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

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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 : Nairobi tentacle of Calamari repatriated back to NYC, for the time being.

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.

3/8 : Blake Butler in Northampton w/ Rachel B. Glaser, etc.

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.

12/18 : Holland, 1660 by Jimmy Chen posted on Sleepingfish.

12/17 : Miranda Mellis reads from The Revisionist on KQED.

12/6 : Eugene Lim of Ellipsis Press was gracious enough to tote and monger Calamari and 3rd bed book objects, along with his Ellipsis ones to the Small Press Book Fair in NYC.

12/5 : Two more posted in Sleepingfish N series, one by Ravi Mangla and another by Fortunato Salazar.

12/3 : If you're chomping at the bit, Blake Butler's Ever is available for pre-order straight from the horse's mouth. There's also a 10-part interview with the horse's mouth on Rauan Klassnik's blog: 1, 2, 3, etc...

12/1 : Move On by Uche Peter Umez posted on Sleepingfish N.

11/28 : Video posted of Peter Markus reading two stories from The Singing Fish.

11/28 : Book trailer and images from Blake Butler's forthcoming Ever.

11/25 : Four instructions for children's games by Mathias Svalina posted on Sleepingfish.

11/12 : The Fireman and the Caper by Justin Dobbs is up on Sleepingfish.

11/10 : Peter Markus read at Ada Books in Providence.

11/7 : Two by Shane Jones were posted to the Sleepingfish N series.

11/3 : Peter Markus read with Renee Gladman at Eastern Michigan University's Dreamland Theater.

10/15 : Three by Kim Parko were posted to the Sleepingfish N series.

10/13 : The webbed incarnation of Sleepingfish has been seeded with pieces by James Reich and J.A. Tyler.

10/12 : Interview with Peter Markus on WDET, Detroit.

9/25 : Review of Michael Peters and Erik Carlson's performance of Vaast Bin in Brooklyn Rail.

9/14 : Calamari Press was at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

8/29 : Eugene Lim says some things about Marsupial.

8/22 : According to Poets & Writers, there are no pigs in the Calamari stable! True indeed, though plenty of fish, bears, tortoises and marsupials.

8/15 : A. D. Jameson reviewed Tortoise in the Review of Contemporary Fiction.

8/15 : Review of The Hour Sets in Stride Magazine.

7/15 : Blake Butler reviewed Marsupial on his blog.

7/12 : The bulk of Calamari inventory is somewhere in limbo between NYC and Michigan.

7/11 : Jacob Eichert review The Revisionist in the new American Book Review.

6/30 : Sleepingfish issue zzz launch party was at Barbes in Brooklyn. Rick Moody, Dave Hollander and Kate Hill Cantrill all read. See what went down.

6/21 : Marsupial by Derek White now available.

6/21 : 3rd bed titles are now available through Calamari Press! This includes back issues of 3rd bed, Motorman by David Ohle, the false sun recordings by James Wagner and Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz.

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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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