Saturday, September 25, 2004

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

Friday, September 17, 2004

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

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

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.

Monday, September 13, 2004

Thursday, August 12, 2004

Monday, July 05, 2004

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

Thursday, July 01, 2004

Breaking News

PretendGeniusPress books to hit independent bookstores throughout the USA.

That's it.

Thursday, June 17, 2004

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

Friday, June 11, 2004

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