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Handmade wooden journal by Tanja Sova.
Greetings, everyone. Happy Friday. I’m thinking about book arts a lot more lately, probably because the mister and I will soon be hand-sewing some poetry chapbooks with work by Saif Alsaegh.
Like this rainbow of Penguin book covers.
Designing a creative travel journal: I travel a fair amount, 2-3 trips somewhere per year. I should get in the habit of doing something like this.
You know you want to create your own pulp fiction cover.
Here are some words to use more often (or just smugly tell everyone that we already do, thanksverymuch).
This is amazing: click
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This week has been… interesting, hasn’t it? Crazy-making perhaps, when it comes to the crossroads of women, politics and bodies. But in regards to Jami Attenberg‘s tweet captured there, the internet is still talking about the business of book reviews, “niceness,” and the attitude with which we treat each other. Shall we round up some of those thoughts? Yes, let’s.
Andrew Scott talks about “writer on writer crimes:” nasty reviews that are unnecessarily snarky at the expense of the author, seemingly for the purpose of raising the review-writer’s profile. Bad form, reviewers.
So, how should one write a less than
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This week’s link roundup has much to do with conversation: Conversation about art, conversation between readers and writers, conversation about what makes us excited. Isn’t it great when we have those long, passionate talks about the things we love? Time becomes very fluid when that happens. Anyway, here’s what’s caught my eye this week:
Alyse Bensel, who had four poems appear here in April, has a chapbook coming out this fall. Shift will be published by Plan B Press, so keep an eye out.
In other book release news, Ciarán West‘s The Boys of Summer has a rather amusing trailer:
There
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(Notes From Elsewhere is a roundup of various literary things compiled by Sara Habein, along with news from past Word Riot authors. She make no claims at being terribly current or the first to know anything, but hopefully you will find something interesting here.)
Nick Antosca, whose Word Riot-published book Midnight Picnic came out in 2009, has a new book out, The Obese. He’s also writing for the show Teen Wolf, and his first novel, Fires, was just reissued. Here’s an interview with him over at Vol. I Brooklyn.
“Whenever someone asks me for writing advice I always feel at
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