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MARCH 2008
Upcoming Events:
March 28, 7PM.
2008 NEXUS
Conference (Collective and Collected Identities), Knoxville, Tennessee.
SJ's keynote address will focus on the SKIN project.
April 26-27
Los
Angeles Times Festival of Books
SJ will be participating in two panel discussions: "Literature and
Technology: Breaking the Mold" and "Fiction: Alternative Visions."
May 10
The Raconteur Festival, sponsored by Raconteur Books,
Metuchen, New Jersey
SJ will read with various authors (including the unstoppable Kelly
Link), musicians and circus performers!
New & Recent
Work:
The
Long Relay,
a long-distance collaborative writing project for London's Serpentine Gallery.
Half Life, a novel about conjoined
twins, chosen as one of the Village Voice's favorite
books of 2006, and winner of the Tiptree
Award.
The
Cat's Meow, Guernica Magazine
Shelley
Jackson Talks with Vito Acconci, The Believer, Dec/Jan 07
9/11
and the Numberless New Yorks, an essay on Jenny Holzer's 7 WTC
installation, The Poetry Foundation
MuTT (Mutant Typology Test)
"The
President's Mouth," The Brooklyn Rail, September 2006
SKIN
...grows slowly. Full information here.
What's the SKIN project? SKIN is a mortal work of art: a story tattooed
on readers' bodies, one
word at a time.
The call for participants first appeared in Cabinet Magazine, issue 11
(Flight); you can also read it here. The
title and first word were published in sequence on Monday September 8
at Bowery Tattoo. See here for
documentation. In a surprising turn of events, this project has been
covered in The
New York Times "Year in Ideas" 2004, Newsweek, the New York Post,
the Village
Voice, USA
Today, The
London Observer, The Sunday
Telegraph,
The Toronto Star, The LA Weekly,
The Seattle Times, Print, Step, Res, Black Book, Decode, Tattoo Highway,
German Glamour,
Italian Elle, the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, the Swedish Dagens
Nyheter, the Argentinian Clarin, and on CNN, NPR's
All Things Considered, BBC radio (twice), BBC Scotland, German
public
radio, Canadian public radio, Canadian book television, Swedish
national television (see "Ett dödligt konstverk" and
click on "se reportaget") and Polish news
radio. It has been blogged, parodied,
and spawned a Yankee
Pot Roast competition and a sermon.
Most recent count of participants: over 1780,
approximately 315 to go. Applicants should expect major delays: SJ is
doing this all by herself.
Older Stuff:
"Songs
for Mouth-Listeners," Moistworks, June 27
"The Original Death & Burial of Cock Robin," a long essay about
literature and taxidermy, appears in Conjunctions #46.
"The Short-Term Memorial Park" is included in Paraspheres, ed. by Rusty Morrison
and Ken Keegan.
"The Marquis de Wonka" appears in Sex and
Chocolate, ed. by Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole.
A story called  (yes, its title is a picture)
appears in Conjunctions
#45, Secret Lives of Children.
"Here is the Church," a ghost story about Nina Simone,
appeared in Black Clock #2,
and
was also selected for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. In
"Life
in a Glass House" SJ mouths off about the Sims
for the Village Voice. A longer version of this essay appears in the
anthology Gamers, published
by Soft Skull. In "Gross
Anatomy": SJ reviews the wonderfully strange books of David Ohle
for Bookforum. The amazing
Kelly Link's new collection of
stories, Magic For Beginners,
has art inside and out by SJ, and you should also
buy her first collection, Stranger
Things Happen, and her anthology Trampoline,
which contains SJ's "Angel." The
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies published SJ's "Musee
Mecanique"--a
sort of an essay on writing, wind-up toys, Pinocchio, Philip Dick, and
voice recognition software. Yet another incarnation of the
essay/rant "Stitch Bitch" appears in the hardcover anthology edited
by Thorburn and Jenkins, Rethinking
Media Change, from MIT Press. Check out Rebirth
of Roy, a time-travel story by SJ and Matthew
Derby (author of the great Super Flat Times). SJ
answers some questions about books as physical objects, and so do a
whole lot of other people, for Fantastic Metropolis.
Read about "Vitriol," or
bile, in The Dictionary of Failed Relationships, edited by Broussard.
SJ's latest children's book, Sophia,
the Alchemist's Dog, is available from Atheneum. Last but not least:
The Melancholy of Anatomy
Anchor Books, April 2002
SJ's first story collection has ineradicably stained
a large amount of wood pulp (apologies to the world's forests). We
recommend you ask your local independent bookstore to order it. Of
course, you can also get it online. Interestingly, we have found that
if you do a search for "The Melancholy of Anatomy" (by Shelley
Jackson), Amazon will helpfully offer you "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
(by Robert Burton). Of course you already have that, so keep looking.
(Or you can just click here.)
Sooner or later you will come across SJ's book, which we would like to
point out is both shorter and cheaper. (Read about the Shelley Jackson
/
Kelly Link 2002 book tour, including a high speed blow-out, House On
The Rock weirdness, and an ode to the van, on Bold
Type. Illustrated!)
IS
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Winner of the James
Tiptree Jr. Award!
The
Melancholy of Anatomy
Read about it:
- Excerpt
and interview,
Booksense
- Excerpt
and interview,
Bold Type
- Review and
interview,
Weep Magazine
- Excerpt
and interview,
Iowa Review Web
- Review,
Electronic Book Review (Internet Explorer only)
- Review,
Village Voice
- Advance
acclaim,
Village Voice,
"Writers on the Verge"
- Review,
LA Times
- Review,
New York Times
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INERADICABLE STAIN