Guide Dog Books at AWP
We're very excited for the debut of Lance Olsen's Architectures of Possibility at the AWP writing convention in Chicago this weekend. Nearly 10,000 writers, teachers, students and artistes are expected to attend, among them Lance himself as well as D. Harlan Wilson, the author of GDB's Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction, and Stan Ashenbach, GDB's managing editor. Copies of Architectures of Possibility will be available in the dealer room at the table of independent publisher Fiction Collective 2.
The Cafe Irreal Anthology
Recently the editors of The Cafe Irreal signed a contract with us to publish an anthology of their fiction and nonfiction. We're thrilled about this project. Based in Prague, The Cafe Irreal has been around for over a decade and put out some of the most innovative writing in the twenty-first century, and in 2008, the editors, G.S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg, were nominated for a World Fantasy Award. We're happy to have them aboard the GDB train!
Press Release for Architectures of Possibility
Here is the official press release for Lance Olsen's upcoming Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing.
ARCs of Architectures of Possibility
"Ideal for individual or classroom use, Architectures of Possibility theorizes and questions the often unconscious assumptions behind such traditional writing gestures as temporality, scene, and characterization; offers various suggestions for generating writing that resists, rethinks, and/or expands the very notion of narrativity; visits a number of important concerns/trends/obsessions in current writing (both on the page and off); discusses marketplace (ir)realities; hones critical reading and manuscript editing capabilities; and strengthens problem-solving muscles from brainstorming to literary activism.
Exercises and supplemental reading lists challenge authors to push their work into self-aware and surprising territory.
In addition, Architectures of Possibility features something entirely lacking in most books about creative writing: more than 40 interviews with contemporary innovative authors, editors, and publishers (including Robert Coover, Lydia Davis, Brian Evenson, Shelley Jackson, Ben Marcus, Carole Maso, Scott McCloud, Steve Tomasula, Deb Olin Unferth, Joe Wenderoth, and Lidia Yuknavitch) working in diverse media, providing significant insights into the multifaceted worlds of experimental authors' writing.
Lance Olsen is author of more than 20 books of and about innovative writing, including the novelsCalendar of Regrets, Head in Flames, and Nietzsche’s Kisses. His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, such as Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, Village Voice, BOMB, McSweeney’s, and Best American Non-Required Reading. He serves as chair of FC2’s Board of Directors and teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah.
Collaborator Trevor Dodge is author of the novel Yellow #10 and short-fiction collection Everyone I know Lives on Roads, as well as co-editor of the Northwest Edge anthologies of experimental narrative. He teaches writing, literature, comics, and games studies at Clackamas Community College in Oregon Cityand the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland."
In March 2012, Architectures of Possibility will officially debut at the annual AWP Convention in Chicago.
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