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Heather Martin told me that she, Blake, and David are working on a website for the Gypsy House Reading Series, where they plan on hosting the audio from all of their readings. When they get that up and running, I promise to post a link so you can listen to Ruth Ellen and Pedro as well.

Thanks, Heather!

So if it isn’t möbius-reading, exactly, which bothers me about the book (which, by the way, is otherwise lovely), then is it perhaps the fact that Montalbetti has eviscerated the once robust genre of the Western? Can’t be that, I love the evisceration of genre. Let’s keep doing that. Is it maybe the fact that the author is French, which somehow stands in direct opposition to the idea of the Western? Certainly not, and who better to eviscerate a genre than the very person who “shouldn’t” be doing it? (And what the hell is that, anyway, the idea that the Frenchness stands in direct opposition to the Western? Karl May, a German who didn’t visit the U.S. until after he was hugely successful and famous, wrote several best-selling books about a Native American. And if Germanness doesn’t stand in direct opposition to the Western, then Frenchness (which doesn’t stand in direct (maybe oblique?) opposition to Germanness) doesn’t/can’t either.)

It concerns me to think that all kinds of book reviews (especially for major publications) have been written after reading fewer pages than I’ve read of Western.

My initial reaction to my inability to explain why I don’t want to keep reading Montalbetti’s book is to keep reading Montalbetti’s book in the hopes I’ll figure out why I don’t want to keep reading it. But that (even if the preceding hasn’t) really, finally proves me to be a silly person. The thing is this: I understand how the book is working. I have read it performing its major task more than thrice at this point, and I should be able to articulate what it is about the book which is making me want to stop reading it, but I can’t. I just can’t quite get at it.

In the end, it is a beautifully written/translated book, and I enjoyed reading it when I was reading it, but I never really wanted to pick it back up after I put it down.

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STARS ARE SYMBOLS | www.StarsAreSymbols.org
GALLERY SHOW & READING EXHIBITION on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7TH

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm: Drink To Support Contemporary Literature!
Great Divide Beer will start flowing at 6 pm. All proceeds will be donated to several literary journals who call Colorado home.

7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: Stars are Symbols (Unofficial) AWP Off-site Reading!
Featuring galleried new work by the following writers (an asterisk indicates the author will be giving a live reading): Emily Anderson, Nicolette Bond*, Daniel Borzutsky*, David Bowen*, Matthew Cooperman*, Carina Gia Farrero, John Gallaher*, Mary Hamilton, Brendan Healy, Shawn Huelle*, Adam D Jameson, Charles Malone*, Rico Moore*, Drew Nolte, Adi Nott, Jenifer Park, Caryl Pagel, Adam Peterson*, Bin Ramke, Dylan Scholinski, Susan Tepper*, Michelle Taransky, G. C. Waldrep, Janelle Welsh*, Jake Adam York*.

Also featuring the research artifacts and derivations by the following scientists: Athanasios Petridis, Greg Ver Steeg, Sarah Ragan, Mark Piper, Derek Lamb, Jamie Lomax, Azure Avery, Christian Fritz, Alan Calder, M. Leila Mays, John Debes, Jonathan Sowder, and Charles Nelson.

The Other Side Arts Gallery
1644 Platte Street
Denver, Colorado 80202-1124

EVEN IF YOU CAN’T MAKE THE APRIL 7TH EVENT, PLEASE DROP BY TO SEE STARS ARE SYMBOLS DURING OPEN GALLERY HOURS: TUESDAY – SATURDAY, NOON to 5 PM, APRIL 2 – APRIL 30.

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Lost Roads Press + Horse Less Press Reading
Thursday April 8
@ the Denver MCA
1485 Delgany Street

Doors open at 6:30, readings begin at 7 p.m.

Help us celebrate the re-issue of Frank Stanford’s Conditions Uncertain and Likely to Pass Away and the arrival of New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology.

With readings by:
C.D. Wright Forrest Gander Adam Clay Matthew Henriksen Cynthia Arrieu-King Sommer Browning Julia Cohen Bruce Covey Nate Slawson Jennifer Denrow Eric Baus Andrea Rexilius Shawn Huelle Jess Wigent Sarah Bartlett Joseph Wood Jen Tynes & Susan Scarlata

Come out and support independent, contemporary literature!

New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology is now available for purchase from Horse Less Press!

It is chock full of good writing by wonderful people like Erik Anderson, Cynthia Arrieu-King & Kristi Maxwell, Sarah Bartlett & Emily Kendal Frey, Eric Baus & Seth Perlow, Sommer Browning & Brandon Shimoda, Adam Clay, Gary L. McDowell, and Brandon Shimoda, Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina, Thomas Cook & Nate Slawson, Bruce Covey & Terita Heath-Wlaz, MTC Cronin & Peter Boyle, Mark DeCarteret, DZ Delgado & Sandy Florian, Jennifer K. Dick, Camille Dungy & Ravi Shankar, Annie Finch & Erika Howsare, Shawn Huelle & Jess Wigent, Kirk Keen, The Pines, Seth Perlow & Catherine Theis, Dani Rado, Andrea Rexilius & Susan Scarlata, Kate Schapira, Paul Siegell, Justin Taylor & Bill Hayward, and William Walsh.

It also features a cover designed by me!

Buy a copy today and support independent publishing, as well as experimental, meaningful, and fun writing!

 

(There will also be a celebratory reading on April 8 at the MCA Denver! More on that soon!)

1. a text (“Under such an agreement, play proceeds, and a faintly flawed ennui comes to be.”)

2. a song (“Disneyland is a perfect model of all entangled orders of simulacra”)

3. a short film (“They said there was no maker. They said we were the maker.”)

I would love it if you came.

You should come.

Despite his twentieth-century notoriety, Tutankhamen is considered a minor king. I think Frank Sinatra was buried with a tootsie roll, a roll of quarters, other New Jersey artifacts. I keep telling Rohini they should put a change machine in the laundry room. It’s 2008 and I’m 29 years old.

According to Sartre the activity of consciousness is a constant reappraisal of the past in the light of a projected future. In this sense, fiction is revealed as the most popular form of immortality. I don’t think I’m going to explain this any further.