1991 Saturday Night Live Christmas Special).</span></span></span></div>
TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-59495797233166536792015-12-23T16:06:00.002-06:002015-12-23T16:07:45.825-06:00Check-it - Gamut Magazine is coming.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So coming, and so from the endlessly fertile mind of the Richard Thomas. Hence so sure to change your life. So do learn more about the Gamut </span><a href="http://whatdoesnotkillme.com/2015/12/22/gamut/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;" target="_blank">here</a>, <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">now, all post-haste, thank you.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> </span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-17023122469683513372015-12-22T23:47:00.001-06:002015-12-22T23:50:28.474-06:00SEX AND DEATH is quite fine Seidlinger Bookporn - 2015 Edition.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">For reals, the <a href="http://michaeljseidlinger.com/2015/12/22/a-year-of-bookporn-2015-edition/" target="_blank">Bookporn</a>, the Seidlinger, the fine, the SEX AND DEATH, all of <a href="http://michaeljseidlinger.com/2015/12/22/a-year-of-bookporn-2015-edition/" target="_blank">it</a>.</span></span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-6561053829490339572015-12-21T22:25:00.001-06:002015-12-21T22:25:30.517-06:00SEX AND DEATH is quite stellar blurb from the quite stellar Lauren Becker. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"In SEX AND DEATH, Ben Tanzer deftly illustrates the struggle between fidelity and desire in a uniquely sympathetic manner. His stories display an honest exploration of the governance of our sexual thoughts and deeds, as determined by natural urges and behaviors modeled to us in childhood."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">--Lauren Becker, author of <i>If I Would Leave Myself Behind</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">And more to come.<i> </i> </span></span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-74922439945302327252015-12-20T10:49:00.001-06:002015-12-20T10:54:05.025-06:00Tortoise Books is seeking submissions for its first anthology and now needs you to S.Y.S (Send Your Saudade).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">For real. Tortoise Books is anthology and the theme is saudade. What is saudade? Tortoise Books describes it as something like this:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">"If you don't know what that means, don't worry. Saudade famously has no
direct English translation; it’s a Portuguese word describing the
nostalgic longing for something that may never return, or may not exist."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So there's that. There is more detail <a href="http://www.tortoisebooks.com/whatshappening/2015/11/28/sys-send-your-saudade" target="_blank">here</a>. And you should submit, like right now, because it just might change your life. </span></span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-50525702918997147892015-12-19T16:03:00.002-06:002015-12-19T16:03:56.467-06:00The Jacob S. Knabb really wants you to see this outtake from our photo shoot. And we do too. Enjoy.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-60425015854252484682015-12-18T18:16:00.001-06:002015-12-18T18:16:52.719-06:00The New York Stories (and friends) is Curbside Yuletide Party thing.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-46715008822824822892015-12-17T14:15:00.004-06:002015-12-17T14:23:53.868-06:00This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Three - I'm Going To Get My Voice Out There, starring the Amy Guth.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Wow are we so <a href="http://tbwcylinc.libsyn.com/this-podcast-will-change-your-life-episode-one-hundred-and-twenty-three-im-going-to-get-my-voice-out-there" target="_blank">Guth podcast</a>. But that's not all, yo. We are also Three Fallen Women, <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">life as a</span> radio personality, The Pilcrow Lit Fest, The Fixx Reading Series, Megan Stielstra, always, <a href="http://strangewaze.com/" target="_blank">Strangewaze</a>, the Association for Women Journalists-Chicago, The Op-Ed Project Public Voices Fellowship, the Guth's <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amyguth/documentary-about-women-and-online-harassment" target="_blank">new documentary series on women and online harassment</a> and <a href="http://tbwcylinc.libsyn.com/this-podcast-will-change-your-life-episode-one-hundred-and-twenty-three-im-going-to-get-my-voice-out-there" target="_blank">much, much more</a>. So much more. So do check it out, because it just might, n<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">a</span>y, will, change your life.</span></span>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4024293/height/360/width/450/theme/legacy/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/no-cache/true/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="450"></iframe>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-84945143997821270032015-12-16T21:48:00.000-06:002015-12-16T21:48:08.907-06:00"A keen work of literary art worthy of your attention." The New York Stories. The CCM/Entropy. The Joseph G. Peterson. And many appreciations. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Most definitely appreciations<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> for <a href="http://entropymag.org/what-ben-tanzer-knows-a-review-of-the-new-york-stories/" target="_blank">t</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">he CCM/Entropy and the Peterson</a>. A</span>nd yes, many at <a href="http://entropymag.org/what-ben-tanzer-knows-a-review-of-the-new-york-stories/" target="_blank">that</a>. Excerpt? Of course. Always.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">"The Tanzer style evolves from the pithy speech and the dialogic
to-and-fro of David Mamet’s early plays. If the 1986 movie classic, <i>About Last Night,</i> enacts a cinematic variation on Mamet’s theatrical production, <i>Sexual Perversity in Chicago,</i> then Tanzer’s opus enacts prose variations on <i>About Last Night</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In other words, in so far as <i>About Last Night</i> softens and
laughs up the hard edge of Mamet so too does Tanzer take his cue and
fill in comic color around the dark and mean parameters of Mamet’s
vision. Both writers, Tanzer and early Mamet, are distinctly urban, Gold
Coast Chicago, male-centric and minimalistic. But in my view Tanzer’s
take is more generous and open than Mamet’s. While Mamet is ultimately a
tragic dramatist, Tanzer’s worldview is ultimately comic and, should I
say, more loving and, yes, there is tragedy and hurt here as well."</span></span>TBWCYL, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12448756619637557430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1502177407640460424.post-45774908561949878712015-12-15T22:50:00.000-06:002015-12-15T22:50:19.884-06:00Lost in Space is awesomely Curbside Splendor $5 books winter haul indeed.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">$5 books! TY <a href="https://twitter.com/CurbsidePress">@CurbsidePress</a> for my winter haul! <a href="https://twitter.com/ambernoelle">@ambernoelle</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/meganstielstra">@meganstielstra</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BenTanzer">@BenTanzer</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/carrielorig">@carrielorig</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/frankielliot">@frankielliot</a> <a href="https://t.co/B3cOdndttY">pic.twitter.com/B3cOdndttY</a></p>— Danaë Aurora Fuentes (@wnDEEctyprtty) <a href="https://twitter.com/wnDEEctyprtty/status/676975024222412800">December 16, 2015</a></blockquote>
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