RECENT EVENT NOW HISTORY +Saturday, Feb. 2 - THE FUTURE OF FICTION: Starcherone Reading at KGB in NYC featuring Joshua Cohen, Sara Greenslit, Joshua Harmon, Zachary Mason, Aimee Parkison, & Nina Shope, hosted by yours truly. IT WAS GREAT- Douglas Manson filled in for Nina Shope, reading a collage of her fiction and his poetry, which led to a night of 7 readings of under 10 minutes each very different from the others On the way out,someone actually thanked me!
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JACKET reviews Malcolm & Jack
The renowned Australian online magazine JACKET just gave a terrific review to my novel Malcolm & Jack.
"In a game of narrative leap frog, Pelton’s character sketches overlap as each of his famous subjects’ lives intersects with another in a tangled web of chance, crime, and subculture.... [W]ith immense talent, Pelton has attempted to weave implicit cultural critique, reflective internal monologue, three love stories, and a whole bunch of well-wrought character sketches into a series of progressing narratives that harmonize as much as they juxtapose."
In December, I was surprised and overjoyed to win a $4,000 Isherwood Foundation grant. The grant was established by the estate of novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood, and it's for fiction writers who have already published a book. About 7 prizes are awarded annually out of "hundreds of entries." Gosh. It helped me buy a furnace (a definite writer's need in Buffalo). Thanks, Mr. Isherwood!
STARCHERONE BOOKS Starcherone publishes some of the best new fiction in the US. Don't believe me? See for yourself.
LEST WE FORGET: BUFFALO IS A BEAT CITY/POVERTY IS ANGELIC
I live in Buffalo, New York. I teach literature and fiction writing at Medaille College of Buffalo. In 2000, I founded Starcherone Books (pronounced "start yer own"). I named it that because nobody but my own press would publish my first collection of stories, Endorsed by Jack Chapeau. But that edition sold out and an expanded 2nd edition is now available. Among other new work, this revised edition contains the secret to decoding right wing dominance in recent presidential elections, "Republicans and Erectile Dysfunction." Starcherone is now a non-profit publisher of innovative fiction that has published 14 books to date, with full seasons planned as well for 2008 and 2009. Starcherone is a collaborative effort, and would not exist with the efforts & creativity of a number of wonderful and amazing people, Starcherone's Board and Staff, all of whom have volunteered their time and effort. In addition to having introduced a lot of terrific writers, Starcherone also publishes PP/FF: An Anthology, featuring over 60 of today's best hybrid poets & fictionists, including Lydia Davis, Brian Evenson, Eleni Silkelianos, Laird Hunt, Raymond Federman, Harold Jaffe, Martha Ronk, Diane Williams, and many more. Would this all have happened anyplace but Buffalo, NY? Two houses down from me -- and I live in a rental -- there's a Frank Lloyd Wright house. You can drive anywhere in the city in about 15 minutes -- and its about 12 to the airport. Last night (actually now three months ago) I went to dinner with a visiting poet -- and in the restaurant, just a regular restaurant, were two other poets, one of whom was the former winner of a MacArthur grant. I know it won't cause anyone to leave San Francisco or Brooklyn, but for what you pay in rent, you can buy a house (Victorian/Arts&Crafts, leaded glass, enormous attic) here. [PS - Everybody in Buffalo talks this way....]
