August 2011
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THE NEW HOUSEFIRE SITE IS LIVE!
After so much delay, here it is: http://www.housefirepublishing.com/ There isn’t much to say. It sort of speaks for itself.
July 2011
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TWO INTERVIEWS WITH EILEEN MYLES
ABOVE: Marika Haskins. NOT PICTURED: Eileen Myles. EDITOR’S NOTE Not so long ago, perhaps in February, we sent a request to the wonderfully talented and groundbreaking Eileen Myles with a request for an interview and a link to our previous articles, that way she would know what she was getting into. Myles graciously agreed, and so we sent her the questions with a request that she try and...
THE LOVERS
THE LOVERS by Tara Atkinson It was this friend I used to take baths with just because it sounded fun, when we were still little enough to do that, putting beards on each other’s faces with the bubbles, pretending we were mermaids, and this friend I went skinny-dipping with, when we were old enough to do that, climbing the chain link fence around our little community pool, not saying a...
June 2011
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HOUSEFIRE PARTY PHOTO GALLERY
WHAT WE TOOK WHEN THE HOUSE BURNED DOWN Photos by Rob Gray. Concept by Riley Michael Parker. You should come to the next one.
May 2011
5 posts
FOUR-LETTER POEMS (a book review?)
Joshua Brandon wrote a book called FOUR-LETTER POEMS, and Chelsea Martin did an illustration for every page. I read it and enjoyed the artwork. It’s only 45 or so pages long, and each page only has a line or two, so it’s hard to review, but I want to review it because I like it so much. Anyway, instead of telling you about it I have just used the poems, titles, and drawings as prompts...
HAPPY MOTHER'S FATHER'S DAY
HAPPY MOTHER’S FATHER’S DAY by Colleen Rowley I envy the sons that are left as boys. They are all that was, and everything that there is to be. Knowing now that their shoes are twice as big, and that no matter what they choose to fill them with, that they will always be theirs. To take what was left and build it. To Create a temple all their own, and for this they will be strong and...
TWO INTERVIEWS WITH CATHERINE LACEY
THE “HEY HOW’S YOUR TEETH? ARE THEY GOOD? I HOPE THEY’RE GOOD…” INTERVIEW HOUSEFIRE Do you ever write with other people? Like, do you do collaborative projects? It can fucking suck sometimes, even if it’s someone you work well with, but when it’s good, it’s great, yeah? Ok, so tell me about your dream collaboration. What’s the project? What do...
THE MOON TONIGHT FEELS MY REVENGE (a book review)
THE FUNERAL OF BEING So I am the type of person who would sort of want to see Adolf Hitler make love to George Washington. Animated or live action with costumes and wigs, it doesn’t matter. Not only would I watch it if it was offered to me, but I would seek it out if I heard that it existed. Or, if you told me there was a full-length novel written about a passionate night between our first...
TWO INTERVIEWS WITH YT SUMNER
THE YT SUMNER IS POSSIBLY MY FAVORITE LIVING WRITER INTERVIEW HOUSEFIRE I’m not such a big fan of poetry. I like Matthew Dickman, and Zachary Scomburg (except Zach and I are too similar sometimes. Also, and this is just a fun fact, Zach lives like ten blocks from me, and so does Dickman, and Carrie Seitzinger lives even closer and she’s a rad poet, and Colleen Rowley lives close and...
April 2011
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April 1st - THREE CONVERSATIONS WITH STEVE THE...
THREE CONVERSATIONS WITH STEVE THE OPTIMIST(IC THERAPIST) by Christopher Allen Red is your color, George. Trust me on this. And I’ll tell you what else is your color: a big red smile with red lips and red gums and red tongue. Here, try some of my patented candy-apple lipstick. US patent number 84240-58-67212, excluding Wisconsin—those bastards. Come on, George. Just a little. No. ‘No’ is not...
March 2011
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BOOK REVIEW: WE TAKE ME APART by Molly Gaudry
MOLLY GAUDRY WROTE A BOOK CALLED we take me apart, AND I READ IT ON A FLIGHT FROM PORTLAND TO SACREMENTO, IN MID-DECEMBER, THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWO-THOUSAND AND TEN And I found it to be quite lovely. Do you fly much? I don’t, but I like it when I do. I seem to travel well. I enjoy the motion of things. I also like the coffee they bring you on planes, or the half-soda if you would rather,...
February 2011
5 posts
TWO INTERVIEWS with Jimmy Chen
I sort of think Jimmy Chen had something to do with the invention of the internet, and writing prompts, and Nutella… I don’t know, I didn’t really read the interview. All I know for sure is that he’s upset about not getting paid, he is unaware that the plural of ‘haiku’ is ‘haiku’*, and he thinks that someone should fuck him (I guess he would know)....
TWO INTERVIEWS WITH LEN KUNTZ (part two)
This is part two of my interview with the hardest working man in flash fiction, Len Kuntz. For this section I asked him to look through the previous interviews I’ve conducted and steal his favorite questions for himself. Here’s what happened: THE STOLEN QUESTION INTERVIEW (AKA SAY IT LOUD (I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD)) HOUSEFIRE What is your favorite small press release of the...
TWO INTERVIEWS WITH LEN KUNTZ (part one)
Len Kuntz is a man on fire. He is the James Brown of flash fiction. No, he didn’t pay the cost to be the boss (not yet), but he is surely the hardest working man I know. He writes more than I sleep. He writes more than any man has a right too. I asked Len if I could interview him, and he was like “I already sent you my answers. Check your gmail. I didn’t know exactly what you...
BOOK REVIEW: LOVE IN THE TIME OF DINOSAURS, by...
WHAT IF SOMEONE WROTE A BOOK CALLED love in the time of dinosaurs, AND THEN WHAT IF I READ IT? There is a woman named Kirsten Alene who lives in Portland. I don’t know how old she is, but she is young, probably several years younger than me (I am almost certain), and she is charming, and pretty, and tall (and taken, for those of you who wonder). She does not have a dinosaur tattoo, but she...
NEW FICTION from XTX and RMP
LONG DISTANCE ROMANCE by XTX and RMP xTx - Are you down to fuck? No, that’s a horrible opening. Let me try again. Do you like sex with people? No, no… That implies that you might enjoy sex with non-people, and I know you would NEVER fuck a mexican. Ok, let me try this again. I hear we both have genitals - shall we try and use them at each other? I know we’ve never met or...