John Madera

Author of NERVOSITIES (@AntiOedipusP) and NOMAD SCIENCE (Spuyten Duyvil). Editor of @BigOtherMag. Publicist at @RhizomaticPR. More at

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Delighted to share that NERVOSITIES, my debut collection of short fiction, was published today! Kapow! NERVOSITIES has received advance praise from some of the world's finest writers, e.g., Rikki Ducornet, Brian Evenson, Lance Olsen, Sam Lipsyte, Garielle Lutz, & Michael Martone.

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In these two sharp, funny poems published in @BigOtherMag today, @JeromeSala skewers the absurdities of digital culture, the manipulative logic of marketing, the cult of consumerism, and our peculiar appetite for online provocation.

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What does it mean to live an invisible life? In this terrific interview, Curtis Smith talks with Lance Olsen about Henry Darger, An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies, outsider art, empathy, and why serious art is an extended act of contemplation.

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Stay tuned for a marvelous trio of poems by @ElaineEqui in @BigOtherMag! In the meantime, read this superb quintet of Equi poems, where “remembering the future,” invisible perceptions, aging and desire, and the unruly imagination converge!

https://t.co/GtPREEFmER

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The voices have escaped into the virtual elsewhere: the recording of A Night of Readings Celebrating @BigOtherMag is live! Eight writers, seventeen years of artful unruliness, & one glorious gathering. Join us as we venture through the literary chaosmos!

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Happy birthday, John Berger!

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With so many great marginalized artists getting hardly any love out there, where do people find the time to talk about the lifeless product the corporate death machine shovels out?

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"Better than a thousand statements composed of meaningless words is a single meaningful word that, having been heard, brings peace."
—The Dhammapada

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"The lofty life unlived, the treasure in youth unattained, people dry up like aged herons in a lake without fish. The lofty life unlived, the treasure in youth unattained, people lie like broken arrows, lamenting the past."
—The Dhammapada

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“In the contemporary arts, I would go so far as to say that, increasingly, anybody who cares for what is creatively emergent in the modern arts will find that it has something to do with the languages of the margin.”
—Stuart Hall

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Election Day: when millions of people preserve plutocracy to prevent fascism.

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Am I the only one who finds it offensive to have to prove to something with no consciousness, no body, no emotions, and no capacity for independent thought that one is human, whatever that is?

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I'm writing a story about a detective named Hemlock Combs, who solves crimes using the Socratic method, his questioning so relentless it's poisonous.

[Anti-Oedipus Press @antioedipusp]

Coming November 15: Andrew Joron’s LUNAGRAD, a literary science fiction novel. If you are a reviewer, contact us for a free advance reader copy.

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"[F]or the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
—George Eliot

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I once went as the Lesser of Two Evil Knievels. Evil Knievel won, but I'll take it as a win!

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Preserving the ritual of equal voting while allowing wealth to purchase radically unequal access to political power isn't democracy, it's an auction disguised as an election.

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Horror? I get my daily dose from current events and American politics.

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"I love ignorance of the future and do not want to perish of impatience and premature tasting of things promised."
—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Untitled (1963), by Eva Hesse.

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What mountaineer-mystic W. H. Murray said after being freed after years spent in German and Italian POW camps: "Find beauty. Be still."