Putting The Poet Into Poets & Writers...And By Poet I Mean, You Know, I'm A Poet In The Sense That In 10th Grade I Wrote Some Shit That Was Cribbed From Echo & The Bunnymen

Poets & Writers has a nice little bit on Simplify in this month's issue. You'll know it's this month's issue because on the cover will be a somber looking poet dude or poet woman standing in front of a wall sort of smirking at the camera and preparing to drop some pentameter shit on the peeps, yo.

But through the miracle of 8-track recording, they also have the same bit on their website. Here's what it says:

Building on the reputation of Other Voices, the all-fiction magazine founded in 1984 in Chicago, editors Gina Frangello and JoAnne Ruvoli launched Other Voices Books (www.othervoicesmagazine.org) with the release of Tod Goldberg’s short story collection, Simplify, last month. Published by the nonprofit Other Voices, Inc., in collaboration with the University of Illinois Press, Other Voices Books aims “to keep the short story form vital in today’s competitive and increasingly commercial marketplace, where short fiction has been largely marginalized by corporate conglomerate publishers.” The press is off to a good start with its debut title, which received prepublication blurbs from Pam Houston, Aimee Bender, and Dan Chaon—all previous contributors to Other Voices. And Goldberg’s past success won’t hurt either:  His novel Living Dead Girl, published by Soho Press (www.sohopress.com) in 2002, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

And Goldberg also gets mad love from all the black clad hoochies, which should also help.

(Okay, that last bit wasn't in the story, but the rest was...but the black clad hoochies do call me daddy, for reals)

Comments

[Tanya]

Congrats, Tod!

And there's a lovely picture of your book (in an ad) towards the end of the mag opposite a listing for the Writers Studio at UCLA Extension. Check it out one and all!

[Angela Stubbs]

Um yeah, and the white girls with their lovely lady lumps are claiming you're their daddy too. Seriously though, I just got the Poets & Writers yesterday with a big John Updike on the cover and haven't made my way into it yet--It was only a matter of time before you were to become a literary celeb. :) Congrats on all your success with this collection. You surely deserve it.

[russ]

And I can say "I knew you when..." only, well, I didn't. But could have, at least in theory.