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shoe throwing
is fucking fun!

lets all throw shoes!
lets have a shoe-throwing
fest!

i want to be quiet
and throw shoes
instead.

i want my shoes
on his face.

LET THEM DUCK

what fun it is to throw a shoe
what more fun it is to throw two!

love & peace
shoes are better than bullets
when in disagreement
throw a shoe to cool down
instead of a bullet
t'is better for your health
and a hell of a lot funnier!

monks fighting on the tomb of the big J
arrested by the Israeli police, two of them
taken to jail, they said on the news.

me, i've got to go to jail too,
but not for fighting on the big J's tomb
but rather for something even more stupid
but not nearly as ironic.

today, i bought a wheelbarrow.
a blue metal one with wooden handles
and one big fat tire.

i've never bought a wheelbarrow before
and i've always wanted a wheelbarrow
and now i've got one.

life is good.

if you're on facebook.com, then in the little search box at the top right of the facebook page, you can type in: NEW BELLEVILLE PRESS -- you can type in small caps :-) -- and the NBP page will appear like magic, at which point, you can decide to become a FAN of NBP. by doing so, you will be the first to know all the exciting news, such as reading events, publications, reviews, et cetera ...

thanks!

it feels pretty fucking cold this morning.
though some people would laugh.
it's 54 degrees, so really, it ain't cold at all.
but you got to take into account where i live.
and in these parts, 54 is cold.
like it or not.
so it's morning, and i'm under two covers and my dog.
he's a big chocolate labrador.
about 90+ pounds.
i'm a big caucasian male of french / latin / celtic extract.
about 230+ pounds.
he's not overweight.
he wasn't raised into any religious boloney.
not that that has anything to do with our weights.
i was raised catholic, and that's also a demographic.
all in all, fall is nearing its end and winter will start soon.
i'm pretty fucking happy about it all.
my dog couldn't care less.

[a note from Francois Pointeau, the publisher @ New Belleville Press]

Hello Everybody! It's October, and New Belleville Press survived the market crunch, the housing market fiasco, and its owner's own personal mental crisis. Yeah! (Coming: Will we survive the presidential election?)

Lets start with a poem by the one and only, Elva Maxine Beach:


"Eternal Headlights"

At 20, a bride, draped
in a ten dollar thrift store dress,
"You ain't nothing but a Dirty Gerty,"
that's what my mom said.

Mom secretly delighted,
in my oozing sexuality,
in my inability
to stop the stares.
I wobbled in my pointy white heels.
It was always like that.
At 6 I held hands with the boys by the pool.
At 9 I kissed boys in the woods by the house.
At 12 I groped boys at birthday parties.
At 15 I fucked boys in the backseats of cars.
In high school, popular boys whispered,
"I masturbated to you last night."
At 19 I settled for a boy from my neighborhood.
A college boy, who had a plan
for getting out of the hell hole
we were born in.

Forward! To my wedding day
when Mom confessed,
"Your new husband's friends done been
saying 'He's lucky to find
a gal with eternal headlights.'
Now what does that mean exactly?"

"My nipples, Mom. They were talking
about my nipples."

"My little girl is a Dirty Gerty,"
she said all proud and fine,
like my nipples made me
some special kind of woman.

I married young,
had never seen the ocean,
had never been in an airplane.
I was sure, as young people often are,
not only would my love last forever,
but I had found salvation.

Women's bodies can be the ticket out,
sure,
but what do we do
when our tickets crumble with age,
when we finally know too much to settle
for someone else's dreams?


copyright © 2008 by Elva Maxine Beach – All Rights Reserved
http://www.elvamaxinebeach.com


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On October 31th, in celebration of Halloween, New Belleville Press was invited by Drungo's Ice House to participate in their celebration! NBP, along with other small merchants, will have a display booth at Drungo's, and will be selling books, t-shirts, and koosies!

They're at 2828 Rio Grande, that's basically on 29th and Rio Grande, just one block west of Guadalupe, across the street from Oat Willies, Vulcan Video, and Dreamers.

Here's more info about this great place:

www.drungoicehouse.com
http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-drungo-ice-house-austin


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And a READING for all you lovely folks:

"Spanksgiving (or giving spanks)"
with Elva Maxine Beach
At Sonny's Vintage Clothing & Music Store!
November 28th
Austin, Texas
5:30pm

On the Friday following Thanksgiving, the distinguished, talented, super-duper cool, and New Belleville Press' own Numero Uno author, Elva Maxine Beach, will be in Bat City to enchant us with her presence, and read a few of her incredible stories & poems.

Sonny's store is in a tiny strip center on the drag, located on the 29th & 30th streets block on Guadalupe. The store is sandwiched between Antone's Record Shop and Centennial Liquors, right next door to Tom's Tabouley.

A vintage clothing store! That's right. Not that we need any reasons, but Sonny owns a really cool store that sales really cool stuff. And it's next door to my day job, which means I can step out of my liquor-selling hat and into my book-selling hat without going home or grabbing a bus. It's also close enough that I can throw a couple cases of beer on my shoulders and carry them to Sonny's cold box so that all you lovely folks will have something to sip on while Maxine is reading.

We're hoping Robin Blackburn will also be present, so that she can open for Maxine with some of her poems. FYI: Robin is currently putting together / editing / reworking, a collection of poems, currently untitled, that will become New Belleville Press' third book. We'll keep you posted on Robin joining us at the reading and on her upcoming book.

There will be music, we just don't know what & who yet.

Sonny's doors opens at 10am. Go say hi to him, tell him you're a New Belleville Press fan. Maxine and her entourage will arrive around 5:30pm, and she will read around 6:30 or 7pm.

Mark your calendars! Begin the Holiday Shopping Season with some cool books for yourselves, your friends and family members! Why not?

Check out Sonny's myspace page here:

http://www.myspace.com/sonnysvintage


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Both NEUROTICA & BEER SONGS FOR THE LONELY are available at Sonny's. You can swing by anytime to check the books out, and everything else that Sonny carries. You can also purchase these two titles at Book People in south Austin & at Monkey Wrench Books in north central Austin. NEUROTICA is also available at Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Missouri. Both books are available on Alibris.com, and will soon be available everywhere else on the net, including but not limited to Amazon.com. BEER SONGS FOR THE LONELY is available at Authorsbookshop.com and 12th street books in Austin as well.

You can always buy New Belleville Press books and so much more, on our website's store:

http://www.newbellevillepress.com/store.html


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A new review of NEUROTICA
by Todd Rohman
Assistant Professor, English
St. Louis Community College

Holy Fuck! Neurotica

In one of his last documented interviews, Jacque Derrida ponders the nature of love. In doing so, he asks: do we love someone? Or do we love something about someone? This "who" or "what" question suggests the possibility that when one falls in love, it could be the love of some criteria, some set of standards that the beloved expresses— the "what" of love. Alternately, love could be directed at the unique singularity of the person—the "who" of love.

Elva Maxine Beach's Neurotica sits in space between these possibilities. Its unnamed narrator is in many respects a cultural tourist, perhaps even fetishist, seeking lovers from backgrounds alien to her own. The Indian, Islander, Boxer, and a host of other lovers populate the work, and each serves to reveal habits and obsessions, fears and lusts, longing and loneliness of novel's central persona.

In terms of narration, episodic construction of work is at once fragmented and unified, reminiscent of the work of Kathy Acker, but often with greater heart and humanity than Acker often reveals to us. Neurotica's prose chapters are interspersed with poetic selections, which inform or complicate the psychological rendering of its central voice. For example we learn of our narrator's soil-hewn origins in the opening selection "I am from bluegrass,/ from hillbillies, ignorance,/ and hard work," and images from our speaker's past continue as refrains throughout the work. As the work proceeds, a mosaic of erotic encounters (some pastoral, some violent and unsettling) add up to an engaging portrayal of a woman who connects many versions of herself as potential mother, daughter, wife, opportunist or victim.

Concentrating only (not merely) on sex in the novel would miss its significance as a fresh contemplation on aging, loss and the complex contours of gender. The work asks us to consider the impossibility of merging two separate beings through love, but suggests that ceasing the search would be ceasing to be human.


copyright © 2008 by Todd Rohman – All Rights reserved




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See also Bibliolatry @
http://bookworship.blogspot.com/2008/06/baptized-reborn-in-arms-of-boy.html
for another NEUROTICA review.


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We're looking for a SF manuscript for publication towards the end of 2009. Send me a query letter. Don't send my a manuscript. I don't have guidelines, and I'm totally subjective. Buy "Beer Songs for the Lonely" and "Neurotica," and you'll get an idea of what I like. However, since neither of those two books are SF, let me tell you: I like a strong story; I don't like lesson-giving / preaching; I like hard-boil, sarcastic, sexy, crazy, in your face, piss on the establishment ... type of stuff; A sense of humor, preferably very dark humor, is right up my alley. I want to publish a novel with some hardcore radical shit happening in it. If you've written something of the sort, let me know.

pointeau@newbellevillepress.com
New Belleville Press
Francois Pointeau
PO Box 301119
Austin, Texas 78703


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Are you an independent bookstore? Do you know an independent bookstore? Would you like to carry New Belleville Press titles? Would you like your neighborhood store to carry New Belleville Press titles? Call me, email me, whatever. Lets make this happen. We don't have national distribution yet, but we are IN PRINT, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Contact me.


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Are you an investor tired of losing your money on Wall Street? Would you like to lose your money in a small up and coming book publishing company with its eyes on adapting what it publishes to the movies? It might not be as exciting as investment banking, but you won't lose nearly as much money, you'll help publish some bad-ass books, you'll be part of something special, and we might even make your money back in the long run. Contact me. I also take donations of any amounts. Send them to:

New Belleville Press
Francois Pointeau
PO Box 301119
Austin, Texas 78703
United States of America




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