An anthology I’m part of just came out

…that being the Anthology of Etiquette and Terrifying Angels with Many Heads, edited by the mysterious & reclusive James Tadd Adcox.

Besides me, it features writing by Matt Bell, J. Bradley, Caroline Crew, Michael Czyniejewski, Jess Dutschmann, Megan M. Garr, Melissa Goodrich, Mason Johnson, M Kitchell, Robert Kloss, Meghan Lamb, Seth Oelbaum, Brian Oliu, Joel Patton, Poncho Peligroso, Caroline Picard, Matt Rowan, Joseph Scapellato, Davis Schneiderman, Glenn Shaheen, Dan Shapiro, Amber Sparks, Colin Winnette, and Russ Woods.

You can download a PDF copy here, via Nap Litmag. I just downloaded mine.

& thanks, Tadd, for having me!

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I will be reading at two AWP off-site readings

Just like May’s G8 Summit, when thousands of delegates and protestors will descend on the city, AWP is coming in two weeks to Chicago. As such, I will be reading at two off-site events:

“Artifice / Mutable Sound / Smalldoggies“
Thursday, 1 March, 5–7:30pm
at Beef and Brandy (127 S.State St.)
feat. Jen Gann (Backtuck), A D Jameson (Giant Slugs, Amazing Adult Fantasy), Mike Kitchell (Slow Slidings), Christian Tebordo (The Awful Possibilities, We Go Liquid), J.A. Tyler (The Jimmy Interludes, A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed), Colin Winnette (Revelation, Animal Collection), Brian Allen Carr (Short Bus), Carrie Seitzinger (The Dots Don’t Connect), and Joel Patton.

“Come on, Seven!”
Friday, March 2, 6–8pm
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Ballroom (112 S. Michigan Ave.)
feat. Tantra Bensko, Eckhard Gerdes, James R. Hugunin, A D Jameson, Lance Olsen, Davis Schneiderman, and Yuriy Tarnawsky

I hope to see you there!

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An Interview with Me at Untoward

just went up—well, Part One did, in which Matt Rowan asks me questions about my first book (Amazing Adult Fantasy), G.I. Joe, geek culture, Ota Benga, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, and bad writing habits; we also discuss Curtis White, Theodor Adorno, Viktor Shklovsky, and ninjas, among other things.

[Update: Part Two, which focuses more on my first novel, Giant Slugs, is now up.]

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