#tiny hardcore press

[jllongwrites]

BY ROXANE GAY

I started a micropress, Tiny Hardcore Press,and it has been an awesome but very challenging adventure. The best part is getting to work with writers I respect to publish awesome books that practically fit in the palm of your hand. There is no worst part but every single day I learn something new. Most of these lessons have risen from my own ignorance. Who just decides to start a press? A press is a small business. I should have done more research. I had put out two books already via PANK, but that’s not really research. My first mistake was diving into the deep end when I should have been in the kiddie pool with my floaties. I offer these observations in no particular order.

[pankmagazine]

"The coming-of-age stories in Alana Noël Voth’s DOG MEN cling to you like only the most personal and upsetting dreams can. They’re nightmares the way your first love was a “nightmare,” or the first time you got laid. They're haunting, surreal, but deeply personal. They’re the X-Rated episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Joss Whedon didn’t have the courage to air. They don’t flinch. Voth’s characters are people you know, and yet nothing you could have imagined. If you don’t keep them close, they’ll find you."

Pre-Order DOG MEN here.

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Cassandra Troyan / Johannes Göransson Performance - today!

HAPPENING TODAY: a performance by Cassandra Troyan and Johannes Göransson at MCA Chicago's Word Weekend.

"We thought it would be interesting to put the minds of Cassandra Troyan and Johannes Göransson in a room and see what collaborative performance they’d come up with. The result: “Beware of a Holy Whore.”

Channeling a conversation between the ruins of the Cold War with Berlin as the epicenter of erotic destruction and the prostitute as the figure of survival and economic post-war flourishing, “BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE” is a psychosexual remapping of desire and capital. Using the figures of Fassbinder’s BRD Trilogy and other filmic and cultural sources, the whore becomes a woman to be revered rather than shunned as she presides over a funeral for capitalism and the city, as a future site of freedom and joy."

Check it out here.

[pankmagazine]

Cassandra Troyan's THP title, BLACKEN ME BLACKEN ME, GROWLED is among Entropy's 16 Best Poetry Books so far in 2014. Damn straight.

[unknowmenclature]

The frosted lawn is dotted with rabbits. The rabbits refuse to move. Learning is painful.

Ashley Farmer, Beside Myself

[unknowmenclature]

My mother mostly looks out the window. She's become Special Occasion religious. She parts the red kitchen curtains and says 'Jesus Christ' in a voice reserved for car accidents.

Ashley Farmer, Beside Myself

[pankmagazine]

A sample from The Map of the System of Human Knowledge by James Tadd Adcox, restocked in our shop. Order your copy [here], and check out the other Tiny Harcore books you can ocularly devour.

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Get thee into (and perhaps even back out of; it happens) a [PANK] t-shirt today. Tiny Hardcore books for $10, 2-issue PANK Magazine subscriptions for $18, [PANK] t-shirts for $20. What, exactly, ARE you waiting for? Visit the [PANK] Shop today...

...and thanks to our friends at Brockit for the rockin' photos.