After the Flood is Pete Lit Good Reading 2015. It is also quite good company and much appreciated too.

It's all true. So please do take a look. There you go. Thank you. Feels good, right?

"Haunting." The Pete Lit is all After the Flood and "Watching and Waiting" and we are thankful for all of it.

Truth. Pete has some very kind things to say about After the Flood in general and "Watching and Waiting" more specifically and we are indeed thankful. Quite. Excerpt? Cool.

"After the Flood is clearly the best of his Two Rivers story collections (all three are compiled in the single-volume The New York Stories, which I plan to read in full sometime next year), with this latest one being unified by not only locale but also by a catastrophic flood which devastates the town and forever changes the lives of nearly every character; the flood gives the collection a haunting, overarching theme as well as tightness and cohesion."

Lost in Space is Pete Lit: Good Reading 2014. And most appreciative we are.

The Pete Lit has been most kind indeed to us over the years and we cannot adequately express our gratitude for that. But we very much do appreciate it. This is also a quite fine list, so do hit it, it just might change your life.

Wherein Orphans is Pete Lit Good Reading 2013. In ridiculous company. And most appreciative at that.

Quite appreciative. More here. A lot more.

"Unprecedented in the context of Ben's earlier work." Orphans gets Pete Lit'd. And likes it. A lot.

Quite a lot, and so big thanks to the Pete Lit for that. And drinks, many, on us, when next we meet. Excerpt? Cool.

"In this dystopia, Ben's usual preoccupations are dramatically amped up, transformed from a state of simple existential angst to the very survival of his protagonist. The stakes here are so much higher than his realist fiction, and the outcome much more emphatic."

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Sixty-Two - Hunger, starring the Pete Anderson.

Wonderfully good it is. All of it. The Podcast. The Anderson. And talking Wheatyard, Pete's debut novel which drops today yo. We should also note that Pete starred in the second Podcast we ever recorded - "What Becomes A Legend Most" - way back in February 2008. So please do enjoy yourself some Anderson love. And please do hit the Wheatyard post-haste. It just might change you life. 

My Father's House is Pete Lit Good Reading 2012. And we are fine.

We are also much appreciative for the Pete Lit's ongoing support and most geeked to be among such fine company, including, but not limited to, the Tom Williams, Joe Meno, and Michael Czyzniejewski, all writers we quite love and admire.

Talking upstate New York, high school, storytelling, and going home with the Pete Lit on Day Four of the "The New York Stories Tour 2012."

True that. There is interview. And Pete Lit and we are most thankful.

"Tanzer movingly explores the bewildered, anxious and impulsive thoughts and actions of a young man still trying to figure out his place in the world." My Father's House gets Pete Lit'd. And likes it. A lot.

So totally likes it. And so very much appreciates it as well. Big thanks Pete Lit and drinks on us for sure when next we meet. Now, how about some excerpt? Cool.

"The father's fate is a foregone conclusion, but even amidst that great loss the narrator finally begins to make sense of it all, and finds a way to move forward. Which is something that any of us in that situation would wish for ourselves."

Big sloppy new year appreciations to Pete Anderson and the whole Pete Lit crew for including My Father's House in their "12 for 2012" list of books they most look forward to reading in the coming year.

Which is a most fine way to start the year indeed. More here. Yes, there. Or here. Either is fine. Really.

You Can Make Him Like You is most beautious Pete Lit Good Reading 2011. And we are most geeked.

Big geeking thanks to the Pete Anderson and the whole Pete Lit crew for the You Can Make Him Like You inclusion in this most righteous and beautious of year-end lists.

Hyping the So Different Now/The New York Stories hype in the most hypeful manner possible.

It's true. We are hyping the hype. Feels good. So, with that said, big thanks to the Pete  Lit, Necessary Fiction and TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog for the So Different Now/The New York Stories hype. Much appreciated. Much love. Much hype. 

"His best fiction yet." You Can Make Him Like You gets Pete Lit'd. And likes it. A lot.

Big hugs to incredibly biased and most possibly subjective TBWCYL, Inc. favorite, great friend and terrific writer Pete Anderson of Pete Lit blog fame for his generous and yes, maybe not so objective, words about You Can Make Him Like You. Drinks and falafel on us for sure when next we meet.

"I won't even try to be objective, but will simply mention that it's another funny, thoughtful, pop culture-saturated winner from Ben's restless imagination."

A Pete Lit You Can Make Him Like You Interview Sundays Chicago conversation.

Yes, Interview Sundays is back baby. We recently had the chance to talk You Can Make Him Like You with TBWCYL, Inc. favorite, This Podcast Will Change Your Life podcastee, This Zine Will Change Your Life flunkee and rock star writer and lunch companion Pete Anderson; and more specifically Chicago sites that make appearances in the book, including, and we suppose in this case, limited to Metro, Old Town Ale House and Billy Goat Tavern. We also got to talk Tom Cruise, Studs Terkel, The Hold Steady and long-time This Blog Will Change Your Life muse Elizabeth Crane. All-in-all much fun indeed, and much appreciated, thanks bro.

99 Problems is Pete Lit Good Reading 2010. And we are most proud. And thankful.

Most proud we are to learn that 99 Problems has made the Pete Lit Good Reading 2010 list. We are also most thrilled to be in such fine company, the Mel Bosworth, Tim Hall and Matt Bell, not to mention, Studs Terkel and Nelson Algren, yes that Studs Terkel, and yes, that Nelson Algren, among others. Big thanks to Pete Anderson and the crew, drinks on us, soon, somewhere, yes? Good. And please note that our Top Ten lists are forthcoming, soon, like next week.

A quite fine CCLaP Rabin Tanzer event Pete Lit shout-out.

Quite fine. And quite appreciated. Big thanks to Pete Anderson and the crew at Pete Lit for their CCLaP Rabin Tanzer event shout-out. The event is tomorrow night and we remain most excited, and nervous, about it. We also look forward to seeing you, all of you, there, cool? Great. See you then.

"A very brisk and entertaining read." 99 Problems gets Pete Lit'd. And likes it. A lot.

Great friend, supporter and This Zine Will Change Your Life Assistant Flunky Pete Anderson has some quite kind things to say about 99 Problems at the Pete Lit blog and we are most appreciative. Most.

"Ordinarily I'd be less than enthused to read a book solely devoted to running (though in Ben's case I'd gladly read such a book anyway; such is fandom), but the way he weaves the running, writing and personal life elements together makes for a very brisk and entertaining read. Another winner from Ben's fertile imagination, and maybe the best thing he's written yet."

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two - What Becomes A Legend Most. Redux. And Re-Release.

Episode Two stars the always sublime Pete Anderson of Pete Lit blog fame. It is very tasty.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live, stormy and all Goodchild.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and stormy. Or something like that. We have a new story Weather Report by Wayne Goodchild, which we are way excited to end the year with, and, as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, a music selection from Jason Behrends and Senate dithering prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Finally, please note, that we think you are the bomb, all of you. Big time. Okay, and one more thing, to all of our contributors, please feel free to let us know when you have something new to hype and we will be sure to hype. Cool?

"Swooned all over again." I am Richard Simmons gets Pete Lit'd. And likes it a lot.

We cannot say that we don't expect, even hope, that the fine crew at Pete Lit, will be somewhat biased when it comes to our work, but we still very much appreciate the kind words they recently had say about our new ml press chapbook I Am Richard Simmons. Many thanks, and drinks for us, for sure, when next we meet. For the rest of you an excerpt:

"The story's eponymous narrator projects the energy and mania and exuberance and positivity and, yes, also the veiled desperation and sadness and heartbreak that seems to underlie all of that celebrity's public appearances."

Update: We also want to thank the BL Pawelek for some additional Richard Simmons love. Much, much, appreciated.