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2/7 : Rachel Galvin gives Wagners Trilce a proper treatment in Zoland Poetry Review.

2/6 : Sleepingfish 8 launch party celebrating Calamari Press's move to DUMBO.

1/18 : Angela Stubbs reviews EVER on The Collagist.

1/15 : Motorman (#3), Stories in the Worst Way (#7), Ever (#24), Boons & The Camp (#38) & Good, Brother (#39) all made SPD's Best-selling Fiction 2009.

1/15 : Calamari Press moves Down Under the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn.

1/1/10 : Sleepingfish 8 is now available. Special online features include a linear narrative formed from sentences from each author in issue 8 & a setlist of music from current & past sleepingfigh contributors.

12/24: posted the «SPQR P.S.» series [a postscript in collage/frottage to Poste Restante] on 5cense.

11/20 : Michael Kimball interviews Robert Lopez in The Faster Times.

11/13 : Tobias Carroll reviews Boons/The Camp in Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

10/31 : Matt Bell interviews Norman Lock in The Collagist.

Robert Lopez read 3 times in the NYC area: 10/27 at Pacific Standard in Brooklyn, 10/28 at McNally Jackson & 10/29 at the Bowery Poetry Club.

10/26 : David Ohle's pair of novellas, Boons & The Camp, are now available.

10/26 : Kim Parko talks about Blake Butler's Ever & Shane Jones's Light Boxes & asks them some questions in the latest DIAGRAM.

10/24: Norman Lock, Joanna Ruocco & Gary Lutz were at Barbes in Brooklyn.

10/17 : Miranda Mellis read at Litquake.

10/14 : Michael Peters read at the &Now conference in Buffalo followed by a Vaast Bin installation on 10/15 & 10/16.

9/25 : 4 Calamari books in SPD Jun-Aug bestsellers.

9/23 : Congratulations to Blake Butler on his 2-book deal with Harper Perennial!

9/12 - 9/20 : Blake Butler, Robert Lopez and Sam Ligon were on tour supporting new books.

9/9 : Calamari Press 2009 Print catalog is now available. Get yourself one by printing the PDF (in order) then fold and staple along spine. Or contact me for one. Note many titles have been reduced in price up to 33% when purchasing directly through Calamari (online or via mail).

9/8 : Double review of Blake Butler's Ever & Matt Bell's The Collectors up on Bookslut.

9/4 : Robert Lopez profiled in L Magazine.

9/3 : Michael Kimball interviews Gary Lutz.

9/1 : AD Jameson reviewed Blake Butler's EVER in The Review of Contemporary Fiction.

8/31 : Calamari inventory is now back in NYC. Big thanks to Peter Markus for holding down the fort during the Africa hiatus.

8/20 : Gary Lutz read w/ Jim Krusoe at St. Marks in NYC.

7/27 : In anticipation of the forthcoming pair of novellas by David Ohle, here's some images and video inspired by and for Boons & The Camp.

7/20 : Now considering submissions for the next issue of Sleepingfish, issue 8, co-edited with Gary Lutz.

7/14 : Motorman and Stories in the Worst Way come in at #2 and #3 on SPD's bestseller list for spring 09.

Blake Butler is on tour with the Dollar Store Show, with early July dates in Nashville, Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Baltimore, New York(7/12), Philadelphia,... and Blake's Scorch Atlas is coming very soon from Featherproof.

7/5 : Blake Butler profiled in L magazine.

6/28 : Blake Butler's Ever makes Dennis Cooper's mid-year top-10 list.

6/15 : Robert Lopez, Eugene Marten and some other fine folks read at the Unsaid Launch Party at KGB.

5/30 : Review of Peter Markus's work on Christopher Vola's blog.

4/16 : Gary Lutz read at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

4/13 : Speaking of novellas, John Maderas has compiled these incredible fave lists from other writers. Blake Butler's Ever was on quite a few lists, as was The Revisionist, Land of the Snow Men and Tortoise.

4/9 : We are thrilled to announce that we will be publishing a pair of novellas by David Ohle. Here's an excerpt from one of them to whet your beak, er, bill.

4/7 : Ever-insightful interview with Blake Butler in Eclectica.

3/29 : Blake Butler in Boston at Dirty Water Readings for Quick Fiction/Black Ocean w/ Zach Schomburg.

3/9 : Blake Butler in Providence at Ada Books w/ Mike Young and Claire Donato. 

3/7 : Blake Butler in Providence for Keyhole 6 w/ Kim Chinquee.

3/5 : EVER book launch party. Blake Butler, Robert Lopez and Gary Lutz read at Word Books in Brooklyn. Clips from the event: Lutz, Butler.

3/4 : Miranda Mellis @ Get Lost Books, SF.

2/27 : The reissue of Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz is back from the printers.

2/21 : Blake Butler read with Shane Jones and others at 510 Readings in Baltimore.

2/19 : Michael Kimball interviews Blake Butler on elimae.

2/18 : I've been sort of MIA for the past few weeks, sorry, but Blake Butler's EVER has been getting some good press lately, in the likes of Large Hearted Boy, North Punk, Clusterflock, Exoskeleton, HTMLGiant, etc. To keep up with it all, you'd best follow Blake's blog.

2/12 : Blake Butler, Peter Markus, Robert Lopez and a host of others read at Quickies.

1/28 : The final piece in the zzz ><()*> N series is up: How To by Aaron Burch.

1/22 : an excerpt from Melampus by Brandon Hobson is up on zzz ><()*> N.

1/20 : Six asemic pieces by Marco Giovenale posted on zzz ><()*> N.

1/15 : double bolted doors by sandy florian posted on zzz ><()*> N.

1/14 : Blake Butler's EVER is officially in the house, on his 30th birthday no less.

1/11 : Bait by Brian Beise posted on zzz ><()*>.

1/6/09 : Where I Stay (excerpt) by Andrew Zornoza posted on zzz ><()*> N.

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David Ohle: Boons

Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz

EVER by Blake Butler

Marsupial by Derek White

Tortoise by James Lewelling

The Hour Sets by Michael Boyko


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Sleepingfish 8

Boons & The Camp
David Ohle

EVER
Blake Butler

Marsupial
Derek White

3rd bed imprint:
journal issues
Motorman | David Ohle
false sun recordings | James Wagner
Stories in the Worst Way | Gary Lutz

Sleepingfish ZZZ

Tortoise
James Lewelling

Bear Stories

J'Lyn Chapman

The Hour Sets

Michael C. Boyko

Vaast Bin: n Ephemerisi

Michael Peters

Sleepingfish 0.9375

Part of the World

Robert Lopez

 

The Revisionist

Miranda Mellis

 

Poste Restante

Derek White

Good, Brother

Peter Markus

Sleepingfish 0.875

The Night I Dropped Shakespeare On The Cat
John Olson

Trilce

James Wagner

 

ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos 

Carlos M. Luis & Derek White

 

Land of the Snow Men

George Belden (edited by Norman Lock)

Sleepingfish 0.75

The Singing Fish

Peter Markus

 

 

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Calamari Catalog 2009


 

 

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Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers


"Calamari Press titles and its journal, SleepingFish, are environments in book-object form ... As inside the abandoned museum, inside Calamari Press publications the world is included in the reading, and the world is also the book, there for our reading." 

-Selah Saterstrom, in Tarpaulin Sky


"Founded by Derek White (creator of Sleepingfish magazine) and only a few years old, Calamari Press out of New York City, is creating a buzz for itself publishing texts that are unconventional, yet eminently readable...." 

-Robert Bell, for New Orleans Review


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