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Permalink altlitgossip: THANK YOU FOR YOUR SPERM (published April 22, 2013) is now out of print. Time to sell your used copies at a premium price. This turned rapidly into a rare book…
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Permalink deejberndt: SINS OF OMISSION, an ebook by DJ Berndt, is out today from HOUSEFIRE.
Permalink speh: «If there is a table at which the best writers of flash fiction should be seated, Marcus Speh deserves a chair – with his name on it. In four short years Speh has gone from obscure internet ego Finnegan Flawnt to nearly a household name, at least among the three thousand or so writers competing for that tight little club listed on Duotrope, championed by small press, and swirling in constant motion among the blogs and posts and coffee house readings out there these days. It’s an exciting time, a world without agents, where anyone with the will and imagination can start a literary magazine, but the truth will out, it always does, and someday soon flash fiction will not be so cutting edge, some other blade will be forged, and student’s will study and teachers will teach and the old ones will remember when. With the publication of his first collection, “Thank You For Your Sperm”, Speh is helping to launch this genre into the main stream. Someday, names will have to named, founders have to be found. I think this collection may be one of those…» [Review by Derek Osborne]
Permalink Explain: what does this GIF have to do with Alt Lit?
Permalink speh: The photo shows a copy of “Thank You For Your Sperm” among work materials of the cover artist. The cover by my wife Carlye Birkenkrahe is, for me, an eyestopper. It would be easy to pick out this book because of it even if it didn’t have this confusing title. Yesterday in class I showed the cover to some students (not suggesting they should buy it which wouldn’t have been fair), but proud enough to mention it and one student (from the Philippines) after exclaiming “Sperm!” a number of times, clearly shocked to the core of his existence (did I go too far? It was an advanced MBA class on problem solving techniques, surely they could handle it?) asked what the cover image “meant”. I didn’t have an easy answer for him except that there are parallels between the imagery (mythology, angels, strong colors) and the content which I feel close to, the realm where I feel at home, where all manner of creatures, including men with wings, dwell, where dirty dogs dance, where characters dally and lose story ends dangle. Whatever the meaning, I love this cover. I hope we’ll collaborate on other books in the future. Here’s an article I wrote about her 2012-2013 exhibition in Berlin for Glow Magazine.
Permalink altlitgossip: Buy this at Amazon now and I will Thank You For Your Sperm. Leave a review and I will Thank You For Your Sperm. Send me an encouraging comment and I will Thank You For Your Sperm. Pass this on to a powerful reviewer and I will Thank You For Your Sperm. Mention me in one sentence with your favorite authors and I will Thank You For Your Sperm. Give the book away to a donor and I will Thank You For Your Sperm. Say that I’m Alt Lit and I will Thank You For Your Sperm. Sell one of your duplicate DFW books to get the funds to buy this and I will Thank You For Your Sperm. Send your spouse to the next bookshop to get this and I will Thank You For Your Sperm. Talk about it to your friends and I will Thank You For Your Sperm.
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