Black Clock 11 Makes Mysterious Connections
Forsaken cities and blasted landscapes, characters in exile from their own times, mysterious connections in the air just beyond the grasp of those who barely understand them: Black Clock 11, California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) acclaimed literary journal, is slated to arrive on the stands mid-November. This issue features work by such prominent authors as Joanna Scott, Chris Abani and Susan Straight, and introduces the usual selection of dazzling new voices.
In Richard Powers’ “Over the Limit,” freely adapted from his just published novel, a young African woman genetically predisposed to happiness stands at the nexus of a brilliant, narcissistic scientist and the discontented moderator of a TV news magazine. In Rob Roberge’s “Stooge” and Lou Mathews’ “Hollywoodski,” Vegas drug deals go bad and drunken Tinseltown conversations run wild, and in Antonia Crane’s “Rosebud,” a self-designated “sexual outlaw” and stripper looking to retire gets caught up in the intrigues of an aging decadent Hollywood couple. In “This Is How the Past Turns Up”, Greil Marcus charts one of his patently revelatory longitudes between Barack Obama’s election-night victory speech, the fiction of Philip Roth, and Sam Cooke’s perennial contender for the greatest record of all time, “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
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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
