We cannot say that we don't expect, even hope, that the fine crew at Pete Lit, will be somewhat biased when it comes to our work, but we still very much appreciate the kind words they recently had say about our new ml press chapbook I Am Richard Simmons. Many thanks, and drinks for us, for sure, when next we meet. For the rest of you an excerpt:
We are most excited, and a little embarrassed, to share a new interview with you done by none other than the most excellent writer Michael Kimball, author of TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Dear Everybody. The interview appears at The Faster Times and we hope you will take a look. Many thanks to Michael and drinks on us for sure when next we meet. We have also posted a brief excerpt below for your reading pleasure, so please do feel free to pleasure yourselves while you read it.Kimball: Okay, now I have to ask: What do your characters want?
Tanzer: They want to feel less confused. They want to better understand how they have arrived where they are and how they seem to find themselves in the situations they do. They know on some level that they are complicit in these things, and that they are repeating certain self-destructive behaviors or relationships, but they can’t quite figure out how or what they might have done differently. They also want to know things like how violence can just occur out of nowhere, unprompted, and why a parent might leave a family with no explanation, but they can never quite make sense of this either. Nor can they fully see how the events in one’s life connect, that there are ripple effects, and that if they were a little more curious and reacted a little less reflexively to things the world might make more sense. In all of my work, there is always the hope or the moment when some level of realization is achieved, or could be, but the characters never quite escape the confusion. There will always be new challenges and new relationships, and some things just don’t work or get any better. This is what life is and if you don’t believe me just read Michael Kimball’s excellent life on a postcard series. Now, how’s that for plug?
Weren't you just saying how much you wished you could download and read 333 word stories on your 
As previously mentioned we love you a lot. Well that, and there has been an odd, but much appreciated surge in interest in Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine and TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer. Last week we were happy to share with you the very awesome Mel Bosworth Most Likely video and today we are quite excited to let you know that Ben has been interviewed by the quite cool Peter Schwartz as part of the really stellar Full of Crow PRATE interview series. Previous interviews include rock star writers Michael Kimball and Tim Hall and we are thrilled to be part if that line-up. We also hope you will take a look and as a wee teaser we offer you the following excerpt below:B.T.: Great question, and very Zellweger of you. Here you go:
(1) I once wrote Parker Stevenson a fan letter and asked him his advice on how one goes about becoming an actor. I sent it to Teen Beat where he had a column during the 70’s. He never responded and years later when Kirstie Alley left him I felt vindicated.
(2) I auditioned for the role of the son in The Shining. They told me I didn’t seem creepy enough, something a number of women I dated in high school would later strongly disagree with.
(3) When I was kid my parents would leave my brother and I at movie theaters to watch movies two even three times in a row. Between showings I would eat the popcorn that people left behind and to this day I have an intense craving for stale popcorn every time I watch Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
It is Week Forty-Two of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life our terribly self-absorbed effort to post one self-portrait per week for one-year. This week we were thinking why not take this opportunity to further plug the launch of This Book Will Change Your Life? And so we have. Smooth, right? We know. Meanwhile, if you would like to follow this project in its entirety please feel free to do so at the Flickr. And, if you would like to see a self-portrait of you very own posted right here at This Blog Will Change Your Life, well, you can, just hit us with one and we will take it from there. Cool? Cool.
Bam. It took us all month, but we are happy to announce the first edition of This Book Will Change Your Life. Drum roll please. Thanks. And the first edition is...Conquering Venus by Collin Kelley, which we are going to file under books we might not have read, but did because we met the author, were quite taken with him, found ourselves intrigued, started reading and then quickly lost ourselves in this near otherworldly tale of romance, revolution, suicide and Paris. That said, here's the main thing that we want to impart here, Collin Kelley really knows how to spin a story, and we think that maybe you could benefit from being so spinned. So please do take a look, because it just might change your life. And, and, if all this wasn't enough, please feel free to check out this interview with Collin by the crew at the Orange Alert as well. It's all that.
We have been very excited about the imminent release of Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen by good friend David Masciotra and now that there is an official, and quite awesome, cover we are doubly so. Meanwhile, and speaking of awesome, while we have not been looking quite as forward to the release of Adam Lambert's debut album, are they still called albums, we are none-the-less quite enjoying the release of the the cover. Nice.
We should begin by saying that TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer's ml press chapbook I am richard simmons has arrived here at headquarters along with more introductions to a book I will never finish by mark baumer and boots walking in america found a trophy by krammer abrahams. We should add that despite the fact that we did not receive a new chapbook by Kendra Grant Malone we are still quite happy. Many thanks to the ml press crew and drinks on us for sure when next we get together.
For real, ml press has released its first novella, We Take Me Apart by Molly Gaudry. Nice.
It is Week Forty-One of This Self-Portrait Will Change Your Life, which means we are now into the fourth quarter of our self-absorbed effort to post one self-portrait per week for one year. It also means that the completion of this project now looms and sadness reigns here at TBWCYL, Inc. headquarters. Still, we will persevere because we know how important this effort is to you. We also know that you may want to follow the project in its entirety, so please feel free to so at the Flickr. Finally, we suspect that some of you have been wondering what it would take for us to post a self-portrait of your very own right here at This Blog Will Change Your Life? Well, it couldn't be easier, just send one and we will take it from there. Cool?
So, we were thinking about how the other night we enjoyed some drinks and most excellent conversation with Brooklyn's own Tobias Carroll, which then got us thinking about his most excellent blog The Scowl, which then got us wondering whether you have ever taken the time to check out The Scowl, which then got us thinking that if you haven't, why haven't you, which got us thinking that maybe you don't know about it, which seems unlikely, but which then got us thinking, that maybe that's possible, but not anymore, right? Right. Enjoy.
