HARIBO to publish “B-61” by Douglas A. Martin

This is a new publishing idea (“a new place for writing that I am making online”). More from editor Jacob Severn:

“I would hesitate to call it a journal, because it will have no archive, no collection. Only a single piece will be made available to read at any given time.”

I first met Jacob some years ago now when visiting one of Darcey Steinke’s classes, something I sometimes do at Goddard even, like to read for her one of Barry Hannah’s stories, “Water Liars.”

She had been my teacher at the New School, and I was going to her class to talk about my novel Branwell, a book initially sparked by conversations with her in her office as she was putting together notes for a lecture on the Brontë family.

In the same class as Jacob was Katie Peyton, who organized the All-Night Bookstore project pairing me with him for collaborating; this seemed right. We shared a birthday.

Sometimes these things work out. And then we saw each other again at a book event.

“There will only ever be one thing to read on HARIBO. Twice yearly, the past 26 weeks of HARIBO work will be made available in .pdf format, so that all of the pieces can live together somewhere, but the online component will be ephemeral. HARIBO combines the immediacy of the internet with the transitory nature of print.”

Initially my piece was to run last week, but scheduled dates shifted forward for everyone by a week. So now it is my pleasure to present the site and story here, the week I am doing my first Goddard blog post. (And the beautiful thing is, if you click over after this week of my original posting you will discover a different writer, a new piece).

The story comes out of a lyric essay class that was presided over by the formidable Wayne Kostenbaum, a week where the assignment was partly to include the name of a perfume in our composition and when I believe we were reading Colette’s The Pure and the Impure.

To submit to the venture:

http://haribo.website/submitnow

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Douglas Martin

Douglas A. Martin is the author most recently of a novel, Once You Go Back (Seven Stories Press), nominated for a Lambda Award in the Gay Memoir/Biography category and recorded as an Audibletitle. His other books include: Branwell, a novel of the Brontë brother (Ferro-Grumley Award finalist); They Change the Subject, a book of stories (including Pushcart Prize nominated “An Escort”) named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year in the San Francisco Bay Times; and In the Time of Assignments, a collection of poetry. He is also a co-author with friends of the haiku year. His first book of prose, Outline of My Lover, was named an International Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement and adapted in part by The Forsythe Company for the live film ballet “Kammer/Kammer.” His work has been translated into Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese. As a critic, his pieces have appeared in such volumes as Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre and Biting the Error: Forty Writers Explore Narrative. Raised in Georgia, he now lives in New York and divides time between Brooklyn and upstate.

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