February 2012
3 posts
WatchThe second No, Not Today promo video, courtesy of Ryan MacDonald’s bad-ass video imagination and Jordan Stempleman’s amazing key word list for the book: Twins, extra limbs, probable seriousness, luck, spit, beaches, angels, gasoline, cows, a robot, sun(s), reappearance, partial nudity, moonwalk, window air conditioning unit, you, halves, slums, longing, wolves, partial nudity, mousse,...
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January 2012
3 posts
2012 Catalog!
2012 is here, so it’s time for a 2012 catalog! Books to read before Iran blows up the Mayans or whatever! The first book will be in April, a lovely new book of poems from Jordan Stempleman: No, Not Today, a book Heather Christle calls “affectionate” and “heartening.” Dana Ward says: “These endeared lyrics take the week, the month, the year and distress their...
December 2011
10 posts
Leigh Stein likes Smiles of the Unstoppable →
Leigh Stein—author of the awesome new novel The Fallback Plan—included Smiles of the Unstoppable on her Best Poetry Books of 2011 list over at No Tell Motel, and she had this to say: “Bredle’s poems are like if an anxiety attack and a Grimm fairy tale got together and had a love child inside a supermarket.” Damn straight. Thanks, Leigh! =)
One Hundred and One Nights by Benjamin Buchholz
Benjamin Buchholz, author of Thirteen Stares—one of the first two chapbooks Magic Helicopter Press ever put out, from a series we originally published in NOÖ [8]—has an awesome new novel out from Back Bay called One Hundred and One Nights. So stoked to see someone who’s worked so hard tell a story like this and have it hit the big time. Buchholz is a prose singer with a heartbeat and...
Until Then: Sixth Recitation Prior to the... →
untilimakeit:
I‘m going to chew off a shitty part of my life, follow a black-magic recipe requiring the tails of newts, the fingernails of virgins, the boiling of and drinking of and bathing in it, so that, as it is with the best lizards, something new will grow in shitty’s place. If your car stops…
eye contact
lipsbetweenthehips:
i had a job interview the woman asked me how comfortable i am with talking to people guess what i lied to her
- brittany wallace
NOÖ Journal: Flamingo Poem by Nate Pritts →
Annie Hayworth: Consumerist culture makes me feel... →
anniehayworth:
Consumerist culture makes me feel robotic and alien. I have trouble existing in large masses of people, at shopping malls, Wal-Mart, Target — I become nervous, awkward, clumsy. Television commercials make me bitter and sarcastic. I feel weird when media outlets discuss professional athletes,…
dog bloat: from "My Eventual Bloodless Coup" by... →
februaryy:
I ask my mother about her peg-leg on my cell-phone while driving east on I-90. It is Thanksgiving. I am driving to my mother’s house up in the Rockies. Snow is falling around my car and every other car on the freeway. There is ice, but I have chains secured tightly to my little hatchback’s tires…
“We sit under a tall tree at the park and watch the little children spinning on...”
– from ‘i want the glass panel tinted’ in ‘my eventual bloodless coup’ by ofelia hunt (via literarysasquatch)
August 2011
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Thought Catalog Talks to Ofelia Hunt
TC: Your characters––and especially your narrator––seem to latch onto thoughts or words or sounds, and those things come up again and again. Does that come from an interest in how language works, or how certain people think? What’s behind that?
OH: I’m very interested in how language works, how people work, how people work with language. Sometimes I imagine words on a tape (think 1950s...
July 2011
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June 2011
5 posts
Tao Lin made a GIF and post about his feelings re:...
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I created a gif re and wrote about Today & Tomorrow by Ofelia Hunt.
"I want to stab that mofo in the face"
“I think that as I began writing Today & Tomorrow I sarcastically thought of it as a coming of age novel (except that I don’t know how to write coming of age novels or even novels). I was 28 years old when I started T&T, and I’m now 32 years old. I might be regressing. I graduated from college four years late. And there’s something odd about approaching and entering your 30s....
Violence, Kittens, Today & Tomorrow
J.A. Tyler has a new review of Today & Tomorrow up at Monkeybicycle:
Today & Tomorrow begins with the narrator’s twentieth birthday, an occasion for excitement and yet laced fear, focusing on how we attempt to let go of our youth, how we try to embrace our aging, a journey that the book violently pulls us through like an uncontrolled body over coral reefs, a juxtaposition of beauty...
Noah Cicero talks with Ofelia Hunt @ We Who Are... →
Noah says:
Ofelia Hunt‘s Today & Tomorrow takes experimental and makes it readable … The book is full of little beautiful exchanges. The sentences are so perfected, so etched out, so crafted out. As a writer I can see Ofelia Hunt alone typing, deleting, typing one word, deleting another word. As a reader the book was experimental, but not extreme experimental. One can sit with...
TODAY & TOMORROW is a featured June book at The... →
Stoked to be discussing Today & Tomorrow all month at The Lit Pub, a new online indie lit bookstore & hangout spot for general readers. There will be interviews, reviews, videos, zamboni talk, talk about grandfathers, talk about trauma, lots of good stuff. Thanks to Molly Gaudry & Chris Newgent for letting Magic Helicopter be the first guest publisher. Check it out!
May 2011
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Nylon reviews TODAY & TOMORROW / Pre-Order and...
Nylon wrote up Today & Tomorrow for its May 2011 issue and confirmed that the book comes off as strange as we hoped. Thanks Mallory Rice for the review! Here it is: “‘I wonder if all parking-lots are really one parking-lot,’ muses the narrator of Ofelia Hunt’s Today & Tomorrow as she arrives at Wal-Mart, the workplace of Todd, one of her two boyfriends, whom she...
Interview With Ofelia Hunt on the NOÖ Journal blog
“I decided Ofelia liked a number of specific things and typed them out: 11 point Garamond, hyphens, repetition, trickery, ‘math rock’, parking lots… I made a list of writers Ofelia admires: Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Stacey Levine, Franz Kafka, Lydia Davis, Kenneth Koch, Kurt Vonnegut, Lisa Jarnot, Diane Williams, Joy Williams, etc… Ofelia Hunt does not...
April 2011
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March 2011
2 posts
WatchOH NOW EVERYTHING IS WET NOW / by Ana C & Richard Chiem / an e-book experience coming soon from MHP
Win an unstoppable smile
Over at HTMLGIANT, here’s a way to win a copy of Jason Bredle’s Smiles of the Unstoppable just by coming up with a clever caption for a picture of a pumpkin. Soon we’ll have another contest for Jason’s book that’s even easier, where you can win just by finding good pictures on the internet. Stay tuned! If you’re staying Tucsoned instead of tuned, go see Jason...
February 2011
2 posts
Jen Gann's BACK TUCK now available; can you help...
Fantastical and fantastically true, the stories in Back Tuck dive into the animals in all of us: the ghost horses, the roasted bees, the washed ashore tigers, the gorillas chained to the mayor’s statue, underbiters and flower-scalped and gym bombers and mothers and children and slot machines you can trick by sticking a cookie in. When Back Tuck mewls from the bottom of the hill, it mewls of...
January 2011
1 post
"A lasso which Bredle has the reader roped in" /...
A terrific review by C.J. Opperthauser of Jason Bredle’s Smiles of the Unstoppable is up at NewPages. Opperthauser has a great name, and of the collection says: “Smiles of the Unstoppable is a fun, refreshing ride into the mind of a poet who has a lot to say about the world, and does so with mastered techniques of narrative.” Check out the full review! And hey, while...
December 2010
3 posts
Vampire fangs and childhood toys: SMILES OF THE... →
Who’s that? Is it scary vampire me? Yes, yes it is, with a scary unstoppable vampire smile. You too, dearest of tumbling readers, can get your very own vampire smile. How? Thanks for asking! What you do is be one of the first 30 people to pre-order Jason Bredle’s awesome new poetry collection Smiles of the Unstoppable for only $10. That’s $3 off the list price. You will get...
Praise Around the Web For WE WERE ETERNAL AND...
Evelyn Hampton’s terrific chapbook We Were Eternal and Gigantic has received a little holiday gab lately. At, Vouched, Tyler Gobble says: “These pieces, especially the prose, tangled imagination and emotion down deep and coughed it at me … I ended up super pleased.” And, at Karen Lillis’s Small Press Librarian blog, Chris Bowen of Burning River Press recommends...
Adam Moorad on The Drunk Sonnets and Magic...
Over at Metazen’s “Last Minute Christmas Shopping Guide,” Adam Moorad has some kind words about The Drunk Sonnets and Magic Helicopter Press. Thanks, Adam!
The Drunk Sonnets comprises fifty-three “sonnets” written (presumably) under the influence and edited sober. Each sonnet is composed entirely in all caps—this proves to be a natural and effective device in communicating...
November 2010
1 post
Smiles Of the Unstoppable! January 1st!
Pre-order Smiles of the Unstoppable, the third full-length collection from Chicago poet Jason Bredle, author of Standing In Line For the Beast and Pain Fantasy. A limber and vivid sad clown routine of a collection, reading Smiles of the Unstoppable is like knowing the secret password to an illegal speakeasy of imagination. Check out this poem that originally appeared in No Posit: MOBY DICK
An...
October 2010
1 post
New Drunk Sonnet write-ups!
Some Drunk Sonnet news from the interwebs. At Molossus, Vlad Osso writes: “The accomplishment of Bailey’s all-caps sonnets … transcend the gimmick of their genesis to achieve a sort of beauty that aches with simple honesty.” Meanwhile, on his blog, Zachary Whalen writes: “This book is like a crazy homeless man that runs into your bedroom screaming and distributing Xeroxed...
September 2010
1 post
Cami Park on We Were Eternal And Gigantic
Cami Park has a nice little write-up about Evelyn Hampton’s We Were Eternal and Gigantic at her blog Odd Citrus, where she is writing about a different poetry book for every day of September. Awesome! Park calls Hampton “uniquely insightful about people and their relationships” and says that the book “covers America’s money-obsessed culture, superficiality, capitalism,...
August 2010
2 posts
July 2010
4 posts
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"The poems ... swervingly plow that oversharing,...
Justin Taylor spills a few words of hearty praise for The Drunk Sonnets at the Poetry Foundation. Daniel Bailey has now officially entered the Official Verse Culture (TM) (R) (@) (.-.). Congratulations, Dan!
"The characters deal with pain, betrayal and...
A new review of Mary Miller’s Less Shiny is up at Annalema’s blog.
June 2010
2 posts
Win THE DRUNK SONNETS & WE WERE ETERNAL AND... →
Win Less Shiny and Typewriter!
Lit Drift is giving away copies of Less Shiny and Typewriter: check it out!