The Month of May is Short Story Month

We'll be following Matt Bell's blog and reading all the short stories he and his guest bloggers can throw at us. Maybe we'll suggest a story or two ourselves. What will you be doing?

Our thoughts are with you, Tuscaloosa!!

Flying House is Reading

Reviewing all our applications today and realizing that almost 50% of the writers who applied have last names that start with the letter W... coincidence?

LAST DAY TO APPLY

You have until midnight tonight to apply for Flying House 2011!! We've already received some amazing submissions, and we can't wait to start reviewing all the work!

Participants will be announced May 1. 

Daniela Olszewska @delirious hem

Olszewska writes a lyric essay, "White Dresses, Red Soles + Oil Painting: Some Notes on Emily Dickinson, Christian Louboutin + John Berger," up on delirious hem today. Is it a poet's job to make their work glamorous? She makes an interesting point... 

A (Late) March Feature Article, Sort Of

Inspired by ideas in Jeremy Allan Hawkins' piece, Frank Lloyd Wright, the Interstate, and the House: a Romance, I asked Brian Oliu to write something for our next feature. He did. Something unexpected. A new, creative trail he's blazing down. The piece says some interesting stuff about houses, and homes, and putting things in houses and homes, and how, even by putting things inside houses and homes, and trying to show possession of our houses and homes, we can never really own them.

Go read it here. 

Literature as the “wild west” of the arts today, by Steve Tomasula

Says Tomasula, “But what distinguishes literature from other kinds of writing is how it’s written. So one of the things I do in a class is get students to think of text as a medium—such as clay to a sculptor or sound to a composer—and ask, ‘How are you going to work this material?’” 


To read the whole article, go here.

Thursday! An Evening of Modern Fairy Tales

Come out to the Harold Washington Library tomorrow evening, and hear Kate Bernheimer and Lydia Millet read from their modern fairy tale collections. Bernheimer, once a professor of mine, is an expert––and enthusiast––of all things Brother's Grimm. She founded Fairy Tale Review, a delightfully dark literary journal, she edited three anthologies, including the more recent My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, and she has a plethora of short stories, essays, novels and other words all swirling around once upon a time.

I've also had the pleasure of meeting Kate's dear friend, Lydia Millet, and she too enjoys the fairy-word. Watching these two women together is an event not to be missed. Hope to see you there!

Loving Fine Line Magazine

While wandering at the Chicago Zine Fest, I ran across Fine Line Magazine's booth and grabbed a card––and today I finally got around to looking up their website. I love it! A well-designed, independent magazine that merges text and image. They have work from emerging artists worldwide, and they aim to create a magazine that will revive the printed page. 

Take a look at their website and dabble inside the magazine's pages. They've been written up here and here too, if you want to see more. 

Indie Booksellers' Choice Awards

Indie Booksellers’ Choice Award gets new co-sponsor, announces longlist. 

What do we think about performance art in the Flying House show?

Though it is an art form I, personally, am not too familiar with, performance art seems to have a large following. How does performance art fit in with other visual and textual representations of the world?