An Evening With Black Clock
New York readers, please join us Sunday, March 21, 2010, for a special presentation of and by five of Black Clock’s earliest contributors:
- Samuel R. Delany
- Shelley Jackson
- Rick Moody
- Joanna Scott
- Lynne Tillman
at America’s best literary bar, KGB.
4 PM - 6 PM
March 21, 2010
KGB
85 East 4th St.
New York, NY 10003
212-505-3360
Admission is free (but the booze is not).
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Joanna Scott | KGB | Lynne Tillman | Reading | Rick Moody | Samuel R. Delany | Shelley Jackson
Black Clock To Tweet New Fiction From Rick Moody
Next week, Black Clock will be joining Electric Literature in publishing a major new work of fiction by Rick Moody via Twitter.
The microserialization™ of Moody’s story will take place on every co-publisher’s Twitter feed from Monday, November 30th through Wednesday, December 2nd. Tweets will appear every ten minutes from 10 AM until 6:30 PM.
The first story written expressly for Twitter by a major literary author, Rick Moody’s “Some Contemporary Characters” will be tweeted over the course of three days on Black Clock’s Twitter channel, @BlackClockmag, beginning Monday, November 30th at 10 AM. Utilizing social media, followers of the story will re-tweet it in real-time, creating a community-based event that promises to break down the conventional barriers separating readers and publishers.
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Electric Literature | Rick Moody | Twitter
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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
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.
For more information about purchasing a copy, visit the Black Clock website.
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Barack Obama | Ben Ehrenreich | Black Clock 9 | Brian Evenson | Election | Hillary Clinton | Janet Sarbanes | Jeff VanderMeer | Jonathan Lethem | Lynne Tillman | Marilyn Monroe | Michael Ventura | Republican Party | Rick Moody | Seth Greenland | Stanley Crawford
Interview: Rick Moody (07/04/2008)
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. Moody’s “Primary Notes 2008: The Republican Diaries,” appearing in issue 9, marks his fourth contribution to Black Clock.
In this interview, conducted via email over the course of our nation’s birthday week, Moody gives some further thoughts on the Republican party, the “Third Way,” embarrassment, and prog rock.
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Anne-Marie Kinney | Barack Obama | Black Clock 9 | Bobby Jindal | Conservative | Election | Embarrassment | Hockey Hair | John McCain | Liberal | Mike Huckabee | Mitt Romney | Prog Rock | Republican Party | Rick Moody | Tim Pawlenty
