Absinthe: New European Writing Joins Dzanc Books

November 18, 2009 - Ann Arbor, MI-In an effort to further our mission for bringing great writing to a broader audience, Dzanc Books is proud to announce that the literary journal, Absinthe: New (www.absinthenew.com), has become an imprint of Dzanc. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit publisher dedicated to publishingtop drawer literature and sponsoring free readings and workshops across the country, Dzanc is excited by the opportunity to work with the editors of Absinthe, Dwayne Hayes and Jessica Bomarito. Absinthe will serve as an invaluable addition to Dzanc, bringing the work of European writers and artists to North American audiences for the first time.

Dzanc is committed to finding the absolute best literature to publish. We believe publishing works from around the world is important on two fronts - a) there is some incredible work being done in Europethat has not been made available to those who only read English, and b) reading work from different world view points is essential to having a better understanding of the world we live in, and our own place in it.

Dwayne and Jessica have published twelve fantastic issues ofAbsinthe and Dzanc looks forward to being a part of their publishing dozens more. Readers of Absinthe may have noticed the Dzanc Books logo on the past few issues as we've had an informal arrangement helping out with some printing aspects. Dzanc is now excited to formalize our relationship with Absinthe and looks forward to doing many wonderful things with Absinthe in the future.

About Dzanc Books

Dzanc Books is a 501(c)3 non-profit literary publisher based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. If you would like to learn more about books and programs, or make a donation, please visit our website at www.dzancbooks.org.

Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month's time.

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

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Keen Company kicks off its tenth anniversary season, with an evening of five short plays by American master Thornton Wilder, all of which will be maki

Synopsis

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The evening of shorts includes Such Things Only Happen in Books, in which a domestic life is slowly unwrapped to reveal the complexities at the heart of all families; Cement Hands, about an uncle who attempts to explain to his niece the precariousness of marrying a tight-fisted young fellow; and The Angel That Troubled the Waters, which shows the healer's pain, and how his suffering makes him most human. Also included are In Shakespeare and the Bible and Now the Servant's Name was Malchus. The cast includes Clayton Apgar, Pepper Binkley, Sue Cremin and Kevin Hogan. Carl Forsman and Jonathan Silverstein direct.

Clurman Theatre 410 W. 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Currently running! Closes on November 14, 2009 Opened on October 6, 2009 Running Time: 1 hr. 30 min. Ticket Price: $51.25 Tickets by Phone: 212-279-4200

Malilenas is funded in part by the Fund for Poetry

[excerpts]

4.

Something feeds me zeros until

all my energy is consumed

in error correction.

I find myself

on a path I did not ask for

along an arc I cannot prevent.

I cannot prevent arcs.

I cannot prevent paths

in the form of mathematical certainty

or probability.

Something feeds me,

and all my riches are immaterial. No matter

what I have done, or do, or will do,

probability will save me.

27.

Destitute of worth, having no value.

Destitute of words, having no significance.

Though I meant what I said and

wrote and, writing off

the wreck and the reckoner

cash out in the everyday.

What a beautiful accident! Can I say that?

That’s life, she said.

Capitalize on past mistakes and still you

need a good business sense.

A calculated risk, a cultivated loss—

form a bond with abandon

all you bonds, form

and be content. For whom

and how many

and how many times you begin again

depends on how many times you end.

Hello Failure was presented in the Prelude Festival in 2007, and produced at PS 122 in March 2008.

"One day people are going to realize that Kristen Kosmas is the Chekhov of our time."

—Laylage Courie

"The play opens quietly, more or less, on the Eastern Seaboard and then closes, more or less miraculously, somewhere else altogether, achieving on its happy and troublous way all the things a reader or audience member could hope for—distance, speed, heart, submersion, emergence, truth, mystery, and more. By the end, in a plain and simple and fairly sad way, everything stands for everything else, nothing is not filled with mystery, and to be a living human being is seen to be—despite the drawbacks—the most enviable thing of all."

—Will Eno

"You can hate if you want but you're wrong."

—Andy Horwitz

Flash Fiction Contest

THE COLLAGIST

Preview: Issue No 9

Preview: Issue No 9

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In 2009, 193 publishers submitted 1,129 books for the 2009 National Book Awards.

2009 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTS

Fiction

Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)

Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)

Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)

Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)

Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar Straus and Giroux)

"This is a very bad book you're writing," I said to myself.

This title will be released on October 20, 2009.

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post -- World War II America -- a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.

Here are tales both cautionary and hopeful, each brimming with Vonnegut's trademark humor and profound humanism. A family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. A man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. A quack psychiatrist turned "murder counselor" concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. While these stories reflect the anxieties of the postwar era that Vonnegut was so adept at capturing -- and provide insight into the development of his early style -- collectively, they have a timeless quality that makes them just as relevant today as when they were written. It's impossible to imagine any of these pieces flowing from the pen of another writer; each in its own way is unmistakably, quintessentially Vonnegut.

Featuring a Foreword by author and longtime Vonnegut confidant Sidney Offit and illustrated with Vonnegut's characteristically insouciant line drawings, Look at the Birdie is an unexpected gift for readers who thought his unique voice had been stilled forever -- and serves as a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius.

-Taken from fictiondb