Rebecca Wolff's The Beginners

The NBCC selected my Bookforum review of Wolff's excellent new novel to appear on the review-a-day listing:

http://www.powells.com/review/2011_07_13

SYNCHRONICITY SPACE

Neat group show coming up that I am lucky enough to be a part of, with a batch of attendant events for the performative aspect. I'm paired with Jodi Wille of Process Books and Megan Whitmarsh, July 14th, 7pm. This event is also a launch for my Rainbow Riso Press and its first risograph booklet edition, The Sad Drag Monologues. This is the logo on the book's front cover. $10/each cash, edition of 100 printed in blue with red/black covers, come out and say hello!

All of the events look truly interesting to me, hope to catch the suite ---

http://www.synchronicityspacela.com/?p=178#more-178

Vermont College Interdisciplinary Conference

Coming up...I'm looking forward to this.

http://www.vermontcollege.edu/node/2109

Publication Studio

A bunch of my favorite writing friends and people are involved with Matthew Stadler's new press, Publication Studio. His publishing model might be the wave of the future. My newly-launched risograph press, Rainbow Riso, might be more on a past wave but I'm working on that. More news on the first release soon... For now, here's Stadler at Bookforum and a link to his press.

http://bookforum.com/index.php?pn=interview&id=7911

http://www.publicationstudio.biz/about/

2nd Floor Projects

The risograph print edition Lauren Mackler designed for me on behalf of Margaret Tedesco's gallery really looks sharp! Teal + brown inks on various 11x17 paper. Thanks to Margaret for that opportunity. The opening was warm and enticing; Rebeca and Scott installed in the space in unique, dynamic ways. You can see Lauren's design in the photo here, see also her website for more radical design:

http://projects2ndfloor.blogspot.com/

http://lmackler.com/

Snaps of Margaret and others at the opening on Michelle Tea's fashion blog (who says authors can't be fashionable), The Ironing Board Collective:

http://ironingboardcollective.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/art-is-where-i-live/

Starcherone Press: 30 Under 30

Starcherone has a new anthology of spry young fiction writers, edited by Blake Butler and Lily Hoang; my short review of 30 Under 30 is in Nylon's summer issue. Looks like metafiction is popular again! Nylon's "Shelf Help" books page is consistently interesting and supports all manner of publications pushing the envelope.

Arthur Archives

Did I mention that Arthur's archives are emerging incrementally on-line in this snazzy new database managed by the man himself, Jay Babcock?

http://www.arthurmag.com/archives/

Amy Gerstler Interviewed...

for Paper Magazine, hooray!

http://www.papermag.com/arts_and_style/2010/10/amy-gerstler-in-conversation-with-trinie-dalton.php

RADAR Reading Series

Later this week, I'll be reading at Intersection for the Arts, hosted by the illustrious Michelle Tea.
April 28th, 7pm. Here's a little interview I did with Michelle, and the event details:

http://www.radarproductions.org/?page_id=34&paged=3

http://www.theintersection.org/calendar/index.php?op=view&id=3709

This is the skunk that lives under my house...

I prefer these snake ladies to medusa...

Nure-onna: Yokai monster




Nüwa: Chinese goddess.

Public Fiction

RAINBOWS, CAPRICORNS, VIRGOS & ALCHEMY...
This Sunday March 13th please join us for a series of events at THE FREE CHURCH:

Beginning promptly at 8pm:
A lecture about rainbows by TRINIE DALTON:
Trinie will give a slide-talk about rainbows what they are, how they're formed, and their roles in the history of art, spiritualism, mythology, and color theory.

at 8:45pm
A video screening curated by CATHERINE TAFT:
Catherine Taft presents a Capricorn/Virgo-inspired selection of videos by Dale Hoyt, Lauren Lavitt and Andrew Steinmetz

and at 9:30pm
RON REGÉ, JR. will read (and project!) comics from The Cartoon Utopia concerning the basic tenants of Alchemy and Hermetic Philosophy in Fairy Tale."

Public Fiction
749 Avenue 50, LA 90042
http://www.publicfiction.org

Google image wins again...

When researching my book titles, I do some preliminary internet trolling, and this is what comes up when I hunt images for "Baby Geisha" —go figure...I see the pup, but what the heck is that animal above?

Admitting the past unicorn obsession...

Back when I used to sing with bandmates Ben Parke and Greg Moore. Ten years back, the medieval garb and paper maché uni as our stage pet:

http://www.myspace.com/unicornucopia


But these days I'm more into images like the one above...

On Oscar weekend...

An Artforum Diary entry:

http://www.artforum.com/diary/#entry27667