Very cool and much appreciated Sparks Outsider Bodies Crutchfield review love action thing.

Here. For real. And such.

An unabashed Happy Birthday My Father's House cross-promotional moment thing.

Happy Birthday Bruce. And now some unabashed cross-promotion. My Father's House. And the reviews thus far. Outsider Writers Collective. decomP. Literary Chicago. Pank. Word. 

This Book Will Change Your Life - Charactered Pieces by Caleb J. Ross.

It is still early in the new year, but we have already had the chance to read the new story collection Charactered Pieces by Caleb J. Ross and we would like to think it bodes well for what's to come. While there is weirdness in these stories, not to mention biblical allegories and tales of suicide and the holocaust, what lingers is an underlying thread about the impact parents, fathers in particular, have on our lives whether through their presence or more often their absence. Ultimately, the stories are like a collective punch to the chest, though none more so than An Optimist is the Human Personification of Spring which caused us to lose our breath for a fleeting moment as we sat on the train and still haunts us even as we write this.

And now let us take a moment to soak-up a little Sunday love for the The Hall and The Mesler.

Two of TBWCYL, Inc.'s favorite writers are Chicago's own Tim Hall and Corey Mesler out of Memphis, both of whom we have been lucky enough to publish in This Zine Will Change Your Life. In a most cool confluence of events, both not only have new pieces out, Tim at the Outsider Writers Collective and Corey at The Battered Suitcase, but both have new interviews out as well, Tim with the Texas Pan-American, the transcript of which is on his excellent blog Does This Font Make Me Look Fat? and Corey with our good friends at What To Wear During An Orange Alert. Both Tim and Corey are really fascinating dudes, who have led really interesting lives; both are great writers and both are maybe a little too far off of the reading public's radar as far as we are concerned. So, all this is to say, that we hope you will take a look at their writing and their words, because we're pretty sure that doing so will change your life, at least a little, which last we checked isn't bad for an otherwise slow Sunday, right? Right.