Travel. Read. Repeat. Endlessly. And we have been travel and we have read and today we are Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Spencer Dew and we should say right upfront that Spencer Dew is not only a long-time TBWCLY, Inc. favorite, This Zine Will Change Your Life contributor and This Podcast Will Change Your Life podcastee, but he is also one of our favorite Chicago writers and live readers, regardless of where he may be living these days, and a big part of that is his voice, both the literary and literal, the twang and precision, the paranoia and anxiety, the sex and interaction, the focus on relationships, and the endless precision of it all. And its all present in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres in some form or another, but there is something else as well, the presence of death, or more accurately dieing, and more specifically the dieing of a parent, and what that looks like at the end as it moves along incrementally and painfully, slowly and sadly, and yes, this book is beautifully designed, and big props to Another New Calligraphy for that, and yes, there are the connections to Henry Adams and gothic architecture, and this all good, but ultimately what makes us happiest, is that this feels like the work of someone stretching their voice in new directions and grappling with new themes and this is to be applauded, especially when they write like Spencer Dew and especially when there will be more to come.
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
This Book Will Change Your Life - Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Spencer Dew.
Travel. Read. Repeat. Endlessly. And we have been travel and we have read and today we are Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Spencer Dew and we should say right upfront that Spencer Dew is not only a long-time TBWCLY, Inc. favorite, This Zine Will Change Your Life contributor and This Podcast Will Change Your Life podcastee, but he is also one of our favorite Chicago writers and live readers, regardless of where he may be living these days, and a big part of that is his voice, both the literary and literal, the twang and precision, the paranoia and anxiety, the sex and interaction, the focus on relationships, and the endless precision of it all. And its all present in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres in some form or another, but there is something else as well, the presence of death, or more accurately dieing, and more specifically the dieing of a parent, and what that looks like at the end as it moves along incrementally and painfully, slowly and sadly, and yes, this book is beautifully designed, and big props to Another New Calligraphy for that, and yes, there are the connections to Henry Adams and gothic architecture, and this all good, but ultimately what makes us happiest, is that this feels like the work of someone stretching their voice in new directions and grappling with new themes and this is to be applauded, especially when they write like Spencer Dew and especially when there will be more to come.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Feel the hype. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Spencer Dew.
One-time This Podcast Will Change Your Life podcastee, contributor to This Zine Will Change Your Life and all-around TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Spencer Dew has a new joint out, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres from the quite stellar local publisher Another New Calligraphy, and we are quite stoked,so stoked in fact, that we want you to be stoked as well, so please do be stoked, please do take a look and if you a moment please feel free to read Spencer's essay on the writing of the book at the decomP, got it, good.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Tyler and Bengelsdorf publishing madness. Or, if you prefer, a This Zine Will Change Your Life contributors update.
We are quite geeked to share two excellent pieces of publishing news from This Zine Will Change Your Life contributors J.A. Tyler and Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf. First off, long-time friend and TBWCYL, Inc. favorite J.A. Tyler and his kick-ass ml press are not only gearing-up to mail out the next round of ml press chapbooks, but are mass-producing Charles Lennox's A FIELD OF COLORS, which having consumed it during the weekend, we would like to be sure you know is quite a gem, sad and wonderful all at once. Meanwhile, the Bengelsdorf has a quite cool new joint in the works. It is a collection of "handmade cards, books and ketchup" titled An Implausibilty of Gnus from Chicago's very own Another New Calligraphy who we think we are kind of digging. A lot. Anyway, nice work gentlemen and the rest of you, and you know who you are, please take a look, it will definitely be appreciated and it just may change your life.
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