Slow news day at Anobium.
- We are still receiving submissions for Volume 2! The window is wide open.
- Even though summer has come to a close, we still want to hand-deliver your copy of Volume 1. If you live on the north side of Chicago, check out our doorstep delivery program.
- …and with summer coming to a close, a lot of people are back in school. If you are enrolled in a Chicago metropolitan area school, you may qualify for a 20% discount!
- Anobium is going to be attending an upcoming meeting of the Chicago Literary Alliance! This portends great happenings for the future of Anobium.
- We’re getting closer to the release of Sebastian’s Relativity by Jonathan Greenhause. Stay tuned for updates and pre-order news.
Have a great week. Write on!
Today you meet our other Assistant Editor, Jon-Erik Means.
Q: Describe your patronymic.
It’s fine.
Q: If you were to throw a rock fifty yards east, what would you hit?
A boulder. It cracks open and a stream of rock candy spills the streets.
Q: Who is your all-time favorite author? All-time favorite book? All-
time favorite Movie? All-time favorite album/LP? All-time favorite freak
occurence?
Author/Books: David Foster Wallace, Calvino. Infinite Jest, Sylvester and
the Magic Pebble, JR.
Movie: Blue Velvet
Favorite Album(s): Mother of All Saints, 330003 Crossdressers From
Beyond the Rig Veda, Smiley Smile, Doolittle.
Freak Axe: I lost most of my top front tooth in a dancing accident and then
chipped its prosthetic replacement in a recent jaw harp breakdown. I fell on
a ukulele’s tuning-knob and now have a long scar on my elbow.
Q: What is it you like to write? What is it you look for when you read other
writing?
I like writing poetry about construction, hauntings, animal architecture,
garbage etc. People getting lost outdoors. Spooky junk.
I enjoy neurotic and ‘overly’ self-conscious lit. Humble and sincere writing.
I like scattered thoughts; my memory is pretty fragmented, so the style
is comforting. I love weirdos and nice guys and gals. Healthy skepticism.
Funny garbage. Calvino and DFW sort of perfectly embody what I look for
in reading, though they don’t set the parameters for what I will read.
I write more poetry than prose and read more prose than poetry.
Q: What are you doing right now in life? What would you like to be doing
right now in life?
I am writing and reading and drawing and listening to records and turning
the fan to 3 and hanging out with my cat and recording music and driving
and hanging out and walking and working on sketches and looking for
paying jobs. I would like to be doing the same things, but with a steady
income and whatever else, y’see.
Q: What artifacts would you leave behind to be uncovered by future
archaeologists?
Nothing too embarrassing, hopefully. It’s difficult to answer this sincerely.
Stacks of my notebooks filled with writing and drawings. Cryptic maps to
keep them archaeologists busy over nothing for years. A disposable castle
preserved in Barbicide.
Today, you get to meet Bethany Minton, Assistant Editor:
Q: Describe your patronymic.
A: Derived from Ye Old Minton Shire, located beneath a secret hill in a remote gated community close to Austin, Texas.
Q: If you were to throw a rock fifty yards east, what would you hit?
A: Three hundred identical rocks being hurled from the Bean.
Q: Who is your all-time favorite author? All-time favorite book? All-time favorite Movie? All-time favorite album/LP? All-time favorite freak occurence?
A: The Twilight Saga is able to meet all of those requirements.
Q: What is it you like to write? What is it you look for when you read other writing?
A: I like to write fragmented thoughts on post-it notes and rearrange them on my walls.
Q: What are you doing right now in life? What would you like to be doing right now in life?
A: Right now I am waking up in the morning before work and saying, ‘I hate my life’ aloud and with fervour, in case god or the saints happen to be listening. I would like to be looking back on this time and remembering how great everything was.
Q: What artifacts would you leave behind to be uncovered by future archaeologists?
A: Bobby pins and fairy tails.
Meet our new Assistant Editor, Kari Larsen.
Over the next few days, we’re going to post short interviews with each of our staffers, so you get a better idea of who the brains are behind our braun. First up is the newest addition to our team is the entity you see pictured above.
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Getting in touch: Kari.Lee.Larsen@Gmail.com
Q: Describe your patronymic.
After centuries of dwelling in Vest-Agder county, the Bookstadt family felt an American writer coming on, and changed their name to Larsen before there could be visited upon them any bad puns.
Q: If you were to throw a rock fifty yards east, what would you hit?
A teenage couple copulating in a cornfield with enough fervor that the rock might not get in their way.
Q: Who is your all-time favorite author? All-time favorite book? All-time favorite Movie? All-time favorite album/LP? All-time favorite freak occurence?
1. Anna Kavan
2. Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
3. Mulholland Drive by David Lynch
4. “Who Killed Amanda Palmer?” by Amanda Palmer
5. Winning the Amazon contest and becoming acquainted with Anobium!
Q: What is it you like to write? What is it you look for when you read other writing?
I like to write about perseverance and ritual. In the writing of others I look for sensitivity, intelligence, and a wonder informed by an appreciation for life’s complexity - that is, ideally, the inverse of Insane Clown Posse’s “Miracles.”
Q: What are you doing right now in life? What would you like to be doing right now in life?
I am writing, editing, designing the occasional book, and I hope my doing so will contribute to central Pennsylvania being a better place to live in and make art.
Q: What artifacts would you leave behind to be uncovered by future archaeologists?
Disposable camera-borne photographs of girls in high school pre-social media making out with each other and wearing the shirts of bands lost to history.
![Would you like to worth for Anobium?
We are seeking one extraordinary assistant editor to help with the compilation of Anobium: Volume 2 - our second literary journal release.We’ll be upfront: this is an unpaid position. All of the money Anobium makes goes straight back into future Anobium productions. Everyone who works for Anobium does so on a volunteer basis. We love writing. That’s all there is to it.As a volunteer, you still have a lot to gain from the experience:- You will be an important part in helping to develop a small business with a lot of potential.- You will gain valuable editing, communications and publishing experience which you can apply towards future professional positions.- You will receive credits as an assistant editor both on the website and in the print publication; credits which can also be used to develop your own name as an editor and writer.The ideal candidate should:- Be familiar with Volume 1 (doesn’t hurt to have purchased Volume 1).- Be able to commit for the duration of this project (up to six months).- Be able to put in 5-10 hours per week working for Anobium.- Be a published writer.- Be interested in brand development and promotion.- Have some editorial experience (doesn’t necessarily have to be literary editing).- Have a working knowledge of InDesign.- Have a constant and stable Internet connection.- Have a personal website.- Be active and involved in social media and networking (Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.) [This is very important].- Live in the Chicago area, though this is not required (most of the work is telecommunicative).Please note: It is okay if you don’t have all of these things, though the more you have, the better.Responsibilities will include:- Reading and grading poetry and prose submissions to Anobium: Volume 2.- Promoting Anobium in social media and brick-and-mortar outlets.- Editing selected writings for publication.- Communicating with independent authors.- Communicating and meeting with other Anobium team-members.- Possible fundraising.- Attending a few possible events.While experience and ambition are important determining factors for this position, it is also important that applicants share similar aesthetic and literary sensibilities with Anobium. Please go to anobiumlit.com/aboutus to get an idea of our tastes.If you have read all of these guidelines and are still interested in the position, please send a resume and a short letter listing your qualifications to our Managing Editor, Benjamin van Loon, at b@benvanloon[dot]com. Please make your subject: “APPLICATION FOR ANOBIUM: [Last Name], [First Name].”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqeegdRxBA1qhr63ro1_r1_100.jpg)
Would you like to worth for Anobium?
We are seeking one extraordinary assistant editor to help with the compilation of Anobium: Volume 2 - our second literary journal release.
We’ll be upfront: this is an unpaid position. All of the money Anobium makes goes straight back into future Anobium productions. Everyone who works for Anobium does so on a volunteer basis. We love writing. That’s all there is to it.
As a volunteer, you still have a lot to gain from the experience:
- You will be an important part in helping to develop a small business with a lot of potential.
- You will gain valuable editing, communications and publishing experience which you can apply towards future professional positions.
- You will receive credits as an assistant editor both on the website and in the print publication; credits which can also be used to develop your own name as an editor and writer.
The ideal candidate should:
- Be familiar with Volume 1 (doesn’t hurt to have purchased Volume 1).
- Be able to commit for the duration of this project (up to six months).
- Be able to put in 5-10 hours per week working for Anobium.
- Be a published writer.
- Be interested in brand development and promotion.
- Have some editorial experience (doesn’t necessarily have to be literary editing).
- Have a working knowledge of InDesign.
- Have a constant and stable Internet connection.
- Have a personal website.
- Be active and involved in social media and networking (Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.) [This is very important].
- Live in the Chicago area, though this is not required (most of the work is telecommunicative).
Please note: It is okay if you don’t have all of these things, though the more you have, the better.
Responsibilities will include:
- Reading and grading poetry and prose submissions to Anobium: Volume 2.
- Promoting Anobium in social media and brick-and-mortar outlets.
- Editing selected writings for publication.
- Communicating with independent authors.
- Communicating and meeting with other Anobium team-members.
- Possible fundraising.
- Attending a few possible events.
While experience and ambition are important determining factors for this position, it is also important that applicants share similar aesthetic and literary sensibilities with Anobium. Please go to anobiumlit.com/aboutus to get an idea of our tastes.
If you have read all of these guidelines and are still interested in the position, please send a resume and a short letter listing your qualifications to our Managing Editor, Benjamin van Loon, at b@benvanloon[dot]com. Please make your subject: “APPLICATION FOR ANOBIUM: [Last Name], [First Name].”
