"The story is something of The Outsiders meets The Virgin Suicides." Lucky Man - The Anniversary Edition gets Gapers Block'd. And likes it. A lot.

Quite a lot frankly. And not just because the reviewer Melinda McIntire writes, "If you are looking for a happy, light read, this is not the book for you," though we do like that a lot as well. Meanwhile, big thanks to the McIntire for the kind words, and drinks on us for sure, and soon we think at that, yes, yes? Now how about some more excerpt? Cool.

"If you are looking for a happy, light read, this is not the book for you. This is depressing, told realistically and true to life. Tanzer's writing is witty and engaging, and all together, this is one worth reading."

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. Full of Moment. And Will.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live. We have a new story, Moment Guy by Brandon Will, which we are way excited about, and, (almost) as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, music curation from Jason Behrends and re-election prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. Finally, please note, we are hoping more of you will submit comix, and music, novel excerpts, and art, and video, yes, video, and combinations there of. And most finally, a moment of appreciation for the Adam Yauch - "I've got more rhymes than I've got grey hairs and that's a lot because I've got my share."

A We Were Cheated; I Got Mad Six Miles South In This Alone Impulse Shya Scanlon joint thing.

We recently had the opportunity to do a We Were Cheated; I Got Mad Six Miles South In This Alone Impulse Shya Scanlon joint thing and we are most appreciative that TBWCYL, Inc. players David Masciotra and Brandon Will were willing to help out. Enjoy.

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Thirty - High Fidelity.

Hey there Caleb J. Ross, did you see it coming, were you waiting breathlessly for the new edition of This Podcast Will Change Your Life, because its here, Episode Thirty, High Fidelity, starring Chicago's own Brandon Will, writer, book seller, puppeteer, Karaoke god and lover of all things Eminem. And its the goods. Well, its something, something beautiful surely, and something that we think just might change your life, maybe even for the good. Maybe.

How about a crazy, freaking awesome, dude-laden, will quite possibly change your life Orange Alert reading at The Whistler this Sunday, April 18th?

Scott McClanahan. Sam Pink. Spencer Dew. Brandon Will. And TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer. Yeah.

Torn Pages. The photos. And such.

Last night we hit the Torn Pages show. It was the bomb.

Dominique Holmes' illustrations for our story Flight were amazing. No, check that they were more than amazing. That said, do you know any good words for more than amazing?

We saw the Tim Hall. Sublime.

The David Masiotra. Quite rocking.

And some Brandon Will, Amy Guth and Jason Behrends too. All in all, a quite terrific night and many thanks to Josh Lucas for asking us to submit something and the OnNo!Doom Collective for hosting.

Some very kind and appreciated praise for the Lucky Man. Not to mention The Adventures of Milo and Otis. And Dudley Moore. Sweet.

We are having a good week and we are most appreciative. Today we want to share an excerpt from a most lengthy and wonderful review of Lucky Man which is up on Goodreads, name drops both The Adventures of Milo and Otis and Dudley Moore, and is courtesy of one Brandon Will. Many thanks Brandon for the very kind comments and drinks on us for sure when next we meet.

"The story moves fast. Huge events happen, little moments happen, all the while it keeps moving forward, rolling along, like the neverending calendar-page-flips of life itself, which is I think what the book is about. It's about friends growing up, and growing apart, and having to live in themselves in the day which contains all the days you've had to live through before. The rolling pace makes it feel almost like the cliff's notes to the saga of a group of friends' dissolving ties. Which is really kind of depressing, in a "The Adventures of Milo and Otis" kind of way. That movie really depressed the hell out of me when I was a kid, going around compressing the whole journey of life (birth-childhood-friendships-adolescence-love-coupling-copulating-birthing-growing old) into eighty minutes narrated by the great Dudley Moore.

So basically, Dudley Moore can tell you every major stage of your life through an allegory with dogs in eighty minutes, and Ben Tanzer can map out for you the disconnect that happens in so many groups of friends with archetypes that are actually real characters in 220 pages. Life is simple, and that's depressing.

But also kind of beautiful in it's reassurance for the things we do that we wish we could re-do, the things that we did't know how to do that we had to, and on and on and on. The lessons we had to learn, and now have to live with. It captures that late-teens-into-twenties-what-the-fuck-is-going-on-here-people-paradigm-shift that we all have to claw through."