I Will Smash You at the AWP Literary Cabaret Fundraiser

On Friday February 27, at Frazier's in Baltimore they'll screen a twenty minutes preview of the film I Will Smash You that I made with Michael Kimball, as part of the AWP Literary Cabaret Fundraiser (www.tannertoys.com). You can see Adam Robinson singing and smashing a hymn, Ella Grossbach smashing her teacher's head, Ivan Bojanic smashing his procrastination and Chancellor Pascale burning his discharge papers.
The Literary Cabaret will showcase writers who are musicians and musicians who are writers, and writers who are filmmakers and filmmakers who are writers. This includes Madison Smartt Bell, Geoffrey Becker, Victoria Vox, Rahne Alexander, Michael Kimball, Linda Joy Burke and people of the Baltimore Review, Smartish Pace, Eight Stone Press, JMWW, Brickhouse Books, Publishing Genius, Little Patuxent Review, Passager, NarrowHouse, and more. It's a one-night-only event, from 7 to 11PM. It's just 15 bucks, and the money goes to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, which needs all your help to stay alive.

No Colony #2

The second issue of No Colony is out. I have a story in it, called Fourteen Things My Father Forbade.
I am happy and honored to be in the company of Isadora Bey, Kristina Born, Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Scott Garson, Rachel B. Glaser, Chris Higgs, Brandon Hobson, Edward Kim, Matt Kirkpatrick, Rauan Klassnik, Lee Klein, Darby Larson, Evan Lavender-Smith, Patrick Leonard, Eugene Lim, Sean Lovelace, Anthony Luebbert, Conor Madigan, Gene Morgan, Bryson Newhart, Christian Peet, Jennifer Pieroni, Kathryn Regina, Joanna Ruocco, Bradley Sands, Ken Sparling, William Walsh and Corey Zeller.
It's an understatement to say that the cover of No Colony is cool as shit. It's an understatement to say that the writing will blow your mind.
Buy No Colony, here

Important artifacts

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton.
I love this book. It's the story of a couple, of the end of a relationship, told in the form of a fake auction catalog. The book displays photos of their belongings, with notes like:

LOT 1066
A dried flower
A dried flower rose from a bouquet sent by Morris to Doolan. Kept in a Creme de la Mer moisturizer box. 3 sq.in.
$12-15

LOT 1232
A brown mug
A broken brown glazed mug stamped "brickett Davda Made in England" on base.
$5-7
Included in lot is a note handwritten by Doolan. R " H I'm so sorry, I know this was your favorite. Will get it fixed, I promise."

Leanne Shapton gathered or made up: books (chosen with incredible accuracy), salt and pepper shakers, bathing suits, handwritten notes, umbrellas, wooden birds, cake servers, shoes, t-shirts, mugs, a cosmetics case and its contents, glasses, watches, flower frogs, Easter eggs, strawberry jam jars, mix CDs, birthday cards, postcards, newspaper clippings, bras, snowshoes, white noise machines, headlamps, rocks, wishbones, breakfast menus, plastic sharks and a lot more.

The reason why I am so interested in Leanne Shaptons's book is also this one: in the past months I worked, without any continuity, on a story about a couple disintegrating, told from the perspective of the objects that they throw at each other.