tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89534799059945413822024-03-04T12:21:47.571-08:00R a c h e l B. G l a s e rRachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-40333777695336727842015-08-14T07:41:00.001-07:002020-06-13T14:55:56.233-07:00I AM AN ORCHID<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Poet/friend Mike Young and I are thrilled to have our debut albums up on the extraordinary<a href="http://blackcake.org/"> Black Cake website</a>. Click around there for awhile and you'll have some cool company.</div>
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I've been having a good summer reading these gems of books. Each pic has a link to it. Dryland doesn't officially come out until 9/15. The D.H. Lawrence book you can get at most used books stores.<br />
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I'm really happy to have my story "Pee On Water" alongside heroes like Joy Williams and George Saunders in Ben Marcus's anthology <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241803/new-american-stories-by-edited-by-ben-marcus/">NEW AMERICAN STORIES</a>. </div>
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<br />Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-23763823545275719792015-01-15T12:38:00.000-08:002020-06-13T14:56:48.486-07:00New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm so thrilled to be the judge for the Ruth Stone First Book Prize! This is a contest for non-male writers who have yet to publish a book. Big Lucks is one of the coolest new presses alive!</div>
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If you feel behind in your fiction reading, check out this <a href="http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/bookish/the-best-lit-of-2014">end-of-year roundup by Jacob Kaplan at Impose</a>. And while you're at it, his band<a href="http://perfectteeth.bandcamp.com/"> Perfect Teeth's first official album</a>.</div>
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Thank you to the great Heather Christle for putting <a href="http://www.pen.org/poetry/poems--rachel-b-glaser">some new poems of mine up at PEN</a>.</div>
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I think, but cannot be positive, that <a href="http://www.cc.com/full-episodes/hc3n9z/broad-city-what-a-wonderful-world-season-1-ep-101?xrs=sem_google_broad&gclid=CKCd0MjslsMCFcnm7AodlVYAGw">Comedy Central is currently streaming the first season of the hilarious, stupendous, hilarious, uncomfortable BROAD CITY...</a></div>
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Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-64041066140235656822014-09-12T14:12:00.000-07:002014-09-12T14:25:57.709-07:00Minutes after being defeated by the Chess Machine, I've decided to update my blogPoet/singer/songwriter/tennis figure, Mike Young was featured alongside debut novelist <a href="http://www.christycrutchfield.com/">Christy Crutchfield</a> in the Hampshire Gazette! Our doorbell has been ringing nonstop with local fans asking Mike to sign their bodies.<br />
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<a href="http://www.vice.com/read/sprezzatura-basically-means-youre-chill-but-you-give-a-shit">Atlanta mastermind Blake Butler called "Sprezzatura" Mike's best book in his Vice Review</a>. Both Young's and Crutchfield's new books are available by the always relevant, always progressive <a href="http://www.publishinggenius.com/">Publishing Genius Press.</a> Look to PGP in the upcoming weeks for Madeline ffitch's first book "Valpariso, Round the Horn." (!)<br />
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I'm flattered that <a href="https://twitter.com/jacob_s_kaplan">Brooklyn MFA star Jacob Kaplan</a> (guitarist in the band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/perfteeth?ref=br_tf">Perfect Teeth</a>) mentioned <a href="http://westernbeefs.com/glaser">the poems </a>I wrote in <a href="http://westernbeefs.com/">Western Beefs of America</a> as part of <a href="http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/bookish/that-new-new-in-lit-september-2">his monthly column</a> in the culture goldmine <a href="http://www.imposemagazine.com/">Impose Magazine</a>.<br />
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Eagerly awaiting <a href="https://twitter.com/markleidner">Mark Leidne</a>r's Western Beefs post, but in the meantime, here is<a href="http://pinwheeljournal.com/poets/mark-leidner/"> a newer version of my favorite poetry performance of last year, Leidner's dance poem.</a><br />
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Here is <a href="http://grooveshark.com/s/I+Can+Love/1VhAhi?src=5">a Weezer song you've probably never heard.</a><br />
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Here is <a href="http://grooveshark.com/s/I+m+Set+Free/2o9yyO?src=5">a Velvet Underground song you've heard.</a><br />
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This is sort of old news by now, but more than thrilled that <a href="http://harperperennial.tumblr.com/">Harper Perennial</a> is going to publish my first novel "Paulina & Fran" in 2015, and that <a href="http://grantabooks.com/">Granta Books</a> will release it in the U.K. in 2016. So Glad to have met <a href="http://www.pw.org/literary_agents/claudia_ballard">my agent Claudia Ballard</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/CalMorgan">editor Cal Morgan</a>! <br />
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Really loved the new Ben Lerner novel "10:04". I've mentioned this on almost every platform I can think of: word-of-mouth, email, fbook, goodreads, repeated word-of-mouth, reading publicly in two airports, reading theatrically on the plane. Now that I'm finished, I can finally read all the reviews/interviews/etc. <br />
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And I really loved the old poetry collection <a href="http://www.wavepoetry.com/products/thin-kimono">"Thin Kimono"</a> by Michael Earl Craig. <a href="http://htmlgiant.com/feature/the-rolls-should-be-warm-an-interview-w-michael-earl-craig/">Here is an interview I haven't read yet. </a> And maybe if you click <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Thin_Kimono.html?id=uGRgAwAAQBAJ">this link</a>, Google Books will let you paw through it a little.<br />
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<br />Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-90870536027911694942014-04-03T12:12:00.000-07:002014-04-03T12:12:44.670-07:00Local News<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEGLk6DhqxaEFlLJFGS14Kswotkh_ir5uGXMDsQS-ePlOaUCjjl9BWHrc3dD6mfHRvy2bSdNE4k0d-fCEh1QcVqhE2ISaNWGmW2V2573nVZPU1wJe5TAllaNXePRWqxlTh_1RX9sqaXsE/s1600/10012570_10100997871279753_1813271114_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEGLk6DhqxaEFlLJFGS14Kswotkh_ir5uGXMDsQS-ePlOaUCjjl9BWHrc3dD6mfHRvy2bSdNE4k0d-fCEh1QcVqhE2ISaNWGmW2V2573nVZPU1wJe5TAllaNXePRWqxlTh_1RX9sqaXsE/s1600/10012570_10100997871279753_1813271114_n.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a>The musical, lyrical, and comical <a href="http://csward.tumblr.com/">C.S. Ward</a> shot and edited <a href="http://vimeo.com/82493818">a video in honor </a>of the 50th Anniversary of Umass-Amherst's M.F.A. Program. I'm glad to be included alongside Corwin Ericson, Dan Chelotti, Mira Bartok and others!<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/82493818">UMass MFA 50th</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user6682350">C.S. Ward</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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John and I's wild story <a href="http://newherringpress.tumblr.com/store">"Peer Confessions" is now available from New Herring Press</a>, along with chapbooks by <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'goudy old style', 'minion pro', 'bell mt', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">Marin Buschel, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'goudy old style', 'minion pro', 'bell mt', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">Bhanu Kapil and Laurie Weeks! Here are the first two paragraphs:</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bell MT";">Norene and I both want boyfriends. I
am going to make mine spin like a statue on a music box. I’ll shine my
flashlight all over him, and understand his penis and why it looks like that. Norene
will have hers do her homework.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hello is new and white, an Olympic arena for lucky people. Their priest, Herb,
drives a Cadillac to go muskie fishing. Our church is in an old Union cannon-ship
used in the Civil War. Its enormous hull rises off the grass. There are
portholes, and inside, canoe-shaped pews. The ceiling is canopied with thick
white sails. It has an odd look, but Priest Paul says we are safe. He sounds
far away. Priest Paul is the town’s only licensed orthodontist. He turns my
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My very talented "Strange Page" Workshop is having a Reading on April 17th. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/260908214091653/">Here is the Facebook Event link.</a> Come by and be dazzled! These writers are writing some of the best things I've read all year! They are publishing in great places like <a href="http://www.twoseriousladies.org/">Two Serious Ladies</a> and <a href="http://www.litmagazine.org/">Lit!</a><br />
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For the last few weeks, I've been lucky to participate in <a href="http://flying-object.org/product/fo-lab-together-first-time-reading-moby-dick/">Flying Object's first Book Club-- a LAB reading of the epic Moby Dick</a>, taught by the charismatic Melville scholar, <a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/seth-landman/">Seth Landman</a>. It's been thought provoking to read this book for the first time and discuss it weekly with local readers, writers, performance artists, doctors, and teachers. The class is full (and at its midway point), but there are rumors Landman might teach this class again at a later date.<br />
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I just went to search for a picture of the cover and found out that they made a movie version of it in 1971 with Shirley MacClaine... let's never see it!<br />
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Thanks to Jonathan Frazen for rediscovering the book and helping it back into print, and Chris Bachelder for teaching it at Umass-Amherst.<br />
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Fun Fact: Fox is Courtney Love's biological grandmother.<br />
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<a href="http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/best-literature-books-2013">Here is a great end-of-year 2013 fiction round-up, full of links and authors to look out for</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.litbridge.com/2013/12/09/rachel-glaser-first-book-interview/">Here is an interview I did with Kallie Falandays for Lit Bridge about MOODS</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia-P5ht520s">And another by Janet Jackson that is even better</a><br />
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Do you have a group of poems you want to put in a chapbook? <a href="http://flying-object.org/2nd-flying-object-poetry-chapbook-initiative/"> Consider submitting to Flying Object's Chapbook contest. </a> Act fast! Submissions close on January 17th.<br />
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I'm almost done with my first novel "Paulina & Fran"! It's 48,??? words right now. I'm excited about it! Besides that I've been playing chess against the computer and getting ready for <a href="http://flying-object.org/product/strange-page-rachel-b-glaser/">my workshop "The Strange Page" that starts on January 27th at Flying Object</a>.<br />
<br />Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-56438223398274132232013-10-09T13:16:00.002-07:002013-10-09T13:29:03.289-07:00A Crackle in Your Ear<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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October 1st marked an important date in local literature news--It was the 3rd anniversary of <a href="http://flying-object.org/">Flying Object! </a> Refurbished firehouse and house of words dreamt and founded by Guy Pettit! For the last three years, I've marveled at it, and parked by it, and taught writing there, and learned about reptiles there, and participated in readings and collaborative drawing nights, and danced and sweated there, and snuck into the apartment there, and fiddled with the lock there, and been surprised to see Luke there, or Ben Roylance there, and tried to discern Guy's moods there, and pushed aside the black curtain there. (The editors at The Glaser Gazette would have never let such a sentence fly, but here there is more creative freedom). </div>
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If we are lucky, woman of grace, maker of beauty, Paige Taggart will show, and Ben Pease and Bianca Stone, and Ben Fama and Monica? I know Peter Gizzi will be there, come early for a signature, and Dara Wier (in elegant black), and even possibly John Maradik, amateur badminton player, Seth Landman (man of the whale), famous sportswriter <a href="http://thepeachbasket.tumblr.com/">Frank Basket </a>, Emily Hunt (artist/poet/beginner poker player), Emily Pettit (who I don't want to embarrass with any quick nickname), newlyweds and hilarious duo, Jacob and Shannon, the voice behind the clouds, Mike Young, gentleman about town, Boomer Pinches, local opinion, Jono Tosch, the beating heart of Brian Foley, neighbor of wit, Jonathan Volk, guys it's an exhausting amount of people... I heard that the ghost of Chris DeWeese will drop by and change the ipod to grunge music, and I know Dan Chelotti will be there, gathering the sticks of a poem the morning after, and is it too much to think new Umass Fiction Professor, Jeff Parker, might stop by? or Lucy from the bookstore, or the first years I haven't met yet, or Luke Bloomfield, mayor of Cattan, or Haley Thompson on her beautiful rescued bicycle, Halie Theoharides, the face inside my ring, Carla Costa brilliant mind in the trees. Mike Young, is this what it feels like in your head?</div>
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If you want to buy tickets for the raffle or learn more about the party, <a href="http://flying-object.org/3-year-anniversary-benefit-and-epic-raffle/">click here.</a></div>
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Also, check out Kelin Loe's newest endeavor:<a href="http://flying-object.org/fo-radio-episode-1-dorothea-lasky/"> Flying Object Radio!</a> Her first guest is stunningly amusing poet, Dorothea Lasky<br />
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Lastly, thanks to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheAtlasReview">The Atlas Review </a>and<a href="http://www.ghostproposal.com/"> Ghost Proposal </a>and <a href="http://similarpeakspoetry.com/">Similarpeaks</a> (any day now) for publishing new poems of mine. Thanks to <a href="http://bettermagazine.org/">Better magazine</a> for publishing great works by Emily Toder, Chris Deweese, and Dan Chelotti! Did you guys check out <a href="http://sinkreview.org/">Sink Review's new issue</a> yet? I liked Jack's new poem in there and excited to read the rest! <a href="http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/that-new-new-in-lit-september">Also, thanks to Jacob Kaplan for the shout out in Impose Magazine's new segment about literary happenings in NYC.</a></div>
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I was excited when a friend told me MOODS was on display at<a href="http://mcnallyjackson.com/"> McNally Jackson,</a> a book store I've always wanted to visit. In this picture it looks so like the Amherst Books Poetry section. Even that stretching girl seems slightly familiar. </div>
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In local news, no more <a href="http://www.gazettenet.com/news/townbytown/northampton/6988498-95/kathys-diner-closes-new-operator-for-restaurant-sought">Kathy's Diner</a>. Mike Young couldn't be reached for comment. </div>
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Also, if you are looking to read one of the wildest, most sophisticated sex stories of the 70's, find Harold Brodkey's Innocence. The story appears in Brodkey's "Stories in an Almost Classical Mode" and also in the anthology "My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead" which is the only anthology I've ever loved and carried around with me like a treasure.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My art show "Triple Overtime" opens at <a href="http://p-r-i-m-e-t-i-m-e.com/">P-R-I-M-E-T-I-M-E Gallery</a> on June 15th. Here is the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/390099284442768/">Facebook invite</a>. Please stop by!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been discovering a lot of interesting sports painting on the internet these days. Here is one of my favorites:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two writer friends of mine, Jack Christian and Gabe Durham are about to embark on the tour for their first books! Are they coming to a place near you? They are reading with phenomenal people everywhere they go!</span><br />
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Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-29423588520711332892013-05-17T21:41:00.001-07:002013-05-17T21:41:02.992-07:00The First Two Reviews of MOODSFirst at <a href="http://vouchedbooks.com/2013/05/13/new-factory-hollow-press-releases/">Vouched Books </a>(along with Seth Landman's 'Sign You Were Mistaken'), and then at <a href="http://www.cleavermagazine.com/moods-by-rachel-b-glaser/">Cleaver Magazine</a>. Hurray and thanks!!Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-61489482497033750592013-01-17T08:57:00.003-08:002013-01-17T08:57:28.840-08:00Two New Titles from Factory Hollow Press!I am pleased to announce that pre-order sales have begun for Seth Landman's collection of poems "Sign You Were Mistaken" and my own collection "MOODS." Here to celebrate, is a poem from each recorded for Jupiter 88 : A video journal of contemporary poetry. <a href="http://jupiter88poetry.blogspot.com/2012/11/195-seth-landman.html">Seth Landman</a> and <a href="http://jupiter88poetry.blogspot.com/2012/11/196-rachel-b-glaser.html">myself</a>. <a href="http://www.flying-object.org/category/new-releases/">To preorder, click here</a>.<br />
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Thank you to everyone who showed up to my NBA Art Show at The Rendezvous! It was fun to watch the Celtics play the Bulls in the midst of all the portraits. Muggsy and Durant were huge and hanging out near the bathroom. Jeremy Lin was teeny and flying up the wall. A fly or two landed on Garnett. (Pictured left is part of the show which was up in time for karaoke night at the Voo!)<br />
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My close friends Max Bean (pictured right, in a painting done years ago by the artist John Hardy) and Mojo Lorwin were in town to visit. Max is a writer/teacher involved with many political and social movements in New York City. Mojo is a musician/writer/teacher who recently campaigned and organized for Obama in New Hampshire and played in the nyc based band 'Thunder and Lightning.' Max taught me a very cool associative word game that Lawrence Detlor (poet and math genius) taught them. I've already played it with my Flying Object class and my College Writing class at ELMS. <br />
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In poetry news, I am thrilled to have <a href="http://www.twoseriousladies.org/four-poems-by-rachel-b-glaser/">poems up at two of my favorite sites of all time, Two Serious Ladies,</a> and <a href="http://jupiter88poetry.blogspot.com/">C.A. Conrad's amazing Jupiter 88 series</a> (of video poems) along with recent additions to the site: Guy Pettit, Emily Pettit, Seth Landman, Caryl Pagel, and many more! <br />
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The four poems at Two Serious Ladies, and the poem on Jupiter 88, are all included in my upcoming collection "MOODS" which comes out this February from Factory Hollow Press. Here are two early cover ideas for MOODS, neither of which will be the actual cover, but were considered and took up a fair amount of my time. <br />
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Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-27815567098842587802012-11-03T12:08:00.000-07:002012-11-03T12:09:37.497-07:00NBA Art Show at The Rendezvous (+ More) !<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm pleased to have my first NBA Art Show, which will be opening at <a href="http://rendezvoustfma.com/">The Rendezvous</a> in Turners Falls, MA. I have been holed up working on finishing many half started paintings, including this D Rose in Oil. <br />
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Another exciting book, Dan Chelotti's debut collection "x," is forthcoming from <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/">McSweeney's</a> in April. Advanced copies will be available at AWP in February (Boston). The cover is being designed by the great artist <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ian+huebert&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=-WeVULjxMYeH0QGb_4GICQ&ved=0CCgQsAQ&biw=860&bih=418">Ian Huebert.</a> Chelotti is shown here (left) with Guy Pettit (the poet, dreamer, & creator of Flying Object). Here are two little excerpts from "x" that I found on Amazon's page:</div>
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Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-31645488489029048442012-10-22T22:13:00.000-07:002016-12-10T08:55:07.626-08:00New Publications<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm pleased to have a story in the newest issue of the <a href="http://nytyrantbooks.com/home/">New York Tyrant</a>, alongside great writers like Noy Holland, Mark Leidner, Gary Lutz, etc. I just got my copy today and I'm excited to read through it!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQfCWB_m8RJgsKq5kR2pNC6v-K6Nerhof9rPoqp4VkBrgMWdcheiMSQ6_eUAUTxlekHgp-xoqYrrzHMJ-4zSgWQ-aYYl6S15RrK6j-vVgYNVfdCUSEj7sX2w1NEKDoP6VYvYYhymesaa0/s1600/books.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQfCWB_m8RJgsKq5kR2pNC6v-K6Nerhof9rPoqp4VkBrgMWdcheiMSQ6_eUAUTxlekHgp-xoqYrrzHMJ-4zSgWQ-aYYl6S15RrK6j-vVgYNVfdCUSEj7sX2w1NEKDoP6VYvYYhymesaa0/s200/books.jpeg" width="146" /></a>Also, I'm thrilled to have my story "Iconographic Conventions.." in the new anthology <a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=24759">"FAKES"</a> edited by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer. I have read and enjoyed many of these pieces. It's so cool to be beside George Saunders, Arda Collins, Chris Bachelder, Stanley Crawford, and other fun writers.<br />
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<br />Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-24341292861219731732012-08-20T23:17:00.001-07:002012-09-06T22:17:48.720-07:00Summer Update<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfmMZNyodx4C8-i4I8I974vH1Qq9eIylgsG6GsZDNHUuxSeErUxsZrNjx9mNKZNhyphenhyphenfSxcZ3zGYKlyUcWy6jGAFaO5jUbmoUYsrziWDHQPf6gjHJNE7uvOCuBJbJm3-s2D8I0WUCcP920/s1600/blogheader-balldontlie_233450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="62" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfmMZNyodx4C8-i4I8I974vH1Qq9eIylgsG6GsZDNHUuxSeErUxsZrNjx9mNKZNhyphenhyphenfSxcZ3zGYKlyUcWy6jGAFaO5jUbmoUYsrziWDHQPf6gjHJNE7uvOCuBJbJm3-s2D8I0WUCcP920/s320/blogheader-balldontlie_233450.jpg" width="320" /></a>Last month I was <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/pretty-pictures-rachel-b-glaser-ms-paint-drawings-180359615--nba.html">interviewed by Yahoo Sports Blog: Ball Don't Lie</a> about <a href="http://nbapaintings.blogspot.com/">my Basketball Player Paintings. </a><br />
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Ball Don't Lie's Dan Devine asked me how I got interested in basketball, about the Miami Heat Sleepover, and other things.<br />
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In early November I will be having my first NBA art show at <a href="http://rendezvoustfma.com/">The Rendezvous</a>, a really cool bar, restaurant, gallery and music venue in Turners Falls, MA.<br />
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I'm pleased to announce my poetry collection "MOODS" will be published by <a href="http://www.factoryhollowpress.com/">Factory Hollow Press in 2013, alongside other great FHP books </a>like <a href="http://www.factoryhollowpress.com/book.php?id=2">Crashdome (by Alex Phillips)</a>, and<a href="http://www.factoryhollowpress.com/book.php?id=37"> Beauty Was the Case They Gave Me (by Mark Leidner)</a>, and t<a href="http://www.factoryhollowpress.com/book.php?id=43">he newly published Experiments I Would Like Tried At My Own Death (Caryl Pagel)</a>, and forthcoming Sign You Were Mistaken, <a href="http://www.jubilat.org/jubilat/archive/vol18/poetry_18/">Seth Landman</a>'s masterpiece I have been reading poems from for years.<br />
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I wrote a screenplay with the poet/director Noah Gershman. It is called "The Last Good Car." Actors Jason Ritter and Mark Webber have attached themselves to the project, and last month they were joined by the amazing actress Kara Hayward (the female lead in Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom"). Hayward mentions her plans to act in our movie in <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/06/29/moonrise-kingdom-star-kara-hayward-takes-questions-from-tweens/">her interview with the Wall Street Journal's Blog.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.twoseriousladies.org/three-digital-quilts-by-rachel-b-glaser/">The great site Two Serious Ladies showed some of my digital quilts...</a><br />
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Here is the flyer for my Fall Workshop at Flying Object:Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-27025380162726639122012-05-12T11:50:00.002-07:002012-05-12T11:50:48.972-07:00MAY NEWS AND LINKSFirstly, I'd like to announce the Writing Workshops Emily Pettit and I are teaching this summer. For more information visit <a href="http://www.flying-object.org/?p=4025">Flying Object</a>.<br />
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I started two new blogs in the last two days, one is<a href="http://nbapaintings.blogspot.com/"> a site solely for my NBA Paintings</a>. T<a href="http://rbgart.blogspot.com/">he other is a selection of art I made at RISD and after RISD</a>.<br />
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I am pleased to have two poems featured in the journal Sprung Formal (the Apocalypse Issue), along with Ashley Bellinger, Benjamin Boulier, Brandon Brown, Peter Davis, Marissa
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Hart, Jules Izkoff, Anna Kamerer, Mitchell Hugh Kirkwood, Rob MacDonald,
Ryan MacDonald, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Christopher Martin, Will Meier,
John Northington, Frances Odim-Loughlin, Annie Raab, Christie Ann
Reynolds, Alex Rieser, Zach Savich, Reid Sprague, Sampson Starkweather,
Lauren Stookey, Matthew Suss, Scott Sweeney, Paige Taggart, Maureen
Thorston, Frederick Vorder-Bruegge, Teal Wilson, Patrick Wolf, and
Elisabeth Workman. <a href="http://issuu.com/sprungformal/docs/sprungformalnumberseven">The issue can be read or downloaded here</a>.<br />
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Here is the cover of Sprung Formal:<br />
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and Here is my flyer for my Summer Workshop, heavily inspired by the cover!:<br />
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Tonight, Emily Pettit, local gift-giver and talented author of Goat in the Snow, will be reading at Flying Object (42 West st., Hadley, MA) along with Dan Magers, Steven Karl, and with musical performances by Jono Tosch and Elaine Kahn (Horsebladder).<br />
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In June, I am proud to be published in <a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/p/june-issue.html">Everyday Genius's first ever "Paper Issue" alongside great friend Lesley Yalen, and many other interesting writers! </a><br />
Here is Jimmy Chen's great cover for the issue:<br />
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<br />Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-73442343225171144372012-03-07T14:06:00.017-08:002012-03-21T13:51:57.576-07:00New NBA Commission plus 4 new Poetry Books!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiM20EHgWPaRif3KX44qgPdxhs7MdrPoi2YlA54516pOQaIMnA6D68NsZcyAO79G-TPj6nYy_UM3P8LGMb-AQufeA7rBHLyGUOR7QkAn82FFMBhrovrC2788A0H_2pp87Siy1A6DLRwkc/s1600/DEREK+FISHER+14+by+18+PDF.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 446px; height: 561px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiM20EHgWPaRif3KX44qgPdxhs7MdrPoi2YlA54516pOQaIMnA6D68NsZcyAO79G-TPj6nYy_UM3P8LGMb-AQufeA7rBHLyGUOR7QkAn82FFMBhrovrC2788A0H_2pp87Siy1A6DLRwkc/s400/DEREK+FISHER+14+by+18+PDF.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722124733513408706" border="0" /></a>A few weeks ago I finished this Derek Fisher commission, only a week or so before he was unceremoniously traded to the Cavs. I'm glad I finished him before the trade, which would have definitely distracted my <a href="http://www.fayette.k12.il.us/99/paint/paintscreen.gif">msPainting</a>. Now Derek is memorialized as a Laker somewhere in Canada, possibly in the office of a young lawyer.<br /><br />In other NBA news, the Bulls beat the Heat and the Sixers <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">without</span> Derrick Rose, which is a great omen for the playoffs, and I'm feeling more confident about the Bulls/Heat conference finals match-up, if all goes how it seems it will.<br /><br /><a href="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.199520%21/img/httpImage/image.jpg">Z-Bo is back</a> for the Grizzlies. Also I'm looking forward to watching Arenas play for the Grizz, and Ellis and the new big guy play for the Bucks. This isn't really an NBA blog, but reading Landman's ESPN fantasy columns this morning is inspiring me to pretend...<br /><br />Here is a close-up of D. Fish, much hated by Celtic fans, much <a href="http://www.bet.com/content/betcom/news/sports/2011/11/03/nba-players-union-plots-next-move/_jcr_content/featuredMedia/newsitemimage.newsimage.dimg/110311-sports-nba-lockout-derek-fisher.jpg">photographed and quoted in the lock-out last year</a>.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIq3c7-xdnATKhJQEhhOPJF4RvQFSqxylhvEEjRUfTPvOQESUrAumL0jZcDsow_KnBnCHBGBvbsTlS4WyHX7zWw-aJyV4qaICM634uNLoZ-TxYMRq1RMOJkMt86eJYHWQqz9i0yYL9PHk/s1600/DFISHcloseup.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 451px; height: 450px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIq3c7-xdnATKhJQEhhOPJF4RvQFSqxylhvEEjRUfTPvOQESUrAumL0jZcDsow_KnBnCHBGBvbsTlS4WyHX7zWw-aJyV4qaICM634uNLoZ-TxYMRq1RMOJkMt86eJYHWQqz9i0yYL9PHk/s400/DFISHcloseup.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717405226422992146" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The world continues spinning and I am a few hours away from a finished Allen Iverson portrait.<br /><br /> In Poetry News, five of my friends from Umass-Amherst's MFA program have published books in the last couple weeks and months. <a href="http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2010/0414/pg2_g_gundy1x_sq_300.jpg">My friend Chris</a> Deweese's book <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780980193893/the-black-forest.aspx">"The Black Forest"</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQKG_NyYwTIkitBxqer0fekZOhiC3vfAWGuSMoIZkjnJum-YUGVbGMyxCoTi9rAeVrIKwCTHappzMXHxCASLpCDeZhVXFuFWhEeBFPPQDuJnZfQLj3gGblEMhKPTMCNygXIuy_w99-77U/s1600/tumblr_lyo8ayfyQb1qldwfho2_250.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 391px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQKG_NyYwTIkitBxqer0fekZOhiC3vfAWGuSMoIZkjnJum-YUGVbGMyxCoTi9rAeVrIKwCTHappzMXHxCASLpCDeZhVXFuFWhEeBFPPQDuJnZfQLj3gGblEMhKPTMCNygXIuy_w99-77U/s400/tumblr_lyo8ayfyQb1qldwfho2_250.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722123202404762690" border="0" /></a> has been released by <a href="http://www.octopusbooks.net/">Octopus Books</a>. Here are two lines of note from two separate poems:<br /> <br />As I ride Eastward,<br /> I can hear my biographer<br /> furiously dictating<br /> his own adventures<br /><br />and earlier:<br /><br /> Or let's say you're dead<br /> and you wish<br /> for everyone else to be dead<br /> It would be just like living!<br /><br /><br />"The Black Forest" is in good company of a slew of other new and great poem books, including local sensation Heather <a href="http://www.psdgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/crystal-cube.jpg">Christle's</a> <a href="http://www.upne.com/0819572776.html">"What is Amazing", out from Weslyan Press.</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUxNNFnP89KyRUMGAWUrQhsaLd-q5XQUZj4JOJKzbd1ifHxR6owEJxLUVcqDHkAULPt1lXICd7TG13DbTSnrd_vD2MX3vJSq0Caf4V4lZJm6XsYTEtCKcPErYLSL1-BgplDUGR6cG77bA/s1600/What-Is-Amazing-Heather-Christle.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUxNNFnP89KyRUMGAWUrQhsaLd-q5XQUZj4JOJKzbd1ifHxR6owEJxLUVcqDHkAULPt1lXICd7TG13DbTSnrd_vD2MX3vJSq0Caf4V4lZJm6XsYTEtCKcPErYLSL1-BgplDUGR6cG77bA/s320/What-Is-Amazing-Heather-Christle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722445892580510354" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here is the beginning of Heather's poem "Basic": <br /><br /> This program is designed to move a white line<br /> from one side of the screen to the other.<br /><br /> This program is not too hard, but it has<br /> a sad ending and that makes people cry.<br /><br /> This program is designed to make people cry<br /> and step away when they are finished.<br /><br /> In one variation the line moves diagonally<br /> up and in another diagonally down.<br /><br /> This makes people cry differently,<br /> diagonally. A whole room of people<br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKsne9D20to3kUTuktUcWxLofqR_OH3qfWDAB6zZLBqqL31ZKcjLf5TnY8Hflv_whVKsdwEhkgqwuVcvJYUi8JBPVEJ4nbY_iX9m1BNi0Rh8DXqMtOkO596OvxWZIogpUGYIb9X03kuyI/s1600/silhouettes-cover1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKsne9D20to3kUTuktUcWxLofqR_OH3qfWDAB6zZLBqqL31ZKcjLf5TnY8Hflv_whVKsdwEhkgqwuVcvJYUi8JBPVEJ4nbY_iX9m1BNi0Rh8DXqMtOkO596OvxWZIogpUGYIb9X03kuyI/s320/silhouettes-cover1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722452954721146578" border="0" /></a>New Yorker Lily Ladewig's book <a href="http://www.springgunpress.com/">"The Silhouettes" is out from SpringGun Press</a>. Here is a selection from "Another Poem for You":<br /><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> what do you call a pale-faced silence<br /> that makes a healing sound?</span> Me. Watch me<br /> translate myself into English. Watch me<br /> take my invisible top off. Things reconfigure,<br /> they settle. I bought you this beautiful<br /> silver espresso machine--it was imaginary<br /> in the best possible sense.<br /><br /><br />Lastly and largely, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/seths/tyoyeu/paperback/product-18817801.html">Tyoyeu is actualized onto pages, written by two Seths</a>. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOwd4yIKxv91M1JGD8FJh-cdP6awq9LP6hl1Kuga6gxgOijPkekUQKnbCMAplTknsyOtFuA2g4YCSYJof5k-BC5ctq2G4yy9u4k5aqqbn3DP8yiek-vLLq-eSbMiv2FuV7r_PC9z8W9fc/s1600/product_thumbnail.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOwd4yIKxv91M1JGD8FJh-cdP6awq9LP6hl1Kuga6gxgOijPkekUQKnbCMAplTknsyOtFuA2g4YCSYJof5k-BC5ctq2G4yy9u4k5aqqbn3DP8yiek-vLLq-eSbMiv2FuV7r_PC9z8W9fc/s320/product_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722451330917213970" border="0" /></a> This book is like songs heard underwater, a relative's mid dream babbles. Here are some sections of it:<br /><br /> "I might see you in my nightmare<br /> wandering<br /> How'd you get there?<br /> I'm running from the son I mated<br /> I'm taking Alf on the road<br /> Tell everybody that you know"<br /><br /> "Mathematics on whiskey. Triangles on heavy doves."<br /><br /> "Soup! Soup, are you accurate when I hold us between these spoons?"Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-47693830951905483072012-01-13T07:57:00.000-08:002012-08-29T22:30:55.470-07:00First Post of the New Year!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioqnc3cBzfkbKk524x8tyA7-h1PKFxzP0PRf61u7NjorADAqLaxXzd-9GYEQmQYYTR8NHopufAntg_1tJ9xgIPc2X0F1ND0QkRt8XgthGQQ6cRPaCRMQe6NHP4KNdOsd3s5DfVE5xHJ4M/s1600/ben+wallace.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697149045426477154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioqnc3cBzfkbKk524x8tyA7-h1PKFxzP0PRf61u7NjorADAqLaxXzd-9GYEQmQYYTR8NHopufAntg_1tJ9xgIPc2X0F1ND0QkRt8XgthGQQ6cRPaCRMQe6NHP4KNdOsd3s5DfVE5xHJ4M/s320/ben+wallace.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 235px;" /></a>It is freezing in my turret, but I must continue onward, wearing my winter jacket.<br />
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<--Here is my latest commissioned NBA portrait, this time the enigmatic Ben Wallace. The whole time I painted him I'd thought he had retired last year, but now that I'm done, I see that he's back playing with the Pistons as if he never left!<br />
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Almost weekly, I recommend this book to people, The Little<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjexWPGRgQ8wQGEv3Fj0XEa-N1ElraNUAnIjP83u6FbFl1rY6OPtPtykIQWYwEBoqiMx12T8jH-EF-53bv8dbAjJ53aoIsIslPRj2oO7jdIl2Jw8y-HxHl_J_OAdEl1NGxEHa2WP2LRqDM/s1600/9780887847813_cover_coverbookpage.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697154352758967554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjexWPGRgQ8wQGEv3Fj0XEa-N1ElraNUAnIjP83u6FbFl1rY6OPtPtykIQWYwEBoqiMx12T8jH-EF-53bv8dbAjJ53aoIsIslPRj2oO7jdIl2Jw8y-HxHl_J_OAdEl1NGxEHa2WP2LRqDM/s320/9780887847813_cover_coverbookpage.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 160px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 125px;" /></a> Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches, an absolute masterpiece by French-Canadian author Gaetan Soucy. I don't think I've ever read a book with a more interesting narrator. Emily Pettit has it stocked at <a href="http://www.amherstbooks.com/">Amherst Books</a>, if you are in the area. If not, you will likely have to buy it online-- it has been very hard to find in person.<br />
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It's been amazing to be watching basketball again. I'm pleased the Bulls and the Thunder are at the top of their conferences so early. Last night, JT and I watched Tony Allen and Rudy Gay play great games as the Grizz killed the Knicks who played with little grace or heart. The night before I caught the end of the awesome/weird overtime Heat/Clippers game, in which LeBron missed the most freethrows I've ever seen him miss.<br />
Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-11542625798547664052011-12-06T19:59:00.000-08:002011-12-06T20:52:17.562-08:00December News and Links<a href="http://ithoughtiwasnewhere.blogspot.com/2010/01/three-poems-by-jack-christian.html">Poet Jack Christian</a> has <a href="http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6284">a great chat </a>with <a href="http://twitter.com/markleidner">Poet Mark Leidner </a>about Leidner's <a href="http://www.factoryhollowpress.com/">Factory Hollow </a><a href="http://www.factoryhollowpress.com/">Press</a> book "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Beauty Was The Case That They Gave Me</span>"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.birdsllc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=87%3Agoat-in-the-snow&catid=35%3Abooks&Itemid=18">Pre-orders</a> for <a href="http://goatinthesnow.tumblr.com/">Emily Pettit's </a>debut "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Goat In The Snow</span>" forthcoming from BIRDS LLC Press<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtu74lRjNr0Vkac7KGHVuLcXC-phP1hU7r3M0mkJNTMR0Q4DMwFlI8V4OvPG5SKLlLEuTyr0ePNamAaRCNZECA9BidwsAPOyFTGsXJB8MvpA2EMxst90AFqgttSPMZiQMrbM03miGwF68/s1600/goat_4x6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtu74lRjNr0Vkac7KGHVuLcXC-phP1hU7r3M0mkJNTMR0Q4DMwFlI8V4OvPG5SKLlLEuTyr0ePNamAaRCNZECA9BidwsAPOyFTGsXJB8MvpA2EMxst90AFqgttSPMZiQMrbM03miGwF68/s200/goat_4x6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683243429315386866" border="0" /></a><br /><br />With the news of the upcoming NBA season, <a href="http://www.theclassical.org/articles/the-nbas-season-of-love-and-hate-1">writer Bethlehem Shoals writes his first NBA post for new sport blog The Classical</a><br /><br />I'm excited to read in Providence, RI where I lived and had fun for so many years at <a href="http://phishthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/3801.jpg">RISD</a>. The reading and panel is at Brown University, part of a program set up by the great <a href="http://www.lispservice.com/">Evelyn Hampton</a> and <a href="http://www.anomalouspress.org/current/1.tourjee.breadalley.php">Sarah Tourjee.</a> It will be fun to see <a href="http://mikeayoung.blogspot.com/">old roommate and singer of songs Mike Young</a>, my old fiction teacher <a href="http://www.harpandaltar.com/interior.php?t=s&i=2&p=16&e=23">Joanna Howard</a>, and the other great readers: <a href="http://htmlgiant.com/author/lily/">Lily Hoang</a>, <a href="http://www.mdbell.com/">Matt Bell,</a> and <a href="http://matthewsalesses.com/">Matt Salesses</a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-mMC5V0M7nFOB_zD78C7XZC9-ThKiT63LhknHPVUqsKCOdNvN8HAWW74L98pmwrNEdk55zd0fY_fV0wPZpz4o5BOie4nWvB-c98Yl5GMmmW9bTznc5BCKSk3oAHH8fFL5BQ9gGV4T_7A/s1600/newvoicesinfiction-poster.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-mMC5V0M7nFOB_zD78C7XZC9-ThKiT63LhknHPVUqsKCOdNvN8HAWW74L98pmwrNEdk55zd0fY_fV0wPZpz4o5BOie4nWvB-c98Yl5GMmmW9bTznc5BCKSk3oAHH8fFL5BQ9gGV4T_7A/s400/newvoicesinfiction-poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683243808230706034" border="0" /></a>Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-44779676263630009392011-11-26T09:19:00.000-08:002011-11-26T09:21:34.281-08:0012 hours later update<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGNhcLWlkItxBGUaqfOrVUG_V0Mmol4iW00CB3TwqSdQAXfhmDg2GcaTzKxwS7G_sa-NGLSLWlAZ5mY5gQ82LuyRJmXVunRBDu2cO0fyZ7IfTthVxIoJKy_hyphenhyphenz9Y9kdB5kyQI0AnMxTc/s1600/url.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGNhcLWlkItxBGUaqfOrVUG_V0Mmol4iW00CB3TwqSdQAXfhmDg2GcaTzKxwS7G_sa-NGLSLWlAZ5mY5gQ82LuyRJmXVunRBDu2cO0fyZ7IfTthVxIoJKy_hyphenhyphenz9Y9kdB5kyQI0AnMxTc/s200/url.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679355836924182242" border="0" /></a><a href="http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2011/11/26/we-have-makings-of-a-deal/">The basketball is better!</a>Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-80178755784023333232011-11-25T22:55:00.000-08:002011-12-20T17:24:12.703-08:00Magic<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSGDTKAHc4JFSi50VxSRxwStvGMkRCwS5pPg0_62kOkSQfTM1Gfup0UI4FffuqTS1bK-NGyTf7fbofhAGD4rE-KPC1nO0l_w1L2-H33IZ_-m95w4uVq-kti_yqQ4rqkCbaQFvgDaeSpk/s1600/30++magic+with+faded+fans+reddish.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1292px; height: 1600px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSGDTKAHc4JFSi50VxSRxwStvGMkRCwS5pPg0_62kOkSQfTM1Gfup0UI4FffuqTS1bK-NGyTf7fbofhAGD4rE-KPC1nO0l_w1L2-H33IZ_-m95w4uVq-kti_yqQ4rqkCbaQFvgDaeSpk/s1600/30++magic+with+faded+fans+reddish.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=e5d346346b&view=att&th=132f14a664d2361b&attid=0.1&disp=inline&realattid=f_gtmn6k8y0&zw" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a>Here is half of my latest commissioned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_%28software%29">MSpaint</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Johnson">Magic Johnson</a>, painted for the talented and charismatic <a href="http://michael-kimball.com/">Michael Kimball!</a> (<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSGDTKAHc4JFSi50VxSRxwStvGMkRCwS5pPg0_62kOkSQfTM1Gfup0UI4FffuqTS1bK-NGyTf7fbofhAGD4rE-KPC1nO0l_w1L2-H33IZ_-m95w4uVq-kti_yqQ4rqkCbaQFvgDaeSpk/s1600/30++magic+with+faded+fans+reddish.jpg">Click here to see a different</a> view)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jubilat.org/jubilat/">Jubilat 20</a> is out, and filled with great poems by <a href="http://www.pankmagazine.com/ben-fama/">Ben Fama</a>, <a href="http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_gizzi.php">Peter Gizzi</a>, <a href="http://universalhumansituation.tumblr.com/post/322653760/shannon-burns">Shannon Burns</a>, <a href="http://beginningthe.wordpress.com/">Mich</a><a href="http://beginningthe.wordpress.com/">elle Taransky</a>, <a href="http://caconrad.blogspot.com/">CAConrad</a>, <a href="http://www.octopusmagazine.com/Issue13/Yalen.htm#one">Lesley Yalen</a>, and many more. Come to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/flying-object.org">Flying Object</a> on December 3rd to celebrate the issue and the raffle!<br /><br /><a href="http://mudlusciouspress.com/books/stamp-stories-anthology/">The MLP Stamp Stories Anthology </a>is now available for order. In honor of this publication, <a href="http://www.wigleaf.com/">Wigleaf </a>published a special edition of 50 word stories. I participated, as did other MLP contributors: Joanna Howard, Joanna Ruocco, Claire Donato, Michael Bible, and more.<br /><br />Emily Pettit and I's first double workshop reading at Flying Object was a great success. Thanks to all who listened and read.<br /><br />The new powerhouse of creative, genre-defying, thought-provoking sports blogging, <a href="http://theclassical.org/">The </a><a href="http://theclassical.org/">Classical,</a> is near launching. Currently they have a preview tumblr up, and have started posting.<br /><br />Hopefully the NBA will return, because right now things are looking bleak.<br />The NBA looks like this:<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3v1yKGcI8eq0wXi-4exVtSeIvskBG6sinJnVWUz4RSHDi6OZ1hlmNccLxXv9tcZbYpOQ_SFDjHCMc5ZGkxzsR1WpsBg6PgnZI4jxWnNQZ-17MS3VC6tulV3PF1X2O_9PbHDZVpsKC1qM/s1600/20090408220211_crosby_deflated.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 112px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3v1yKGcI8eq0wXi-4exVtSeIvskBG6sinJnVWUz4RSHDi6OZ1hlmNccLxXv9tcZbYpOQ_SFDjHCMc5ZGkxzsR1WpsBg6PgnZI4jxWnNQZ-17MS3VC6tulV3PF1X2O_9PbHDZVpsKC1qM/s200/20090408220211_crosby_deflated.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679203623713198914" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQCaEQ1DogRsi1N81kCDwpOnRKfm_jDk2tWTmakCz-OobtLqOyNEwOdu7jPSaGEMmPnftYVLL0i7k2ItDcJOGN7PGZNGBW4_N_TwEEhCHbtiE1X2m14rx4_aBCuU-MelkXKqph7SHD8Zw/s1600/DSC_0252.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQCaEQ1DogRsi1N81kCDwpOnRKfm_jDk2tWTmakCz-OobtLqOyNEwOdu7jPSaGEMmPnftYVLL0i7k2ItDcJOGN7PGZNGBW4_N_TwEEhCHbtiE1X2m14rx4_aBCuU-MelkXKqph7SHD8Zw/s200/DSC_0252.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679203741367510978" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIjmOBN5OFHBJuNt7LXwEmoY4h-BbhUgcxXMh5cseuh0CyfMoZTGd0XcAHU8H9cYUwQTm_-COLzHQgdIEw-hUxosOUON9-pQN5j4y5ELWCpmy57kGq_5PsD-Yfud80RI8HTNKDcWqtlk4/s1600/deflated_basketball_jpg_208x157_crop_upscale_q85.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 151px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIjmOBN5OFHBJuNt7LXwEmoY4h-BbhUgcxXMh5cseuh0CyfMoZTGd0XcAHU8H9cYUwQTm_-COLzHQgdIEw-hUxosOUON9-pQN5j4y5ELWCpmy57kGq_5PsD-Yfud80RI8HTNKDcWqtlk4/s200/deflated_basketball_jpg_208x157_crop_upscale_q85.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679203950282397778" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVJXroeG5KF2r4Ke7vHkW6A4saGg9NCrgjzsUL44rDiLjNhur-R43W4yTx0UZlBrHjx6F_Se_6lV0a8LxBa6gvz61WA3slYn8AK2_w7XJkVXmFo-OJLdCmvg8QRN8CCu9KJv3BEScbxCA/s1600/FBAL-0100-BB.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVJXroeG5KF2r4Ke7vHkW6A4saGg9NCrgjzsUL44rDiLjNhur-R43W4yTx0UZlBrHjx6F_Se_6lV0a8LxBa6gvz61WA3slYn8AK2_w7XJkVXmFo-OJLdCmvg8QRN8CCu9KJv3BEScbxCA/s200/FBAL-0100-BB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679205272532742770" border="0" /></a>Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-48083630288060536422011-11-20T11:07:00.001-08:002012-01-13T08:34:36.959-08:00Reading and Winter/Spring Class Announcement!Tomorrow night (Monday the 21st) from 5:30-7:30 join us at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/flying-object.org">Flying Object</a> (42 West st., Hadley, MA) to listen to a reading by the writers who participated in Emily Pettit's class and my own class this past term. From what I know of the readers, I am sure it is going to be very varied and impressive!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.xtoysoft.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/typewriter.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 145px; height: 150px;" src="http://www.xtoysoft.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/typewriter.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-62244923219736303862011-10-12T11:49:00.000-07:002011-10-12T12:55:22.241-07:00Recent Developments<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTraHbXLxh-wTJISkqKLtO7evIBHgZghkNGP1Ru3uU45Ongr1-UuYky18kObamaLgwfHBdHOL_-NVKlQ_S3wmK9Ujsg38-u_aIbzxjgGvEMpCc75o-Nwm60hCemRBOhDiJ6ZL7Ivdsqw/s1600/tumblr_ls7rc4keZ21qd85auo1_500.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTraHbXLxh-wTJISkqKLtO7evIBHgZghkNGP1Ru3uU45Ongr1-UuYky18kObamaLgwfHBdHOL_-NVKlQ_S3wmK9Ujsg38-u_aIbzxjgGvEMpCc75o-Nwm60hCemRBOhDiJ6ZL7Ivdsqw/s200/tumblr_ls7rc4keZ21qd85auo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662683882267732482" /></a>Edward Mullany's first collection of poems<a href="http://www.publishinggenius.com/2010/10/falter-at-gallows-by-edward-mullany.html"> "IF I FALTER AT THE GALLOWS"</a> is available from <a href="http://www.publishinggenius.com/">Publishing Genius Press</a>. The collection is beautiful, and funny and strange. PGP runs an online journal called <a href="http://www.everyday-genius.com/">Everyday Genius</a>, which posts poems and stories daily from really talented and varied authors.<div><br /></div><div>The image to the left is one of Mullany's. It has been exciting watching his paintings transform on his blog <a href="http://theothernotebook.tumblr.com/">The Other Notebook</a>. For a long time the paintings were painted with bold wiggling lines, but in the last few weeks, a new De Kooningian quality is erupting within them!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVFoZQz174EJDR1UFQ3ReT-ixtEllZxeBEuVwTwo_fC8ecgsJwGyXXorfrjQqmFDMw_qnpcGY_QwgHk6NWEys4LNVlD7Kvg1vFldE003SbxVk4ClheQ4UKmsoS2_I55qU3tSZAERLYg8k/s200/mikemug.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662687680774367474" /></div><div><div><br /></div><div>Mike Young, young author of <a href="http://www.wordriot.org/wrp/look-look-feathers">Look! Look! Feathers</a> and <a href="http://www.publishinggenius.com/2009/06/we-are-all-good-if-they-try-hard-enough.html">We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough</a>, is accepting students <a href="http://barrelhousepoetrymike.eventbrite.com/">for his online poetry workshop with Barrelhouse.</a> I have never taken a class online before, but if I was, I'd want someone like Mike Young to teach me, a man who has built a number of cultures on the internet, who has a couch in his chat room.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdO4HqZuX4Tt2o5JBjLwU3Q9fMoTL-0lsIap92nmTpmgrDo6NYNDLa6F4tPfBEnSObEOf7GxBO0hsaTenakAykjsg-8YBVBlqZ7SDGzgsgrIMUKhqpYZU6ng9IkBCyizZbd-lk3MuqNMY/s200/nat.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662687383721745154" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Additionally, I should congratulate amazing lunatic <a href="http://htmlgiant.com/author/nat/">Nat Otting</a>, whose <a href="http://1913press.blogspot.com/2011/10/1913s-1st-book-results-selected-by.html">first book of poems THE WRONG BOOK has won the 1913 Fanny Howe judged prize</a>. Nat has been called The Human Hyperlink. His writing defies logic and delights me. I am very excited for his book to take shape.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_BDv_91NQSzZgnz2G3YtEtBDvNhUG1RQhNBqE-oXSxPrj2vNl1Al3MlaT3Y9TKUCquXCpZJYRnanzrWV_zhyPSxxQ0FAJ9ueHHesk8vYBAptqHVoSlMiP8DF4_yEZSiw-cmxbgg0aCLE/s200/goat+6jpg.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662691329160437906" /><div>It has been super exciting to witness the planning and designing of <a href="http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/i-am-asking-you-to-look-at-me-touch-me-talk-to-me/">Emily Pettit</a>'s upcoming book GOAT IN THE SNOW, due out February from <a href="http://www.birdsllc.com/">BIRDS LLC Press</a>. The image to left is <i>not </i>the cover for Pettit's debut, but it was hard for me to not create many alternate covers, which one day might be considered for the Japanese translation. Emily's poems are a wise, comforting voice, giving me instructions while I dream, supporting all levels of wonder, encouraging life with no discrimination for what types of life will come. I am very excited to be reading with her in <a href="http://images.wikia.com/nba/images/0/0d/Denver_Nuggets_Alternate_Logo_(1).gif">Denver</a> this February!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF1DbZUnN8Ni1z8pK_oFrQZEa2ZJmf2A_nl84NXz_-SqrD1vKs1q5XDtpbtsV9sz6KKhffMW3lZyUDdI0kKNEKVriOUErzY97zQqYRTSAgS5hTfocfmUtUWAbG8MJaxR57IQQKtqOFe5M/s200/m_05.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662694966360605346" /></div><div><br /></div><div>This post feels like I am making a newspaper for my homeroom class. The most recent news, which arrived today, while my Adobe Acrobat Icon bounced insistently at the bottom of my screen wanting to update, is that I will be reading in NYC on November 14th at <a href="http://www.websterhall.com/">Webster Ha</a>ll with <a href="http://www.notnostrums.com/Fama.html">Ben Fama</a>, <a href="http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooThirty/mirov.html">Ben Mirov</a> and <a href="http://argosbooks.org/?p=95">Marina Blitshteyn </a>for the first reading of a new reading series called <i>Death Hums </i>created by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amy-Silbergeld/147643828595621">Amy Silbergeld</a>. I hope the reading is in <i>The Marlin Room (pictured right!).</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Lastly, here is <a href="http://www.theshortreview.com/authors/RachelBGlaser.htm">an interview that I did with The Short Review</a>. Thanks so much to Tania Hershman! </div>Rachel B. Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01901093624219493501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8953479905994541382.post-4604416353418802982011-08-24T19:59:00.000-07:002011-08-24T20:31:09.840-07:00August News<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoPx8b2YhA_z5TqoeoUhoGgjjSgysoTCJAt4kUVhVQLaGAYvyp6EjXZ20rEcoI8cyUk9a7KhyR04TfA3FsF80ASfdkF22-SdPLM_WfxKukqnftmcs5RUJgoBbSWyM0-uEsAgrWQWBAZTM/s1600/112459716.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 145px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoPx8b2YhA_z5TqoeoUhoGgjjSgysoTCJAt4kUVhVQLaGAYvyp6EjXZ20rEcoI8cyUk9a7KhyR04TfA3FsF80ASfdkF22-SdPLM_WfxKukqnftmcs5RUJgoBbSWyM0-uEsAgrWQWBAZTM/s200/112459716.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644629746905645986" /></a>
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<br /></div><div>I am very pleased to have a story in<a href="http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/5cfa6359-46b3-441d-8d81-af252b2a28a7"> </a><a href="http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/5cfa6359-46b3-441d-8d81-af252b2a28a7">McSweeney's</a><a href="http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/5cfa6359-46b3-441d-8d81-af252b2a28a7"> issue 38</a>! The cover is stylish and simple, like discovering a great piece of jewelry in your friend's old log cabin, or reading a delightful historical fact.</div><div><div>
<br /></div><div>Thanks to Hilary Plum, the talented writer of<a href="http://route9litmag.com/post/6768773827/on-dispatch"> fiction</a> and co-director of <a href="http://www.clockrootbooks.com/clockrootwriters/hilaryplum.html">Clockroot Books</a>, for <a href="http://kenyonreview.org/blog/?p=14375">interviewing me at Kenyon Review blog</a>. </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Lastly, here is <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLv0NejaVB-nCsYFLknjnK9iYLz5tJI7K9NGiCKyhIoo0lbC2hxIAvNj1ZmA5wWSPloU1JBTQb97fcfe3zxKLPmvUEGokdH0yNC6hlIxkK3lkQgigRobcwMEFaXaHC81KYB-0EIR0iEK0/s1600/IMG_0877.JPG">a portrait I painted of my nephew</a>. Email me at rachelbglaser at gmail dot com if you are interested in commissioning a painting of your baby or loved one!</div>
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