November Chomu Press update

Well, the weekend is here, and I thought it was about time that I posted another Chômu Press update.

There's a lot of news, actually. For one thing, on Wednesday we released Here Comes the Nice by Jeremy Reed. Typical Jeremy Reed quote from an interview in the Independent:

There's an audience for imagination, but the literary establishment consistently blocks it. They use beta-blockers on it all the time to try to get rid of it because they're frightened of it. You can't have imagination with these safe academic jobs, or writing these neat little essays on Bob Dylan whom you've discovered 30 years too late.

By the way, I expect to see you all at the booklaunch, at Jamboree, Cable Street, Limehouse, London, the 1st of December.

Last month, we also put out the rather psychotronically spectacular The Orphan Palace by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., of which, Matt Cardin has the following to say:

Joe Pulver is like the answer to some arcane riddle: What do you get when you cross one of Plato’s Muse-maddened poets with a Lovecraftian lunatic, and then give their offspring to be raised by Raymond Chandler and a band of Beats? His work caters to a literary hunger you didn’t even know you had, and does it darkly and deliciously.

While we're on the subject, there's a feature on Chômu Press in issue #117 of Rue Morgue magazine, which spotlights The Orphan Palace. It also contains a brief interview with me in my editorial capacity.

I've posted the link to the audio interview with John Elliott (author of Dying to Read) before, but I do so again:

John Elliott Interview by chomuradioarchive

In case anyone wonders, I post this again despite the fact that it also features my voice. (I've generally had a bit of a horror of hearing my voice recorded.)

Next month, we can also look forward to the strange and wonderful The Secret Life of the Panda by Nick Jackson. Publishers Weekly review it thus:

With exquisite delicacy and a keen eye for the bizarre, Jackson (Visits to the Flea Circus) creates a series of moody vignettes taking readers from religious strife in 16th-century Holland to a jungle camp of South American guerrillas and the mundane hallways of a contemporary British school. … Illustrating his characters’ dilemmas via the natural world—birds, snakes, shells, animals—and with the challenges of gender identity and budding sexuality a recurring theme, Jackson provides an uneasy but rewarding experience for the thoughtful reader.

And don't forget, we're preparing the Dadaoism anthology. Watch out for more news about that at the Chômu website.