Along with John Reed, John Deming, and Tim Brown, I took part in a panel, moderated by Barbara Hoffert, about the so-called small press. Check out a podcast of the panel, HERE.
You are what you read:
Tonight, I’ll Be on a Panel Discussing “Small” Presses
I’m part of a panel moderated by Barbara Hoffert (Library Journal’s “Prepub Alert” Editor), “discussing small presses…the challenges and successes of critics who are maintaining a public dialogue about the small press in an era of declining newspaper coverage and increasing online interest.
Panelists include:
Tim W. Brown (novelist, critic, former board member of the Small Press Center)
John Deming (poet, critic, editor of Cold Front Magazine)
John Madera (critic, editor of Big Other and The Chapbook Review)
John Reed (NBCC board member, novelist, critic, book review editor of The Brooklyn Rail)
More info Here.
RSVP Here.
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My Review of Ted Pelton’s Bartleby, the Sportscaster
Check out my review of Ted Pelton’s Bartleby, the Sportscaster in Rain Taxi: Review of Books, Spring 2011 Print Edition. Here’s an excerpt:
While Bartleby, the Sportscaster is certainly faithful to the plot of Melville’s novella, Pelton seamlessly replaces the office drudgery with the somewhat carnivalesque atmosphere of a dumpy baseball stadium, rounded off with a hemorrhaging team. And Pelton distinctively includes some comical elements, like the surprising way Bartleby’s refusals serve as a catalyst for the narrator’s creativity and self-actualization, however short-lived. It also offers a far more overt meditation on depression…
My Review of Renee Gladman’s Event Factory
Check out my review of Renee Gladman’s Event Factory in the latest issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Here’s an excerpt:
More “travel-logos” than mere diary, Event Factory is a profound study of the architecture of being, knowledge, memory, and desire.
JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher 