Monday, January 31, 2011

decomP magazinE likes Color Plates!

And we like Spencer Dew's thoughtful review, especially his analysis of how Adam Golaski writes about female characters:

Golaski is concerned, as the paintings he studies are concerned, with color, with wonder, with the awe-struck perception and imaginary flights of childhood. And—to return to those steaming moist panties flung against the glass—with the erotics of looking, the sheer sensuality, whether of the human body glimpsed in an intimate moment or the objects of our world seen in their ineluctable physicality. “All the objects in the studio shine: glass, porcelain, metal, oysters, glass, the oily surface of a lemon, pale blue china, lead, and velvet,” Golaski writes, introducing one so-called “still life,” which, while technically static on the canvas still “speaks movement.” What’s true for a tray of fresh-baked pizza nuggets or paper ballerinas arranged inside a shadowbox is true, too, for a row of whores hefting their skirts for medical inspection. Not that women, in Golaski’s gaze, become objects, but, in his terms, they become a “source” (not a “muse”), thus, Toulouse-Latrec’s “Woman Fixing Her Stocking” segues into a revelry on a girl changing out of her high school uniform; an image is caressingly described, the contemplated. An epiphany is gestured toward in words. As another narrative voice declares, “My beloved husband is a voyeur. A marriage vow: I must become a voyeur also.” “This isn’t ogling,” what Golaski does, but an ecstasy of the visual.

Read the whole thing here. Thanks, Spencer!

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Adam Golaski at the ABA Winter Institute!


Last Friday, Rose Metal author Adam Golaski and I mingled with over 500 independent booksellers at the ABA Winter Institute. The Institute was in Washington, DC, this year, and Adam was chosen by our distributor, Small Press Distribution, to represent them as the featured SPD author.

The show was amazing! The booksellers were super nice and energetic, and very enthusiastic about Color Plates and Rose Metal Press. We got to meet the book buyers and events coordinators from many of the stores where our authors have read, so that was neat, too.

On Friday night, SPD had a signing table at the closing reception for the Institute, which featured authors from small presses like Seven Stories, Soho, and us. Meg Tayler, our SPD rep, did an amazing job pitching the book at the breakfast for booksellers that morning, and there was a line at our table during the whole reception to talk to Adam about Color Plates and get a signed copy. The only line that was longer was for Ralph Nader, who was signing his new book of fiction, pubbed by Seven Stories, at the next table over!

A big thanks to SPD, ABA, and all the great independent booksellers we met!

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

The results of our Fifth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest

Contest judge Kim Chinquee has selected BETTY SUPERMAN by Tiff Holland of Round Rock, TX, as the winner of our fifth annual short short chapbook competition. We will be publishing this chapbook in July 2011, so keep an eye out for its release on our website! You can sign up to receive a copy of the winning chapbook as soon as it releases by becoming a supporter.

Our five other finalists include first runner-up Hello Friends and Neighbors by Kate Hill Cantrill of New York, NY; second runner-up The Children's Magical Garden by Amy Bergen of Brooklyn, NY; The Family Dogs by Christopher Bower of Chicago, IL; Extended Play in the Bottomless Pit by Andrew Farkas of Chicago, IL; and Migratory by Jessica Hollander of Northport, AL. Our four semi-finalists include Americans, Guests, or Us by Caren Beilin of Missoula, MT; Arktoi by Caroline Picard of Chicago , IL; Alienation and Winter Sports by Anji Reyner of Missoula, MT; and Unloading the Elephants by M Thompson of Seattle, WA. Congratulations to all of them!

We had our biggest submission year ever with 117 submissions. We are grateful to everyone who entered, and we enjoyed reading your work.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Adam Golaski will be reading off-site...

...at the AWP Conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday, February 2 at 6:00 pm at Poets and Busboys.

More details here; see you there!

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Sunday, January 09, 2011

Nin Andrews interviewed us...

...about Rose Metal Press for the Best American Poetry blog. You can read all the Q's and A's here. Thanks, Nin!

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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Small Press Distribution has chosen Adam Golaski...

...to be their featured author at the 2011 American Booksellers Association Winter Institute in Washington DC from January 19th through the 21st.

Adam will be signing copies of Color Plates on the afternoon of Thursday, January 21st at 5:45 pm at the Crystal City Marriott. Thanks, SPD!

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B. Lynn Goodwin interviews Tara L. Masih...

...about her short story collection Where the Dog Star Never Glows, as well as The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction over at Writer Advice. Read the whole thing here!

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