Black Clock 9 Now Available
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 editor Steve Erickson on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and a mysterious, unsigned missive written at the end of the world by Marilyn Monroe’s former bodyguard.
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Black Clock 9 Coming Soon
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 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 editor Steve Erickson on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and a mysterious, unsigned missive written at the end of the world by Marilyn Monroe’s former bodyguard.
Black Clock is published semi-annually by the CalArts MFA Writing Program.
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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