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#CopingWith: 13 Fiction Pieces You Need To Read

by CCM May 15, 2017
written by CCM

This week, I rounded up some fiction you should read.

1. Ilana Masad – “Hamlet, Claudia, Zanzibar” (Volume 1 Brooklyn)
2. Michelle Lyn King – “Ghosts You Loved More” (Joyland)
3. Rion Amilcar Scott – “The Party” (Joyland)
4. Kamil Ahsan – “The Bare-Bones Facts” (Entropy)
5. Han Yujoo – “The Impossible Fairytale, excerpt” (Cosmonauts Avenue)
6. Henry Hoke – “Genevieve Exists” (Entropy)
7. Bud Smith – “Temporarily Here” (Digging Through the Fat)
8. Celeste Mohammed – “When a White Man Paints Black People” (The Rumpus)
9. Becky Mandelbaum – “Straw House” (The Rumpus)
10. Chavisa Woods – “A New Mohawk” (Lit Hub)
11. Nick Cave – “The Sick Bad Song” (Lit Hub)
12. Kerry Cullen – “Tell Me What to Do” (Luna Luna Magazine)
13. Justin Lawrence Daugherty – “This Is Conquest” (Joyland)


Joanna C. Valente is the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Xenos,  and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault.

May 15, 2017
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Watch Henry Hoke Read an Excerpt from ‘The Book of Endless Sleepovers’

by CCM January 9, 2017
written by CCM

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


Henry Hoke’s book,”The Book of Endless Sleepovers” came out on October 31, 2016 from CCM. Of the book, Maggie Nelson has said, “I love how Henry Hoke plays fast and loose with autobiography and genre. The Book of Endless Sleepovers is wry and finely-wrought, a philosophical fever dream studded with the pleasure of proper names and surprising turns of phrase, a lyric page-turner.”

Watch Henry read a clip below. Don’t forget to read his full interview here.


henry hokeHenry Hoke was a child in the South and an adult in New York and California. He authored The Book of Endless Sleepovers (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and Genevieves(winner of the Subito Press prose contest, forthcoming 2017). Some of his stories appear in The Collagist, PANK, Gigantic and Carve. He co-created and directs Enter>text, a living literary journal.

January 9, 2017
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Coping with Henry Hoke, Author of ‘The Book of Endless Sleepovers’

by CCM November 21, 2016
written by CCM

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


Henry Hoke’s book, “The Book of Endless Sleepovers” came out on October 31, 2016 from CCM. Of the book, Maggie Nelson has said, “I love how Henry Hoke plays fast and loose with autobiography and genre. The Book of Endless Sleepovers is wry and finely-wrought, a philosophical fever dream studded with the pleasure of proper names and surprising turns of phrase, a lyric page-turner.”

As such, we interviewed him about his book, although instead of asking boring lit questions, our managing editor Joanna C. Valente asked Hoke about everything else instead, like what his favorite meal and apocalypse plans are.

Here’s what he had to say:

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Describe your favorite meal. 

Tortellini. I saw a Reading Rainbow about how it’s made and was hooked for life. 

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

Night Bus.

How would you describe your gender? 

Southern expat gothic.

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

365 Days, 365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks

Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote

The Indispensible Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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

A painting I saw at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice called Still Life with Lobster, a cartoonish still life where the lobster was hulking and alive and seemed to be flailing its claws at the viewer. I thought it was by Botero but I can’t find any evidence of its existence. Maybe that’s for the best.

Choose a gif that encompasses mornings for you. 

My gif, like my mornings, is set to music:

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

Pass.

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

Paris is Burning

Rear Window

Eyes Wide Shut 

How would you describe your social media persona/role?

Idiosyncratic. Restrained. I save my favorite stuff for the books. 

What’s your favorite animal and why?

Tapirs. They’re singular! 

What do you carry with you at all times? 

I keep a foot-shaped blue gem in my wallet. I’m pretty sure I know where I got it. It’s been with me a long time.


henry hokeHenry Hoke was a child in the South and an adult in New York and California. He authored The Book of Endless Sleepovers (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and Genevieves(winner of the Subito Press prose contest, forthcoming 2017). Some of his stories appear in The Collagist, PANK, Gigantic and Carve. He co-created and directs Enter>text, a living literary journal.

 

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 21, 2016
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NOW AVAILABLE: Quarter 4 2016 Catalogue

by CCM October 31, 2016
written by CCM

bruja-frontcover-final“In Bruja, Wendy C. Ortiz deftly navigates the land of dreams in what she calls a dreamoir. By telling us her dreams, by revealing her most unguarded and vulnerable self, Ortiz is, truly, offering readers the most intimate parts of herself–how she loves, how she wants, how she lives, who she is. Bruja is not just a book–it is an enigma and a wonder and utterly entrancing.”
–Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist

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alligatorsofabrahamcoverfinallll“It’s the skull-fucking you didn’t know you needed.”
–Liberty Hardy, Book Riot
BACK WITH A NEW, DEFINITIVE EDITION: Robert Kloss’s The Alligators of Abraham is a fever dream built from the fly strewn corpses of armies, the megalomania of generals, the madness of widows, the fires of mourning, the fury of the poor, the indifference of the wealthy, and the ravenous hissing of those alligators who have ever plagued the shores of our national nightmares. The Alligators of Abraham is a Civil War epic unlike any other.

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SimmonsCover“The stories Matthew Simmons tells in The In-Betweens are strange delights. I love the way he writes, between the unexpected and inevitable, the very narrow place where comedy and tragedy both live, and I love the weird little worlds that first appear alien but later open up to reveal the actual ache and joy inside. The In-Betweens is a really fun and meaningful book and I am happy I was alive to read it.”
–David Connerley Nahm, author of Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky

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I love how Henry Hoke plays fast and loose with autobiography and genre. The Book of Endless Sleepovers is wry and finely-wrought, a philosophical fever dream studded with the pleasure of proper names and surprising turns of phrase, a lyric page-turner.
–Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

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ladybegoodexterior-lk_22Lauren Hilger’s debut is a masterful expose of filmic proportions. In each poem is a film beckoning to be viewed, emotional resonance pulling you in for a full embrace. Lady Be Good is a delight and declares Hilger as an important voice in contemporary poetry.

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October 31, 2016
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ANNOUNCING: The 2015 CCM Compendium

by CCM December 7, 2015
written by CCM
The CCM 2015 Compendium, CCM Compendium

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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