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

Hey, apply for this award: it's money, food, housing, and publication!

Lake Forest College
Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize (Prose)

Lake Forest College, in conjunction with the &NOW organization, invites applications for an emerging prose writer under forty years old, with no major book publication, to spend two months (February-March or March-April 2010) in residence at our campus in Chicago’s northern suburbs on the shore of Lake Michigan.

There are no formal teaching duties attached to the residency. Time is to be spent completing a manuscript, participating in the Lake Forest Literary Festival, and offering two public presentations.

The completed manuscript will be published (upon approval) by the Lake Forest College Press &NOW Books imprint.

The stipend is $10,000, with a housing suite and campus meals.

Send curriculum vita, no more than 30 pages of manuscript in progress, and a one-page statement of plans for completion to:

Plonsker Residency
Department of English
Lake Forest College
Box A16
555 N. Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045.

Submissions must be postmarked by April 1, 2009 for consideration by judges Robert Archambeau, Davis Schneiderman, and Joshua Corey.

Memorials to Future Catastrophes

It's out, finally, Don Meyer and my audiocollage CD: Memorials to Future Catastrophes, from Jaded Ibis Productions.

Here's the description:

Davis Schneiderman's and Don Meyer's extraordinary CD is the first phase of a multimedia collaboration that suggests catastrophes in a world increasingly cordoned off by the representative fears of terrorism, bio-disease outbreaks, and natural disasters.

Check out the track, Watermelon Man (Looped Version), at Mad Hatters' Review.

You can buy the disc at all the usual online places, including CD Baby, but if you email me at dschneiderman at lakeforest.edu, and cover shipping, I'll send you one for free while supplies last.

More soon, hopefully, about this and other collabs.

2009 resolution

Ok, I never make resolutions--but, I do hope to publish to this blog more often.

My daughter, the narratologist

My 2.5-year old daughter-genius--Athena--just told me that a piece of junk mail contained a story about her parents drawing a picture of a cow, jumping over the moon.

Who knew she was ready to have a character narrator (Athena) describe a story about character focalizers (me and Kelly Haramis, wife), describing a focalized object (cow/moon--which in itself is drawn from the rich cultural and morphological tradition that stands outside the entire narrative?

Federman, look out.