Archive for January, 2008
Black Clock Exhibit At The CalArts Library
A glimpse inside the pages of the literary journal Black Clock, featuring innovative literature and design, is now on display in the CalArts library. The display offers a closer look at the eclectic texts, striking layouts, and integrative approach to literature and image that define Black Clock’s signature style.
For more information about the CalArts Library (services, hours, etc.) please visit the library’s website: http://www.calarts.edu/library.
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CalArts Library
Black Clock At AWP 2008 In NYC
Black Clock at AWP 2008 In NYC
Wednesday, January 30 2008 - Saturday, February 2 2008
Black Clock staff will be in attendance at the 2008 Annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair, held this year at the Hilton New York & Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers. Stop by our booth; issues of the magazine will be available for purchase.
For more information about AWP 2008, please visit the conference website: http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2008awpconf.php.
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AWP
Black Clock Editor Steve Erickson Reading At The National Arts Club
Black Clock Editor Steve Erickson reading at the National Arts Club
Thursday, January 31 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Steve Erickson will be reading from his latest novel, Zeroville, in the NAC Dining Room. Reception to follow.
National Arts Club = 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003, (212) 475-3424
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Reading | Steve Erickson | Zeroville
Black Clock 8 Embarks On Outer And Inner Journeys
The eighth issue of Black Clock arrives on newsstands and in bookstores in early January 2008. The stories and poetry in the newest issue of California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) literary journal are “loosely linked by the idea of physical and emotional nomadism,” said editor Steve Erickson. “These are travels and sojourns of the outward and inward sort, guided by such writers as Geoffrey O’Brien, Susan Straight, Tom Carson, Lisa Teasley, Yxta Maya Murray, Chris Kraus, Michael Ventura and others.”
From the cover image of a tunnel leading deep into the magazine’s pages, Black Clock 8 speaks to our wanderlust even if, as in the case of Geoff Nicholson’s “A Walk Around the World,” the central character decides to walk a distance circling the globe all within his own backyard. In “The Sting of Irrelevancy” author Joanna Scott is stranded in Rome and finds herself contemplating Jorge Luis Borges’ wandering dreamers, while in Lewis Shiner’s “Wonderland” the protagonist’s journey takes him only a few blocks from where he lives and works into 1960’s Harlem–which might as well be another planet.
Published by CalArts in association with the MFA Writing Program, Black Clock features work by prominent national writers, talented regional authors and the very best emerging writers.
Black Clock’s staff includes Erikson, a novelist, critic and CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty member in addition to being the magazine’s Editor, Senior Editor and adjunct member of CalArts Writing Program faculty Bruce Bauman, Editor-at-Large Dwayne Moser, Managing Editor Michaele Simmering and Art Director Ophelia Chong.
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Black Clock 8 | Bruce Bauman | Chris Kraus | Dwayne Moser | Geoffrey O'Brien | Joanna Scott | Lewis Shiner | Lisa Teasley | Michael Ventura | Michaele Simmering | Ophelia Chong | Steve Erickson | Susan Straight | Tom Carson | Yxta Maya Murray