Monthly Archives: August 2010

Success Story

After years of dust­ing itself in lan­guish, this aban­doned turntable rides again! Revived turntable: David Bowie — Space Oddity

08.31.2010 – 2:17:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Travel in Two Stories

Among the recent set of sto­ries I sent out to mag­a­zines was one called “Sin­gu­lar­ity,” a reac­tion to my time liv­ing abroad in India. It’s about one Colin Rezo, a pow­er­ful oil exec who is taken hostage by his foul imag­i­na­tion on his trip back from Chen­nai, Tamil Nadu, and launched into a spec­tral tail …

08.28.2010 – 8:31:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Art: Amber Albrecht

This is the work of Amber Albrecht, a Cana­dian artist and illus­tra­tor whose work I first saw on the cover of a lit­er­ary mag­a­zine,  Sycamore Review. I cul­ti­vate a dis­tinct love-loathe rela­tion­ship with visual art; I love to look at it, but loathe talk­ing about it. It always leads to just another absinthe-fueled argu­ment about …

08.20.2010 – 9:54:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Search and Destroy

Search, cat­e­go­rize, print, sign, pre­pare, send. Repeat. The con­stant and well pol­ished  sub­mis­sion machine–powered by Excel–rolls on. Two sto­ries launched into space , one more pre­pared now. Twelve mag­a­zines, four vol­leys of three sub­mis­sions apiece. And then, of course, three to five months of wait­ing, wait­ing, waiting…

08.10.2010 – 1:33:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , | Comments (0)