http://www.blackclock.org/blog Blog Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:45:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Featuring political allegory, subversive satire and secret presidential histories by Jonathan Lethem, Lynne Tillman, Brian Evenson, Jeff VanderMeer, Ben Ehrenreich, Stanley Crawford, Seth Greenland and Janet Sarbanes, among others, including Rick Moody’s log of the Republican primary race earlier this year, an email debate between Michael Ventura and Black Clock ... http://www.blackclock.org/blog/2008/08/14/black-clock-9-now-available/ Rick Moody is the author of eight books including The Ice Storm, The Black Veil and most recently, Right Livelihoods, and his fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, and elsewhere.  His band, the Wingdale Community Singers, released their first album on Plain Recordings in 2005.  ... http://www.blackclock.org/blog/2008/07/22/interview-rick-moody-07042008/ (Photo: Austin Young) Date: March 12, 2008 Location: Seminar Room, Butler Building, CalArts Visiting Writers Series Los Angeles-born and -based writer Lisa Teasley is fearless. A risk-taker, at least. Or so it would seem. She skateboards, she paints (“a physical working out of the imagination through color”), and she writes about subject matter ... http://www.blackclock.org/blog/2008/06/23/teasley-interview/ Copies of Black Clock will be available for sale at a special discounted rate, Thursday June 26th from 10 AM to 5 PM, The University of Iowa's 22nd Annual Summer Writing Festival.  Selected issues of the magazine will be available for purchase at the Literary Magazine and Small Press Book ... http://www.blackclock.org/blog/2008/06/19/black-clock-at-the-university-of-iowas-summer-writing-festival/ On the eve of the national party conventions at the end of this summer, the ninth edition of the acclaimed literary journal Black Clock should be on newsstands, just in time for the Fourth of July. The issue includes political allegory, subversive satire and secret presidential histories by Jonathan ... http://www.blackclock.org/blog/2008/06/11/black-clock-9-coming-soon/ Issues of Black Clock will be available for sale at a special discounted rate, Sunday June 15th from noon to 5 PM, at the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses' [CLMP's] 9th Annual Literary Magazine Fair, held this year in Soho at Housing Works Bookstore Café. In addition to helping fund ... http://www.blackclock.org/blog/2008/06/04/black-clock-at-housing-works-bookstore-caf/ Celebrate Los Angeles Literature with Black Clock and Los Angeles magazines In conjunction with BookExpo America Friday, May 30th 2008 7 PM - 10PM The William Turner Gallery Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90404 Open bar sponsored by Krol Vodka, Malibu Family Wines and Fiji Water Hors d'oeurves Music Sneak preview of Greg Miller's show "Unforeseen ... http://www.blackclock.org/blog/2008/05/07/black-clock-los-angeles-magazines-bea2008/ Congratulations are in order for Black Clock Senior Editor Bruce Bauman, recipient of a City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist fellowship grant in literature for 2008 / 2009 For for information about the funding opportunities and programs sponsored by the City of Los Angeles' Department of Cultural Affairs, see: http://www.culturela.org/grants/grantsorg.html. http://www.blackclock.org/blog/2008/04/25/bruce-bauman-awarded-fellowship/ Black Clock is offering a special subscription discount to new subscribers, good through August 2008: take $15 off a 2-year subscription (list price: $35 USD) OR give a friend a free 1-year subscription (value: $20 USD) with the purchase of one 2-year subscription at list price. To act on this offer, please ... http://www.blackclock.org/blog/2008/04/16/special-offer-for-new-subscribers/ 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 ... http://www.blackclock.org/blog/2008/04/07/black-clock-the-los-angeles-times-festival-of-books-ucla/