Keith Abbott Davis, CA reading; Contest, New Updates


Posted at 12:00 on Oct 1st
By Duncan Barlow
Happy October my fellow book enthusiasts! It's my favorite season and things are looking good around here. These are some updates for you:

KEITH ABBOTT STORMS (in a contemplative manner of course) DAVIS CALIFORNIA!
Please go by and see him read and get your books signed!
John Natsoulas Gallery
521 1st St.
Davis, CA 95616
Friday, October 9th at 8:00 P.M.


ASTROPHIL PRESS POETRY CONTEST OPENS!!
Today is the first day of the poetry contest! Our judges are eagerly awaiting your manuscripts, so if you haven't entered yet, hop to it! See our contest page for requirements and details.

NEW WEB ARTICLES SOON:
We will have some more interviews, critical articles, and reviews in the next few weeks. Please stay tuned as you never know when I'll emerge from my mountains of student papers to post something new and exciting on our website. If you're interested in writing something for our website, please contact us through our contact page and we'll work it out. We love fresh ideas and our site is always hungry for new content!

UPCOMING RELEASES?
Yes, we have some things up our sleeves; however, until we get the finer details worked out, we don't want to eat our words, so keep an ear to the ground because good things are a foot in this sunny little office!
Poetry Contest | Eleni Sikelianos | Keith Abbott Reading | Astrophil Press

Featured Books


Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan By Keith Abbott

In Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, Keith Abbott paints a portrait of Richard Brautigan as a lovable and whimsical friend. Abbott explains the writer’s dedication to the art of fiction and his quest to break beyond the pop culture, hippie label that haunted him until his suicide in 1984. Brautigan’s tight prose inspired authors such as Haruki Murakami and his experimentation with the line won him accolades from authors like Ishmael Reed, Raymond Carver, and Michael McClure. His work is highly influential and Abbott draws a clear connection between Brautigan’s life and his writing. This book is essential for anyone who is interested in the work of Richard Brautigan. Raymond Carver writes, "Truly the best thing I've ever seen written of the man."


The Procession of Mollusks By Eric Olson

If Fletch took Lovecraft to see a movie and it turned out to be a double feature—'Slugs: muerte viscosa' and 'The Monster that Challenged the World'--this post-genre romp is what might have been extracted from their post-movie dreams. This is a smart, funny, and (most importantly) irreverently weird book.
—Brian Evenson, author of The Open Curtain and The Wavering Knife.


Sleepers' Republic By David Gruber

In David Gruber’s Sleepers’ Republic nature is dreaming, and we are its dreams. Time is slowed down or speeded up: “suddenly, the sun / gives way to stars.” And: “What we knew moves sudden / without warning / throwing us to the ground / an emptiness in the sea / The air above us filled with fruit.” It may be that love “offers the opposite of a kiss,” yet Gruber’s upended universe is nonetheless an exhilarating medium in which the reader can both swim and breathe.
— John Ashbery author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and Notes from the Air




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