February 2011
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Interview with KMH
KMH dropped by to answer some questions about his new novel: Dig Deep the Post Holes, Contractors. This Joycean verse novel about deck construction was written in classical Latin and has caused quite a stir among those studying experimental literature concerning home building.
MFJ: Thank you for joining us here at Monkfish Jowls. I hope the horehound licorice root tea we have for you is helping...
Ray Davies of the Kinks did this on a solo album...
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Lindsay Hunter, author of Daddies, emailed today and invited me to be a part of another reading, this time in Iowa City. Which means she’s my favorite person in the universe right now.
In other news, there’s a big fat McSweeney’s head sitting on my table, I’m 200 pages into War and Peace, and I’ll be goddamned if I didn’t eat bacon last night at midnight.
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February 13, 2011
I had a weird day—I bought Douglas Coupland’s biography of Marshall McLuhan and read it in nearly one sitting yesterday. I left a small sliver for today. Yesterday I felt a rush from it: enthusiasm for new ideas and a small kinship of mental states (his upraising in rural Canada and his conversion to Catholicism in his 30s). I really felt like I had found someone who could explain...
I just changed the theme on Monkfish Jowls. That must mean I intend to be more interesting in the future!
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Seeking: Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction
You may know that I have my hands in an ambitious young journal named ASYMPTOTE, and you may also know that we’ve published so far Mary Gaitskill, Thomas Bernard, Aimé Césaire, Gozo Yoshimasu, Molly Gaudry, and others.
You may not know that while we are intent on publishing literature in translation, we have for the second issue a section devoted to literature written originally in the...
Will of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, author of The...
LAST WILL, PRIVATE—THE [PUBLIC] WILL IS TO BE FOUND IN A SEPARATE ENVELOPE
It is my desire, indeed my firm wish, that my death should go unannounced either in the press or by any other means. The funeral should be kept as simple as possible, and at some inconvenient hour. I want no flowers and nobody to accompany me apart from my wife, my adopted son Giò, and his fiancée Mirella.
I would have...
From an email just now:
I’m making popcorn! It’s 2 A.M. I don’t know why I don’t just go to bed. I think there’s always a refusal to end the day and a refusal to begin the day. It would be better if morning me and evening me cooperated. Because right now I’m thinking, “LIFE IS SO AWESOME. LET’S NEVER HAVE IT END,” but at 9:00 AM or...