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.

"This novel reads like a sitcom. It’s a litcom about you and your friends. A fun, quick read." You Can Make Him Like You gets some year-end best of list love from the William Walsh at the Big Other. And likes it. A lot.

Most true that. Most appreciated. And most thrilled to be included on such a kick-ass list. Drinks on us for sure sir when next we meet.

A Providence Charleston Cousins Taylor Books You Can Make Him Like You This American Life Nerves of Steel West Virginia podcast photo essay wrap-up.

Barry Graham, Ben Tanzer, Scott McClanahan and Angel Babies

We were Providence for the Cousins Reading Series with the William Walsh and Laura Cherry, as well as, Timothy Gager and Ray Charbonneau. We Were Taylor Books and You Can Make Him Like You. We were Nerves of Steel West Virginia with the Barry Graham, Scott McClanahan, Jay Hill and sublime Harold Ray. And now we are home, photo essay and Nerves of Steel podcast in hand. Rejoice. And enjoy.

Ray Charbonneau, Ben Tanzer and Timothy Gager

Laura Cherry and William Walsh

Taylor Books - Charleston, WV

Harold Ray

Jay Hill and Ben Tanzer

We are June 5th Cousins Reading Series.

Big thanks to TBWCYL, Inc. favorite and This Zine Will Change Your Life contributor William Walsh and the whole crew at the Cousins Reading Series for inviting TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer to read on June 5th as part of the super fine Cousins Reading Series at Abe's Bar in Providence, RI. The line-up is stellar, there is mass excitement and we even have some Cousins interview action which we think you will enjoy and have excerpted here.

Can you name one person—living or dead, famous or unknown—who is unassailable? If so, who and why?

Laura Cherry: I don't think anyone is unassailable, really, but nonetheless I'll pick Leonard Cohen for his humility and passion and kickass lyrics.

Susan Scarlata: My Italian grandfather, my father’s father, comes to mind. He largely raised himself on the streets of Pittsburgh, where I am from, and worked many odd, liminally-legal “jobs,” which I am sure were as often about being scammed as doing the scamming himself. But in my own memory of him, when he was in his late seventies and eighties, when approached with anything he would rather not engage with he feigned bad hearing. His ability to hear lessened when he was attacked or even questioned, but this was clearly not due to infirmity or a weakened mind. Instead, he was sternly refusing to hear –looking up at the ceiling as if nothing had been said. Watching my grandfather as a ten-year old it was not that he, like a politician, would give you the answer he thought you wanted to hear, if he did not like it he just didn’t entertain that a question or comment had appeared at all. Re-reading this, I realize that on a macro level I could be describing China’s Communist party, which living in Hong Kong, I have had glimpses of so far, but seems to be also, largely unassailable.

Michael Stewart: The only unassailable people, I imagine, are the imagined ones. Holmes' deductive magic in Doyle's clockwork London; Daisy dressed in Fitzgerald's svelte, flattering sentences, money in her voice; Colette's Claudine; etc.

Ben Tanzer: I am very tempted to say William Walsh, though not entirely because of the potential brownie points and book sales, okay, mostly because of that, and I feel fairly obligated to say Nelson Mandela, because I suppose there isn't a better candidate, anywhere, but the first name that came to mind when I read this was Luke Skywalker, who didn't cross over to the dark side despite every opportunity to do so, which is pretty cool I think, and then maybe Johnny Cash, who sort of did cross over, but arguably made it work for him, which was also pretty cool.

These Books Will Change Your Life - Pathologies by William Walsh and Wolf Parts by Matt Bell.

We are more travel. We are more read. And we are more small press love, though please note that today we are all Keyhole Press all the time. First up, Pathologies by William Walsh. The William Walsh does humor, pop culture and sex as well as anyone in this collection, but one thing we are always struck by regardless of what we're reading of his, is Walsh's almost restless curiosity, which always seems to pop off the page, all fertile, authentic and vibrant. We would add, that this is the second collection this week we've read with a piece that was originally run in This Zine Will Change Your Life. In this case the terrific story Revision. Quite cool indeed. But we're not done, because we also have Wolf Parts by Matt Bell. Bell is also working the sex thing with this take on Little Red Riding Hood, and yet similar to his killer novella The Collectors, this is a story about compulsions, and despite the focus on Little Red Riding Hood, it's specifically about the sexual and arguably violent compulsions of men and how these compulsions not only warp men, but force women to react and mold themselves to these compulsions. Once again, good and interesting stuff across the board, and like the work of Tim Hall and Aaron Burch that we riffed on earlier this week, books we think just might change your life if you let them.

Check it out. Pathologies. A new William Walsh joint coming out from Keyhole Press.

Check it out, TBWCYL, Inc. favorite William Walsh has a new joint coming out from Keyhole Press titled Pathologies. We would be excited enough if William or Keyhole were up to anything new, but together, most sweet, plus, the excerpt being used to represent the collection is a story called Revision which originally appeared in This Zine Will Change Your Life, most sweet indeed.

A double-dose of Michael A. Fitzgerald and Radiant Days from the fine crew at Baby Got Books.

Not unlike our terribly fanboy reaction and blog post earlier this week about our excitement over learning about an interview with TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Shannon Burke in The National, today we find ourselves way geeked to see a double-dose of Michael A. FitzGerald over at the always fine Baby Got Books. In fact, you get not only a typically terrific review of Radiant Days, but a bonus interview as well. Not bad, right? No, not at all. Meanwhile, if you find yourself craving an additional dose of FitzGerald, and why wouldn't you be, feel free to check out TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer's tag-term interview with Michael and William Walsh over at the Orange Alert as well. There you go. Nice.

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others by Stephanie Johnson.

To begin we would like to say that from our vantage point Keyhole Press is having a very fine year. First came Questionstruck by TBWCYL, Inc. favorite William Walsh and now we get One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others by Stephanie Johnson. The books couldn't be more different, the former a lyrical, at times moving retextualization of the Calvin Trillin's work and the latter a captivating collection of short stories and flash fiction focused on mothers, fathers, daughters and loss. Still, both remind us of why we love to read, so big props all-around and many thanks to Stephanie for swapping books with us.

Reed. Walsh. And some very kind words for Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine.

Two wholly unique writers that we greatly admire here at TBWCYL, Inc. headquarters had some very kind words to say about Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine this week over at the Goodreads.

First, John Reed author of All the World's A Grave and Snowball's Chance wrote:

"Tanzer evokes what it is to be smart and puzzled, and full of ennui. A deft portrait of characters in mid-wander."

And second, William Walsh of Questionstruck fame and a contributor to This Zine Will Change Your Life said:

"This novel was a lot of fun to read...Clever. And charming throughout."

Many thanks gentlemen, much, much appreciated.

William Walsh is on the Apostrophe Cast. Pretty cool, yes? Way.

Check it out, William Walsh, author of the wonderful book Questionstruck is up at the Apostrophe Cast today. We here at TBWCYL, Inc. headquarters are big fans of both, you may recall that spokesperson Ben Tanzer has done a joint for Apostrophe Cast, thanks again to Guy and the crew there, and we published a great piece of William's in This Zine Will Change Your Life, and it is always fun to run across these sorts of literary intersections. Having said all that, we hope you will take a listen, because we are pretty sure it will change your life. We also hope you will buy a copy of Questionstruck, many copies in fact, and most importantly, we hope that you will keep being most awesome you, you can be. Cool? Excellent.

Questionstruck. Text. Interrogatories. And Trillin. Nice.

It would be accurate to say that this is not the first William Walsh shout-out here at headquarters this week. We did in fact just interview him and the Michael Fitzgerald for the Orange Alert Press Writer on Writer series. However, since we also mentioned that we planned to riff on William's new book Questionstruck when we finished it, and since we have now done just that, today we are here to riff. And here we go: Questionstruck is not just a loving, crazy, fragmented tribute to the work of Calvin Trillin, but a celebration of all things political, familial, edible, and textual, both dense and wonderful, and bordering on poetry. It can also be quite mesmerizing, so why not read it, and then spread the word, who knows, it just might change your life.

Writer on Writer love. Wow, that doesn't sound right. How about Interview madness, Take Two, starring the William Walsh and Michael Fitzgerald?

We are quite excited to let you know about a simultaneous interview thing we did as part of the Writer on Writer series at Orange Alert with quite cool writers Michael Fitzgerald, whose book Radiant Days we recently riffed on here at the blog, and William Walsh, whose book Questionstruck we plan to riff on soon, and whose work we recently ran with at This Zine Will Change Your Life. We had a lot of fun going all fan boy with this and we hope you dig it.

Wunderbar. First, a William Walsh - Michael Kimball intersection, and now a Mark Baumer - J.A. Tyler mash-up. It's almost too much to process.

Right? Just last week we reported on TBWCYL, Inc. favorites Michael Kimball and William Walsh joyously intersecting at the Word Riot and this week we are stunned to find a terrifically wacked-out, yet not so atypical, Mark Baumer/Everyday Yeah interview with none other than the J.A. Tyler. How's this possible? Its mayhem, wonderful intersecting stellar writer on writer mayhem, and we just can't take anymore. Okay, we can. So, who's up next week? Huh? Who?

A quite fun William Walsh - Michael Kimball intersection of sorts. Assuming intersection is the right word. Either way, it is definitely an interview

We were quite thrilled to see talented writer dudes Michael Kimball and William Walsh, two of our newest and arguably best friends in the whole world, cross paths at Word Riot, where Michael has interviewed William about his new book Questionstruck, while requesting that all of William's responses be phrased as questions. Much fun. Nice work gentlemen.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and feeling Questionstruck. Or something like that.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and feeling Questionstruck. Or something like that. We have a new story, The Poet's Revise by William Walsh which we are way excited about, and, as always, photo action from Adam Lawrence, a music selection from Jason Behrends, and Crameresque prose love from Pete Anderson. We hope you enjoy this edition and we appreciate all shout-outs and links. We are also thrilled to let you know that while this was completely unplanned William Walsh's new book Questionstruck was released by Keyhole Press this week and so we want to take a moment to hype the release and encourage you to take a look at Questionstruck as well, because we believe that doing so will certainly change your life. Finally, please note, that we are temporarily closed for submissions. And it's not you, we love you, it's us. Well actually, it is you and all of your wonderful submissions. But we still love you. For real. That said, we are re-opening for submissions on May 1st, so do stay-tuned, way tuned.