Janice Lee's Blog, page 23

The CalArts Blog 24700 recently did a great write-up on alumni Harold Abramowitz & myself, who are featured in the new anthology The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, edited by Davis Schneiderman.

More info on the anthology here.

See the full write-up here.

Immense thanks to Peter Tieryas Liu for this beautiful & generous video review of Daughter!

I’ll be participating at this year’s Litquake in San Francisco:

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The full schedule for Lit Crawl is here.

And details on the Jaded Ibis event (8:30 – 9:30 pm) is here.

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Mashup Publishing: Jaded Ibis Press Reading

Six experimental authors read & perform & show & tell from their mashed-up books published by Jaded Ibis Press.

Asterisk San Francisco Magazine & Gallery, 3156 24th St.

READERS:

Alexandra Chasin: author of fiction, Brief (Jaded Ibis) and Kissed By, and nonfiction, Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market.

Elizabeth J. Colen: author of Waiting Up for the End of the World: Conspiracies: Poetry (Jaded Ibis), Dear Mother Monster, Dear Daughter Mistake: fiction.

Janice Lee:  author of Daughter (Jaded Ibis), KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press), & Damnation, (Penny-Ante Editions), and more. She can be found at http://janicel.com.

Jan Millsapps: pioneering digital filmmaker, early web innovator, professor of cinema at San Francisco State, and author of Venus on Mars (Jaded Ibis).

Doug Rice: author of Between Appear and Disappear: a memoir (Jaded Ibis), Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist, The Sacred Book of Silence, Blood of Mugwump, and more.

Anna Joy Springer: author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love: a fabulist memoir (Jaded Ibis) that takes place in 90’s punk era San Francisco.

I’ll be participating at this year’s Litquake in San Francisco:

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Mashup Publishing: Jaded Ibis Press Reading

Six experimental authors read & perform & show & tell from their mashed-up books published by Jaded Ibis Press.

READERS:

Alexandra Chasin: author of fiction, Brief (Jaded Ibis) and Kissed By, and nonfiction, Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market.

Elizabeth J. Colen: author of Waiting Up for the End of the World: Conspiracies: Poetry (Jaded Ibis), Dear Mother Monster, Dear Daughter Mistake: fiction.

Janice Lee:  author of Daughter (Jaded Ibis), KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press), & Damnation, (Penny-Ante Editions), and more. She can be found at http://janicel.com.

Jan Millsapps: pioneering digital filmmaker, early web innovator, professor of cinema at San Francisco State, and author of Venus on Mars (Jaded Ibis).

Doug Rice: author of Between Appear and Disappear: a memoir (Jaded Ibis), Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist, The Sacred Book of Silence, Blood of Mugwump, and more.

Anna Joy Springer: author of The Vicious Red Relic, Love: a fabulist memoir (Jaded Ibis) that takes place in 90’s punk era San Francisco.

I’m excited to be attending the &NOW Conference this year at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO.

More info on &NOW.

Sept. 26-28, 2013

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I’ll be speaking on the following panels:

Writing Through: The Mother-Daughter Relation

Thursday, September 26 (11:00am – 1:00pm)

Christine Wertheim, Elizabeth Colen, Kenyatta Hinkle, Janice Lee

Where’s Your Head At?

Saturday, September 28 (4:00pm – 6:00pm)

Debra Di, Blasi, Alexandra Chasin, Aron Efimenko, Michael Harold, Janice Lee

Really excited to have work in The &NOW AWARDS 2: The Best Innovative Writing.

The anthology is due out very soon via outlets like Amazon and features a really impressive lineup of innovative writers.

This second volume of The &Now Awards recognizes the most provocative, hardest-hitting, deadly serious, patently absurd, cutting-edge, avant-everything-and-nothing work from the years 2009-2011. The &NOW Awards features writing as a contemporary art form: writing as it is practiced today by authors who consciously treat their work as an art, and as a practice explicitly aware of its own literary and extra-literary history—as much about its form and materials, language, as it about its subject matter. The &NOW conference, moving from the University of Notre Dame (2004), Lake Forest College (2006), Chapman University (2008), the University at Buffalo (2009), the University of California, San Diego (2011), and Paris (Sorbonne and Diderot, 2012)—sets the stage for this aesthetic, while The &Now Awards features work from the wider world of innovative publishing and serves as an ideal survey of the contemporary scene.

Edited by Davis Schneiderman.

More info on the anthology here.

Contributors:

Harold Abramowitz (.UNFO)

Shane Allison

Dimitri Anastasopoulos

Rachel Gontijo Araujo

Garrett Ashley

Joe Atkins

Jesse Ball

Lutz Bassmann

Jose Perez Beduya

Matt Bell

Kate Bernheimer

Arno Bertina

Andrew Borgstrom

Amina Memory Cain

J. R. Carpenter

Julie Carr

Sam Cha

Alexandra Chasin

Don Mee Choi

Jack Collom

Shome Dasgupta

Katie Degentesh

Andy Devine

LaTasha Nevada Diggs

Ben Doller

Sandra Doller

Manuela Draeger

Marcella Durand

Kate Durbin

Craig Dworkin

Brian Evenson

Elisa Gabbert

Roxane Gay

Elizabeth Gentry

Johannes Göransson

Amelia Gray

Amira Hanafi

Duriel E. Harris (Black Took Collective)

Gretchen E. Henderson

Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Laird Hunt

Kim Hyesoon

Parneshia Jones

Bhanu Kapil

Jennifer Karmin

Janice Lee

Daniel Levin Becker

Michael Leong

A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz

John Madera

Annam Manthiram

Jennifer Martenson

Dawn Lundy Martin (Black Took Collective)

Joyelle McSweeney

Christina Milletti

Monica Mody

K. Silem Mohammad

Nick Montfort

Sawako Nakaysu

Urayoán Noel

Alissa Nutting

Lance Phillips

Evelyn Reilly

Dan Richert (.UNFO)

Kathleen Rooney

Marc Saaporta

David Shields

Eleni Sikelianos

Amber Sparks

Anna Joy Springer

Ken Taylor

Anne-Laure Tissut

Sarah Tourjee

J. A. Tyler

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Nico Vassilakis

Antione Volodine

Ronaldo V. Wilson (Black Took Collective)

Raúl Zurita

Check out Grant Maierhofer’s wonderful review: OUT OF NOTHING #[0]; Or, blurbing the whole cacophony, over at HTMLGIANT.

A wonderful, thoughtful, & comprehensive writeup of [out of nothing] #0.

An excerpt:

When the opportunity presented itself to review the printed edition of [out of nothing] recently, I jumped on it quicker than anything I’ve jumped on since I was ten. The idea in my mind wasn’t even necessarily to “review” OON but just to be able to hold the thing in my hands, first and foremost. [out of nothing] and Lies/Isle are obsessions of mine of late—the online versions, that is; these strange permutations of art and thought and science and everything intellectually captivating you could imagine organized into endless mazes of online content. If we’re to believe in such a thing as collaborative arts on the internet, this, in my opinion, is the sort of thing heading up the effort.

So anyway, I immediately requested a review copy of [out of nothing] and when it reached my house I felt connected to something likely akin to movements in the art scenes of New York in the 70s and 80s or Berkeley and various Western lands in the 60s. Here was the personification of serious writing and art in the twenty-first century and here was my opportunity to consider it. To be sure, considering it is likely the greatest feat I’ll here be able to accomplish. I’ve tried over the past few months to conceive of items to potentially submit to a publication like OON and I can’t for the life of me make it happen. Perhaps it has something to do with the collaborative nature of the thing, perhaps the three editors and founders of OON are just that-fucking-savvy that they’ve managed to push the intellectual envelope even more, I’m not sure. All I know is, if The New Yorker was once taken (dreadfully) seriously as a hub to receive one’s culture, [out of nothing] (both the print and online version) is its strange twenty-first century cousin doing bizarre rituals/experiments in the city’s basement trying to reanimate the corpse of Soren Kierkegaard.

Read the full review.

I’ll be participating in this great project at the new Los Angeles branch of the Reanimation Library. Details below:

May 4–5*

Your New Image Through Color & Line: Writing & Publication Workshop with Les Figues Press

Les Figues Press will create and publish a reanimated version of Your New Image Through Color & Line. This 1981 book written by Gerrie Pinckney and Marge Swenson, directors of the Fashion Academy in Southern California, recognized that “today’s woman is often juggling a career, family life, and involvement in home and community,” and that “if you look like a winner, becoming a winner is easier.”

Using a tool-box of pre-selected writing constraints, the Les Figues team of writers and producers will re-imagine this text for today’s busy image-maker. What is the difference, if any, between an image made on the page, though a book, or with a body? Together, we will explore the social construction of image-making as performance and creative act. The team will have two days to animate the text. The project will culminate with the publication and performance of the text.

The Les Figues Press team is comprised of individuals who play and have played key roles in the production of Les Figues books—as authors, designers, editors, curators, fundraisers, interns, and more—showcasing the kind of group effort it takes to make books that prioritize language and aesthetics over commercial appeal. All planning and workshop sessions will be held during open library hours, for the public’s viewing pleasure.

TEAM:

Amanda Ackerman, Andrew Wessels, Chris Hershey-Van Horn, Coco Owen, Harold Abramowitz, Janice Lee, Matias Viegener, Michael du Plessis, Renée Petropoulos, Saehee Cho, Teresa Carmody

*SCHEDULE:

Planning Session

Sunday, April 21, 1-3 pm

Production Sessions

Saturday, May 4: 12-5 pm

Sunday, May 5: 12-3 pm

Publication Party & Performance

Sunday, May 5: 3 pm

Reanimation Library: Highland Park Branch @ Monte Vista

5442 Monte Vista St (at Ave. 55), Los Angeles, CA 90042

http://montevistaprojects.com/

I’ll be reading Wednesday May 15, 2013 with Ronaldo V. Wilson as part of UC San Diego’s New Writing Series.

May 15, 2013 – SME Performance Space Room 149

More details here.

I talk about the influence of science on my writing at Kathryn L. Pringle’s blog. Check it out here:

Janice Lee on Science & Poetry.