This Man Is Dying, Folks: East Coast Reading Tour August 12 - 21! Dates in NYC, NJ, Boston, Portsmouth NH, and ME
Dark Coast is throwing a little shindig composed of multiple shindigs in the northeast throughout the middle of August. Featuring DCP author Jarret Middleton reading from An Dantomine Eerly, and fellow DCP'er Jennifer Natalya Fink (select date) reading from her upcoming The Mikvah Queen and 13 Fugues (forthcoming, DCP 2011), along with a host of other amazing writers and musicians. Details listed below! *IF YOU LIVE ON THE EAST COAST, PLEASE MAKE IT OUT TO THESE DATES!*
▪ Fri 8/13: @ Bowery Poetry Club w/ Jennifer Natalya Fink (V, Burn, The Mikvah Queen)
833 Bowery, Manhattan, New York 5 - 7pm. FREE
▪ Sat 8/14: @ The Raconteur Bookstore w/ Pedro Angel Serrano + Jon Andrew acoustic
431 Main Street, Metuchen, NJ. 8pm. FREE
▪ Tue 8/17: @ RiverRun Books w/ Tim Johnston (Irish Girl, Never So Green)
20 Congress Street Portsmouth, NH. 7pm. FREE.
▪ Fri 8/20: @ "Living Room Reading" Boston, MA w/ guests
115 Fischer Ave., Unit 1, Jamaica Plain, MA. 8pm. FREE. BYOB!
▪ Sat 8/21: @ "Living Room Reading" Caretaker's Barn (Hamilton House) w/ Tim Horvath (Ciruclation) +
40 Vaughn's Lane, South Berwick, ME. 7pm - late. FREE. BYOB!
Read the Publisher's column at TNB
Dark Coast Press publisher Aaron Talwar has his very own column about the trials, tribulations, and joys of the independent publishing world. Aaron will consistently cover topics of a literary nature every couple of weeks, so be sure to follow his antics! Check out his first installment entitled, "The Apparent Insanity of Ambition, or, How I Started An Indie Press" now at The Nervous Breakdown! Congratulations, Aaron!
New reviews on Middleton's debut An Dantomine Eerly
Seattle's resident poet and prose author John Olson wrote this excellent, poetry-laden review of ADE. Implore you, read it!
“Identities are never fully clear in this Gothic tale of romance and sex. The language that provides clues as to their appearance and character shines and shifts with something larger than beings of skin and bone. Its language is a liminal one, haunting the borders of life and death, ideas and reality, with a mournful, incendiary resonance. At the heart of this book is a deep romanticism, a dusky tenuity that thwarts and lures, conceals and reveals, confusing actuality with hallucination . . . [An Dantomine Eerly] sounds as if Charles Bukowski had suddenly been possessed by the spirit of Matthew Arnold. As if Dover Beach suddenly became Venice Beach, and the acerbic barfly a quixotic scholar gypsy. As if they could somehow be both, in the same body.” John Olson, author of Souls of Wind and The Nothing That Is
Also, the blog Rundpinne wrote a nice brief review of ADE, check it out HERE
The Gallery at darkcoastpress.com on temporary hiatus
The Gallery will be on temporary hiatus starting July 2010 until the Winter of 2011. The reason for this break is the complete redesign and relaunch of The Gallery in every form and fashion next winter! New writers, new stories, new excellent everything. That, there, is a promise. We will be back soon. Authors: Please keep submitting to The Gallery at
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and see our Submissions page for further guidelines. Thank you!
Jarret's reading from An Dantomine Eerly (Dark Coast Press, 2010) at the beautiful Village Books in Bellingham, WA TONIGHT at 7pm. If you are in the area come out for straight up literature! http://villagebooks.com/event/jrd-middleton-dantomine-eerly
Publication Date: Spring 2011
Say hello to the newest member of the Dark Coast family!
David Belczyk is an attorney and engineer that has published two volumes of poetry. He resides in Pittsburgh, PA. For more information about his work, or to purchase his books, please visit davidbelczyk.com.
Please continue to check back for more information regarding the release of Elynia and Other Stories in 2011!
Publication Date: May 3rd, 2011
We are so happy to be signing Jennifer Natalya Fink's forthcoming story collection 13 Fugues!
This collection is a series of thirteen interrelated stories narrated by Tanya Irene Shwartz, a 30-year-old Jewish-American woman. Each story explores Tanya’s erotic relationship to her sister, Jewish law, 1970s American pop culture, older men, and younger women. Using the dissonant, repetitive structure of the musical and psychological fugue, these stories retrieve the rhythm, passion, and confusion of adolescence. Each story crystallizes around a moment of transformation, transgression and terror. And to each of these moments, the story adds a grace note: that almost-sound just before a chord that limns it with the divine.
Jennifer is the author of three novels: BURN and V (Suspect Thoughts Press) and most recently, THE MIKVAH QUEEN (Rebel Satori Press 2010), which won the Dana Award for the Novel. She is the founder and Gorilla-in-Chief of The Gorilla Press, an organization that promotes youth literacy through bookmaking. She is an assistant professor of English at Georgetown University. She lives in DC with her partner and daughter.
Please continue to check back for more information regarding the release of 13 Fugues in 2011!
NEW Official Book Trailer: An Dantomine Eerly by Jarret Middleton
The Gallery at darkcoastpress.com Ed. 3, June 2010 up now!
This month's Gallery includes poems by David Belczyk, an identity equation by Bryan Murray, an aesthetically constructed owl by Jordan Hartt, and a journal page of amazing discussion topics by Rachel Dorothy Blowen. Check it out now!
http://www.darkcoastpress.com/gallery.html
Jarret Middleton book readings, Oregon bound!
June 18th, 2010 Wy’East Book Shoppe & Art Gallery
67195 East US Highway 26, Suite A
Welches, Oregon 97067 (Mt. Hood)
Jarret Middleton will be reading from An Dantomine Eerly and other stories at this wonderful event in mountaintown.
http://www.wyeast-online.com/events.asp?date=6/1/2010
June 29th, 2010 Village Books
1200 11th Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
(360) 671-2626
Jarret Middleton will be reading from An Dantomine Eerly and other stories in Bellingham. Very excited for this event!
http://villagebooks.com/event/jrd-middleton-dantomine-eerly
Updates: new readings, books for sale, and May Gallery
Jarret Middleton will be reading at the Evening of Paper put on by Pilot Books in Wallingford on May 15th, read more . . .
Dark Coast will be selling books at the Evening of Paper event. An Dantomine Eerly is now available on Amazon . . .
A new edition our online Gallery at darkcoastpress.com, featuring Kristine Ong Muslim, Neila Mezynski, Gail Taylor, and Carl Palmer can be found right here . . .
An Dantomine Eerly book poster, bookmark, you know, sweet stuff
New May 2010 issue of The Gallery out now!
A brand new issue of The Gallery at darkcoastpress.com is out now! Featuring children who are grown with radiation, patrons that willingly dive from a sinking platform, and a widow who comes downstairs one morning to find her long-dead husband drinking coffee at their kitchen table. Fabulous stories and poems by Kristine Ong Muslim, Neila Mezynski, Gail Taylor, and Carl Palmer.
Check it out here: http://www.darkcoastpress.com/gallery.html
Shelf Awareness article: "Dark Coast Press Lights Up Seattle"
Publishing industry news site Shelf Awareness just released a very nice article on us in the Monday April 19, 2010 issue of their newsletter.
[. . .] An Dantomine Eerly is the company's first release (March 30). It's a reconception of the aisling (Gaelic for "dream vision"), an 18th-century poetic form, and follows Irish-American poet Dallin as he makes his passage into death. "It's inventive and creative," Talwar said. "We want it to be our calling card. Our whole approach is to make literary fiction, poetry, essays and avant-garde works accessible and approachable to the public." [They] plan to put out 10 to 20 books a year, including a compilation of the best material from the site. They're looking to acquire two additional works to publish in 2010 [. . .] Read the full article below:
http://news.shelf-awareness.com/ar/theshelf/2010-04-19/dark_coast_press_lights_up_seattle.html
Jarret Middleton reading at Pilot Books 4.22.10
Jarret Richard Devlin Middleton will be reading from his new novel An Dantomine Eerly (Dark Coast Press, 2010) at the wonderfully comfortable, atmospheric, local indie-lit bookstore Pilot Books. Hope you can make it.
219 Broadway E
Seattle, WA 98102
The poster from J.r.d. Middleton's book release party at Richard Hugo House in Seattle in April of 2010 is ON SALE NOW. These 18" x 24" screen-printed posters are a limited series of 55 copies, hand-numbered and signed by designer Jody Rodgers.
ADE poster on sale for $12 alone or $20 when purchased with a copy of An Dantomine Eerly! VERY limited supply!
Debut issue of The Gallery April 2010 OUT NOW!
We are so happy to announce the debut of a new feature from Dark Coast Press. The first edition of The Gallery at darkcoastpress.com is up now! The Gallery is a free monthly feature of new writing from some seriously great contemporary authors. It includes lit fiction, short prose, novel excerpts, poetry, and experimental pieces. It’s all online, it’s all free. It’s all good. We hope you’ll find the work at The Gallery aesthetic, interesting, and a lot of fun to read. We sure do.
April 2010: The Gallery at darkcoastpress.com
http://www.darkcoastpress.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=70
This month’s issue includes:
