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Two of our favorite people, @BenTanzer & @HoshoMcCreesh in conversation. Doesn't get much better than that! http://t.co/6bGLiLZqun
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Five - The Most Powerful Force In The Universe, starring the Hosho McCreesh.

So totally McCreesh we are. And so totally powerful it is. There is also podcast, not to mention drinking, poetry, New Mexico sunsets, and love, so much love. So do hit it, it just might change your life as it has ours. 

Artistically Declined Press is all 2015 Deerbird Novella and Twin Antlers Prize for Collaborative Poetry and you only have until March 9th to submit, yo, so do get on it.

For real. Here, and here, and even here.

Daddy Cool Holiday Special there is.

For real. And for a mere $8.00 through December 15th at that, yo. We know, right?

Bare Bulbs Swinging by the Meg Tuite, Michelle Reale, and Heather Fowler, and the Winner of the 2013 Twin Antlers Prize, is so preorder.

For real. More here. And do hit it, now, like right now, it just might change your life.

Ken Sparling Reissues from Artistically Declined Press there are.

So do hit it, fast, now, yes, please, thank you, it will certainly change your life.

These Books from Artistically Declined Press Will Change Your Life - Border Run from the Shya Scanlon and A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst by the Hosho McCreesh.

Read. Read. Read. Holidays. End of the year. Compulsions. Escape. Read. And enough of that. We suppose we could mention our clear bias and endless subjectivity regarding the work of Artistically Decline Press, but what's the point in that? They have been very good to us and we love them, a lot, yes, done. But that would overshadow the fact that present company aside, the authors they've worked with are among our most gifted, diverse, and beloved. Ken Sparling? Roxane Gay? Fuck yes. And yes, we're using the word fuck a lot this week, but we're worked-up, yo, holidays, sleep, and so much good reading. It's da lovely really. Which we also suppose brings us to Border Run from the Shya Scanlon and A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst by the Hosho McCreesh. More gifted. More diverse. More beloved. All of it. And in both cases, work that drifts a foot from our normal reading head space - speculative fiction and poetry respectively - and places maybe we should vow, or resolve as it may be, to read more of in the new year? Yes? Yes. Because we've done not enough of either this year and it is rapidly coming to an end. So, looking forward, terrific, we will, and back, yes, we will soon as well, tomorrow. But for now there is the Border Run, a story of clones and government, and how things get corrupted. Maybe more so on the border, where so much is hidden and space is so expansive. And yet despite, or is it inspite, of all of this, the Border Run still comes back to family and love, and trying to discern what we really know about either, and how much we are willing to give of ourselves to make either work, when it is so much easier, to hide from these things, and ourselves. Something else that the border and the west and the space allows for if that is our wont. 

Then there is the A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst, which is so deep and so gorgeous, and also about love and family. But as memory piece. And drenched in alcohol. Always, saturated, and a celebration of sorts. Which is one of McCreesh's gifts as a poet, to be in motion and exultant at all times about all things. And the Thirst is about all things funny and sad, the dark edges always lingering, but never quite enveloping the moments. Or the life. His work too is about escape, into a glass, a bottle, or a bar, but even within that it celebrates life, and love, constantly, and lovingly, even if at confusingly at times, because life is confusing, whether you are inside, or outside, a bottle. And these are things that McCreesh and Scanlon share in their work. Escape may be a pattern, a trope, and a need, but there is love, could be love, will be love, and even when it's all so confusing, that possibility makes life worth living for. All of which is to say that we are biased towards love as well, and living, with pain, and escape and all the messiness contained therein. And with that, Happy New Year, yo, live it, fully, and with joy, knowing sorrow and darkness and confusion are there, always, waiting, but can be held at bay when we are watching for them, conscious, and living it, all of it. It being life, changed and otherwise, or more accurately, knowing what life is, so we can embrace all that it throws at us.

Daddy Cool is Limited Time Deal.

So do hit it. It just might change your life.

I AM is like totally Kindle, yo.

Totally? Totally.

There is I AM sales love through December 2nd. There is also Border Run and A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst sale love. Which is quite a lot of love when you really think about it.

Quite a lot of love yo. So do hit it. Now. Thank you. Feels good right? We know.

We are I AM Labor Day Weekend sale.

Truth. Only six dollars and such. So please do hit that. It just might change your life.

And then there was the time Artistically Declined Press said let there be Little Books, Big Stories all bundled and the like and there was.

More here totally yes here thank you.

"The candor is blistering." You Can Make Him Like You gets HTMLGIANT'd. And likes it. A lot.

Very much really. So big thanks to the Peter Tieryas Liu and the whole HTMLGIANT crew for the very generous verbiage. And drinks soon, on us, for sure, yes? Yes. Excerpt? Cool.

"Ben Tanzer’s You Can Make Him Like You bursts off the opening page with an intense stream of prose swathed in Hold Steady songs. The thirty-something narrator, Keith, is frenetic with lust and desires, and he also wants to have sex with his wife more often. Terse sentences spit out observations that meander between pithy and neurotically self-conscious. When confronted with an attractive intern who seems to be flirting with him, he wonders: “Why did I mention my wife. Why wouldn’t I mention her? The intern twirls her hair a little. Fuck, twirling hair is not good. Not good.”

What do Richard Simmons, Vanilla Ice, George H.W. Bush, Corey Feldman, Evel Knieval, and Darth Vader have in common?

I AM. Artistically Declined Press. July 16th. Pre-order love.

"Tanzer captures the character and the moment perfectly." Lost Boy gets some Amazon love. And likes it. A lot.

Very much in fact. So thank you to the David S. Atkinson for that, and drinks on us, for sure, when next we meet. Now, how about some excerpt? Cool.

"Tanzer captures the character and the moment perfectly. Maybe the Corey thing is a bit of an extra draw for me, being a child of the 80s and all, but I think it's more than that. Tanzer captures what it must feel like to live entirely within that media world than even a nobody like me can understand what it must be like."

New joint. Lost Boy. From the Artistically Declined Press.

In fact, Lost Boy is at the Amazon. And free no less through Friday. It is also from a collection titled I AM that we are doing with the ADP in 2014. Yes, we know that's far away, so for now please do enjoy some Lost Boy and please do share some of that Lost Boy freeness with your friends, neighbors, family, lovers, co-workers, and strangers on the street. Cool? Word. Excerpt? Yes. Done.

"Dude, look at this mess, leaves all over the place and beer bottles everywhere, a used condom. So fucked-up bro, and not cool, so not cool, who treats a grave like this? It’s like a desecration or whatever. Anyway, I will make sure someone starts taking care of this, soon, promise."

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Mile Zero. Bradley. Love. Yo.

Yes, that Ryan Bradley. So do hit that yo, here, now, it just might change your life.

Check it. Daddy Cool Is Coming.

McCreesh. A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst. Artistically Declined. 2013. Yes.

We know, right? More. Here. And here. Word.