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Black Clock At The Los Angeles Times Festival Of Books (UCLA)
Black Clock @ The Los Angeles Times Festival Of Books (UCLA)
Saturday, April 26 2008 (10 AM to 6 PM) - Sunday, April 27 2008 (10 AM to 5 PM)
Black Clock and CalArts will be among the exhibitors at the 13th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival Of Books. Drop by booth #661 (Zone F - Dickson Court North) to meet our editorial staff, purchase issues of Black Clock, and learn more about The CalArts MFA Writing Program. Additionally, Black Clock Editor Steve Erickson and Senior Editor Bruce Bauman will be participating in the following Festival panels:
- “Fiction: Grace Under Pressure” (11:30 AM Saturday, April 26 2008; Moore 100)
Bruce Bauman / Barbara Isenberg (Moderator) / Gina Nahai / Andrew O’Hagan / Arthur Phillips - “Fiction: Alternative Visions” (1 PM Sunday, April 27 2008; Korn Hall)
Steve Erickson / Shelley Jackson / Zachary Lazar / Nina Revoyr / David L. Ulin (Moderator)
Please consult the Festival website for further information about admission, parking, schedules, etc.
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Bruce Bauman | LA Times Festival Of Books | Steve Erickson
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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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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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
Black Clock 7 Sizzles
The seventh issue of Black Clock is the most provocative issue of the journal yet. It features twenty-five stories, one essay and four poems about sex and the erotic by such writers as Samuel R. Delany, Janet Fitch, Aimee Bender, Lynne Tillman, Geoff Nicholson, Francesca Lia Block, Rachel Resnick, Brian Evenson, Lisa Teasley, Seth Greenland, Tara Ison, John Haskell and others. This current issue will begin heating up newsstands and bookstores in late June.
Published by the California Institute of the Arts (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 7 includes Yxta Maya Murray’s “Girl Called Casanova”, in which the world’s greatest lover takes female form and sets out to seduce Angelina Jolie; Wanda Coleman’s “Howlin’ With the Woofdog”, about a tryst between a well-known radio DJ and a reluctant virgin; Joy Nicholson’s “Manson Girl”, a tale at once sweet, funny and chilling about the sexual dynamics of a murderous cult; and Tom Carson’s “My Mother, Marie Christ, (b. Hope Springs, TN, 1951 d. Memphis, July 4, 1985)”, about a boy named Jesus growing up in Reagan’s America who has a thing for his Mom.
Novelist, critic and CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty member Steve Erickson is the Editor of Black Clock. Dwayne Moser, adjunct faculty and CalArts MFA Writing Program coordinator, and Bruce Bauman, also an adjunct member of the Writing Program faculty, serve as Senior Editors. Gail Swanlund, Graphic Design faculty at CalArts, is the magazine’s art director.
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Aimee Bender | Black Clock 7 | Brian Evenson | Bruce Bauman | Dwayne Moser | Francesca Lia Block | Gail Swanlund | Geoff Nicholson | Janet Fitch | John Haskell | Joy Nicholson | Lisa Teasley | Lynne Tillman | Rachel Resnick | Samuel R. Delany | Seth Greenland | Steve Erickson | Tara Ison | Tom Carson | Wanda Coleman | Yxta Maya Murray