Starcherone Books News
Spring 2006
PP/FF Now Available
Editor Peter Conners has assembled an anthology of
prose poetry/flash fiction hybrid writing by a virtual
who's-who of innovative writing today, including Kim
Addonizio, Kazim Ali, Stuart Dybek, Lydia Davis, Sean
Thomas Dougherty, Brian Evenson, Raymond Federman,
Arielle Greenberg, Laird Hunt, Harold Jaffe, Kent
Johnson, Gary Lutz, Cris Mazza, Daniel Nester, Aimee
Parkison, Elizabeth Robinson, Martha Ronk, Nina Shope,
Eleni Sikelianos, Jessica Treat, Diane Williams, and
40 others! A natural for any creative writing teacher
looking to explore the line between poetry and prose
-- and a great read, any page you open to! 240 pages,
$20. ISBN 0-9703165-1-8.
Order now: available exclusively at
http://www.starcherone.com/ppff.htm Official
release: July 1.
Reading of contributors to the PP/FF anthology, Night
& Day, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, July 26.
Also new from Starcherone:
Peter: An (A)Historical Romance, the long-awaited
third novel by Jeffrey DeShell
An orphaned child of privilege, Peter enjoys a snug
L.A. existence full of thing -- to eat, to wear, and
to play with. But his world is rocked when he meets a
yound Palestinian woman, Reham, who claims to be
Peter's half-sister. DeShell's excessive, digressive
opera of objects follows these two to Istanbul,
Jerusalem, and Gaza City, teetering on the razor's
edge between obsession and rejection, fascination and
disgust. "Jeffrey DeShell's high-octane rewrite of
Melville's classic Pierre sweeps the reader from 'the
'tightish pale cotton tees (Marc Ribot $45)' of L.A.
to the 'complex bouquet of dust, worked lamb,
rosemary, human sweat, oranges, jasmine, cooking lamb
and charcoal' of the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul to the
'chronic ambience of damage assimilated and endured
(enduring)' of Gaza. By turns hilarious and harrowing,
Peter is pure dynamite." - Laird Hunt, author of The
Impossibly. 400 pages, $18. ISBN 0-9703165-2-6.
Order now: available exclusively at
http://www.starcherone.com/deshell.htm Official
release: July 1.
Starcherone at AWP-Austin
If you're going to Austin March 8-11, we'll be there
too, at book table #506. Check out our events --
Thurs., 3/9, 4pm - A Reading from Authors of
Starcherone Books: Nickole Brown, Brian Evenson, Cris
Mazza, Jeff Parker, and Aimee Parkison. Hilton, 1st
floor amphitheater.
Fri., 3/10 - Ted Pelton, Panelist, "The Next New
Thing; or, Why Some People Don't Like Experimental
Fiction," with Davis Schneiderman, Steve Tomasula, and
Kass Fleischer.
Sat., 3/11 - The PP/FF Mega-Reading, contributors to
the Starcherone anthology, 7-9pm, The Ritz, 320 E. 6th
St., Austin
Starcherone (& Pelton) on Tour
Well, this is me, Ted Pelton, writing this, so I'll
drop the third-person and tell you I've got 2 books
out this year, the expanded second edition of my
collection, Endorsed by Jack Chapeau 2 an even greater
extent, $14, available at
http://www.starcherone.com/pelton1.htm -- and a novel
through Spuyten Duyvil Books, Malcolm & Jack (and
Other Famous American Criminals). This one's not
quite yet available, but will be soon; for more info
see:
http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/fiction/malcolmandjack.htm
In addition to Austin and the Brooklyn PP/FF reading,
I'll be a ramblin man this Spring:
March 29, 7pm - Reading and Book Signing of Malcolm &
Jack (& other Famous American Criminals), Melville
Gallery, South Street Seaport Museum, NYC.
April 5-7 - &Now Festival, Reading in "4 x
Starcherone: A Convening," reading with Jeffrey
DeShell, Aimee Parkison, and Nina Shope. Lake Forest
College, Illinois.
April 13, 7pm - Reading, Write Thing Reading Series,
with Clear Cut Press author Stacey Levine, Huber
Library at Medaille College, Buffalo, NY
May 10, 8pm - Reading, St. Mark's Poetry Project, St.
Mark's Church, E. 10th Street at 2nd Ave., Manhattan,
with Brian Evenson.
Hope to see you all out on the road!
Donation page on the new Starcherone site
You can now donate to Starcherone Books, a 501(c)(3)
non-profit, from our website via PayPal, because
despite all we've got going on, we're still pretty
broke. All contributions are greatly appreciated and
are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
Supporter-level donors of $120 receive all of our 2006
titles, plus choice of a Starcherone t-shirt or tote
bag.
http://www.starcherone.com/donate.htm
Thanks to all of our supporters and friends!
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