This Isn't Who We Are by Barry Graham is Pre-Order. So let's hit that shall we? Well done.

Here. Here. And now.

The Chicago Subtext interview. Does that sound too serious? Because while talking literature can be serious, this interview, maybe not so much.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Seventeen - Stories.

Bam! The new episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life is here, like right now. It is titled Stories and it stars none other than the quite cool Barry Graham, author of TBWCYL, Inc favorite The National Virginity Pledge and grand master of Dogzplot, Paper Hero Press and the most excellent Achilles Chapbook Series. We are quite geeked to have connected with him before he bundles up the family and heads off to his new gig at Rutgers and we think you will be as well. Please note, that if you choose to access the podcast via the above link it will take you directly to our page on imeem. If you choose to listen below, imeem now limits these embedded recordings to 30-second previews and asks you to follow their link if you want hear the full recording. That link also takes you to our page and so given this you may be wondering why we have embedded the recording here at all. Frankly, we don't know why, but please enjoy our new joint anyway, because we feel fairly confident it will change your life.

This post just might be about something that involves TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer, his writing and the very cool Achilles Chapbooks series.

We are not going to say exactly what it is we might be alluding to, but we can say that we are very excited to be working on a new thing with Barry Graham and his crew at the very excellent Achilles Chapbooks series. Barry is thinking we might be running with this something this coming summer and we are thinking that we are quite geeked about all of this, because we are not only big fans of what Barry is doing with this series, which we would add has published many writers we dig including but not limited to the Jamie Iredell and J.A. Tyler, but we are also big fans of his writing, see our riff on The National Virginity Pledge, and zinesterness, please check-out the quite rocking Dogzplot if you have not done so already. This is all really good-stuff and we are excited to be part of it. Many thanks to Barry for the interest and we will keep you apprised of what's up with this project as it progresses.

Some closing thoughts on Atlanta, both the chapbook and the people, well that, and the new episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life.

Now that we are home we wanted to share some closing thoughts on our jaunt to Atlanta this past week. First off, we read the chapbook Atlanta by the most excellent writer and new bestest friend Jamie Iredell and we really cannot stress enough how much we enjoyed these almost song-like prose poem flash fiction-like riffs on many of our favorite topics, including, but not limited to bars, chicks, Kafka and Johnny Cash. Sadly, Atlanta is sold out at the moment, but we expect the great minds behind the Achilles Chapbook Series to rectify that post-haste. Right? Good. We also had the chance to break bread and drink with Dr. Iredell and we are happy to report that he is a quite cool and entertaining dude. If you don't believe us, please feel free to listen to the latest episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life which we recorded with him and is titled appropriately enough, Atlanta. We would add, that there is much name-dropping to be found here and so who knows, listening to this edition of the podcast may not only change your life, but pump-up your ego some as well. Not bad, yes? And finally, speaking of name-dropping, we had the chance to break bread and drinks with another newish best friend, the awesomely chill and well-read Tim Frederick of the quite fine literary blog Baby Got Books, who we would add gave Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine a quite choice and much appreciated review back in the day. Frankly, it was good times all-around which made us wonder, what's up with Atlanta anyway? Why is everybody so cool and friendly there? And do they have room for another mass media empire? Because if so, we are open to expansion and in fact have our lawyers looking into whatever tax-breaks might be available right now.