Black Clock provides a much needed fix of experimental fiction and adventurous writing. If you’re getting the itch for some literary stimulation, cut down on the lattes and invest in a subscription.
Singular, idiosyncratic and a little mysterious, Black Clock is one of America's leading literary journals.
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Each issue arrives in the reader’s hands as an artifact throbbing with potential and strangeness, new names and old names in wild conjunctions and brave forays, a journal to drive the collectors of the future into acquisitive frenzies.
One of the contemporary literary magazines with real vision — and they are in short supply.
Black Clock measures the temper of the turning world — a journal of ideas, provocations and cultural leaps, with some of the best writing anywhere.
Singular, idiosyncratic, and little mysterious, Black Clock has become one of America’s leading literary journals since its inception three years ago.
There’s never before been a literary journal with exactly the power and elegance, even the force of enigma, of Black Clock.
My idea was that Black Clock really would be a writer’s magazine because the magazine offered them the freedom to do anything, to even fuck up if they wanted or needed to.
Black Clock is accepting unsolicited fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction from September 18th, 2009 until October 31st, 2009. If you have a manuscript you would like to submit for consideration, please consult the Black Clock website for details.
Born in the despair of the Great Depression, flourishing in the first radioactive blush of the nuclear age, Noir really is more a sensibility than a style, and the tenth issue of Black Clock operates on the premise that Twenty-First Century Noir is a mutated thing that still bears kinship with the original. Robert Polito finds early signs of noir all the way back in Eighteenth Century America in “It Would Be a Queer World If,” and Dana Spiotta takes a look at one of the classic Fifties film noirs in “First is First, Second is Nobody.” In Diana Wagman’s “The Five Elements of Noir,” some noir archetypes find the movie they’re in has taken them over. The genre gets decidedly weird with Michael Ventura’s cross-dressing private-eye in “One Marilyn Too Many,” and becomes altogether supernatural in stories by Denise Hamilton and Francesca Lia Block. And amid work by major contemporary authors Scott Bradfield, Brian Evenson, Geoff Nicholson and others, Black Clock 10 also identifies 70 essential noir movies, novels, comics, poems, paintings, performances and pieces of music.
Now among the nation’s foremost literary magazines, Black Clock has showcased award-winning writing by established and emerging authors, with pieces anthologized in best-of-the-year collections and two excerpted novels going on to win National Book Awards.
Black Clock is published semi-annually by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) MFA Writing Program.
Featuring political allegory, subversive satire and secret presidential histories by Jonathan Lethem, Lynne Tillman, Brian Evenson, Jeff VanderMeer, Ben Ehrenreich, Stanley Crawford, Seth Greenland and Janet Sarbanes, among others, including Rick Moody’s log of the Republican primary race earlier this year, an email debate between Michael Ventura and Black Clock editor Steve Erickson on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and a mysterious, unsigned missive written at the end of the world by Marilyn Monroe’s former bodyguard.
For more information about purchasing a copy, visit the Black Clock website.
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