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Black Clock 11

Forsaken cities and blasted landscapes, characters in exile from their own times, mysterious connections in the air just beyond the grasp of those who barely understand them: Black Clock 11, California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) acclaimed literary journal, is slated to arrive on the stands mid-November. This issue features work by such prominent authors as Joanna Scott, Chris Abani and Susan Straight, and introduces the usual selection of dazzling new voices.

In Richard Powers’ “Over the Limit,” freely adapted from his just published novel, a young African woman genetically predisposed to happiness stands at the nexus of a brilliant, narcissistic scientist and the discontented moderator of a TV news magazine. In Rob Roberge’s “Stooge” and Lou Mathews’ “Hollywoodski,” Vegas drug deals go bad and drunken Tinseltown conversations run wild, and in Antonia Crane’s “Rosebud,” a self-designated “sexual outlaw” and stripper looking to retire gets caught up in the intrigues of an aging decadent Hollywood couple. In “This Is How the Past Turns Up”, Greil Marcus charts one of his patently revelatory longitudes between Barack Obama’s election-night victory speech, the fiction of Philip Roth, and Sam Cooke’s perennial contender for the greatest record of all time, “A Change Is Gonna Come.”

Singular, idiosyncratic, and a little mysterious, Black Clock has become one of America’s leading literary journals since its inception in 2004, featuring such authors as Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, Miranda July, Jonathan Lethem, Darcey Steinke, Rick Moody, Samuel R. Delany, Lynne Tillman, Geoffrey O’Brien, Aimee Bender, William T. Vollmann and many others, along with a growing roster of striking literary debuts. Work appearing in Black Clock has been anthologized in best-of-the-year collections and nominated for O. Henry and Pushcart prizes, and two excerpted novels have gone on to win National Book Awards.

Black Clock‘s staff includes Steve Erickson, acclaimed novelist, critic and member of CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty in addition to being the magazine’s Editor, Senior Editor and adjunct member of CalArts’ Writing Program faculty Bruce Bauman, Managing Editor Michaele Simmering, Production Editor Laura Vena, and Art Director Christopher Morabito.

Black Clock is published semi-annually by the CalArts MFA Writing Program. One-year subscription (2 issues): $20. Single issue cover price: $13. To subscribe, consult Black Clock subscription agent fictionondemand.com.

For more information see blackclock.org.

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With both the occasion of our fifth anniversary and the publication of our tenth issue imminent, Black Clock has asked some of its most frequent (and prominent) contributors to describe their experience as readers of the magazine. The responses we collected are as singular, idiosyncratic and even a little mysterious as the contents of any given issue.

“Black Clock measures the temper of the turning world, ” a journal of ideas, provocations and cultural leaps, with some of the best writing anywhere.” – Don DeLillo

“There’s never before been a literary journal with exactly the power and elegance, even the force of enigma, of Black Clock. 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.” – Jonathan Lethem

“Black Clock is one of the literary magazines I can’t wait to see when it arrives in the mail, and the thing I read that night before all else.” – Susan Straight

“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.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“One of the contemporary literary magazines with real vision — and they are in short supply.” – Rick Moody

Black Clock is published semi-annually by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) MFA Writing Program.

Black Clock 8 Embarks On Outer And Inner Journeys

The eighth issue of Black Clock arrives on newsstands and in bookstores in early January 2008. The stories and poetry in the newest issue of California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) literary journal are “loosely linked by the idea of physical and emotional nomadism,” said editor Steve Erickson. “These are travels and sojourns of the outward and inward sort, guided by such writers as Geoffrey O’Brien, Susan Straight, Tom Carson, Lisa Teasley, Yxta Maya Murray, Chris Kraus, Michael Ventura and others.”

From the cover image of a tunnel leading deep into the magazine’s pages, Black Clock 8 speaks to our wanderlust even if, as in the case of Geoff Nicholson’s “A Walk Around the World,” the central character decides to walk a distance circling the globe all within his own backyard. In “The Sting of Irrelevancy” author Joanna Scott is stranded in Rome and finds herself contemplating Jorge Luis Borges’ wandering dreamers, while in Lewis Shiner’s “Wonderland” the protagonist’s journey takes him only a few blocks from where he lives and works into 1960’s Harlem–which might as well be another planet.

Published by CalArts in association with the MFA Writing Program, Black Clock features work by prominent national writers, talented regional authors and the very best emerging writers.

Black Clock‘s staff includes Erikson, a novelist, critic and CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty member in addition to being the magazine’s Editor, Senior Editor and adjunct member of CalArts Writing Program faculty Bruce Bauman, Editor-at-Large Dwayne Moser, Managing Editor Michaele Simmering and Art Director Ophelia Chong.

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