Keeping it Weird 4 Lyfe

This Thursday I'll be reading for the first time ever in Austin, TX, and yep I just peed a little in excitement. I'll be reading with Dan Boehl, whose new book, Kings of the F**king Sea, is out now!

Can't wait to see Amelia Gray and Mary Miller and Sarah Grainer and my brother/sister in-law and a couple dogs I'mma mash faces with.

And to reenact this picture.

But before all of that, I'm reading and DJing at the Artifice Magazine Dirty South Dance Party tomorrow night. My DJ name is DJ Sensible Shoes. Control your jealousy and admiration, please. Setlist sneak peek here!

Last night I read at the Encyclopedia Show. I really can't say enough about that event - it is always so unique and wonderful, and if you haven't been to one you should make it a point to do so a-sap.

On my walk to the train afterward I passed a house where a band was practicing in the attic. Whoever they were, they were super emo, and I was very moved, okay? I'm not made of stone. Until a gentleman in a butt-length leather jacket walked by and requested Freebird. And then requested it again when there was no reaction. And then again, caterwauling like he was being stabbed and these were his last words.

I believe what I witnessed was the death, finally, of that joke. I feel lucky to have played a part in its demise.

In other news, I have new stories in Annalemma and Wigleaf, journals I have been salivating over for a long time. And I'm excited to have a story in the launch issue of Midwestern Gothic! Such a great premise for a journal and it's awesome to be a part of it. And stories forthcoming in Barrelhouse, trnsfr, and Dark Sky. eeeee!

we own things.

The east coast tour was a lot of fun. My dad showed up in Philly and me and Christian traveled separately like eccentric celebrities and I wore a dress once and I saw Elegant Elliot Offen and Amelia Gray’s new middle hair part and talked about Jerry Lee but not enough and my feet got swole and I ate pizza in Brooklyn and I thought Boston was a fun reading but turns out I was wrong and thank you to Gene Kwak and Jonathan Papas and my best friend KP and Sasha and Jason Hafer and KGB and Word and Lorem Ipsum and featherproof and Grace Krilanovich and Amelia Gray and Two Dollar Radio and featherproof and the Tebordo family and featherproof and everyone who came out to see us read, we’re sorry and you’re welcome and we’re sorry.  


Speaking of featherproof, Patrick Somerville's book is out! Imma rub my face on it.  


And now an accumulation of things I've been wanting to tell you:


I have a story up at Fifty-Two Stories, whoa. 
Bitch Magazine reviewed Daddy's!
I recently read from my novel in progress at The Parlor reading series. It felt good, real good. 
Richard Thomas reviewed Daddy's for The Nervous Breakdown!
Jesus Angel Garcia reviewed Daddy's and The Museum of the Weird for vol. 1 Brooklyn!
Ryan Bradley interviewed me at Big Other!
I did this with Blake Butler at HTML Giant!
I'm in Nylon's America issue! Here is proof:

That's me at the bottom, squinting into the afterlife. So exciting!


So that's what's been going on lately. I also cut my bangs. I also did deep lunges across my apartment the other morning. I also went to see Lynda Barry speak. It blew my dick off. 


Here is a recipe for pancakes: Bisquick and water. 

ECFU! Tour info and more!

I got to interview myself, which was a huge honor, for The Nervous Breakdown. You can find it here. 

I also posted a recommended reading list at Recommended Reading. Here it is!

And I went on down to Urbana to read at Aaron Burch's reading series, Stories & Beer, this past Sunday, and Smile Politely had this to say about it. Needless to say, "Lindsay Hunter's prose is loud meat" will be on my tombstone. 

And finally, me 'n Christian Tebordo are going on a east coast tour, y'all! Here's the info. We apologize in advance, for everything.  

October 22nd

PHILADELPHIA, PA
Tattooed Mom's
530 South St, Philadelphia, PA
7pm

October 23rd
PHOENIXVILLE, PA
Steel City Coffee House
203 Bridge St # 1, Phoenixville, PA
3pm

October 25th
BOSTON, MA
Lorem Ipsum Bookstore
1299 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 
7pm, I think

October 24th

NEW YORK CITY
Indie Press Crush Fest w/ Two Dollar Radio
ALSO READING: AMELIA GRAY, GRACE KRILANOVICH
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street, NYC
7pm

October 26th

BROOKLYN, NY
Indie Press Crush Fest w/ Two Dollar Radio
ALSO READING: AMELIA GRAY, GRACE KRILANOVICH
WORD
126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm

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Jason Rice over at Three Guys One Book asked me to write something for their "When We Fell in Love" series. You can find it here. It was really fun to write, but also nervewracking. I didn't want people thinking, "Congratufuckinglations, you read Faulkner." So I decided to get real. I hope you like it.

I am going on a series of mini-tours in the coming weeks. The first (July 31-Aug 3), the High Emission Tour (with Amelia Gray, Aaron Burch, Adam Novy, and more!), takes place on the West Coast, with stops in San Diego and LA for Vermin on the Mount, and then San Francisco (it actually goes to Arizona after that, but I hop off after the first San Fran date).

Holy parentheses.



The next mini-tour is a Midwest tour featuring me, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Blake Butler, Aaron Burch, and others. August 27-August 30. Madison, Minneapolis, Iowa City, Chicago.

Then NYC with Christian Tebordo October 24.

I'll update with specifics as I know more.

Needless to say I am burbling.

We are doing final touches on Daddy's. Brace your balls.

Daddy's

So, I have a book coming out in September, a collection of flash fiction (or "slim fictions," as I'm partial to calling them) that I've been working on for the past couple years. I could not be more excited about this book or about Featherproof, the press who is kind enough to humor me by publishing it. They have included me on every single decision so far, and they have more than met me halfway in terms of collaboration.

The design, I suspect, may be up in the air at this point, but Zach and I have been envisioning the cover for a while now. I basically told him "Make me somethin real nasty" and bless his heart, he did. We're in the process of collecting blurbs right now, and I just got one back from Kyle Minor that knocked my socks off. I am a huge fan of his, so to read the positive things he had to say about my own work was an honor.

That's the haps, anyway. Stay tuned.

News

Recently promoted to Senior Instructional Designer at work, which is shocking and flattering and terrifying.

Working on the marketing stuff for Daddy's is really fun, but I find I have a tendency to want to sarcastically insult my own writing so the world doesn't think I take myself too seriously. I am probably not alone in this urge.

Recently read Julie Hecht's The Unprofessionals. It was very much like Mary Robison's Why Did I Ever, in a way, except for the character in The Unprofessionals seemed a lot less sure of herself, or even her own standing as a human being on the planet Earth. Loved it.

I have been submitting far fewer stories of late, and also getting a lot of "This is really great! But we don't want it, thanks." This is keeping me humble extremely effectively, which is a good thing, as my dad once casually informed me "You think you're special and you act accordingly," which I think he meant as a compliment? but which I took as the worst news ever, ever, ever.

Today we are going to eat Lebanese food followed by chips and salsa while we watch the Bengals game. Speaking of, Ochocinco's Twitter feed is extremely enjoyable, if not eye-bleedingly prolific.