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Pretend Genius in NYC

Small Press Book Fair in New York City

Pretend Genius authors to sign books and mingle with their fans in New York City on Dec. 4th and 5th. See Sean Brijbasi, J. Tyler Blue, Josh Davis, Stephen Moran, Dean Strom, and Blem Vide carousing at the main event.

pG books spotted in the wild*

The Willesden Bookshop

*A prize of 2 weeks plenary indulgences courtesy of Fr Horniman s.j. to anyone who sends in more pictures of pG books in their native habitat.

Awards and Sales

"If, like me, you had neither read nor heard about the novels nominated for this year's National Book Awards, then you'll be interested in Edward Wyatt's piece in the NYTBR." (MoorishGirl)

Quotes

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." (Thomas Edison)

"PretendGenius is ninety-nine percent inspiration and one percent perspiration." (Feargal Mooney)

On Finding a Muse

Rouse Magazine (J. Elisa Schmidt)

An interesting review of Josh Davis's The Muse and the Mechanism.

Ripping Yarns

Deserializing Joseph

Stand by for more idling.

He's all over the place, like a cheap suit

Jimmy goes to Bloomsbury

Pretend Genius Books and City Lights Bookstore

Pretend Genius books are now available at City Lights, the most famous bookstore in America. Go there. Buy. City Lights.

Leonardo Smee

Reading

Stephen Moran tells us he will be reading one of his horrible new stories at Studio 95 in the Willesden Library Centre, London (event starts 7:30 pm on Thursday, September 23rd. ) Plans are under way to re-animate zombies to provide a claque. Bopping the till will be Preethi Nair, Siobhan Curham and others.

Helen Elefant

Darkbloom

I see some excellent articles by my old friends Ossian Lennon (of Sloe Wine) and Feargal Mooney (of the Willesden Herald) have mushroomed in the Fall Edition. There's also a rather harsh review of Josh Davis's latest novel, The Muse and the Mechanism. It's a book that everybody ends up talking about. I found it pacy, interesting and honest, three things that I cannot say for very many books.*

Isolde Featherstone

Josh, if you're reading, the check still hasn't arrived.

Small Wonder short story festival

Stephen Moran read at the Small Wonder short story festival "slam". (More)

Radio Days

Listen to Michael Rothenberg talking about beets or something, here.
Alfredo Carnousti

Moran for DeadDrunkDublin Festival

obLiterato and deadSperado Stephen Moran continues his Shrieking Havoc world tour, with an appearance at the first DeadDrunkDublin festival on Wednesday August 4th. (More)

Yuri Blinkinfop

Breaking News

PretendGeniusPress books to hit independent bookstores throughout the USA.

That's it.

pGpr hooligan gatecrashes Dublin party

DWW: Electric Acorn Bloomsday Special

The Wholly Officious

(After The Holy Office, by James Joyce)

Myself unto myself will give
This name, Lord Justice Purgative

Shortly after he died, Joyce said that Stephen Moran had "... the true comic spirit. He's like an unholy trinity made out of Gogarty, Beckett and that O'Brien fellow - another Finglas bowsy."

Phillipa Panshi

Mikhail Gorbachev issues apology to Sean Brijbasi

Mikhail Gorbachev called author Sean Brijbasi yesterday to apologize for not showing up at his launch party/book signing event due to foreseen reasons. Brijbasi said the conversation was cordial but that his office would no longer be taking calls from Mr. Gorbachev asking for free tickets to any future signings or readings. Gorbachev arrived in Washington D.C. earlier this week and is staying at a hotel above the restaurant that Brijbasi's launch party and book signing took place.

"I have a responsibility to those who don't have foreseen reasons", Brijbasi was quoted as saying. "I mean, what's the problem here? Is it me or is calamity a word?"

When asked if he had met with Gorbachev, Brijbasi gave a terse "what since then don't you sound, huh?"

The launch party/book signing event was an overwhelming success for Brijbasi with hordes, hordes of people filling the stadium. Sixty thousand people.

The Kremlin could not be reached for comment.

Mergon Droodle

Believers Against Filth

A special book-burning service will be held in Columbine Memorial car park this Sunday, during which the congregation will be encouraged to bring PretendGenius filth and any other obscene publications for the bonfire.

PretendGenius is offering a special discount on filthy books from their purulent catalog of degeneracy. 10% off all prices for members of the Columbine Memorial Car Park Bonfires Loyal Order of Water Rhinos for Saints Bridget, Macaroni and Cornholio.

Other faith-based groups in need of filth for burning are invited to apply for volume discounts. We have a never-ending supply of home-grown and imported filth. No job too big or too small. Free quotes.

Marketing Dept.

Wriggly's Believe it or Not

River Walk Journal lists pGpr and WriteThis along with Nerve as possible porn sites.

Fidel Nero

Exhibition

you're all welcome to visit Theorema Art Gallery/Brussels.
an opening with a fine group show of visual artists

on the 22nd May
more details here

(stratos)

Advertisement spotted in the Herald

"This story collection carries us like an outgoing tide, on a wave retreating from the underworld of 21st century London to a Dublin hinterland in the 70's, 60's and beyond, to the time of coalmen, tenements, and bicycles." (as seen in the Herald)

The London Silence by Stephen Moran is now in-stock at:

The Willesden Bookshop, Willesden Library Centre, NW10

Queens Park Books, 87 Salusbury Road, Queens Park, NW6

Kilburn Books, 8 Kilburn Bridge, Kilburn High Road, NW6

Titles Of Penge, 94 High St, Penge, London SE20

Ask your local bookshop to order it for you. ISBN 0974726141

More high grade ore from the punk mines: PretendGeniusPress

pGpr steals everything at Mid-Atlantic BookFair

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Our writers have returned from another great adventure near the Washington D.C. area. We'd like to send out a heartfeltless thank you to all of you who showed up to support Sean, Josh, and Blue at the annual Mid-Atlantic Small Press Fair. We have to say, however, that after viewing the documentary footage, we're surprised that Blue was not mated in 6 moves.

It may interest you to know that PretendGenius implemented Project Cricket at this particular book fair. The results have been nothing short of miracalculus. For more information on this project that is sweeping the nation by storm under the rug of corruption (to be or not to be la la la la) visit our website.

By the way, who was the girl in the pink skirt?

For more info. on PretendGeniusPress visit PretendGenius.com

a few pictures coming soon.

thank you,

smedley (or is that smedly?)

Project Cricket

chirp chirp chrip chrip pirch prich

coming soon...

Breaking News

Something is happening over at JTylerblue.com.

Tom Drinkwater

PretendGeniusPress to steal the show and anything else laying around...

PretendGeniusPress will be one of the main players at the annual Small Press Book Fair held in the Washington D.C. area. Rumor has it that Sean Brijbasi, J. Tyler Blue, Josh Davis, and the Stereocean dancing girls (appropriately dressed) will be there in full force representing PretendGeniusPress on April 24th. The Obliterati will have embedders to bring you the full story with pictures and without.

Mergon Droodle

Everything must go

Only three two one none of the 25 hand-numbered and signed copies remain of the first edition of The London Silence. This is a special offer for pre-orders; delivery will not be for about two months.*

You'll travel many miles before you will ever get a chance to acquire such a rarie again, so don't let it slip. It's a long way to slip a rarie.

Julia Melloncamp

*You can still order signed un-numbered copies of the first edition (75 still available.) The second edition will follow immediately.

Letter from a Genuine Reader

Dear obLiterati

I wish to complain on behalf of concerned parents about the hidden messages embedded in your audio page. I have discovered that when different combinations of the first three items are emplayified simultaneously, they reveal messages to cult members to go out and massacre cartoon characters. I would like to offer my patented aluminium foil hood with premium-guage Perspex™ eyepieces for protection from evil influences through computer screens, if you would kindly allow me to advertise here.

(Note to Editor: please do not print my address.)

GalacticSlayer, 1204 Jalopy Flats, Parsipanny, N.J.

Review of a Review

This guy certainly knows his onions. He's been around the block a few times too, on a motorbike I wouldn't be surprised. Here, see for yourself: The Compulsive Reader review of Still Life in Motion.

Fergus Singh DeBleuys

Special Report

Barnaby Rutthlebone here, reporting live from nightclub 2Zoos. The commotion is very commotive here as I stand before a thong of women clamoring for...well I can't make out who it is. I can barely hear above the wild shriek-like sounds emanating from perfectly perky lips but I believe the DJ is making an announcement. My sources did tell me that J. Tyler Blue was making an appearance tonight and I fully expect him to appear from the giant cake in the middle of the dance floor. Wait, something's happening. The women are going crazy now. Completely berserk. I can't see. I can't verify if it is indeed J. Tyler Blue coming out of the cake. I've made my way to the front of the crowd now. Oh my! It's J. Tylue Blue and Bloog Mandrake. The thong of women here are chanting Blueg Blueg Blueg. It's pandemonium.

filed by
Barnaby Rutthlebone
Feelancer

Cerebralty Sightings

They walk by night, the undead pGpr authors with their hellhounds.

Letters

Dear pGpr,

you don't have many girl on your roster.

A Genuine Reader
Busted Flats, Baton Rouge

Children! not in front of the customers...

Smedley

Bob, there is no need for negativity. So piss off.

Valerie Kleber

This is a message. It has my name at the bottom. You ought to try it.

Bob Preston

Conspiracy Against PretendGeniusPress?

As was reported before this journal's existence, there has been strong evidence of a conspiracy against PretendGeniusPress. From the blowing up of their facilities in the Faeroe Islands that housed most of their pseudonyms to the recent compromising (but unsubstantiated) reports that they edit their work. And now this from Poets and Writers Magazine. A typo and a misplacement. As you'll see in documents obtained by The Obliterati the word 'genius' is spelled 'genuis' by Poets and Writers Magazine. Surely a slap in the face to these fearless publishers and an indication that PretendGeniusPress is shaking up the publishing world. Not to mention the neutering of deftly crafted copy by one of PretendGeniusPress' sublimest minds. Poets and Writers? Where?

This reporter for one would like to call on all poets and writers to write to their congressperson or worthless government official and demand an investigation. This outrage must not stand.

Here: PretendGeniusPress in Poets and Writers

Mergon Droodle
Embedder in Training

Ms Houllebecqder, we have confirmed that Ms. Carter was riding Stephen's back like a little monkey at one of the Oscar parties. As a highly professional and dedicated actress, Ms. Carter was simply staying in character for the upcoming Planet of the Apes sequel "Love Monkey". Good sport that Stephen. And yes, your other roommate Ms. Sturmey-Archer did see Bryan E there as well. Not playing drinking games mind you, but trying to sell movie rights to his upcoming book. We're not sure if there were any takers, but we hear that he did get laid by one of the nominees for 'Best Extra in a Documentary Featuring Full Frontal Nudity'. Good show Bryan.

Ortwright Gerder
Obliterati Correspondent

Please settle a bet for us. My roommate swears that she saw Stephen Moran with Nicole Kidman in a shot of one of those after-Oscar parties last night. I have bet her a pack of thongs that she is wrong. I'm pretty sure I saw Stephen pass by on the red carpet with Helena Bonham Carter riding on his back, and goading him on with a riding crop and silver spurs. (Ooh, I don't know now! I think I might have dreamed that bit.) Our other roommate, Crystal-Melanie Sturmey-Archer thinks she recognised Bryan E in the background having a raucous time with other frat-packers playing a drinking game with tequila slammers or something (I don't know what she's talking about.) Anyway I'm like, shut up beatch, nobody's ever seen Bryan E, and she's like that's where you're wrong, because she went to his room after a book signing. So please pGpr, tell us who was at the Oscars from your authors.

Wendy May Houllebecqder

If I order a signed copy of Josh's book can I request that it be dedicated to Heavenly Hirani Fifi Trixibelle please? (It's not for me.)

Chip Larson

Do any of the autters ever come here? Maybe you can give me some writhing advisory? How do I go around getting publicated? Is this a patriotic straight up and down place too, with no European perverts and such? I just thot I'd check. There was a sackrolagious poem on one of these sites last week by Jackues Pervert, according to the K. K. Kronikal.

Don Key

Hello, I am The Great Suspendo.

This looks like a cool place to hang.

The Great Suspendo

welcome to the obLiterati, where nobody knows your name

Special Report

pretendgeniuspress subjuncted me to animal plays.

she parked to animal plays and subjuncted me to those animals. animal plays. pretendgeniuspress. are you? how are you? i have it hers long thing where i keep tile. late for feedering. i. pretendgeniuspress. sharp treeth. truth. sharp truth. animals freeding. i freed birds. how are you? pretendgeniuspress. how are you? what tile is it? i parked to park, uh on continent cherry, i parked to. i parked to park. pretendgeniuspress. no no. i uh, i uh, parked to park. i freed birds.

annaphasia gergensonson
special to the obliterati

Pathos and nausea in the work of Jean Gauloise

This is a very long article that nobody will ever read, about an author that nobody wants to read, but some people have to. It is written by a reviewer who is so desperate for money that he is prepared to sacrifice his integrity, time on this earth, reputation for not being a hack, admiration of his friends, prepared to disappoint his parents and schoolteachers, nonplus his former employers, and by the way render himself unemployable, by condescending to waffle for farfallanious hours to no end other than the acquisition of a few banknotes, in dirty fives. Turning to Jean Gauloise, whose advisedly dubbed seminal work, Disque Bleu

Sorry, had to stop - I've been shot.

Martin Pratt-Ching

J. Tyler Blue, Stephen Moran spotted at Jerc Khikcen's Soul Shack

by Leonardo Smee
obLiterati embedder
Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2004

J. Tyler Blue and Stephen Moran were spotted at Jerc Khikcen's Soul Shack on the corner of 23rd and Vestibule St. in Plimptom, South Carolina. When approached by this reporter, inquiring about their forthcoming books, J. Tyler Blue passed out on the floor and Stephen Moran tumbled over a table of pig's feet.

"I'd like to say that they came here for the pig's feet, but they didn't eat nothin'", Purly Winstroop owner of Jerc Khikcen's Soul Shack stated.

Calls made to Banfield Smedly, spokesman for PretendGeniusPress have not been returned, but a source close to the situation told the obLiterati that the two authors were either doing research in that part of the country or that their bodies had been taken over by alien children. Alien children, we were told, that are not of legal drinking age.

It's "bring your child to work day"

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