Outsiderish Newsesque 6/14/09

Outsiders Tim Hall and Scott McClanahan toss a bit of conversation over at OrangeAlert: “the only true art comes from the provinces. Most of what we consider culture in this country are fine arts, and fine arts by their very nature are dead arts. They have no relevance or meaning to your typical individual.” | HTML GIANT posts a few gathered words on the state of and growing respect for “indie” poetry | More from HTML GIANT (quickly becoming one of my very favorite blogs) gets an ARC copy of Brian Evenson’s FUGE STATE and reviews each story – I hate you Blake Butler! | “I suppose you could describe literary festivals as a sort of live porn show for the educated classes” – we love lit festivals, but why? More here: “Today, writers are acutely aware of the market, but in the abstract. They fret about sales and advances, but rarely translate their concerns into any consideration for readers. Practically speaking, they often disdain them.” | ML Press gives away a copy of Charles Lennox’s story A FIELD OF COLORS. All it takes is an email to this guy | Stephen Elliot from The Rumpus, regarding doomed publishing houses: “Literature is not dying. People are worried about publishing houses and book advances…But here’s the thing, I don’t care about those books. I don’t care about the publishing industry that’s concerned with cookbooks and celebrity memoirs.” | Men and book clubs | Book perfumes: ” I don’t think I’d want to smell what they’d come up with for Irvine Welsh.” | AuthorScoop has some thoughts on IndieReader - is it just another way to dupe gullible writers?

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