ANP Quarterly

I have a long interview in the next ANP Quarterly (issue ten). Ethan Swan interviewed me, it is around 10,000 words. I think he will edit it some. ANP Quarterly publishes long interviews. I just reread the interview in my gmail account. We did it on gmail chat. While rereading it I thought, "I can use this interview finally maybe to send to people as a response whenever they ask me a question about morals or corporations or abstractions or a lot of other things or when they try to fight me about something." I am glad Ethan Swan interviewed me. Thank you Ethan Swan. He asked questions that I have asked myself or thought about before a lot. While doing the interview I thought about him and saw him sitting at his computer with a concentrating facial expression and sometimes an interested facial expression. Sometimes I saw him eating something or doing other things, I am not sure what I saw exactly. I think sometimes I saw him with a bored or indifferent facial expression, bored not because of the interview but because of feeling indifferent about life or something. If I saw that I think I was just seeing myself. He asked about the bands I Hate Myself and Jawbreaker and Saves the Day. At the end I started talking about hamsters, I typed "five million hamsters" at one point. I think I made some okay jokes in this interview.

After a few months I thought something happened and they didn't want to publish the interview anymore because I saw that I was not in issue nine. I thought this partly because I gave one other interview to some other place and I am not sure if they ever used the interview. They said I would be paid money and I was not paid money. I'm not 100% sure I was not paid money. Maybe I was and I deposited the check but forgot. The interview was supposed to come out in December. I thought that maybe ANP Quarterly "also" didn't like me anymore and didn't want to print my interview. I saw that Harmony Korine was in issue nine and maybe they replaced me with him. I accepted this but I also emailed Ethan Swan asking about photographers he had (a few months ago) said would take pictures of me and he responded to my email and then the co-editor Brendan Fowler emailed saying Peter Sutherland would photograph me.

I want to type about Peter Sutherland because while we were walking we started talking about hits and Gawker and I know he has statcounter or a kind of statcounter. It will be "fun" if I link him and he looks at statcounter and sees the hits I am "giving" him. Thoughts will be processed, it feels fun. He will make a facial expression maybe. When he was taking my photo we walked by a playground and I went on the swings and at one point I was "using" a neutral facial expression while swinging very hard. I had seen Peter Sutherland's website and saw that his photographs had people with neutral facial expressions in them and I said I liked that and he said that he liked that also. Sometimes when I tried to have a neutral facial expression he said I actually looked "pissed off." He said he worked at Angelica Kitchen I think seven years ago.

There is a one-page thing in the current issue of Nylon Guys about me. Mallory Rice wrote it. I don't have it scanned but Ellen Frances put it into a montage, you can see it there.

I have a story in the current Noon that isn't anywhere else, I have the issue, it has around 60 pages of Clancy Martin's novel that is coming out called "How to Sell." Clancy Martin has a two-hour video on the internet of him debating "does God exist." Deb Olin Unferth and Lydia Davis are also in this issue.

Travis Nichols interviewed me on gmail chat for Paste Magazine. We talked about the famous freegan who was on The View, I think his name is Adam. The issue will be out in April.

I like this story by Brandon Scott Gorrell.

I typed for the back-cover of my next poetry book, "In Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy a 23-year-old person attempts to explain to himself the possible origins, ends, and cures of anger, worry, despair, obsession, and confusion while concurrently experiencing those things in the context of a romantic relationship, a book of poetry, and the arbitrary nature of the universe."

The Mississippi Review updated their website. I'm in issue 35/3 and I think 34/1&2. I like the Mississippi Review. Frederick Barthelme is the editor, I've read almost all his books. Mary Robison used to edit also, I've read almost all her books. I like their books. I maybe like most Two Against One and Why Did I Ever.

You can read a lot of what they have published since 1995 on this page. There is an essay by Gary Percesepe that talks about "minimalism," a story by Curtis Sittenfeld I like a lot that she wrote when she was I think 20 or 21 or 22, these two things by me, and other things.