The Paris Review – discount for HTMLGiant (and other fans of literary fiction)
Posted on November 11, 2010 Leave a Comment
I’ve really grown to love The Paris Review. There was a discussion over at HTMLGiant about it, and Roxane Gay was talking about how individual copies are expensive, and got this response from the people at TPR:
Roxane,
Peter from The Paris Review here. Thanks for such a thoughtful review–very much appreciated.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about the shipping on a single issue (the post office charges us what they charge us). But to make up for this and make the magazine a little more affordable, we’re offering the good people of HTMLGIANT and your readers a one-year subscription for $28 ($7/issue) through our website with the code GIANT12.
http://store.theparisreview.org/products/one-year-subscription
This will be active for the next two weeks (and feel free to share). Due to the vagaries of our site, there may be an 81 cents shipping charge, but nothing hefty. Hopefully this makes the makes keeping in touch with TPR a bit easier.
Most of all, do keep reading. The winter issue is shaping up to be something pretty special.
So, hop to it, folks. It’s mostly because of people like Benjamin Percy that I started reading TPR, but there is always something amazing in each issue – a story or interview, always something worthwhile.
Daddy’s by Lindsay Hunter
Posted on November 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
Daddy's by Lindsay Hunter (Featherproof)
I’ve met Lindsay a couple times, starting with an event at Quickies! Chicago where I was thrilled to read with a ton of talented people. I was blown away by Amelia Gray, Blake Butler, Jac Jemc, and of course, Lindsay herself. It’s not surprising that I’ve become a big fan of her work. I’ve come to expect the unexpected from her. She has no fear when it comes to short stories that deal with sex, violence, loss, love, hope, and the drama and tension that exist in dysfunctional families and relationships. My full review of Daddy’s (Featherproof) is now up at The Nervous Breakdown, so go check it out. This is one of my favorite collections of the year, and Lindsay Hunter is a voice to watch. Now hop to it, people.
The Avain Gospels by Adam Novy
Posted on November 1, 2010 Leave a Comment
My book review for The Avian Gospels by Adam Novy is now LIVE at The Nervous Breakdown. This was a wild ride, a surreal, dystopian book, issued in two beautiful volumes by Short Flight / Long Drive Books. I don’t know if you’d call this a division or an arm of Hobart, but whatever you call it, the people over there (Aaron Burch and Elizabeth Ellen) are doing great things. Big World, by Mary Miller, another of their releases (2009) was just fantastic.
Richard Thomas is interviewed by Simon West-Bulford.
Posted on October 29, 2010 Leave a Comment
Simon‘s a fantastic author himself, with his first book due out soon with Medallion Press, entitled The Soul Consortium. So check out our conversation here as we chat about my novel, Transubstantiate, multiple POVs, plot vs. no plot, staying motivated, and many other things.
Kevin Lucia writes Hiram Grange and the Chosen One, supernatural detective
Posted on October 27, 2010 Leave a Comment
Check out my review at OWC
I thought I posted up about this last June, but guess I didn’t! WHOOPS, my apologies, Kevin. Hiram Grange and the Chosen One by Kevin Lucia is the sixth book in the Hiram Grange series, and it was a real hoot. My review gets into all of the details over at Outsider Writer’s Colletive, but suffice it to say it was a wild ride. So go check it out. Imagine F. Paul Wilson with a little James Bond, Sherlock Holmes and Phineas Poe sprinkled in.
Interview with Amelia Gray at The Nervous Breakdown
Posted on October 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
In addition to doing book reviews at The Nervous Breakdown, I’ll also be doing interviews. My first is with one of my favorite authors, Amelia Gray. I hate to even limit her by calling her a small press darling (in the vein of Parker Posey, indie film darling) as she is a voice to be reckoned with, and I’m sure the small presses will only hold on to her for as long as they can, until the bigger presses come calling. Harper Perennial, are you paying attention?
Instead of doing the standard interview, asking about her latest projects and what her process is, I went over her first two books, AM/PM (Featherproof) and Museum of the Weird (FC2), reminisced about the times I’ve seen her read live at various AWPs and other outings, and generally prompted her with whatever authors, presses, and eccentricities I could think of.
Visit her at her site, or Five Things (her reading series in Austin), or hell, just Google her. She’s everywhere. Be sure to catch her live, it’s always worth it.
So, go check out the review up at The Nervous Breakdown, pick up copies of AM/PM and Museum of the Weird, and track her at Twitter and her blog. She’s one of the most compelling voices out there right now – hilarious, disturbing, emotional, surreal, heartbreaking, grounded, alluring and smart.
Pela Via interviews Richard Thomas at Word Riot
Posted on October 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
Not your typical interview, Pela Via and I talk about all kinds of wild things at one of my favorite online fiction sites, Word Riot. They published one of my stories last year, “Three Mistakes”.
"How YOU doing?"
"Living the dream, baby!"
OWP Reading Saturday October 16th at 7 pm at Quimby’s, Chicago
Posted on October 13, 2010 Leave a Comment
I’ll be reading Saturday at my favorite bookstore, Quimby’s in the hip and happening Bucktown / Wicker Park area with several other OWP authors – Laura, Nik, and David at 7pm. COME ON OUT! Blocks from the Damen/North/Milwaukee el stop and right on the North Avenue bus line.
Saw Chuck Palahniuk read here years ago.
The Nervous Breakdown – Book Reviews by Richard Thomas
Posted on October 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
Hey guys!
I’m going to be doing some book reviews for The Nervous Breakdown, and I’m really stoked about that. I’m going to be focusing on small presses and the genre/lit benders. I’m also thrilled to be working with Shya Scanlon, a really talented author I first heard of with his online serial Forecast 42, which will be out by Flatmancrooked as Forecast later this year. We have similar tastes and I know we’ll get some much needed attention to some gifted authors, presses and journals.
My first review is now live for the fantastic dark collection of shorts The Physics of Imaginary Objects by Tina May Hall, winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her novella included in this book “All the Day’s Sad Stories” was the winner of the 2008 Caketrain Chapbook Competition, selected by Brian Evenson.
What’s next after this you ask?
Next will be an interview with Amelia Gray, up soon, 101 Prompts covering her career, books, and various eccentricities. After that: Avian Gospels by Adam Novy (Hobart: Short Flight/Long Drive), then Daddy’s (Featherproof) by Lindsay Hunter, followed by The Wilding (Graywolf) by Benjamin Percy then probably this great new press, Dark Sky Books and Cut Through the Bone by Ethel Rohan. So keep your eyes and ears open.
There’s so much great fiction out there.
Another great review of Transubstantiate, this one at Morpheus Tales
Posted on October 1, 2010 Leave a Comment
The review supplement for Morpheus Tales #10 is now out. Happy to see my pal Jeremy C. Shipp in here too, we’ll also be sharing space in an upcoming issue of Withersin. We got another fantastic review for Transubstantiate, this one from Stanley Riiks. Here’s an excerpt:
Described as a neo-noir thriller, a description I can whole-heartedly agree with, this is a very dark, cynical, and intelligent novel. The way it’s told only adds to both the tension and the mystery. A brilliant tale of a haunting dystopia.
Go to the REVIEWS PAGE or hit this link for a DIRECT DOWNLOAD.
- Richard Thomas - 