Archive for the 'Michael Hemmingson' Category

This Other Eden

January 3, 2010

This Other Eden, a collection of inter-related novellas, is scheduled for May, 2010 from The Dybbuk Press.
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Shabbytown

January 3, 2010

Black Mask Books, an imprint of Disruptive Publishing and Munseys,  has issued, on Dec. 31, 2009, my short novel (or novella?), Shabbytown.

Short Essay in The Hemingway Review

December 4, 2009

The new Fall/Winter 2009 issue of The Hemingway Review , published by The Heminwgay Society and Univ of Idaho Press, contains a short research essay I wrote on the “Bimini” excerpt from Islands in the Stream that Esquire published in 1970.  Gordon Lish was fiction editor at the time, when Howard Hayes ran the men’s [...]

“Why Don’t You Use Your Parking Space?”

December 3, 2009

The 2009 issue of Gargoyle Magazine (more like anthology) contains my short story, “Why Don’t You Use Your Parking Space?” which is the lead story in my Black Lawrence Press collection, Pictures of Houses with Water Damage, out Summer 2010.
This is issue #55, cover image below.  I have been reading Richard Peabody’s Gargoyle since I [...]

New Traveler’s Companion: Tropic of Kimber

November 18, 2009

Olympia Press has just published, as New Traveler’s Companion #144, my 376-page Tropic of Kimber, which comprises all three volumes of my House of Dreams trilogy that Blue Moon Books put out 2005-2007.
Blue Moon was set to issue all three in a trade paper omnibus, but they folded before that happened.
So, finally, here are all [...]

NaNoWriMo: Post-Crime Noir and A Bra Full of Bullets, Yo

November 6, 2009

Every year I try to do the National Novel Writing Month thang, aka NaNoWriMo, but I always get side-tracked.  Doing 50,000 words in 30 days is nothing, it’s a matter of not letting assignments, deadlines for late books, new book deals, and life get in the way.
It’s a good motiavtor.
So I decided my project this [...]

Essay on Vollmann’s Seven Dreams in New Critical Anthology

November 2, 2009

Continuing my literay scholarship in all things William T. Vollman Studies, my essay on Native America myths found in his Seven Dreams Series is included in the above anthology, published now by Mythopetic Press.

Black Lawrence Press Collection Up for Pre-Order!

October 26, 2009

Pictures of Houses with Water Damage (Black Lawrence Press, Summer 2010) is now up on Amazon here.

Carver Essay Accepted

October 14, 2009

My essay, “‘Will We Still Be Us?’ : Raymond Carver’s Short Plays” has been accepted for publication in issue 3 of The Raymond Carver Review, to be published in 2010.
I may also use it as a secondary chapter in my McFarland Carver crit book, not sure yet.

Two Articles in Forum: Qualitative Social Research

September 29, 2009

Have two articles in the new issue of the open access journal, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, the “Biography and Ethnicity” issue (Vol. 10, No.3):
“Anthropology of the Memorial: Observations and Reflections on American Cultural Rituals Associated with Death” Read here.
“Review of Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Two Voices” Read here.