Interview: David Balzer
The Joyland Guide to AWP 2012
1. Too many damn readings…and ours is one of them!
Thursday March 1: Joyland and Dzanc reading at Quimby’s, 7PM, FREE
The Joyland Guide to Greenpoint
With Joylands’ reading night at Word Brooklyn on February 8 only one week away, we’d like to turn our attention to the neighborhood of Greenpoint and give tribute to the 11222...
1. Joyland’s Favorite Hangout: The Staples With A Parking Lot.
Joyland Night at Word Brooklyn and AWP Chicago
Word Brooklyn is a great bookstore that's launching its online ebook storefront. They've invited Joyland to put together a reading and talk this February 8 at 7PM. I'll be reading—maybe from The Consumed Guide, definitely from I, Tania—along with my co-publisher Emily Schultz and Joyland author Jim Hanas. We'll be giving away print copies of Joyland Retro to anyone who buys an ebook in-store. It's a fascinating meeting- halfway-point for anyone following the digital versus brick-and-mortar store discussion.
Joyland Goes Into Print
While Joyland is a resolutely weekly, free, online publication, we recently asked—given the ease of no stress printing these days—what if you could take away a bit of Joyland as a lovely conversation piece suitable for shelving? The result was Joyland Retro, our new biannual print journal. The first issue features Nathan Sellyn, Roxane Gay, Kevin Wilson, Zoe Whittall, Ricco Siasoco, James Greer, Jim Hanas, Andrew Hood, Ben Loory, Erica Lorraine, Scott McClanahan, and Margaret Wappler.
Interview With Dennis Cooper
Today at The Huffington Post my interview with Dennis Cooper ran.
The Late Great Creature
Today the Huffington Post ran my article on an exquisite lost book by New Journalism giant Brock Brower. I loved finding The Late Great Creature and loved writing this.
The Dirty South
Kevin Chong on Tour
Joyland's Vancouver editor Kevin Chong is on tour for his new novel Beauty Plus Pity and Joyland along with Arsenal Pulp has put together several reading events this month.
On being distinguished
The news that Joyland had three stories included in the other distinguished stories list in Best American Short Stories 2011 came the day we were relaunching the site last week, so allow me to revisit the news while not chasing down glitches and dead links. First, congratulations to our editors Kara Levy and David McGimpsey and the authors.
Welcome to The New Joyland
We loved our site right out of the box three years ago. It made a complex editorial theory an easy thing to pull off in practice. But the last three years have been exciting ones for publishing on the open web and when it came time this summer to update we decided: What the hell? Let’s rebuild the whole damn thing. The site is now live with new features and a few more to come. Before it crashes, please check out the following…
250 Books By Women All Men Should Read
Esquire made reposted a slide show of 75 books all men should read. The books are mostly fantastic and the headline phrasing didn’t much bug us. After all, Esquire is a men’s magazine and has always been marketed as such. The problem was that the list was all male writers, save for lone lady Flannery O’Connor. This really does imply that men don’t/can’t/shouldn’t read women and we were pretty sure that wasn’t the case among readers.
Interview: Lydia Millet
[Editor's Note. Due to some recent site renos we're re-posting our interview series to the blog over the next month. Here's our interview with Pulitzer finalist Lydia Millet, author of How the Dead Dream, and Love In Infant Monkeys.]
Interview: Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti is the author of The Middle Stories, and the novel Ticknor. This October sees the publication of her new book How Should A Person Be? Though the form of the story includes Q&A, essays, an attempted play for a feminist theatre, and an interlude at an art fair, the book does not wander much from the question posed by the title.