It's December, and we all know what this month is about: going to mad parties, letting it all hang out, and then guiltily planning New Year's resolutions afterward. Fortunately, here at
Fourteen Hills we will help you out with all of the above, minus the guilt. Come to
our release party on
Thursday, December 16, at Coffee Bar in the Mission to hear some guest readers so incredible, they will make you want to get to your writing desk/recording equipment/sketch pad immediately to lay down some serious inspirations for the new year. But you can't leave too soon, because we will be partying and getting literary like crazy.
If you want to feel inspired early (and maybe really jealous) check out some of the super talented contributors that will be reading at our release party:
ADAM JOHNSON is a self-described “maximalist;” he favors bold plots over subtle ones, and manages to always entertain. So if you ever find yourself bored with “the literature of the times,” do yourself a favor and pick up one of his publications. He has been a construction worker, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, and the Senior Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University.
Playboy magazine even named him “one of the nation's most influential and imaginative college professors.”
Winner of the
Whiting Writers’ Award, the
Gina Berriault Award, and an NEA Fellowship, he is the author of a short story collection
Emporium (2002), and the novel
Parasites Like Us (2003), which won the California Book Award. His fiction has appeared in
Esquire, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Tin House, and
Best American Short Stories.
The excerpt that appears in
Fourteen Hills 17.1 is from his recently completed novel, tentatively titled
The Orphan Master’s Son. Set in a modern North Korea, and partially narrated by a “propaganda loudspeaker,”
The Orphan Master’s Son promises to be quirky, poignant, insightful, and tender all at the same time. If you are as intrigued as I am, you can
read an excerpt.
MYRON MICHAEL's words hit hard. After reading
his piece in the Harvard Review Online, I found myself momentarily unable to process any thoughts beyond “whoa.” His work is gritty, honest, and eye-opening. He is a Cave Canem Fellowship recipient, and his works appear online and in
The Harvard Review, Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds (City Lights, 2009),
Tea Party, and
Nanomajority.
In addition to being a writer (his chapbook
Scatter Plot is forthcoming), Michael is also a recording artist and a writing teacher. He is the proprietor of Rondeau Records, which produces “Poetry for Hip-Hop, literature, and music of the highest quality.” Under the name Money The Mystro, he records his own songs which you can check out on
Myspace and on
his website. He also has
a blog with more insightful words, and even pictures of spiders.
MOLLY PRENTISS is full of charm and wit. She doesn't believe the idealized “cabin of solitude” that many writers desire would really work out so well, because, as she says, “we don’t want to be even lonelier than we already are!” She recently received her MFA in Creative Writing at the California College of the Arts and is now a resident writer at Workspace with the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She is also a co-director of an arts and writing collective called
factorycompany.
She has been published in
La Petit Zine, Miracle Monacle, Plaid Review, The City Reader, and elsewhere. Her story appearing in
Fourteen Hills 17.1 is about, as she says, “a homeless guy who hums into a jar and sleeps with other people's girlfriends.” It is even more amazing than it sounds.
Check out her blog to see more of her writing, her illustrations, and her really adorable handwriting.
-Stephanie Doeing, staff member,
Fourteen Hills
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