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Jenn Hyland is in this exhibition "reset" on view at Garis & Hahn from September 10-25, 2016, opening party tomorrow Saturday September 10 from 6-8pm. She is showing work from the same series of pieces that were featured in The Bushwick Review VI. :) :) :)

Kait Heacock's debut collection, Siblings and Other Disapointments, will be available October 11 from Ooligan Press. It launches at Powell's ...

Kait Heacock has a story up on Joyland Magazine today and she’s also on the front page. Kait had a story in our most recent issue The Bushwick Review VI. Her debut book of short stories, Siblings and Other Disappointments, is coming out Oct 11 on Ooligan Press.

I’ll always like interviews. I like even more when two writers I like are in conversation. I like even more than that when the conversation is on one of my favorite sites. So without further ado, I’m linking out to an interview with Lucy K. Shaw by Elle Nash on Hobart Pulp. [RAP AIRHORN SOUND]

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Sarah Jean Alexander is the archaeologist we need in today’s world.

I think if a person wants to sell more than 100 books they better do some self-promotion. I don’t think it takes a lot of effort to maintain a social network, I basically only tweet things regarding my writing or funny things. I post things on Facebook concerning my writing or pictures of me hiking, I email a lot of people asking if they want to review my book or to interview me, and sometimes it takes three hours, I just did a 10,000 word interview for Hobart, and yeah, it takes time. But I think it is fun to interact with other writers, I really enjoy all of it. I know of several books that are incredible, that are amazing, but the authors don’t think they have to self promote, and the books haven’t sold 500 copies. A musician has to practice for months to make sure everything is perfect, then they have to travel all over playing shows if they are sick or not, a lot of them have to practice choregraphy, then they have to do interviews at 5am or in the middle of the night at radio stations. Athletes have to practice and exercise constantly like maniacs to play their games. People on movie crews (from camera men to actors and actresses) have to go to weird places and wake up at 5am and work all fucking day to make their movies. Actors and actresses have to maintain perfect bodies via massive amounts of exercise. And a writer can’t emotionally handle copy and pasting links into Twitter, well then you don’t deserve to sell copies, you’re lazy, I don’t care.

Noah Cicero, in conversation with Jake Levin at Entropy

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advice for young writers (or old writers or anyone who is the type to seek advice from other writers/ppl or to reblog quotes from other writers/ppl)

if you believe there is anyone out there who is cooler than you are, stop writing now.

That’s sort of my favorite thing is just to do nothing with someone, where you’re not going to a movie, you’re not going to dinner, you’re not going to a party — you’re really just sitting in your apartment talking. That situation often arises because people don’t have money, and I certainly have felt that way in my life, that there’s this intimacy that comes out of not having a lot.

Leopoldine Core

"I think it's wonderful to take feelings that you're really having, or maybe the theme of your bedroom, like you look around and see things. But then you turn it into a story and you really push it into another galaxy. And maybe that's the idea of a successful story for me, when I take my life and it just sort of opens a door into another world. I feel so excited by that — like I'm watching a movie suddenly. It's not me. It's something else."

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In honor of Frank Ocean’s visual album release today, I suggest you read Mitchell Kuga’s piece “Frank Ocean Fan Fiction”, which was one of the biggest hits off The Bushwick Review VI.

#frank ocean #mitchell kuga #frank ocean fan fiction #fan fiction

Cutting Out Beehives by Mack Gelber The first time they heard the beep it was a little after three in the morning. It wasn’t a ping or a chirp they heard, or even a bleep—it was a definitive, unden…

Have you read this great story by Mack Gelber that was the Sunday story at Vol. 1 Brooklyn a few weeks back?

Mack Gelber has had stories in The Bushwick Review V and The Bushwick Review III. All of them are excellently crafted.

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Part 1. of our new issue, KINETIC is out now

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Have you read PART 1 of the new Shabby Doll House issue yet??! You should!

Catch up before PART 2 drops tomorrow! The issue was split into two parts, just like how shitty franchise movies divide their last movie into two parts to make more money, except Shabby Doll House is the opposite of shitty and it probably ain’t their last issue and lol no one is making any kind of money here.

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Photos of the readers at the packed #ActualAsianPoets reading last Wednesday. :)

Clockwise from top left: Julie Leung, Jen Hyde, Sarah Jean Alexander, Esther Wang, and Chialun Chang.

It’s not like we haven’t been singing Michele Rosenthal’s praises for all six issues of The Bushwick Review now, but here she is in the VIP section of the Brian Wilson concert standing in front of a giant illustration she made that hangs from the stage.

#illustration #artists on tumblr

In a year where The New Yorker publishes a crap poem like "Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?", Michael Derrick Hudson gives himself a Chinese pen name to get into Best American Poetry, and a lot of white actors play roles meant for Asian actors, I think it's high time for a reading where the entire line-up is Asian females.

So on Wednesday June 15th, at 8pm, I'll be hosting #ActualAsianPoets (named after the hashtag that started in the wake of the Michael Derrick Hudson bullshit) at the fantastic Molasses Books in Brooklyn.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1014938155263281/

If you live in NYC, I hope to see you there. :)

Love, Kristen Felicetti

#actualasianpoets

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Last week there was a great article about zines in The Independent by Kashmira Gander. The Bushwick Review was featured, as were some Tim Vienckowski-designed pages from the most recent issue, including Thom Smith’s piece.

Got a new story up at Hobart, you should imagine it being read out loud as a slightly bizarre presentation. It's a retelling of three people seeing Christian Marclay’s art installation/film The Clock: Heidi Julavits in The Folded Clock, Ben Lerner in 10:04, and me, Kristen Felicetti, lol.

“haha we are such obnoxious assholes,” Tim, after reading this story. “but you must document this phase of our lives” “truthfully” “i cannot hide”

#fiction #lit

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