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Alexandra Naughton

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Coping with Alexandra Naughton, Author of ‘American Mary’

by CCM November 7, 2016
written by CCM

#CopingWith is CCM’s interview series run by managing editor Joanna C. Valente


Alexandra Naughton’s poetry collection, “American Mary,” came out on March 11, 2016 from CCM. Of the book, Carleen Tibbetts has said, “This story is one of brave endurance in the face of loneliness and mediocrity. Naughton ‘fail Mary’ weaves searing insights among instances of the depersonalization of being marketed as ‘a capitalist body.’” As such, we interviewed her about her book, although instead of asking her boring lit questions, our managing editor Joanna C. Valente asked her about everything else instead, like what her favorite meal and apocalypse plans are.

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Here’s what she said:

Describe your favorite meal. 

My favorite meal is probably breakfast, after noon, with black coffee or an almond milk latte, maybe a bagel and cream cheese, or maybe some kind of sandwich. I like sandwiches a lot, and diners. I wish the East bay or the bay area in general had more 24 hour diners. Is that an East coast thing? There’s so many all night diners in Philly. A 24 hour diner is great because you can take a late night bike ride to the art museum and then ride around Kelly drive and then head back to South Philly and get a patty melt and a milkshake before going back home to crash. And the endless coffee. And there is just something so pure and simple and pleasurable about sitting in a booth and looking out the window onto a parking lot or highway or back alley.

What music do often you write to, if at all? 

Whatever album I’m currently obsessed with. The newest project I’ve been working on, I’ve been writing along to art angels by Grimes. I wrote a lot of American Mary while listening to the song born to die by Lana Del Rey on repeat. I love listening to songs and albums on loop while I’m working because then I get into a rhythm and I’m not thinking about the music but it’s a way to keep track of time. This is the best when I really feel like I’m on a roll in regard to generating work.

What are three books that you’ve always identified with?

“Their Eyes Were Watching God,” “The Egypt Game,” and “Jesus’s Son.”

What do you imagine the apocalypse is like? How would you want to die?

The apocalypse is like being crushed slowly without really knowing it’s happening and you’re still able to operate your limbs but everything takes longer than you think it should and your head always hurts and you’re always tired and people tell you that you’re having a good time and doing a good job but you feel like you’re not making any progress and everything you see around you is somewhat frustrating especially when you think about it for too long so you try to get out of your head and into nature just take long walks but you eventually have to return to the daily monotony and the pleasant times always feel shorter than they should and you think if you just keep moving your limbs or at least nodding your head or at least listening to what they say and doing the work they give you that eventually you can just check out and everything can feel like a long walk for the rest if you’re time but you just keep toiling and sinking further into debt that you can’t think about because it makes your stomach turn and your heart race.

In an ideal situation, I’d like to bleed out via vampire.

If you could only watch three films for the rest of your life, what would they be?

“The Birds,” “Clueless,” and “Body Double.”

How would you describe your social media persona/role?

Annoying girl. I don’t know why I’m here. I guess I’m just trying to have fun. Maybe I’m too vertical sometimes but I feel like I’m mostly just cracking jokes or hating on myself.

What’s your favorite animal and why?

My cat, Sookie. Or a sparrow.

What do you carry with you at all times? 

My keys.

Choose a gif that encompasses mornings for you. 

Choose one painting that describes who you are. What is it?

“Prometheus Bound” by Peter Paul Reubens & “The Execution of Lady Jane Grey” by Paul Delaroche.

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Alexandra Naughton is editor in chief of @baipress in California. Her first novel, American Mary, was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in March 2016 . She’s a Libra. Follow her on twitter: @thetsaritsa

 

 

 

 

 

 

joanna valenteJoanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (ELJ Publications, 2016), & Xenos (2016, Agape Editions). She received her MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM. Some of her writing has appeared in Prelude, The Atlas Review, The Feminist Wire, BUST, Pouch, and elsewhere. She also teaches workshops at Brooklyn Poets.

November 7, 2016
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NOW AVAILABLE: The Quarter 1 2016 Catalogue

by CCM March 11, 2016
written by CCM

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“To read Janice Lee’s new book, The Sky Isn’t Blue, is to remember. […] The book disappeared as it became each second ticking away in my life, reminding me that I will not be able to save it nor will I ever be able to forget. ”
–Chiwan Choi, author of Abductions

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RaGoransson“Love letters. Love poetry. […] Johannes Göransson’s letters to an ex-lover Ra — as well as the letters in this book to the radiator, history, Susan Sontag, America, poetry itself–come from a poet whose ‘heart [and poetics] belongs to a drive-by shooting.’ Reading them is to be invited into the theater of utterly mixed metaphors where nothing follows.’”
–Steve Tomasula, author of The Book of Portraiture

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insignificana“In the spirit of Donald Barthelme, Dolan Morgan queers the every day and leaves a sinister domestic scene behind.”
–Catherine Lacey, author of No One Is Ever Missing

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AmericanMaryx1“Told almost entirely through lyrical fragments and beautifully-observed scenes, Alexandra Naughton’s American Mary is the latest incarnation of the Great American Novella, at once unsettling and moving.”
–Michael Kimball, author of Us

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TheWomenFarmer“Reading Ashley Farmer’s The Women is like reading a cubist painting. […] Even as she unapologetically documents the power that systemic oppression has over our daily lives, her women emerge as brave, hungry, and resilient. The Women simultaneously made my blood boil and made me feel less alone.”
–Megan Martin, author of Nevers

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youwithyourCover“Gary Shipley’s conception of reality is more like our actual present reality than our literary culture’s usual inbred narrative realism can afford. […] Literature almost doesn’t deserve this maniac, and thank hell he’s here.
–Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million

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Mallbratcover“With pop pastiche, lyrical pirouettes, and sage insights parading as ‘confessions,’ these poems position—like a ballet class at its bar pivoting towards the mirror—the young against the old, the native against the new, and the innocent against the cynical to show them how, together, they more beautifully out of sync.”
–Monica McClure, author of Tender Data

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March 11, 2016
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ANNOUNCING: The 2015 CCM Compendium

by CCM December 7, 2015
written by CCM
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Cover design by Ryan W Bradley

CCM is pleased to announce the first annual CCM COMPENDIUM. This is an idea that’s been bouncing around in the back of my mind for at least a year now, and thanks to the help of Ryan W Bradley (who created this fabulous hardcover wraparound cover design) and dozens upon dozens of CCM authors, the idea is now a reality.

Acting as a synergy of present and future, the 2015 CCM COMPENDIUM will feature work by every author published by the press in 2015 as well as samples of work from every author with a forthcoming publication in CCM’s 2016 Catalogue. What does this mean? It means you can expect writing from:

(2015 Catalogue) xTx, Brandi Wells, AT Grant, Andrea Kneeland, Jayinee Basu, Sean H Doyle, Katie Jean Shinkle, M Kitchell, Darby Larson, John Colasacco, Jamie Iredell, Brandon Hobson, Mark Katzman, Ben Brooks, Ryan W Bradley, Kirsten Alene, Brian Oliu, Corey Zeller, and Evan Retzer

(2016 Catalogue) Janice Lee, Johannes Goransson, Alexandra Naughton, Dolan Morgan, Matthew Simmons, Gary J Shipley, Ashley Farmer, Laura Marie Marciano, Justin Sirois, Sara June Woods, Madison Langston, Carolyn Zaikowski, Tobias Carroll, Joshua Jennifer Espinosa, Andrew Miller, Ctch Bsnss, Wendy C Ortiz, Henry Hoke, Helen McClory, and Mathias Svalina

At the conclusion of every yearly Catalogue, CCM will publish a Compendium to celebrate the passing of the torch, of sorts, from one year to the next. Each Compendium will be published in a high quality hardcover edition, designed to sit next to both its representative Catalogue of titles as well as other, future Compendiums. It’s my hope that by offering this showcase, readers will be able to enjoy some of their favorite writers’ work in one convenient place as well as discover (and anticipate) the work of writers they might not have known about prior to the Compendium.

The 2015 CCM COMPENDIUM will be available January 13th 2016 wherever books are sold. We’re coping.

December 7, 2015
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