Had an entertaining Twitter conversation (I know, right?) regarding male:female publishing records in online and print lit mags. Nate Pritts, Anne Boyer, Elisa Gabbert, Jessica Smith, Reb Livingston and Katy Henriksen talked seriously about gender neutrality in publication while I provided provocative innuendo and lascivious snorting. Maybe it was because the girls outnumbered the boys six to one, but the debate stayed lively and cordial and no one had a cow and stormed off to cry in the ladies. Hearts and minds were changed, life-long dreams were rescued, and Nate is going to publish every female who submits to H_ngm_n from now on.
[update: In which Nate crunches numbers, Reb Livingston offers comment, and Daniel Nester crosses Reb Livingston like he doesn't know she carries a switchblade in her apron pocket.]
In other news:
A well-done poem about hangovers.
And Shane Jones' Light Boxes is picked up by Penguin.
I'm off to archivally-shrink wrap my first edition copy of the book and then huddle in a corner with the anxious notion that everything obscure and awesome will get optioned for film and widely distributed. On second thought, I have a lot more shrink wrapping to do.
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