This Book Will Change Your Life - Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray.

Travel. Books. Read. Consume. And today that which has been consumed is Museum of the Weird from the Amelia Gray, a collection of stories where men marry paring knives, wild javelinas attempt to defuse hostage situations, women consume their own hair during times of stress and the tortoise visits the hare as he recuperates in the hospital, a collection full of weirdness and richness and flights of imagination, that still kept returning to a theme as classic as any, how do we connect, or more accurately, how do damaged people make connections with one another, and ultimately themselves, how does this work, can it work and what are we to do if it doesn't?

Amelia Gray. Museum of Weird. Life Story. Wonderbar.

There is new Amelia Gray, Museum of Weird, and it's in the house, uh, here at headquarters and it will be read and posted on soon. Totally. In the interim, though please do enjoy TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Michael Kimball's take on her happy life. And on a postcard no less. Wonderbar.

Holy frijoles. Wow. Crazy. Awesome. Nuts. The QUICKIES! annual fundraiser is this Tuesday. Jemc. Picard. Gray. Dodson. Burch. Butler. And Tanzer?

We are quite geeked to let you know that TBWCYL, Inc, spokesperson Ben Tanzer will be reading this coming Tuesday as part of a way stellar line-up at the annual QUICKIES! fundraiser extravaganza. There will be Jac Jemc, podcasted here, Elizabeth Wylder, Kate Duva, Caroline Picard, podcasted here, Aaron Plesak, Amelia Gray, Casey Bye, Zach Dodson, Richard Thomas, Aaron Burch and Blake Butler. And while this may go without saying, we really think you want to come. No really, because, one, it's going to be crazy good, and two, we feel pretty certain it will change your life. A lot.

A quasi-AWP round-up, massive shout-outs and the new edition of this Podcast Will Change Your Life - No Screendoors. Nice, right? Totally.

AWP has been going for days and we barely scratched the surface in terms of events and networking. We did make two stops though and had much fun that we want to report on. First off, we hit the Orange Alert reading at the Book Cellar on Wednesday night and while there were many great writers both reading and hanging-out at the event we want to especially highlight long-time TBWCYL, Inc. favorites Jason Jordan, who read a killer piece of epistolary prose and S. Craig Renfroe, who we have not only published in This Zine Will Change Your Life, but who stars in the new and quite rocking edition of This Podcast Will Change Your Life - No Screen Doors; recent favorite, the awesomely dashing and black-clad John Domini; and new found kick-ass favorites Barry Graham of Dogzplot who read from his new slamming book The National Virginity Pledge and Peter Schwartz he of the wonderful poetry and singing voice. And last night we hit the Featherproof after-party blow-out and again, while there was much literary and musical love to be found we do want to highlight Amelia Gray of the new Featherproof flash-fiction collection AM/PM, quite funny and awesome; local playwright Chris Bower who is nothing less than spell-binding every time we see him; once and future rockstar Kyle Beachy of the terribly buzz-worthy new book The Slide, which we will be sure to report back on as soon as we read it, which will be soon, for sure; and last but not least, singer and too cool hip hop dude Serengeti, who ripped it up. Many thanks sir, we were floored. As we were all-week. Long live AWP.