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PAUL CUMMING x JOHN SAFRAN
Last night’s Sunday Night Safran on Triple J, with eminent broadcasters John Safran and Father Bob McGuire, featured an interview with Paul Cumming about his CNP volume How To Start a Fight. The interview was conducted in an Indonesian hotel lobby, because that’s how we do things.
Listen here, ey. It's about 45 minuntes in.
Then buy the book.
WE PUBLISH SMALL, IRREGULAR BOOKS
Four of them are out now.
Wax Volcanic x Queen Magic
For Cool Accidents
Queen Magic will be bringing soulful electro slow jamz like I Don’t Want to the Casuals Network Press launch night next Thursday Dec 11.
If you’re in Melbourne and find yourself in the Collingwood hood, we highly recommend hitting it up! Details HERE
Ahead of next Thursday's launch, Paul Cumming somehow drew a video game about one of the CNP launch night artists, Queen Magic...
hey cuties my books launching on the 11th. come down to schoolhouse and have a drink and a dance with me
CNP IS LAUNCHING AT SCHOOLHOUSE STUDIOS, DECEMBER 11
Artwork: Katie Parrish
Come celebrate with small press parvenus Casuals Network Press as we launch four small books from four up-n-coming writers/artists at Schoolhouse Studios in Collingwood with pop tones from Queen Magic and Fatti Frances.
What are we launching?
△ Will Cox’s THE BIRD OF SPACE, a seasick story of television, illness and birds; △ Scott Woodard’s YOU HAVEN’T FOUND ANYTHING, a shoplifting, housebreaking, apocalyptic sliver of short fiction; △ Paul C Cumming’s HOW TO START A FIGHT, an illustrated essay exploring the fiction and fact of boxing; and △ Katie Parrish’s I’M NOT A VERY GOOD SWIMMER BUT I WOULDN’T HAVE LET YOU DROWN, a beautifully illustrated, full-colour comic book about dependency and art and oh crikey it's beautiful.
Full details over on the Facebook page. Excellent poster by the incomparable Katie Parrish forthcoming.
CROWDFUNDING TARGET HIT, CHAMPAGNE + PRIVATE JET TIME
Success! Thank you to the twenty-seven sterling individuals who put their faith in us and put money in the pot months before we are able to give you anything back.
Work on the books continues. Will Cox has two thirds of what is looking increasingly like a final draft; Paul Cumming is in the midst of a Rocky-esque montage sequence of boxing writing; Katie Parrish has shown us twenty-ish alarmingly beautiful hand-drawn pages; and Scott Woodard has finished one draft, and starting on another.
If you haven't kicked in yet, and you want to, there's still eight days to go over on Pozible.
INTERVIEW: PAUL CUMMING
We speak to CNP launch author Paul Cumming about whatever it is he’ll be writing for us.
Gumbaya Park. Tynong, Victoria. Sunset. The shimmering bronze orb of the August sun is slowly eaten by the horizon. The tractors have finished spluttering, their last rides over for the day. The ponies are being stabled two at a time. The Paddle Boats and Twister Karts are moored in neat ranks, most of them unused. The only sounds piercing the eerie, muted twilight are the snap and click of golf putters hitting balls and the ring of ice against glass; all of which are emanating from the small circle of Casuals Network Press editors, making their way sluggishly through the Gumbuya Park minigolf course.
CNP: So we were thinking you could write something on Gumbuya Park, something on its identity-forming role in Victoria, a think piece. Essentially we want something personal about what Gumbuya Park symbolises for people of our generation, about how regional theme parks are a part of the Australian experience. ‘Where the city meets the country’. That sort of thing.
PC: Actually I was thinking of writing about boxing, sort of a…
CNP: Oh really! We had no idea there was boxing at Gumbuya Park. Sure.
PC: I..I’m not sure that there is. I hadn’t thought to write about Gumbuya Park actually.
A long pause hangs heavily on the afternoon’s fading light. All CNP editors look down the shafts of their minigolf clubs and take phantom swings, furrowing brows, shaking heads.
CNP: Would you like to?
PC: I’m not sure there’s much of a story here…
PC looks around at the perfectly evacuated theme park and a middle-aged groundskeeper stares vacantly back, fishing gum leaves out of the bottom of the waterslide.
CNP: There’s a lot of meaty stuff here. A couple of years ago a vandal stuck explosives into the rear of the golden pheasant statue out the front. Shocking stuff.
PC: Yeah…
CNP: Apparently it sounded like an earthquake.
PC: I believe you but like I said, I’m sort of writing about boxing, it’s…
CNP: Are you attached to the idea?
PC: It’s half written already… I’ve taken on a boxing trainer, I’m following an up-and-coming boxer, I’ve been studying…
CNP: What about the other half?
PC: Sorry?
CNP: The other half of the essay. Think you could braid in some ideas about regional theme parks? It might be nice to have some variety in the essay…
PC: Uh, I think that might be a little too much…variety.
CNP: So what are you writing then?
PC: It’s about boxing as a literary obsession, a cultural touchstone…
The CNP editors resume their golf game.
CNP: Oh, yes...
PC: Yes, it looks at boxing as life condensed into a sport, about how it almost exists as a narrative shell, something that has, at different times, been a symbol of struggle in times of war, poverty and racial tension. Boxing is, more than anything…a story. Which is why writers like it so much I guess…
CNP: Of course, of course. Ooh! That was almost in!
One of the CNP editors dances furiously around the final hole on the course, making a series of jagged putts, all missing.
CNP: So is it just boxing books then? You’re reading boxing books.
PC: I was at first...now I’m training with an ex-US marine and following a young boxer to his first match and talking to some stalwarts of the sport. Boxing has a way of…consuming people, which is basically what the whole piece is about.
CNP: Sounds pretentious.
PC: No, it’s actually really simple. It’s essentially about how boxing is identity-forming.
CNP: Ah, identity-forming. Just like Gumbuya Park.
PC: Sure…exactly.
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How To Start a Fight by Paul Cumming will be released in about December.
There is mounting evidence that Katie Parrish's book is going to exist, and be excellent. Here are some pages from it, and a picture of Katie holding yet more pages.
CROWDFUNDING FRENZY
JUST TEN DAYS to go on our crowdfunding campaign, and only a round $100 left to raise. After that, it's a non-stop hellride of writing, redrafting, drawing, designing, printer-wrangling and pen-pushing, and then all of youse will have these pretty books in your hands by December. Tell your friends.
Why not watch our inspiring corporate training day video while you wait?
Casuals Network Press - Pozible from Will Cox on Vimeo.
WHAT IS THIS?
The Casuals Network Press is a new small publisher of small books.
A book from the CNP is roughly equivalent to a 7” single record, or a Kindle Single eBook – it’s a single, short work, under 10, 000 words, across about 32 pages, retailing at about $6 for a print edition and $3 for a digital edition. It’s a way of providing the low price of an eBook in print form, and a way of getting unknown names into people’s reading diets. Our books will have an emphasis on eye-grabbing design and high production values, ensuring they stand proudly on the shelves next to the established names, despite their diminutive stature and mysterious contents.
They're going to look like this:
