January 2005

05: Guy Davenport 1927–2005.

Charles A. Ralston's Guy Davenport page features an extensive bibliography of Davenport's numerous books, articles, and pamphlets, as well as an index of reviews, interviews, and criticism.
And here you'll find links to numerous articles by and about Davenport, written for Harper's and other magazines.
If you're looking for something to read, try Davenport's July 2001 review Intimate with Walt.

01: Our ninth issue will be available soon. Some parts of it can already be read here.

01: The journal Reconstruction has issued a call for papers for a special theme issue on "blogging." More info here.
This special issue is a threshold issue. Thresholds are about the transgressing, pushing or collapsing of boundaries; they are about the point of beginning, the entranceway and stimulation. Thus, threshold issues are dedicated to exploring an experimental theme, novel method(s) or theoretical apparatus(es) that might not normally find an audience. Rather than having firm publication dates – due to the experimental nature of their contents – threshold issues are published once a minimum number of acceptable submissions are received. If this minimum is not met by 18 months from the December 13, 2005, the approved manuscripts will be published in the next available issue of the journal.

older announcements

2004

04 Nov: Kass Fleisher, author of The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History, read in Stevenson Hall room 401 at Illinois State University.

18 Oct: Willard Bohn presented his Distinguished Professorship Lecture in the Old Main Room of Bone Student Center at Illinois State University. His topic was "Avant-Garde Writers and the Fourth Dimension." Dr. Bohn has been a supporter of this zine since its inception. Click here for more information about his work and his lecture.

30 Mar: Joseph Thomas, co-editor of this zine and Assistant Professor of English at CSUN, read with and introduced three of his students—Karina Souto, Hazel D. Sonanes, and Brad Torti—on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 at the Barnes & Noble Glendale. This an all-new expansion of the Writers & Teachers Series, co-curated by Catherine Daly and Margaret Wang.

28 Mar: ISU's English Department has closed the Unit for Contemporary Literature. The Unit was home of production for American Book Review, Fiction Collective 2, Spoon River Poetry Review, the and LitLine, including that site's various supported projects. It supported the Illinois Literary Network, sponsored literary readings, and was a major component of ISU's publishing program. It also employed regular zine contributors Brooke Nelson and Jeremy Coulter, among others. We have no information yet as to how the Unit's closing will play out, except that obviously this is a major loss. (See Curtis White's ISU English Department Chronology). We at fkal'b have begun work on a special issue focused on this closing, and will post new information here as we receive it.

24 Mar: Added yet more links.

22 Mar

Added a lot of links.

At 7 PM on Friday, March 19, 2004, there was a reading to celebrate the release of Swami, the 8th issue of the zine formerly known as l'Bourgeoizine. At the Coffeehouse in downtown Normal (IL). Free copies of issue 8 and previous issues were available. Various zine authors read. You can find photos at Conchology, Gabe Gudding's blog.

12 Mar

At 7 PM on Friday, March 19, 2004, there will be a reading to celebrate the release of Swami, the 8th issue of the zine formerly known as l'Bourgeoizine. At the Coffeehouse in downtown Normal (IL). Free copies of issue 8 and previous issues will be available. Donations are always welcome. Various zine authors will read. If you would like to participate and/or find out more about the zine and this event, please contact Tim Feeney.

We might be finished accept submissions for our ninth issue, but please send us stuff because there's always the tenth issue.

Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. has won ISU's Dissertation of the Year Award. If only you cats were closer, we could go out and celebrate!

Tim's getting really, really good at making sushi. Specifically Tim Rolls, an amazing new sushi dish that's becoming all the rage in his kitchen. He just wants to let everyone know that he's been making sushi lately. It's really cheap when you make it yourself, and even cheaper when Tim makes it.

Linked to The Chatelaine's Poetics (a poetry blog)

29 Feb 04: After nearly a year of sweat and swearing and speculation as to whether the L'Bourgeoizine crew had spoken its last, several of us gathered at the Coffee House this morning and, in an appealingly calm and anticlimactic display of collation and stapling, finished production on Formerly Known as "L'Bourgeoizine" #8. I think you'll all join me in great big capital letters when I say IT'S FINALLY DONE. Thanks to everyone who came out today to help with the final push: Brooke, Sam Berkes, Kate Johnson (whose e-mail addy I don't have, so someone tell her thanks a million), David McHone-Chase (and, later, Sarah McHone Chase), Erin, Kasia, Chad Johnson, Gabe, and yrstruly. With this crack crew of collators and staplers and snappy conversationalists, we put together ~400 copies of the issue in just about two hours, and we figure that only about 1-2% of the finished issues are incredibly loved up beyond belief. Not bad! xxoxo Tim

2003

Michael Benton's new site Dialogic, is one of those weblog thingies.

Ziggy-With-A-Hat, the world's greatest (and most maligned) comic character, now has his very own website! You can read lots of Ziggy-With-A-Hat's comics, as well as some other fun stuff. Like try and find out why he keeps getting kicked out of so many newspapers! Also, you can discover how to become an official "Friend Of Ziggy-With-A-Hat"!

Maxine Kumin has selected L'Bourgeoiziner Eric Nelson's manuscript "Rockets" for the XJ Kennedy award in poetry. This will be Eric’s second major book publication.

Curtis White’s newest book, The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves, is now available from Harpers San Francisco. Issue 7 of this zine contained an excerpt from a slightly earlier draft of the book’s final chapter.

Jeff VanderMeer’s most recent project is The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases.

OldSpeak, a longform fiction/arts mag, will premiere soon with its “Planet Fiction” issue. Submissions (fiction, creative non-, and art-sequential or otherwise) are still being accepted. Email Jeremy.