The Davis Schneiderman is INK.

INK. is the third book in Davis Schneiderman's DEAD/BOOKS trilogy and it just might change your life.

Williams. Mazza. Schneiderman. Tanzer. Tate. Don't Start Me Talkin'. Release Party. The Hideout Chicago. Beautious.

Williams. Mazza. Schneiderman. Tanzer. Tate. Don't Start Me Talkin'. Release Party. The Hideout. February 9th.

More here. Here. And even here.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Seventy-One - Hot Blooded, starring the Davis Schneiderman.

Very hot and quited blooded we are. We are also [SIC], Foreigner, Hells Bells, and Proust. So do hit it, now, nice, it just might change your life.

James Tadd Adcox Matt Bell Molly Gaudry Roxane Gay Lily Hoang Matt Kirkpatrick Alissa Nutting Kathleen Rooney Ben Tanzer William Walsh. The Multifesto: a Henri D'Mescan Reader (The Remix Edition) is release.

Totally. Like today. So do hit that. It just might change your life.

Multifesto: a Henri D'Mescan Reader (The Remix Edition) is happening. And it is freaking cool.

Very cool really and quite honored we are to be included with such a fine coterie of writers. And yes, we just used the word coterie. Possibly even correctly.

We are CCLaP Podcast Dreadful. And in some awfully fine company yo.

For real. Here. Look. Now. Please. Right?

Davis Schneiderman is Busted Books at the remixthebook.

So true that, heady even, and needs to be seen, read, absorbed certainly, here or here and here, and quite possibly sure to change your life.

We are Davis Schneiderman Big Other interview. We are not Ryan Gosling.

Here. Not here. And excerpt.

Davis: Discourse the third, please…

Ben: And then most recently, my latest short story collection So Different Now was released by CCLaP who is based here in Chicago, both as a stand-alone e-collection, but also combined with an earlier collection I did with CCLaP called Repetition Patterns, a limited edition, hand bound, “hyper-fiction” collection titled The New York Stories. Repetition Patterns was a series of loosely related small town stories based on growing-up in upstate New York in a town named Binghamton, a place I know you know as well (Note: Davis went to grad school there).

Repetition Patterns was very much about teenagers and their interactions with the town, their parents, and becoming parents themselves. I did a blog tour for Repetition Patterns and, in answering questions about those stories, I started getting ideas for new stories, complimentary stories, and responses to the earlier ones. These stories became So Different Now and are more focused on those “teenagers” as adults and how the sins of the father impact them, us, in our adult lives.

Recently I was talking about this collection and started seeing how there might be a third set of stories in the offing, the death, or maybe re-birth of a dying town, and how people might be intertwined in that process. This was partially influenced by reading about Ethan Hawke and how there is talk of doing a third movie in the Before Sunrise, Before Sunset series. And no, I am not comparing myself to Ethan Hawke, though, for the record, unlike Ryan Gosling, he is not Canadian, and so the differences between us are just a little harder to discern.

Mark Brand and Davis Schneiderman get all Life After Sleep at the Big Other.

Most definitely have the CCLaP, the other, literary one, on the brain this week, much more on all that soon, and so really excited to see good, old friend, TBWCYL, Inc. favorite and This Podcast Will Change Your Life podcastee Mark Brand talking Life After Sleep with new friend and more recent TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Davis Schneiderman at the Big Other. Please do take a look and please do enjoy some excerpt. Please. Thanks.

Davis Schneiderman: Describe where the idea for Sleep emerged from, if you can…

Mark Brand: I first started piecing together Life After Sleep in 2007, shortly after the birth of my son. I was working 50+ hours a week in a medical office and was sleeping only 3-4 hours per night. As all new fathers do, I eventually came to accept that this is typical life with a new baby at home, but at the time it felt to me like I was the lone astronaut on a rocket to Planet Insanity. I had also always wanted to write something that pulled in some of my knowledge of medicine and the hospital/clinical environment, but I hadn’t really come across an idea I liked enough to make that happen.

By chance, I stumbled across an article in Discover magazine called “How to sleep 4 hours per night.” The article made mention vaguely of TMS technology and the potential side effect it has of putting people straight into REM sleep. My first thought was THAT’s what I want for Father’s Day, and my second thought was this would make an awesome short story. So I sat down over the course of a few weeks and wrote a short story that eventually became the “Dr. Frost” section of Life After Sleep. His section initially was a standalone short that I really liked and got some good reactions to from readers, but I just felt like I hadn’t done enough with the premise, and that there was so much more to say there about sleep and work, and it seemed to grow more and more relevant and alive in my head with each passing year. So I floated the idea to Jason Pettus, my editor at CCLaP Publishing and he liked the idea and told me to run with it. I went back and added Max and Lila and eventually Jeremy to make it more one large work.

Aside from just pure plot cleverness and a giant pile of subtext and not-quite-pointed statements about what I think people would do with a technology that allows someone to have 6 or 8 more hours in a day, (and not a few medical inside-jokes), I wanted to capture some of that experience of just being absolutely flat-out exhausted for an extended period of time. Things start to get wonky, you start waking up not knowing what day of the week it is and you realize you’re at work and you have no memory of having breakfast or driving there, that sort of thing. And in the middle of it, especially if you’ve got a new baby at home and you’re so mentally tied to two different and equally demanding facets of your life, you start to feel really bitter and fatalistic about it sometimes. I tried to grab onto that emotion and show the characters just full-on in the path of that oncoming wrecking ball.