Apr 16
Black Clock at Shelf Life
Black Clock is proud to join the community of “independent publishers, artists, writers and designers whose voices and images question and push the boundaries of popular culture” at this weekend’s Shelf Life: A Big Day For Small Press (Saturday, April 18th, 12 PM - 4 PM; USC University Park Campus).
Please be sure to stop by the Black Clock table at the Shelf Life Bazaar; magazines will be available for purchase.
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Shelf Life | USC
Mar 2
Staccato-Like
Attendees of this coming weekend’s 5th anniversary / 10th issue launch reading can look forward to mixing with a special selection of noir sounds as selected and sequenced by Black Clock editor Steve Erickson. In fact, dig.
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Black Clock 10 | Noir | Reading | Soundtrack | Steve Erickson
Feb 16
Black Clock Celebrates Fifth Anniversary At REDCAT
Black Clock will celebrate its five-year anniversary and the publication of its noir-themed 10th issue with a reading and reception at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater) on Sunday, March 8 at 7 PM.
For the celebration, Editor Steve Erickson and frequent contributor Joanna Scott along with Aimee Bender, Samuel R. Delany and Greil Marcus will read selections from Black Clock’s first five years.
Admission is free, but seating is limited. Guests are encouraged to make reservations. For more information, please visit the REDCAT website.
Now among the nation’s foremost literary magazines, Black Clock has showcased award-winning writing by established and emerging authors, with pieces anthologized in best-of-the-year collections and two excerpted novels going on to win National Book Awards.
Black Clock is published semi-annually by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) MFA Writing Program.
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Aimee Bender | Black Clock 10 | CalArts | Fifth Anniversary | Greil Marcus | MFA Writing Program | Noir | Reading | REDCAT | Samuel R. Delany | Steve Erickson
Feb 9
BC V X
With both the occasion of our fifth anniversary and the publication of our tenth issue imminent, Black Clock has asked some of its most frequent (and prominent) contributors to describe their experience as readers of the magazine. The responses we collected are as singular, idiosyncratic and even a little mysterious as the contents of any given issue.
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Black Clock 10 | CalArts | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | Don DeLillo | Fifth Anniversary | Jonathan Lethem | MFA Writing Program | Rick Moody | Susan Straight
Jan 30
Black Clock 10 Darkening The Horizon
Born in the despair of the Great Depression, flourishing in the first radioactive blush of the nuclear age, Noir really is more a sensibility than a style, and the tenth issue of Black Clock operates on the premise that Twenty-First Century Noir is a mutated thing that still bears kinship with the original. Robert Polito finds early signs of noir all the way back in Eighteenth Century America in “It Would Be a Queer World If,” and Dana Spiotta takes a look at one of the classic Fifties film noirs in “First is First, Second is Nobody.” In Diana Wagman’s “The Five Elements of Noir,” some noir archetypes find the movie they’re in has taken them over. The genre gets decidedly weird with Michael Ventura’s cross-dressing private-eye in “One Marilyn Too Many,” and becomes altogether supernatural in stories by Denise Hamilton and Francesca Lia Block. And amid work by major contemporary authors Scott Bradfield, Brian Evenson, Geoff Nicholson and others, Black Clock 10 also identifies 70 essential noir movies, novels, comics, poems, paintings, performances and pieces of music.
Now among the nation’s foremost literary magazines, Black Clock has showcased award-winning writing by established and emerging authors, with pieces anthologized in best-of-the-year collections and two excerpted novels going on to win National Book Awards.
Black Clock is published semi-annually by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) MFA Writing Program.
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Black Clock 10 | Brian Evenson | CalArts | Dana Spiotta | Denise Hamilton | Diana Wagman | Francesca Lia Block | Geoff Nicholson | MFA Writing Program | Michael Ventura | Noir | Robert Polito | Scott Bradfield
