Fictionaut Blog

I found out about Electric Literature through some Canteen Magazine related email list. I was glad to have found out about them for a few reasons. First of all, they pay contributors 1,000 usa-grade-a-smackers per story. Secondly, they publish beautiful work. Keep reading Checking in with Electric Literature.

Also on the blog:
   Jürgen Chats with Galleycat
   Fictionaut Five with Barb Johnson
   Luna Digest, 10/27

Mediabistro’s Jason Boog and Matt Van Hoven talked to Fictionaut co-founder Jürgen Fauth about “building a socially-networked model for 21st Century writers.” You can listen at Galleycat.

Also on the blog:
   Fictionaut Five with Barb Johnson
   Luna Digest, 10/27
   Checking In with Muumuu House

Barb Johnson worked as a carpenter in New Orleans for more than twenty years before receiving her MFA from the University of New Orleans in 2008. A collection of her short stories entitled, More of This World or Maybe Another, was recently released by Harper Perennial. She lives and writes in New Orleans. Read Fictionaut Five with Barb Johnson.

Autumn is high tide for literary magazines. Luna Park assistant editor Marcelle Heath has picked out some of the highlights. Keep reading Luna Digest.

Muumuu House has a group on Fictionaut and I decided to ask Audrey about it. It was good. Read Checking in with Muumuu House.

Also on the blog:
   Critical Mass Q&A: Jürgen Fauth
   Fictionaut Five with Joseph Young
   Luna Digest, 10/20
   Writing Spaces: Jim Ruland

At Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors, Eric Banks interviews Fictionaut co-founder Jürgen Fauth.

Also on the blog this week:
   Fictionaut Five with Joseph Young
   Luna Digest, 10/20
   Writing Spaces: Jim Ruland

Joseph Young lives in Baltimore, Maryland. His book of microfictions, Easter Rabbit, is currently available for preorder from Publishing Genius, with wide release in December 2009.

After seeing Where the Wild Things Are this weekend (along with an audience of other Gen-Xers), I spent some time browsing around Eggers & Co. publications online and stumbled across this wonderful piece by Justin Taylor from The Believer archives, “The Codex Seraphinianus.” You kind of just have to read the article, but I will say it is a mixture of adoration for linguistic systems, ancient texts, and idiosyncratic professors.

When I moved in with my wife, we went through the typical early matrimonial angst that goes with trying to cram two independent lives into a two-bedroom condo. The fact that both of us are artists (Nuvia is a painter) complicated matters. Foot by foot the condo was parceled out. The guest room was turned into a bedroom for my daughter’s visits/painter’s studio/overflow library. The bathroom doubled as a cleaning station for art supplies and meth lab (kidding, kidding).

Gigantic is a newer journal and one of our newest groups, and I thought I’d ask James Yeh and all four editors to chime in about who they are and what they’re up to this time. Keep reading…