Since it’s the holidays, we wanted to put together a little gift for you, dear readers, of what’s in store from Aforementioned for next year, namely Susan McCarty’s debut collection, Anatomies! Kind words for the collection from Melanie Rae Thon: “If you long to be awakened by the glorious intensity and miraculous expansiveness of human consciousness, let these seductive, revelatory fictions transport you.”
And feast your eyes on the cover:
Can’t wait until June!
To celebrate the release of Liam Day’s Afforded Permanence, we’ve published three poems from the collection this week at apt! As we mentioned there, “For those of you who know Boston, you’ll recognize much in these lines. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Boston, I promise that Liam’s rendering is as faithful as it is eloquent.”
Head over to the apt site to read “111 – Emerald Cities,” “51 – Tesseract,” and “28 – Gospel Music.”
Also, Dolan Morgan rolled out a second great book trailer for TWTKCD, with even more great music from Will Aronson!
A few months ago, we reached out on Facebook to ask our friends in Boston to help us with a project: making a trailer for Liam Day’s Afforded Permanence.
Thanks to Arif Ansari, Jessica Blake, Dara Cerv, Sam Cha, Emily Chaves, Angie Garcia, Lillian Mara Medville, Jennifer O’Connor, Colin O’Day, Daniel Evans Pritchard, and (obviously) Liam Day, we made a polyvocal trailer that includes lines from poems scattered throughout the book.
Check out the video below, then order your copy of Afforded Permanence (order before Dec 20 and we’ll get it to you by Christmas)!
Dear readers, we haven’t updated this space in the past few weeks, but for good reason: scads of great stuff happening at AP HQ.
TWTKCD
Dolan has been reading non-stop—in October, he read in Boston at Carissa’s very own Literary Firsts (video), and in November, he read at Baltimore’s Starts Here! series, and a month or so ago, he read part of “Infestation,” for an episode of The Catapult, which you can listen to here. Just in case you haven’t been able to catch Dolan at a reading, he’s got one more coming up in the Baltimore area: Saturday, December 6, he’ll be reading at Federal Dust in Woodlawn, MD.
Also, TWTKCD has been on the SPD fiction/non-fiction bestseller list since it hit shelves in August, most recently at #6, so if you haven’t picked up your copy yet, go get one!
Afforded Permanence
We’re less than a month away from releasing Liam Day’s debut collection, Afforded Permanence! The collection features thirty poems, inspired by bus routes on the MBTA. The book trailer is on its way and we just got the proof for the cover.
Also, if you’re in the Boston area, mark your calendar for the release party: Thursday, January 22, 7pm at The Banshee in Dorchester. Hope to see you there!
apt
We’re putting the final touches on the Long Fiction issue, apt‘s fifth print annual, due out in January. It’s going to be our biggest issue yet (nearly 200 pages!), and will feature work from Colleen Cable, Elizabeth Chandler, Kendra Fortmeyer, William Hillyard, and Matt Jones. The presale will open in the next week or so, but for now, we wanted to share the cover with you.
LONG LIVE LONG FICTION.
Words to live by.
2014 has been a huge year for AP, and it’s not over yet. Looking forward to kicking 2015 off with a bang!
Steve Annear recently interviewed Liam Day about his experiences writing Afforded Permanence!
In his vividly descriptive works…Day used the buses as a way to connect to the communities and people they service, rather than making the vehicles a central character in his writing….[the project] took Day into cities and towns he rarely visits, and back to neighborhoods, specifically West Roxbury, where he grew up.
You can read the full article in the next issue of Boston Magazine, as well as at the Boston Magazine site.
We were thrilled to see a review for That’s When the Knives Comes Down in Publishers Weekly today, and even more so when we saw the red star next to the title!
“Morgan debuts his refreshing talent in a collection of 12 short stories that are as bizarre as they are brilliant. Germanely punctuated by Robin E. Mork’s playful graphite drawings, the collection is driven by an idiosyncratic and absurd mind… ‘Experimental’ would be a misleading term for this one-of-a-kind book.”
Read the full review here, then pick up your own copy today!
Exciting TWTKCD news!
Dolan Morgan talks with Nelly Reifler at The Believer. An excerpt:
“I’m super tired of the sort of traditional, twentieth-century-style void, where people feel a “dead emptiness inside the brain,” and where they get dizzy and sick at the edge of a life without meaning. Blah, blah, blah. Buncha babies. I simply don’t understand what’s so scary about nothingness. In fact, I find it uplifting and invigorating. It makes me happy. And I feel like throughout my life, I’ve always been handed an artificial set of social choices: either 1) “Things are absurd and that’s terrible,” or 2) “Things are imbued with purpose, and that’s fantastic.” But really, what about: Things are absurd, and that’s great? And how about: Purpose is terrifying. Purpose is oppressive. Get that junk out of here. Rather, we’re all flying through a pointless expanse and that’s amazing. Lucky us. Our ability to comprehend the world is imperfect, limited and often incorrect—and that’s gorgeous.“
You can read the full interview here.
And, for those of you who live in New York (and its surrounding environs), the roster for next month’s Selected Shorts is as follows: Heather Burns reading a story by Aimee Bender, Alex Karpovsky reading a story by Kurt Vonnegut, and Dave Hill reading a story from That’s When the Knives Come Down! You can (and should!) buy tickets here—a steal at eight dollars! Since this is part of the 30th anniversary of Selected Shorts, it may sell out (so don’t delay, etc.).
And if you still haven’t picked up a copy of TWTKCD, you can order it by clicking the link in the sidebar, or following us through this magic internet portal.
We have had the distinct pleasure of working with Danielle Jones-Pruett on a number of occasions—we were thrilled to have two of her poems on the apt site last year, and another for this year’s print issue.
We’ve hosted her as a reader at Literary Firsts, and she was among the readers we had at our amazing release party for the Surveillance Issue of apt in January.
A few weeks back, we were so happy to hear that she’ll been included in the 2014 Best New Poets anthology.
And, just this morning, we learned that Danielle is one of six recipients of the 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award! Danielle’s work is meditative and wry, honest and captivating—qualities indicative of fine literature. She deserves every accolade she gets, and we’re so proud of her.
“What is Aforementioned Productions? Everything….what Aforementioned Productions is all about—publishing great writing that affects a reader.”
Barrelhouse had such kind words for us in their latest missive. They’re hosting us tomorrow night at Petworth Citizen in DC. Won’t you join us?
In early summer 2011, we published a group of four poems by Liam Day, each inspired by a bus route in Boston. Since then, Liam has worked to produce a group of thirty poems, encapsulating the city’s history, then expanding beyond it, as the speaker moves within and without Boston’s city limits.
We’re incredibly excited to announce that Liam’s book is now available to preorder, and the array of presale incentives include:
The presale will last through December 17, so get in now, and spread the word!