Hey, want a job?

Assistant Professor of English. Lake Forest College seeks a specialist in literature from the Early Modern period (1530-1780) to fill a tenure-track position. Preferred secondary specialization(s) in one or more of the following areas: the early novel, print culture, colonial/post-colonial/commonwealth literature, and dramatic literature. Applicants must have Ph.D. at time of appointment, substantial teaching experience, and a strong record of scholarly publication and promise. Submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, critical writing sample, and three letters of recommendation to Davis Schneiderman, Search Committee Chair; Box K-11; Lake Forest College; 555 N. Sheridan Road; Lake Forest, IL 60045. Screening of applicants begins immediately and continues through a postmark deadline of November 15, 2009. A highly selective liberal arts college located in a suburb of Chicago, Lake Forest College enrolls approximately 1,400 students from over 45 states and 65 countries. At Lake Forest College, the quality of a faculty member’s teaching is the most important criterion for evaluation. The College also expects peer-reviewed publication or creative works and active participation in the College community. Lake Forest College embraces diversity and encourages applications from women and members of historically underrepresented groups.

William S. Burroughs event in Chicago

I participated in a recent fundraiser for the Burroughs' film-in-progress, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, on August 28th.

The event let me share the stage with some greats: Peter Weller, Hal Willner, Anne Waldman, Penny Arcade, John Giorno, and scholar Bill Ayers, John Long, Tony Trigilio, and Kurt Hemmer.

Crain's has a cool little item about it all...

Who was that masked man?

Davis Schneiderman at Printers' Ball from Amy Guth on Vimeo.

Cool New Journal: Artifice

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

ARTIFICE MAGAZINE announces an open call for submissions for its upcoming
Issue 1, to be published in January 2010.

Submissions will be accepted year-round at
http://www.artificemag.com/submissions. Artifice Magazine is looking for
previously-unpublished stories, prose works, and poems, pieces that are
(as the name implies) aware of their own artifice: pastiche, mash-ups,
cut-ups, experiments gone awry, sly metafiction with a heart, and whatever
other sorts of text machines you can imagine. We want things that will
make us:

a. laugh and clap our hands with joy and surprise
b. sob silently and clap our hands, with a different sort of joy and surprise

We do not believe that postmodernism need or ought be heartless. But
neither do we require that every story wear its heart on its sleeve.

More information about Artifice Magazine can be found at
http://www.artificemag.com. Questions not answered there can be directed
to editors@artificemag.com.

Artifice Magazine is edited by James Tadd Adcox and Rebekah Silverman. You
can learn more about them at http://www.artificemag.com/about.

Nothing to do with Watchmen or Barack Obama or sex with Rush Limbaugh

Ok, that should get your attention.

I've been--let's face it--absolutely horrible at updating this blog, but, here's some recent stuff:

1) FIRST--for those in the and around da grate city of Chicago:

Schneiderman at Hull House: in the grand tradition of Jane Addams

Friday, March 13

Davis Schneiderman (2009 visiting writer at UIC) with Megan Milks.

Hull House, 800 S. Halsted St., 6 p.m.

--I may dress in an elaborate Peter Gabriel-era Genesis-like costume and/or commit treason onstage. Come, bear witness.

Here's the FB invite.

2. Salt Magazine has a big feature on my work this issue:

--Long excerpt from my ms. ScatØlØgically Yours
--Critical Intro by Megan Milks (University of Illinois-Chicago)
--Interview with me, also by Milks ("Davis Schneiderman and the Third Mind: An Interview with the Experimental Writer and Multimedia Artist"), about collaboration and my novel with Carlos Hernandez, Abecedarium.

3. William Walsh guest edited an awesome new issue of Keyhole.


--Best of all, there are some web extras you can check out now from Blake Butler, Sherrie Flick, Noam Mor, Josh Maday, Paul Long, Gillian Kiley, Sam White, Steve Katz (on Nabokov, Vonnegut, and Berryman), Davis Schneiderman (text and audio collaboration with Don Meyer), and a great podcast interview with Peter Conners on his new memoir, Growing Up Dead, conducted by Sam Ligon.

Schneiderman-ia 2009: This time it’s impersonal!

That crazy Association of Writing Program conference makes its way to Chicago soon (February 11-14), preceded by the 5th Annual Lake Forest Literary Festival at Lake Forest College, north of the city.

First: Here’s the rundown on the Literary Festival, starring cool poets like Christian Bök and Stephanie Strickland. Events are free and open to the public.

Now: here’s a series of off-site AWP events in which I am involved. Check something out if you are in the neighborhood, and, if you care about the deep personal connection we experience together.

I mean, we really share something, the two of us.

[If you are a conference attendee, you can find me on two different panels (Friday and Saturday)—but you’ll have to flip through the massive schedule and sort through scads of “personal expression” readings...]


1) Wednesday, February 11: 6 pm
Chiasmus Press Reading and Party
Location: Barbara's Bookstore, 1218 South Halsted Street

A reading and wine party with Chiasmus authors Cris Mazza, Gina Frangello, Davis Schneiderman, Stephen Graham Jones, and Lily Hoang.

Bonus: You can cut-up, mark, or otherwise deface a copy of my novels Abecedarium (Chiasmus Press) and DIS (BlazeVox books) as part of the Deconstructing Books project. Visit the Packingtown Review table at the conference and enter a free raffle to win the books: Bonus bonus: Saturday’s book fair at AWP is open to the public: Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Avenue.


2) Thursday, February 12, 8-11 pm Reading Between the Lines: An AWP Offsite Event, curated by Larry O. Dean
Location: Beat Kitchen (upstairs)
2100 W. Belmont, 773-281-4444

Join emerging as well as established writers from across the US for this intimate reading scheduled to coincide during the annual AWP Conference:

Shaindel Beers, Jessica Berger, Emma Bolden, Donald Breckenridge, Bruce Covey, Jacque E. Day, Lori Desrosiers, Laura Dixon, Eckhard Gerdes, Johannes Göransson, Sara Greenslit, Chris Hildebrand, Matt Markgraf, Pamela Johnson Parker, Ted Pelton, Brianna Pike Sarah Rosenthal, Davis Schneiderman, Karissa Sorrell, Roger Stanley
Richard Thomas, Chet Weise, Scott Woodham, Snežana Žabić.


3) Friday, February 13: 8 pm
A reading hosted by UIMA -- Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Location: 2320 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago Illinois, 60622

Readers: Ralph Berry, Eckhard Gerdes, AD Jameson, Lance Olsen, Davis Schneiderman, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Lidia Yuknavich.

Wish You Were Here

Michael Kimball has a great project to write life stories on postcards, or, in postcard like forms.

Here's mine.

It will also be part of Keyhole magazine, issue #6, guest edited by William Walsh, where each part of the book will be "literature."

Weather beautiful, buy can't wait to return...

Davis