tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84306948881571955822024-03-26T23:37:13.576-07:00Gabriel HartAuthor, Journalist, SongwriterGabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-8510160039915808982024-01-04T10:35:00.000-08:002024-01-04T10:35:46.906-08:00BEYOND THE LAST ESTATE: a print-only literature/arts magazine coming in spring '24.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM0-8c_QEevIJe1OG_ZgFVYT047Ov9wu0PkyKRmBxootE26sgbKV7mDB4ZU6MBgtYqvd1NcUIPqe0U4Vfzi5mM6cTzUaYWPPR17iUPfxOxWBI2eqI7NXCD9XL8mEd2_gGqvcwIjWIzAQ0ZTr2Hn0C91ejaj7tI2oHlThyphenhyphenJMYJDrD_Ys5BNLZIhNaBkZNo/s596/Lake-Whitney-house-burning.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="596" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM0-8c_QEevIJe1OG_ZgFVYT047Ov9wu0PkyKRmBxootE26sgbKV7mDB4ZU6MBgtYqvd1NcUIPqe0U4Vfzi5mM6cTzUaYWPPR17iUPfxOxWBI2eqI7NXCD9XL8mEd2_gGqvcwIjWIzAQ0ZTr2Hn0C91ejaj7tI2oHlThyphenhyphenJMYJDrD_Ys5BNLZIhNaBkZNo/w574-h318/Lake-Whitney-house-burning.webp" width="574" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In the wake of The House fire last year when we all had to scatter, I'm currently putting pieces together for BEYOND THE LAST ESTATE: a print-only literature/arts magazine aiming to fall somewhere between Little Caesar, Slash, and Interview; along with "scene reports" like Maximum Rock n' Roll used to offer—only it'll be words, not music (although there <i>might</i> be slivers of music in there. Maybe.). </div><div><br /></div><div>Words and visions of gutter-grandeur.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please note: there will never be another LAST ESTATE, nor will this aim to replace it. The House was of a specific time and most importantly, place; and we burnt that shit to the ground, even more importantly, because we <i>could</i>. Think of BEYOND THE LAST ESTATE as taking place on the horizon rather than a property. And speaking of property, I am grateful William, Rudy and some other prolific contributors have given me their blessing to use TLE in the name, all parties acknowledging it will be something completely different while offering a lineage to the liminal squat we inhabited. Good chance you will occasionally see them in these decisively xeroxed pages. </div><div><br /></div><div>In BEYOND THE LAST ESTATE, you will find prose, poetry, interviews, book reviews, F/NF, and REAL photography that will accompany articles; often conceptual, using real people as art in defiance of the bots taking over many artist's dwindling instincts. </div><div><br /></div><div>Money is tight as always, but out of my own pocket, I am allowing myself a $100 budget to give five contributors a $20 honorarium for their offerings, most of which I will personally solicit far ahead of each issue. I will, however, take any pitches you have to cast a potentially wider net. Please send your sharpest ideas to: beyondthelastestate@gmail.com.</div><div><br /></div><div>I can't pay for book reviews because I would like BTLE to hold as many of them as it can hold, so if you are willing to contribute breakneck 100-200 words of whatever you're reading right now, I would like BTLE to be a solid whirlpool of new or overlooked/underrated reading. Please send your reviews to the address above.</div><div><br /></div><div>I will also be soliciting advertisements from publishers, self-pubbed authors, and authors shackled to publishers who forgot they actually had to promote the books they publish; the latter to whom I will offer special rates. I want the ads to be as creative and daring as any great piece of visual art can be. For those interested, please inquire rates to the address above. </div><div><br /></div><div>That is all, for now.</div><div>Gabriel Hart</div><div>EiC of BEYOND THE LAST ESTATE</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-75255361667265360472022-03-25T11:03:00.003-07:002022-03-25T11:05:55.157-07:00My new poetry collection "Hymns From the Whipping Post out today 3/25/22<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAKU6tqS96o3UaRo2FVUFX6IbYBu9q0EpSDA_fUzqe5y6Dy1IriPSvk1uaj4TSoDHJo6jhLimfSA31a3AZCCmGCrdZLGmo8CTKHQK1OHCKmvPkmAUbekUFSg-ocSIkRK-LjFHd4XsuuVe-Hk15xHpg5NT5COdInsYjur1V6MT49fJGx9BwszORxvrV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="1057" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAKU6tqS96o3UaRo2FVUFX6IbYBu9q0EpSDA_fUzqe5y6Dy1IriPSvk1uaj4TSoDHJo6jhLimfSA31a3AZCCmGCrdZLGmo8CTKHQK1OHCKmvPkmAUbekUFSg-ocSIkRK-LjFHd4XsuuVe-Hk15xHpg5NT5COdInsYjur1V6MT49fJGx9BwszORxvrV=w528-h420" width="528" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pleased to report my latest poetry collection "Hymns From the Whipping Post" is out today from Close to the Bone/First Cut Poetry. A jagged but linear next step from last year's <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unsongs-First-Cut-Gabriel-Hart-ebook/dp/B08VHFPRH3"><span style="color: red;">Unsongs Vol. 1.</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of my favorite contemporary poets, <a href="https://linktr.ee/HLRwriter"><span style="color: red;">HLR,</span></a> blessed the back with her thoughtful words:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> "</span>Brooding on the vagaries of an unbridled life and the pitfalls of passion, <i>Hymns From The Whipping Post</i> is an exquisite, indelible, defiant creation forged from personal destruction. These poems are taut in presentation yet contain immeasurable depth; the syntax is emphatic yet tender; the pace inexorable; the content more vulnerable and revealing than any other work in Hart’s oeuvre. The reader becomes privy to the poet’s grim self-examination, compelling moments of wild abandon, and quietly devastating epiphanies salvaged from the wreckage of a romance. This collection, a departure from <i>Unsongs Volume I,</i> is like a dirty fingertip on an exposed nerve: these are words that sting, verses that ache, pages that consume."</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">— <i>HLR, author of History of Present Complaint</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">To order your signed copy, sent straight from me:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">$10 </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Paypal: mrgabrielhart@gmail.com</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Venmo: gabriel-hart-40</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Don't forget to include your address.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">It's also available from </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09S3BQWJY?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_11&storeType=ebooks&qid=1648231452&sr=1-14"><span style="color: red;">A******</span></a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-76346660841859367202021-12-28T12:09:00.000-08:002021-12-28T12:09:32.891-08:00Looking back at my 2021 reading list — all 86 of them<p>Fate has gifted me an obscene amount of time since I was injured at work back in March 2020, so when I wasn't using that time writing, I was reading. Last year I read 67 books, so for kicks, I set a goal for 2021 to read 100 books. While I didn't quite make it, I<i> did</i> read 86 of 'em, and mostly new releases, which gave me a pretty acute ear to the ground of what's going on out there. </p><p>I wish I could have spent more time reading the dead masters, but conversely, I likely would have made it to 100 if I hadn't spent three months slogging through <i>Moby Dick</i> — that's the longest I've ever spent reading a novel. To be honest, <i>Moby Dick</i> felt like a chore, compared to the similar-sized <i>Fucked Up</i> by Damien Ark, which, at 800-pages, only took me a week. <i>Fucked Up</i> took a lot out of me in other ways — mentally, emotionally, spiritually — but it held such a terrifying vitality, completely redefining transgressive literature, that I couldn't put it down. I like to think this is a sign that our future dead masters are not only still living, but still very young — a reassuring notion, considering we spend most of our time assuming everything great has already been done. But after spending so much time with new releases this year, I assure you we are experiencing an exciting time in literature. </p><p>The authors I read most of this year are also contemporary — I read five books by Chris Kelso and four books by William R. Soldan, two authors who have very quickly become among my favorites, and lucky for me, they also can't fucking stop pumping them out. </p><p>These are compiled in the order I read them — I enjoyed them all, and would wholeheartedly recommend each one; with the exception of Melville's unfortunately failed novel, <i>Moby Dick.</i></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fucked Up by Damien Ark </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">On Writing by Stephen King</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Fuel Injected Dreams by James Robert Baker</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Moon Down to Earth by James Nulick</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Valencia by James Nulick</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Not Yet Vol. 1 by Manuel Marrero</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Not Yet Vol. 2 by Manuel Marrero</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Ruthless Little Things by Elizabeth V. Aldrich</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Body High by Jon Lindsey</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Short Dog by Dan Fante</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Dry County by Jake Hinkson</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Paradox Twins by Joshua Chaplinsky</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco by Richie Narvaez</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Under the Table by Vern Smith</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Low Desert by Tod Goldberg</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">So Fast, So Close by William R. Soldan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Houses Burning and Other Ruins by William R. Soldan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In Just the Right Light by William R. Soldan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Baptism by Fire by Amy-Jean Muller</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">All the Violent Memories by JB Stevens</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">History of Present Complaint by HLR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Betelgeuse Dimming by Jean-Paul Garnier</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Love Like Bleeding Out with A Gun in Your Hand by Stephen J. Golds</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Expat 4 (Various authors)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Goddess of Filth by V. Castro</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Powerpoint Eulogy by Mark Wilson</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">When These Mountains Burn by David Joy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Nikolai Andreyevich by Ted Prokash</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Closer by Dennis Cooper</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">No Tiger by MIKA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Negative Space by BR Yeager</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Burroughs and Scotland by Chris Kelso</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Dignity by Ken Layne</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Interrogating the Abyss by Chris Kelso</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Moby Dick by Herman Melville</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Lolita (Annotated) by Vladimir Nabokov</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Strip Teen Dream Journey by Keegan Jennings Goodman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Blood Trip by Jesse Hilson</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Falling by TJ Newman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">City on Fire by Don Winslow</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Something Gross by Big Bruiser Dope Boy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Family Annihilator by Calvin Westra</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Human-Shaped Fiends by Chandler Morrison</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Dregs Trilogy by Chris Kelso</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Widespread Panic by James Ellroy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Frisk by Dennis Cooper</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Portrait of the Poet as A Hot Mess by HLR</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I’ll Pray When I’m Dying by Stephen J. Golds</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Good at Drugs by KKUURRTT</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">How to Walk with Steve by Rob Fromberg</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Soul Collector by DuVay Knox</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Rock and A Hard Place Issue 6 (various authors)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Literature and Evil by George Bataille</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Cult in My Garage by Duncan Birmingham</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Testosterone by James Robert Baker</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Ghosts on the Block Never Sleep by Tia Ja’nae</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Cock and Bull by Will Self</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Hollow Nacelle by Curtis Eggleston</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Vistas by Chris Kelso</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Sunflower by Tex Grisham</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Undone Valley by William R. Soldan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I’m From Nowhere by Lindsay Lehrman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Spider Kiss by Harlan Ellison</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Waif by Samantha Kolesnik</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Sex Shops of Sherman Oaks by SJXSJC</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Adrenaline by James Robert Baker</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Tim and Pete by James Robert Baker</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Oblivion by David Foster Wallace</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Glitz by Elmore Leonard</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">CHAOS: Manson, The CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tim O’Neil</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">A Chapbook About Nothing by Scott Cumming</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Hypnopony by Stuart Buck</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism by David S. Wills</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Permission by Marc Kristal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Whatever Feels Like Home by Susan Rukeyser</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Ketchup Factory by JP Vallieres</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Telepaphone by Adam Soldofsky</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Until the Sun by Chandler Morrison</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">White by Bret Easton Ellis</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Everything Is Totally Fine by Zac Smith</span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-7aca70cd-7fff-29a6-6453-2ee1908c7fe4" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /><br /></p>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-36700263735472811842021-10-26T10:16:00.000-07:002021-10-26T10:16:06.364-07:00My new short-story collection, "Fallout from Our Asphalt Hell," out this week from Close to The Bone<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfu0HEPS-idrUN68EXHLWPWmQp-GTVPO0EjH-ham8Dtpr3amYeF-La7wGWeoAt01VVb3ZXI9AD9ABdthCZMQtEqmg_MUVh0gO4EerDaZeBAZhbx_ruP4wYb7dXA5MvqYGvfMLhywi68iNngodnDGc5p1jlpIpVgI94RCXepBsQm4BfkllR9XxecSW4=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1509" data-original-width="2048" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfu0HEPS-idrUN68EXHLWPWmQp-GTVPO0EjH-ham8Dtpr3amYeF-La7wGWeoAt01VVb3ZXI9AD9ABdthCZMQtEqmg_MUVh0gO4EerDaZeBAZhbx_ruP4wYb7dXA5MvqYGvfMLhywi68iNngodnDGc5p1jlpIpVgI94RCXepBsQm4BfkllR9XxecSW4=w601-h443" width="601" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>My new collection, "Fallout from Our Asphalt Hell," is out this week from Close to the Bone (U.K.). It compiles twenty pieces of literary pulp spanning 2015-2021. </p><p>For a signed copy, you can either:</p><p>PayPal: mrgabrielhart@gmail.com</p><p>or</p><p>Venmo: gabriel-hart-40</p><p>$15, postpaid. Don't forget your address!</p><p>For those who insist on Amazon, it will be up there on 10/29.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7f8d8c; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><p></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lyrical, unsettling, beautifully ugly, iridescent, scathing, and non-conformist</strong>. Fallout from Our Asphalt Hell is true outsider fiction that weaves itself in and out of genres with ease and subtlety. </p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> — Punk Noir</p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-19391756280578623842021-06-23T20:16:00.003-07:002021-06-23T20:16:55.553-07:00 "Ego Jingles" solo album out today.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzdn7gk5Fq7DnbpJxrihc3c2D9PUyOz-PgfzDZJNMMAz2uEkT-RBap1m6bkpn1Ph-FrJM8YhS-vvwBxg-I_WS3vlUupisDccyXhdiD80A0dNgIvLtnGX5XWYA4HvrobYcVRL7g_QZ_14/s1920/unnamed-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1904" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzdn7gk5Fq7DnbpJxrihc3c2D9PUyOz-PgfzDZJNMMAz2uEkT-RBap1m6bkpn1Ph-FrJM8YhS-vvwBxg-I_WS3vlUupisDccyXhdiD80A0dNgIvLtnGX5XWYA4HvrobYcVRL7g_QZ_14/s320/unnamed-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p> My first proper solo album (if you're not counting 2017's Gabriel Hart and the Fourth Wall collection) "Ego Jingles" is out today on TRU-VOW Recordings. You can order it <a href="https://jailweddings.bandcamp.com/album/ego-jingles"><span style="color: red;">here.</span></a> It's primarily just my vocals and guitar, 80% accompanied by Julie Carpenter (Less Bells, Jail Weddings) on strings as well as Dain Luscombe (Less Bells) on additional instruments/production.<br /></p><p><span> The album was masterfully recorded/mixed/mastered by Pat Kearns (Exploding Hearts, Blue Skies for Black Hearts) at his solar-powered Goat Mountain Studios in Landers, CA up here in the desert. </span></p><p><span> </span>Back in 2019 when Pat and I were recording most of the album, Pat had me as a guest on his Solar Cabin Sessions where he recorded me playing my song "Another Teary-Eyed All-Nighter" live in his pre-Goat Mountain set-up. What you hear<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTXaAwsiZXw&t=151s"><span style="color: red;"> HERE</span></a> is what ended up on the record, only overdubbing Carpenter's strings afterward. <br /></p><p> </p>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-42377404704158178622021-05-02T15:00:00.007-07:002021-05-02T15:02:02.290-07:00UNSONGS Vol. 1 out now from Close to the Bone (U.K.)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unsongs-First-Cut-Gabriel-Hart/dp/B093J58SK6/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&qid=1619992686&refinements=p_27%3AGabriel+Hart&s=books&sr=1-6&text=Gabriel+Hart" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="996" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiT_gYPMG1Wi_bJqwItkKtyQ-kqjj1JaXFT_GfW-pRMLQKVMHhAaql6kMfnKWAttBndHVhx6L0AfItkvfktDjY9q384O4rTV5K_o8cN3scW4wUZnTk7KNlHwqXXIDduVTq4Ozw0Y9NB_I/s320/unnamed.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> I'm pleased to announce my debut book of poetry UNSONGS Vol. 1 is out now from Close to the Bone (U.K.) CttB is primarily a noir/crime-fiction imprint that recently expanded into verse, and I'm chuffed to be part of the experiment, now seven books into their "First Cut" poetry series. To cop one, you can either 1.) send your $10 of your hard-earned cash to the hard-earned author: PayPal: mrgabrielhart@gmail.com or Venmo: gabriel-hart-40 (and don't forget your address) OR 2.) get it from your global feudalist superstore <a href="http://here."><span style="color: red;">here.</span></a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><em>While his verses have largely taken form in song lyrics for the past twenty-five years, <i>UNSONGS Vol. 1</i> is Gabriel Hart's first proper collection of poetry. He offers a thesis that the song and poem have unfortunately become two separate entities like <em>‘a de-evolution of culture when they should have stayed one and the same thing,’</em> before he lets loose with subversive abandon, allowing these thirty poems to wail for themselves.</em></p><p><em style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“This is what I need in my life right now. Hart’s poetry comes at you like a hammer against the fragile tin sheet of existence. Bang. Bang. Bang. Already a master lyricist, he wraps smoldering thoughts and feelings around each word... like a sympathetic blanket or a spiritual threat.”</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><b>— John Bowie,</b> author of <em>Untethered,</em> editor at Bristol Noir.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><em>“Hart makes a strong statement against the self-absorbed, easy answer of pop songs. ‘Unsongs Volume 1’ is challenging and satisfying, deep and dark, showing the full probative power of poetry.”<br /><b>— Gerald So,</b> The Five-Two: Crime-Poetry Weekly</em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-88531197989459677582021-04-08T21:42:00.001-07:002021-04-08T21:42:19.213-07:00A Return to Spring reviewed at EconoClash Review<p>Nepotism be damned, my riot-noir novelette A Return to Spring was reviewed in the pulp-culture aggregate EconoClash Review where I often scrawl about others. Reviewed by fellow Close to the Bone First-Cutter J.B Stevens <a href="https://www.econoclash.com/2021/03/15/review-return-to-spring-by-gabriel-hart/">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-38281512683928281002021-01-06T07:52:00.002-08:002021-01-06T07:52:14.143-08:00What I Learned From Writing 'A Return to Spring' or 'How to Turn Your Town Inside-Out<p> Today, Lit Reactor posted my first-ever column for the site (until this point I had mainly done author interviews). It was a trip being invited to talk about my own book on there for once, and I'm grateful for the opportunity.</p><p><a href="https://litreactor.com/columns/what-i-learned-from-writing-a-return-to-spring"><span style="color: red;">What I Learned By Writing <i>A Return to Spring</i></span></a></p><p><br /></p>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-7300310390795883462021-01-06T07:44:00.001-08:002021-01-06T07:46:55.591-08:00My Top Ten Books of 2020!<p> A little late to post here, but I figured it could use some further posterity.</p><p><a href="https://www.econoclash.com/2020/12/gabriel-harts-top-ten-books-of-2020.html"><span style="color: red;">GABRIEL HART'S TOP TEN BOOKS of 2020</span></a></p>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-57898563683296359262020-11-30T21:03:00.003-08:002020-11-30T21:03:28.784-08:00OFFICIAL ONLINE BOOK RELEASE PARTY FOR "A RETURN TO SPRING" DECEMBER 15th!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8NgErxbE32Xj40Tes3UZVOmkh6e6o71k1Yq9wn-uFU7Oba1HqQXqxmVcXKdVD_wfqZuQHUydC4tCrsgxobGfRR_zmZ9MsiZvti7zKEm6loPODooPBWtFsvKt1PZ4MIwQjBRfvVDRV6BQ/s1650/Dec+15th+2020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1275" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8NgErxbE32Xj40Tes3UZVOmkh6e6o71k1Yq9wn-uFU7Oba1HqQXqxmVcXKdVD_wfqZuQHUydC4tCrsgxobGfRR_zmZ9MsiZvti7zKEm6loPODooPBWtFsvKt1PZ4MIwQjBRfvVDRV6BQ/s320/Dec+15th+2020.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p> Save the date and join us on Tuesday, December 15th at 6pm (PST) as we usher in the release of my new Palm Springs/Spring Break Riot-Noir novelette "A Return To Spring" (Mannison Press). This free live online event is brought to you by our local Space Cowboy Books and will be mediated by Jean-Paul Garnier. To attend, register at the link below:</p><p><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-reading-interview-with-gabriel-hart-tickets-130950910699&source=gmail&ust=1606884925098000&usg=AFQjCNEDnsGDGd5tD0427gV22ylPhtvHtg" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-reading-interview-with-gabriel-hart-tickets-130950910699" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/<wbr></wbr>online-reading-interview-with-<wbr></wbr>gabriel-hart-tickets-<wbr></wbr>130950910699</span></a></p>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-35793177797241415452020-11-13T10:19:00.003-08:002020-11-18T07:42:50.080-08:00My Palm Springs/Spring Break noir-novelette "A Return To Spring" out now on Mannison Press.<p> I'm gracious to have something physical to show for myself at the tail end of our very un-physical 2020. My new crime-fiction novelette, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Return-Spring-Gabriel-Hart/dp/B08N37K9XD/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1605291460&refinements=p_27%3AGabriel+Hart&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Gabriel+Hart"><span style="color: red;">"A Return To Spring" </span></a>is out November 18th on Florida's <a href="https://mannisonpress.com/"><span style="color: red;">Mannison Press </span></a>(they also published my short story "Wrathchild's Atrophy" in their "Little Boy Lost" anthology earlier this year). It might seem out of season to release a Spring Break themed book in winter, but our tomorrows seem less and less guaranteed the way things have been going in 2020, so here we are, no regrets.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YEwhUsEFGhHVW-MyeaT7wuZjCKDxCG9s6-f6yYH22bJTYlPR1_p_fK8gUERp_N1vGeYxsV_VLxyN4YAOnY1ONmrwXITyZsUK97flX8EfFMR-A6StMAlze0_RI72-kcvvNySDgELZuuQ/s819/ARTScover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="511" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YEwhUsEFGhHVW-MyeaT7wuZjCKDxCG9s6-f6yYH22bJTYlPR1_p_fK8gUERp_N1vGeYxsV_VLxyN4YAOnY1ONmrwXITyZsUK97flX8EfFMR-A6StMAlze0_RI72-kcvvNySDgELZuuQ/s320/ARTScover.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> The story is a speculative stab at the Palm Springs Spring Break riots of 1986, an event that permanently changed the city as we knew it, especially in terms of tourism and demographic. In the 80s it was THE place for Spring Breakers to panther, party, and eventually cause trouble; though you only heard vague stories like a game of telephone until three years ago, when footage of the 1986 riots finally surfaced<span style="color: red;"> <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.desertsun.com/videos/news/2018/03/27/video-spring-break-riot-changed-palm-springs/33338253/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span> </span>I'm not one to clutch my pearls, but I was terrified when I saw that footage. It left such a deep imprint on me that I spent the rest of that week calling up people like Sean Wheeler and other desert rats to ask what it was like to witness it in person. It seemed akin to an Altamont-scenario for Palm Springs, where it ushered the end of an era: from the annual season of young hyper-hetro men invading downtown to go wildin', causing the Venn diagram of masculinity to eclipse into the notoriously civilized gay community it is now. After the riots, mayor Sonny Bono ordered police to start ticketing/arresting any kids that would do so much as to step off a curb into the street, making any semblance of Spring Break unsustainable from then on.<br /></p><p><span> For me, seeing the footage also brought back the bedlam of Woodstock '90, where the rapes during (an no doubt inspired by) Limp Bizkit's set further cemented my hatred for nu-metal and the industry that would gleefully promote this new soundtrack of celebrated ignorance, but that's a whole other story of pop-culture triggering.</span><br /></p><p> So with this footage of Palm's Spring's low point burned into my head, I was asked to submit a story for a <i>Palm Springs Noir</i> anthology, though the deadline was not on my side for what I really wanted to do with it. But I wrote the story anyway, now with more time to stretch out in, to speculate what <i>else</i> could have happened in that melee, given the disparate cultures of the Coachella Valley like the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, and how they might have reacted to the white-bred chaos. Luckily, "A Return To Spring" ends up standing on its own little spine as part of Mannison Press "Mini-Books" series. For a crime-fiction book, this format is sort of, uh, cute as fuck - fun-sized to fit in the ass-pocket of your jeans like some cool vintage pulp contraband (just don't sit on it, man!).<br /></p><p><span> Enormous gratitude to Mannison Press for being so solid to work with.</span><br /></p><p><span> I've got a stack of signed paperbacks I'll let go for $8 apiece. PayPal mrgabrielhart@gmail.com or Venmo me at gabriel-hart-40 and don't forget your address.</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span><br /></span></p>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-31019336672953125142020-06-22T10:23:00.002-07:002020-06-22T10:24:16.167-07:00New military-noir piece "Church of War" on crime-fiction site Shotgun Honey.It's a thrill to get a piece accepted to a venue you're already a big fan of. Shotgun Honey has been a prominent flash-noir leader for years now - their authors are legion and I'm grateful to be one of among them.<br />
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Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-73146408919193539392020-03-25T11:21:00.000-07:002020-03-25T11:21:18.098-07:00Submission call for GHOSTWRITING THE WIP - a non-fiction project about writing.<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Most of us have used ourselves in our work. It's often inevitable, whether it be us writing in the first person consciously based on ourselves, or us consciously <i>trying</i> to divorce ourselves from the main character – only to find that a lot of that character's qualities end up mirroring our own anyway. We'll often learn a thing or two about ourselves we may have been suppressing when choosing that latter path – like amateur psychoanalysis.</div>
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The prompt: What about our works-in-progress/published work that predicts the future? Have you ever included a scenario or character in your work that was <i>not</i> based on your past or present – either too far out to be believable or just properly abstract – that ended up taking some shape or form in “the real world” far after the fact?</div>
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I'm not necessarily looking for something as grandiose as Emily St. John Mandel's <i>Station Eleven </i>being published hot on the heels of our current pandemic. I want this to come from a much more personal vista – which I see as having the potential to yield even stranger results that might be more difficult to explain away.</div>
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It's important to emphasize that this is not to imply any of us are claiming to be armchair prophets. What I want to stir the pot about is the non-linear quality of time, its relation to creativity, and how writing can radiate tentacles of the unconscious to reach out and touch something more tangible than we may think at the time of the passage's conception.</div>
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Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-78609485770873648322020-03-23T12:22:00.002-07:002020-03-23T12:32:19.563-07:00New audio story "Black Pit Blues" on the Two Year Anniversary episode of Simultaneous Times podcast. <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Somehow this will be my second dog story for Simultaneous Times in less than a year? I guess I'm "the dog story" guy now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> "Black Pit Blues" is a speculative fiction tale using a local phenomenon as a springboard - the abandoned Desert Hot Springs Pitbulls breeding with coyotes in Whitewater. In BPB we witness animal Darwinism outliving the mental illness of a troubled but well-meaning human.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> Music by the unmistakable RedBlueBlackSilver.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Click below for link.</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><a href="https://spacecowboybooks.bandcamp.com/album/simultaneous-times-episode-25">"Black Pit Blues" by Gabriel Hart on Simultaneous Times, Episode 25.</a></span>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-78325726002745751342020-02-05T18:26:00.000-08:002020-02-05T18:27:53.606-08:00New short-stories on the horizon: Anthologies in Australia, Florida and beyond <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Between editing my upcoming novel <i>Lies of Heaven </i>and working on my daunting WIP <i>High Prey Drive</i>, I've been using much of 2020 to develop my short-story muscle. I'm one of those writers that finds himself more comfortable stretching out in a novel length effort, so I've found it a great challenge to have to reign myself in for the smaller word counts. A tough lesson to learn: Just because you have a lot to say, doesn't mean you have to say it all, all the time. But short stories can be so gratifying - they often leave it to the reader's imagination to fill in the blanks that their wonder runs away with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I wish I can remember who said it this way: "A short story is about a murder. A novel is about the murderer."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> So I've got some shorties coming out in these next couple months. "The Lonesome Defeat of Bridge-Repair" will be included in the gargantuan <i>Burning Love and Bleeding Hearts</i> Anthology (<a href="https://thingsinthewell.wordpress.com/home/"><span style="color: red;">Things In The Well</span>,</a> Australia) to be released on Valentine's Day. Also from Australia, <a href="https://www.blackharepress.com/"><span style="color: red;">Black Hare Press</span></a> will be releasing their <i>Twenty-Twenty</i> Anthology which will include my noir "Straight To The Bone" which concerns four rivaling men's hygiene business moguls. And hopefully not last, my story "Wrath Child's Atrophy" will be appearing in "Little Boy Lost: More Tales of Youth Disrupted" (Mannison Press, Florida). WCA is sort of like Stand By Me but with heavy metal kids.</span></div>
Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-1336953706398268152019-11-05T16:43:00.002-08:002019-11-06T13:43:39.354-08:00PRIDE OF THE COG: A Field Guide For Creatives To Outwit Their Day Job, by Gabriel Hart<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I am often
asked, by those who don’t </span><i style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">seem</i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> to
harbor any artistic cell in their bodies, about my artistic process; how exactly
the path is tread from a mere thought or idea to the finished “product” (and a
question I often ask myself is, what’s wrong with it merely remaining a </span><i style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">thought or an idea? </i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Why corrupt its
innocence by poking and prodding at it all?</span><i style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace;">).
</i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The inquiry irks me every time, and
I fire back with the paranoid arrogance of a criminal trying to frame a
bystander through blatant (AKA sadly transparent) manipulation:</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg24Ovigobmb7CH0VyIydaglq6AvCtqhzeLEVjnGl5bjbRu2SM-yGVP_oEpz0zaC4UmqEejZfQOfcHgnNtnCfct0-MfAVXxr5PqGSW3Aj4ScRWf9zspenHgUXprqcdEe_SWQWSsEoZc8vw/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg24Ovigobmb7CH0VyIydaglq6AvCtqhzeLEVjnGl5bjbRu2SM-yGVP_oEpz0zaC4UmqEejZfQOfcHgnNtnCfct0-MfAVXxr5PqGSW3Aj4ScRWf9zspenHgUXprqcdEe_SWQWSsEoZc8vw/s1600/images.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“ WELL, if
you have to ask, then you don’t deserve to know, as you obviously don’t have a
creative bone in your body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why should I
tell you, if you’re just going to ape my steer in order to cheat your way through
a life where you clearly shouldn’t quit your dead-end day job!?!?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I am humbly
reminded far too late, that this person is actually my co-worker and I am also
working at <i>our</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dead-end day job</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So, what is
exactly wrong with that - an artist being “forced” to work among the unwashed,
where we were once so proud to claim origin? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would we expect, Entitlement? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What else
would we want, Privilege? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When must this
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">authenticity</i> cease in order to become
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">successful</i>? The initial inspiration for
your life’s work <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i> this<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>backdrop, and if you’re expecting the
rest of us to continue to relate to your output, it should <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">continue</i> to include this backdrop – which should encompass the
nagging theft of your true calling, the bone-crushing weight of society’s
expectations. Let us call this classist environment “The Ever-Looming Extortion
of Your Soul” and let us dissect an example of its inherent divinity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You wake up
every morning with the oozing abyss of your deepest, most fertile subconscious still
swirling in your head. You feel that anything is possible, that anything can
and will happen. You may even cherry-pick your nightmares for ingredients to appear
in your next creation, ecstatic to be reminded that your unique brain was
responsible for such concrete tangibility, when it was finally allowed to rest.
You pay tribute to this phenomenon by writing it down, or if it was piercing
enough, it tore a part of your mind down where it now excitedly tries to lay
dormant until your next direction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There is
just one problem: The rising rays of your life’s work is about to compete with
the growing shadows of your day’s work. It is here where you are a character in
someone else’s play, in which you must repeat the same lines over and over
again and interact with hundreds, sometimes thousands of other people who’s
main objective seems to be making you forget everything great you had planned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You arrive
to work reluctantly, still piecing together the disembodied serpent of your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">interlacing genius</i>, when suddenly, somebody
has the nerve to ask you simple directions to the peanut butter and you nearly
meltdown, as you were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in the middle of a
serious emergency that existed solely in your own head!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As individuals,
we forget the importance of ourselves as cogs in a larger, only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">seemingly</i> un-artistic machine. It should
be considered a symptom of artistic integrity to know how to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">adapt</i> to poetic discomfort rather than
entertain the delusion of a complete removal from it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Who do we
really think we are when we insist that we are too good for the mundane? Let us
not forget the vitality of living amongst the doldrums with our brothers and
sisters. By giving our fellow-man even a sliver of arrogance when he is merely
trying to eat and get out of your sight, perhaps even trying to get back to<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> his</i> life’s work, we have slowed down
his process as well as our own, our frequencies scrambled due to our lack of
confidence and organization, unable to properly file away our still-fermenting
creative flood. This is of utter importance to hone, as we know good and well something
even more mind-shattering is likely to come our way, where we must not only be
on guard, but with a low-heat on our backburners. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Otherwise,
we burn it all down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That said, let
us ask ourselves; where is the accountability of our little precious melting
snowflake of a thought or idea? What fucking good was it when it did not
possess the spine to withstand a lady asking you what she is supposed to do
with spaghetti sauce? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let us look
at the dead-end job: not as a sieve where we lose ideas, but as a filter where
only the most refined bits of our creativity shall pass into being. The
repetition, chaos, idiocy, and oppressive nature of this environment shall merely
tighten the crosshatch of this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">strainer</i>,
challenging the integrity of each concept. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Remember, our
thoughts are not necessarily gospel just because we are the ones that thought
them. More often than not, it is advantageous to get rid of any evidence that
it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">actually came from you. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></i>This is where our <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">second mind </i>comes in<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>the artist’s brain in its purist form. In the scenario of the
automaton task, the hopeless grinding of doing something against one’s
instinct. Our body occupied, our mind will then wander out of protest - a
convulsing, squirming escape as it floats to more divine heights. As our brain
focuses on, say, bagging groceries for the consumer, our second mind should, in
theory, get right back to our life’s work. If we are true artists, we should be
no strangers to this form of dissociation, knowing we must spend the rest of
our day perfecting a balance between these hemispheres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>99.9% of us
adore and look up to Nick Cave. But Cave revealed his artistic process that seemed to reek of fallacy, when he audaciously boasted that he “clocks in” to work every day to his
“office” for eight hours where he sits at his typewriter or piano and sees what
comes out of him, uninterrupted. Not to assume Cave doesn’t have a horde of
personal demons and self-doubt keeping his output a consistent challenge, but
even that concept seems a luxury when you subtract the everyday hierarches,
economical struggles, and social quicksand that keep the rest of us from fully realizing
our creative work. There is no doubt that he has earned this luxury on a
hard-road lasting decades long, but I lost a sizeable sliver of respect for the
man who thinks that he is “just like us” just because he has some self-induced
discipline, re-appropriating proletariat terms like “clocking in” and “office.”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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digressed…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“EXCUSE ME!
I’m talking to you. Where are the flat taco shells?!? This is the third time
I’ve asked you where the flat taco shells are and you seem to just be ignoring
me! Where’s your manager?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our threat
of potentially getting fired is a more than a reasonable motivator to leave our
musings on the shelf for a second.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m so
sorry, Miss. Is it tortillas you’re looking for?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, I’m
not sure what THAT is! Do I look like I speak Spanish?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No, of
course not, M’am…In fact, you look as pasty white as these tortillas right
here!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Ah, thank
you! SEE, WHAT DID I SAY - FLAT TACO SHELLS!!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is a
hard-boiled battlefield out there for the working class artist. So much so, that
at times it feels like you should not only retreat, but refrain from existing
in it altogether. But it is this friction – the grinding of a situation that
essentially<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> should not be</i> that
naturally causes the spark of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">transmundane</i>
where we reach beyond the confines of the physical world. The more guts we have to be present in the mundane, the more strength/focus we'll have to be present in the transmundane. Or how another TM (Transcendental Meditation)refers to it - The Unified Field, where all ideas are born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s a
no-brainer to say “write everything down” but let us go beyond documenting not
just your own thoughts and ideas, but also utilizing the absurd hurdles that
get in our way – thus re-appropriating your opposing forces. Many consider this
to be the most simple form of practical magic - not only is this the obvious
first step of turning your miasmic imagination into tangible reality, but it
also a way of gaining control over its antithesis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In other
words, whistle while you work! Whether you be one of the Seven Dwarves or one
in Seven Slaves - if it was all worth a damn, you will have an interesting
puzzle to subpoena your subconscious with when you arrive back home that
evening. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> But then,
as you open your own front door, you are greeted by your partner, who may have
forgotten to say hello, as they hold in front of you a long list of chores that
need tending to, immediately. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So here’s
to dreaming…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> Gabriel Hart</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> Morongo Valley</span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> November 2019</span></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><br />Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-18016504559253729582019-10-16T16:07:00.001-07:002019-10-17T10:56:00.998-07:00PANEL DISCUSSION FOR NEA's "THE BIG READ" - "What Defines Literary Genres?" with Gabriel Hart, Susan Rukeyser, and Jon Christopher (mediated by Jean-Paul Garnier) <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Last month I had the pleasure of joining fellow desert authors Susan, Jon, and Jean-Paul to dissect literary genres for The National Endowment For The Arts "Big Read" event at Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree. It was meditative, opinionated and even hilarious at parts, and I think we all walked away seeing certain genres we thought we had pinned in a slightly broader way. You can hear it in its entirety<span style="color: red;"> <a href="https://spacecowboybooks.bandcamp.com/track/sci-fi-what-defines-literary-genres-nea-big-read-panel-discussion-9-21-2019"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> "The Big Read" oversaw a month's worth of events focusing on Emily St. John Mandel's brilliant dystopian-fiction best-seller, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven"><span style="color: red;">Station Eleven</span></a>." Since there had been a lot of opposing viewpoints pertaining to what genre it fell into, we included it in our discussion - praising it as well as picking it apart, while challenging our own definitions of literary genre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">(L-R: Jean-Paul Garnier, Gabriel Hart, Susan Rukeyser, Jon Christopher)</span><br />
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My next reading will be Saturday, July 6th at San Diego's genre-fiction paradise <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.mystgalaxy.com/"><span style="color: red;">Mysterious Galaxy</span></a> </span>As a special "In Discussion" panel, moderated by bruja-fiction author <a href="http://www.lizzhuerta.com/" style="color: red;">Lizz Huerta </a>, I'll be joined with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5010651.J_S_Breukelaar"><span style="color: red;">J.S. Breukelaar</span></a> and <a href="https://www.keithmccleary.com/prose"><span style="color: red;">Keith McCleary</span></a>. The event is free and starts at 2pm.Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-28477236667261181372019-04-25T19:42:00.002-07:002021-02-24T12:32:25.470-08:00DIP-ICK-SHUNS<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After a
proper solicitation from the editor, my twin novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Virgins In Reverse/The Intrusion</i> was recently rejected by a major L.A.
literary institution, the assigned reviewer balking at the
way women were depicted in the book. To be fair, it was the most personable,
kindest rejection letter I have ever received – I felt genuine empathy for the editorial staff, as I could only imagine the kind of pressure they were under in our current
climate, where we are trying to break stereotypes of females in the media - something
I am in large support of, in spite of these alleged transgressions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If I was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">going</i> to apologize for my book, I would
say that I probably wouldn’t write the same book now at age 42, that a majority
of the novel was written nearly ten years ago, by a previous version of myself
who may have been blindly machete-ing his way through life, who may have
read/watched one too many noir books/flicks to the point where he was not just
writing but actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">living</i> that way,
that a lot of the book was based on my fledgling worldview that required
scapegoats to make sense of it all, that I loved women so much back then that I
briefly forged a double-life of cross-dressing in clumsy tribute to the fairer
species, that I loved women so much I never saw them as meek and submissive but
as in-tandem, intrinsic and powerful presences that could potentially fuck a
man up so good that it was always a wonder to me why gender equality was still
even an issue, forgetting to consider anyone who didn’t live as hard and ravenous
as my co-ed inner circle. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But I will <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never</i> apologize for my book. How could
I, when you consider the universe I created in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Virgins In Reverse/The Intrusion</i>, where <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">every single character, </i>man and woman<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,</i> is guilty? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Every major
player in the book is debased, overzealous, paranoid, self-centered,
self-loathing, weak, nihilistic, hypocritical, delusional, insensitive, overly-sensitive,
violent, and finally murderous but most of all: imagine this - exaggerated for
narrative’s sake! For better or worse, it is these qualities, more than any
kind of unattainable fairytale attributes, that I see as an overlapping common
ground for both men and women who have let themselves go and hold no
accountability for themselves – which is just one facet of what I feel is the
book’s unsavory deliciousness. <o:p></o:p></div>
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uninitiated: The protagonist in both stories is the debauched twenty-nine year
old Caleb, who finds himself in the throes of runaway train obsession with a
woman named Cecilia. They both work at L.A.’s Silent Movie Theater, and the
theater quickly becomes its own character as their own Church of Forbidden Love
(we won’t mention the unnerving addendum that in real life, this theater became
another ground zero for the swell of the Me Too movement in summer of 2017,
when its owners were exposed for their vast, systematic sexual harassment
conspiracy, even though it’s an important one in its own right and you can refresh yourself <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-cinefamily-shuts-down-20171114-story.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>). One of the
themes of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Virgins </i>is romance, and
what comes with romance is the eventual rude awakening that everything is not
how it seems, as when we romanticize a relationship, we are idealizing the
other, glossing over mutual character defects that may eventually lead to the
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attempt to settle down before they really get to know each other, both Caleb
and Cecilia meltdown, becoming exaggerated versions of themselves in an effort
to uphold their own identities – Cecilia as the controlling vixen succubus who
assumes the spirit insect of the gorgeous but deadly Emerald Wasp, and Caleb as
the unkempt fiend, the drunken buffoon who takes the form of Cockroach. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Even though
the author of the book is a male and is told from a first person male
perspective, you are not necessarily expected to sympathize with him throughout
the story. In fact, the reader is tricked – at first you may be charmed by his
trajectory, but as the layers of Caleb are peeled back, you realize he is a deplorable human that you are, unfortunately, stiflingly stuck with until the
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unveiling – this horrible yet <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">relatable</i>
depiction of man - grows even darker once The Intrusion begins, as Caleb has
lost all control of himself. With further disregard to take accountability for
his actions, Caleb has convinced himself he is in fact, possessed by an evil
spirit that is making him do all sorts of horrific things. <o:p></o:p></div>
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left a lot of grey area and voids to be filled by the reader’s own imagination,
so it may take on a life of its own inside the reader's mind. I like the idea of
the reader taking ownership of how they interpret the book, to give it a
personal branding with which they can empathize. There are some that think
through his obsession with her, Caleb is possessed by Cecilia, or by the spirit
of a queen bitch Kali-esque entity. I like to see it as this: Caleb IS the evil
spirit, the way someone can haunt their own house while they are still living.
The living, breathing embodiment of bad vibes, man.<o:p></o:p></div>
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mistake here - by the time the book ends, the reader should have equal disdain
and sympathy/empathy for both Caleb and Cecilia, as well as the common degraded
tendencies of both women and men, as the roles of who is guilty and who is
innocent (that is, if you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">insist</i> that
there always has to be those kind of reductionist terms in your adorable,
fragile mind) flip-flop so many times that one can only deduce that the only
truth worth arguing in favor of: that we are a conflicted species at constant
war with ourselves and others, no matter what kind of genitalia we have been
cursed with. And as long as the sun does shine, we are always led to reckon that
we are unable to run from our respective shadow selves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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without question, a nasty book for nasty men and nasty women alike. That is, if
the reader has the guts and compassion to see a little bit of someone they’ve
known in the characters, if not their own damned selves. And if not – I applaud
your good fortune, if you were lucky enough to live such a safe, antiseptic
life that these phases of growing up come across so appalling that you may
“balk.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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let’s discuss class issues for a moment. For Cecilia and the other major female,
Amber, the two women are maligned not because they are female, but because they
are grim examples of the extent of “how far can too far go?” that is largely
dictated by the opposite sides of the tracks they find themselves on. Cecilia
is the calculated, overly-confident rich kid who you get the feeling has never
heard the word “no” before, armed with the assumption that “everything is
negotiable” by money or manipulation. Then there’s Amber (who only shows up for
a couple pages but is an important spike in the narrative), who barely skims by
in a junkie flophouse off of Vine. She is desperate, scattershot with her
emotions, and has allowed her abysmal environment to sculpt her for worse,
scrambling for self-confidence as she grasps at straws to make Caleb stay with
her, in spite of it being a toxic, empty union. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While I
maintain it is a work of fiction, most of these characters are based on people
I have known – true characters in my colorful yet misguided time in Los Angeles
where my depraved instincts could only attract comrades and lovers of a similar
ilk. Still, these are depictions – again, exaggerations - of not just a type of
person, but what we can only hope is merely one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">phase</i> of a person. To take these creative snapshots out of context,
that are imperative to the arch of this twisted morality tale, then condemn the
author on the grounds that he is somehow dragging a whole gender through the
mud merely from a momentary facsimile – I believe you are actually doing a
disservice to a large element of feminism – that a woman can be whoever she wants
to be, and if it is somehow unattractive to society’s cruel, imbalanced standards,
well, consider the corrupt source from which we come.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While it is
paramount to empower the female, it is also unfair to women to insist that all
depictions of a woman can only be one of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">empowered woman</i>. To disregard all the inherently human moments of
temporary weakness, of abandoned hope, of bottled-up rage, of using the best
intuitions you have been dealt to merely survive; is to balk from a
counter-intuitive soapbox of privilege, where you are actively ignoring the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">struggle</i> aspect of a woman’s plight. Of
a human’s plight. Much like the men, the women I have portrayed in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Virgins In Reverse/The Intrusion </i>have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lost their fucking shit</i>. But like some
of our sisters in real life, who didn’t have the luxury of an understanding
family, an empathetic lover, in a culture that often systematically encourages
their mistreatment, they have every right to. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-30161632049366689962019-03-15T19:53:00.001-07:002019-03-15T20:06:30.839-07:00New story "Through The Raven's Eyes" on Episode 13 of Space Cowboy's "Simultaneous Times" podcast "Through The Raven's Eyes" contains a psychedelic theory of human existence that I have been entertaining for some time now - sort of an updated, more nightmarish version of the whole "what if our solar system were just an atom on a giant's hand?" trope. I often relate a lot of human behavior to cellular level mechanics, especially after getting my mind blown by Howard Bloom's <i>The Lucifer Principle</i> in my late twenties. Come to think of it, one of my favorite songs around that time was Anita Lane's <i>The World's A Girl</i>, and I think it would make quite a fitting accompaniment to the story in another format.<br />
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Thanks to Jean-Paul Garnier and Zara Kand to helping with the cast reading, and to Oneirothropter for the soundtrack.<br />
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Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-71191582162220715242019-01-12T13:41:00.001-08:002019-01-12T13:43:09.259-08:00My debut novel VIRGINS IN REVERSE/THE INTRUSION out now!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLorbYw0F5ilXDr-Hz1D8BhpnAuJmRNMqNSRgBSsFC_KwaH0DvCTO897q2hL7ErqFlo2xx1tm3AFfPRXZ320uWIeE7jD2GXvm59V5nNFmfUokELWN9TU0WFkMmEDE-jN-cIAfeYrsS_w0/s1600/IMG_1018.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLorbYw0F5ilXDr-Hz1D8BhpnAuJmRNMqNSRgBSsFC_KwaH0DvCTO897q2hL7ErqFlo2xx1tm3AFfPRXZ320uWIeE7jD2GXvm59V5nNFmfUokELWN9TU0WFkMmEDE-jN-cIAfeYrsS_w0/s320/IMG_1018.jpg" width="212" /></a><br />
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It is with great exhalation this week that I announce the release of my debut novel <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://vir.travelingshoespress.com/"><span style="color: red;">VIRGINS IN REVERSE/THE INTRUSION</span></a> </span>on Joshua Tree's <a href="https://site.travelingshoespress.com/"><span style="color: red;">Traveling Shoes Press</span></a>.<br />
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At 170 pages, it is comprised of "twin" novellas. Two deceptive morality tales - think <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/109/1093152/the-day-of-the-locust-and-miss-lonelyhearts/9780099573166.html"><span style="color: red;">Day of The Locusts/Miss Lonelyhearts</span> </a>- only these stories repellingly intertwine. The stories are not sequel/pre-quel or in anyway traditionally linear, but third mind guided through phantasmagorical noir scenarios after the sidewalk of the narrative's "speculative memoir" runs out of historical accuracy. Memory is such a deceiving thing, after all.<br />
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I spent nearly ten years on this book. From its naive inception, to its mind-numbing bureaucratic hostage, the false-starts and stops, the constant art imitating life parallels that still shock me to this day, to its return to my hands and a great humble and hungry publisher behind me. With its reception thus far, I am now thankful it took as long as it did - it would seem regretful if it came out anytime before now, to run the risk of it being anything less. If it was a crap book, I believe it would have merely evaporated in all the chaos - especially considering how many brilliant people I have to thank who lent their eyes and opinions.<br />
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The great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tav_Falco"><span style="color: red;">Tav Falco</span></a> really makes it shine with his initiation foreword, adding a whole other layer of intrigue to the book. He made connections between the two stories I would have never even dreamt of, and the way he writes is so vital, uncanny, and otherworldly that I couldn't have imagined anyone else more fitting to come to my rescue at a precarious time where the book was in absolute limbo. For someone I admire as much as Tav, I was grateful he took such a leap of faith with this.<br />
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Again, enormous gratitude to<a href="https://site.travelingshoespress.com/books/authors/jon-christopher/"> <span style="color: red;">Jon Christopher</span></a> and Tania from Traveling Shoes, who <i>really</i> rescued the book and are wholly responsible for making it available to us today. I am excited to grow with a new publisher in real time and look forward to our time together. Jon also designed the cover and executed it not only how I imagined, but in the end better than I could have thought.<br />
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And to <a href="https://site.travelingshoespress.com/books/authors/jean-paul-l-garnier/"><span style="color: red;">Jean-Paul Garnier</span></a>, my hawk-eye editor who spent more time with the book than anyone besides myself. He also uncovered great synapses in the plot that made it sparkle when I was so burnt out and disillusioned that all the words were beginning to look like Hieroglyphics.<br />
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While there is a proper acknowledgments page at the end of the book, I would like to end this by giving a special shout out to all those who didn't make it in there on account of timing, who helped with the proofs, last minute look-sees, and blurbs to give the book further grease: <a href="https://www.chollaneedles.com/"><span style="color: red;">Rich Soos</span></a>, <a href="https://johntottenham.com/"><span style="color: red;">John Tottenham</span></a>, <a href="https://birdofparadiseband.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color: red;">Rachael Polokoff</span></a>, Seth Miller, <a href="http://www.nikiprettiphotography.com/about"><span style="color: red;">Niki Pretti</span></a>... thank you. If I forgot anyone, blame my brain and not my heart and please let me know.<br />
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Some time ago, my editor Jean-Paul Garnier from Space Cowboy Books asked me to write a sci-fi story for an anthology he was putting together. I took it as a challenge to get me out of my noirish discomfort zone, to see if my voice could work within different parameters.<br />
The result is "Your Honor and 'His Likeness,'" a paranoid tale of human origin that takes place in the unlikely backdrop of a pressure-cooker courtroom. Desert rat Jason Krieger has gone missing, as a fragmented scene of the trial surrounding his disappearance unfolds. His best friend, who we only know as "Mr. Barnes" is another accessory suspect called to the stand. He is in possession of Jason's cell-phone, left behind at the scene of his vanishing. What we hear on the cellphone's voice recorder history proves a ground-breaking diverging of not just the case at hand, but courtroom protocol, as the Judge loses his composure and chaos spreads to the jury (not to mention, changing <i>everything</i> we have been taught).<br />
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I am "honored" to be among seven other authors in this anthology, including Jean-Paul ("Fucking Like Animals"), Jakes Bayley ("The Banshee"), Jon Christopher of Traveling Shoes Press ("In The Heavens As On Earth"), Joe Hertel ("The Mechanics"), Robert Deloyd ("Katie Of The Stars"), Brent A. Harris ("A Hard Day Hunting Dinosaurs"), and the debut sci-fi story from surrealist painter Zara Kand (One's Moon).<br />
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The official release party will be this Sunday, December 2nd at Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree, 3pm. All authors will be in attendance, along with very special guest Bryan Thao Worra, President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. Please, join us!<br />
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To order, visit <a href="http://spacecowboybooks.blogspot.com/p/publications.html">Space Cowboy Books</a>Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-48348902661630930832018-10-29T11:09:00.000-07:002018-10-29T13:23:59.734-07:00Catching up August - October 2018 The year really began to accelerate toward the end of summer - I am writing all of this down for no reason other to just remember my life and keep some kind of order and sense to what is happening, though I can't be sure that will even work. It is a lot.<br />
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It was a darker (than usual) night of the soul summer for me, finding myself having to navigate the aftermath of an epic mind-fucking break-up, along with the inferiority complexes that come from the mysterious fist of the publishing industry, as my book was cancelled a month before its scheduled release. There were many a solitary night were I felt I was floating in goddamned space. All I could do was keep busy, as the second I would stop working I would start to feel the floor drop from under me again, praying tentacles would grab on to my ankles so I wouldn't go floating into the black, unable to speak... just witness my future - what I <i>thought</i> was my future - slowly fading from view. Then, I flogged myself for letting the illogical, elusive paths of success, domestic and artistic, dictate my worldview - one of the reasons why I left L.A. in the first place - and there I was in the desert, doing that thing again... All I think to do was double-down so I wouldn't obsess over it, hopefully get over myself.<br />
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In August, full band rehearsals commenced for the new Jail Weddings alter-ego SIRENS IN THE NIGHT - our focus to our 60s girl group element but through a futurist lens. I bought my first synth - a KORG MS-20 - and began constructing the writhing, ecstatic tracks with Mary Animaux back in June. I stole the title from the Harlan Ellison sci-fi story for our first demo "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" a song about an abusive relationship - a subject then still too close to my heart, so I took relief in having the girls sing it in order to gain some distance and perspective. I am not singing in this band, just writing the songs / playing the synth. With all the illuminating upheavals we've seen recently, as women's inequality finally comes to the surface and becomes part of an international dialogue, it seems fitting to have Mary and now Rachael Ann (<a href="https://birdofparadiseband.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color: red;">Bird of Paradise</span></a>) be the mouthpieces for this project. Though at the risk of pandering - I would insist on them singing even if gender politics <i>weren't </i>so deep in the crapper...<br />
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(Top-Bottom) Rachael Ann, Marianne, and the rest - Seth Miller, Gabriel Hart, Rufo Chan are SIRENS IN THE NIGHT.<br />
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Around the same time I started to take the Amtrak into L.A. once a week instead of driving - and maybe as a result of this - I began to really reconcile my relationship with the city. Not that I would ever move back, but something about the timing of these contemplative train rides gave me a bit of neutral excitement to be "just passing through, folks!" One of the cooler nights in my life ended up being a great reunion of old friends as well as meeting new ones, when I got asked to take part in the <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.deadmoonusa.com/"><span style="color: red;">Dead Moon</span></a> </span>tribute show for Fred Cole's 70th birthday - with Toody Cole in attendance, no less - at the Echo last August 28th. I picked my favorite DM song "Runnin' Out of Time" and I was one of the luckier ones to be able to do it as a duet with Toody. She was warm and sincere as always. I watched most of their Unknown Passage documentary with her before the show, and it felt so special every time she grabbed my arm as she leaned over to me, whispering various behind-the-scenes anecdotes in my ear. We were backed up by the Secret Stare, which is Sharif Dumani's new group who clearly did not fuck around, mastering the tone, mood and execution perfectly.<br />
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Other standout performances included <a href="https://www.patkearnsmusic.com/about.html"><span style="color: red;">Pat Kearns</span></a> (who engineered Exploding Hearts "Guitar Romantic" LP) and his wife Susan doing "Where Did I Go Wrong," Vashti Windish of<a href="https://intheredrecords.com/collections/warm-drag"> <span style="color: red;">Warm Drag</span></a> doing "Kicked Out, Kicked In," and my boy Warren Thomas from <a href="https://theabigails.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color: red;">The Abigails</span></a> (and one time Jail Weddings roadie from Hell) absolutely bringing the house down with "I Hate The Blues" and "It's Ok." The next morning I hitched a ride back to the desert with Pat and Susan. I got home and the comedown of a near-perfect evening ushered me into an apparently unshakable darkness again - so much for feeling invincible. Out of nowhere I get a call from <a href="http://spacecowboybooks.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Jean-Paul Garnier</span></a>, who alerted me that there was a local high desert publisher who mentioned they heard me interviewed on the Disinfo podcast earlier that week - where I was talking about my novel in limbo - and they wanted to meet me and get the manuscript as soon as possible. I called this sweet couple Jon Christopher and Tania Leysen of <a href="http://site.travelingshoespress.com/"><span style="color: red;">Traveling Shoes Press</span></a>. We met, schemed, and by the next night they had the cover executed for my debut novel <i>Virgins In Reverse/The Intrusion</i>, out January 8th, 2019. Keep checking back here for pre-order details.</div>
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On September 1st at Sun Alley Shops in Joshua Tree, I got to witness the debut performance of <a href="https://lessbells.bandcamp.com/album/solifuge-2"><span style="color: red;">Less Bells</span></a>, the new avant-orchestral project from Julie Carpenter. While Julie plays violin in <a href="https://jailweddings.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color: red;">Jail Weddings</span></a>, she is a fierce solo artist, first and foremost. The group is rounded out by her husband Dain Luscombe on synth and Leah Harmon on accordion. Their debut album on <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.kranky.net/"><span style="color: red;">Kranky!</span></a> </span>dropped the following week and it quickly became my favorite album of the year. This lush, all instrumental soundtrack is a tribute to desert monsoons, encapsulating all of the dread and beauty one will feel when they finally recognize <i>weather is the boss</i>. Fans of Apollo-era Eno, Julee Cruise/Badalamenti will rejoice in this enveloping spell of an album.</div>
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On September 22nd, my dear friend Claire McKeown of <a href="http://www.honeychildchoir.com/"><span style="color: red;">Honey Child</span></a> organized a tribute show to Leonard Cohen at the Echo. While I was a tad self-conscious the night might bleed into overly-precious territory, that such overzealous reverence might some across as trite, fall-short of the man's true essence, or as <a href="https://johntottenham.com/"><span style="color: red;">John Tottenham</span></a> so eloquently put it, "blowing smoke up a dead guy's ass." I couldn't have been more mistaken.</div>
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Over fifteen poets and musicians came together and there wasn't a dud in the bunch. While his songs/poems resonate so deeply with us, Leonard Cohen's output is so specific and so immediately <i>him</i>, that many find his songs difficult to do justice to. With this in mind, every single performer "brought it" that night, if not as a result of their own raw talents, then due to a quaking fear that they may make fools of themselves. </div>
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I got off incredibly easy, being asked to simply recite a couple of his poems - "Song" and "The Priest Says Goodbye."</div>
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Every performer was top notch, playing like their lives depended on it. But direct memory standouts for me included <a href="http://www.draemings.com/"><span style="color: red;">Draemings</span></a> ("So Long Marianne"), Guy Blakeslee of<a href="http://www.entrancelives.com/"><span style="color: red;"> Entrance</span></a> ("Teachers"), <a href="https://imaadwasif.bandcamp.com/"><span style="color: red;">Imaad Wassif </span></a>("Hallelujah"), <a href="http://www.laenageronimo.com/bio/"><span style="color: red;">Laena Geronimo</span></a> ("Bird On A Wire") and Honey Child doing a choral rendition of "Treaty" off his final album "You Want It Darker."</div>
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Some welcomed irreverence added to some sorely needed levity to the evening, when "failed visionary" <a href="https://johntottenham.com/"><span style="color: red;">John Tottenham</span></a> closed the evening with a <i>unique</i> speech, stating that he wasn't so familiar with Cohen's work, so he had cram for research for the evening, arriving at the verdict that "most of it wasn't very good." As the audience slowly died laughing, he continued to pour his acidic wit into our wounds, before ending in earnest with the fact that Mr. Cohen "also saved his life when he was sixteen." </div>
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Also in September, high-desert literary octopus and <i>enfante terrible </i>Jean-Paul Garnier dropped his debut collection of dark sci-fi short stories <a href="http://site.travelingshoespress.com/books/echo-of-creation/"><span style="color: red;">Echo of Creation</span></a> (Traveling Shoes Press). So not to be so desert insular with events at Space Cowboy, we had a release party for it at Stories in Echo Park. I read from last years <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://spacecowboybooks.blogspot.com/p/publications.html"><span style="color: red;">Nothing To See Here</span></a>.</span> </span>We were joined by Sharif Dumani, Justin Maurer, and an unexpected addition from Martin Atkins of PiL/Killing Joke, who read from his upcoming memoirs... equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. Though he read for an audacious half-hour, he kept all in attendance engaged. </div>
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My comrades at L.A. Record bestowed me a special assignment to interview Australian proto-swamp punk architects THE SCIENTISTS for their first ever U.S. tour. The Scientists have been one of my favorite groups since my late teens, and a chance to see them live - much less pick frontman Kim Salmon's brain - is something many of us thought we'd never get to do. You can read the interview <a href="http://larecord.com/archive/2018/10/01/the-scientists-interview-kim-salmon"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. Their show on October 3rd at Zebulon was everything we hoped it would be and more, as those songs clearly aged well, molding with even more viral spores as our world becomes this much more savage.</div>
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Somewhere around that next week, I did something I never thought I would do. I auditioned for a part in a play called <i>The Seer</i>, written by Jean-Paul Garnier and directed by (and starring) Tony-Award winning NYC theatrical producer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lane"><span style="color: red;">Lawrence Lane</span></a>. I got the part as an overzealous religious painter, who is on the antique end of a karmic wormhole, in which a vampire treads back and forth from, teaching my character and his current day victim (who he is slowly bleeding to death) about the foils of pride and envy. Not only is it a legitimately harrowing play, it is also perhaps the hardest thing I have ever challenged myself with... though I have never given birth, battled a terminal illness, or been to war. <i>The Seer</i> premiered one night only this past Saturday, October 27th in Joshua Tree at Sun Alley Shops at 8pm, right before SIRENS IN THE NIGHT hit the same stage for our debut show.</div>
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Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430694888157195582.post-21358076972855690932018-09-07T10:43:00.002-07:002018-09-07T10:43:42.649-07:00My debut twin novels Virgins In Reverse / The Intrusion to drop this Dec / Jan on Traveling Shoes Press<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCvDggaW7GfOYpxhywyAy20nabbPrk4rh1rZGWOqP5DgEGQNRv2cdBcTLeNzD5y4F8hMJiYE1WD8j-GH5jfb6dmxHzibJbsDCh6l6g3mwhdn40MMvyVHFyQQmALWHruoj0cF02huv_fbM/s1600/virgins+in+reverse-cover10c-spread4.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCvDggaW7GfOYpxhywyAy20nabbPrk4rh1rZGWOqP5DgEGQNRv2cdBcTLeNzD5y4F8hMJiYE1WD8j-GH5jfb6dmxHzibJbsDCh6l6g3mwhdn40MMvyVHFyQQmALWHruoj0cF02huv_fbM/s320/virgins+in+reverse-cover10c-spread4.png" width="320" /></a><br />
It is with a large sigh of relief and gratitude to announce that my debut novel(s) will finally see the light of day by local high-desert publisher Traveling Shoes Press. Limited hardcovers will be available in December, followed by official softcover release in January 2019. Nearly ten years in the making, a whole other book could be written about the dramatic saga it took to get this out, but let's not look back... More details soon!Gabriel Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658908195680279716noreply@blogger.com0