October 22, 2005
MP3! LISTEN TO "THE LIFE & TIMES OF MAJOR FICTION"
From : Raymond Federman
Sent : Friday, October 7, 2005 1:21 PM
To : Mike Daily
Subject : Re: FC2 SONG
I tell you this is the beginning of something big
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"THE LIFE & TIMES OF MAJOR FICTION" [7:11]
http://www.gpayne.net/FC2_Final_2.mp3
Or stream the mp3 rather than requiring download first:
http://www.gpayne.net/FC2.m3u
(Will work well for lower bandwidth connections.)
Mike Daily: Words/Vocals
David Noel Moscovich: Keys/Live Digital Sampling
Luke Strahota: Drums/Drum Machine/Talking Shit at the Beginning
Mia: The Diva
Recorded October 5, 2005, at The Enginehouse in North Portland.
Engineer: Chutz Ponderosa
O'Grady's Note: My goal in writing this "narrative" was to incorporate every title of every book Fiction Collective/FC2/Black Ice Books has published since its inception in 1974. FC2 Managing Editor Brenda Mills wrote:
"Wow, I love it! Jonathan [Baumbach] should get [his son, Film Director] Noah to make a video for it. Love the end. We were dancing to it. I'm thinking we should play it at our reception at AWP in Austin in March.
You have books in your library that we no longer have even a single copy of!"
Brenda is sending an announcement to FC2's entire membership (to all the original authors whose titles are hereby referenced). Very interesting. . . .
We are curious to hear your thoughts. Plz leave a comment at the end!
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"THE LIFE & TIMES OF MAJOR FICTION"
It was Jonathan Baumbach, I believe, who said
a novel is sometimes, perhaps at some level always,
an act of aggression toward the world at large.
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High Drama in Fabulous Toledo The Bird Is Gone: A Manifesto Mosaic Man Saw Stolen Stories Mourning Crazy Horse In the Middle Of Nowhere Holy Smoke! Soul Resin The Death of the Novel and Other Stories Hearsay The Cares of the Day Straight Razor Nature Studies The Broad Back of the Angel Spectator Revelation Countdown Statements 1 Statements 2 F/32 Shootout with Father An Illuminated History of the Future Northwest Passage Between The Flags Holy Smoke!
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To Whom It May Concern…
Girl Imagined by Chance…
Mermaids for Attila…
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Music for a Broken Piano Moving Parts The Talking Room Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues The Kafka Chronicles Why I Don’t Write Like Franz Kafka Dahlia’s Iris The End of Free Love Coming Close Rope Dances The Ethiopian Exhibition Napoleon’s Mare Borges’ Travel, Hemingway’s Garage: Secret Histories
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Babble Babble Babble Babble Babble
Babble Babble Babble Babble Babble Babble
Babble Babble Babble Babble Babble
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American Made Comatose Kids Degenerative Prose Modern Romances Heroes and Villains Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls Punk Blood I Smell Esther Williams Damned Right! Encores for a Dilettante Eve’s Longing: The Infinite Possibilities in All Things
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In the Box Called Pleasure…
Mabel in Her Twenties…
My Father More or Less…
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Valentino’s Hair… Leonardo’s Horse D-Tours Aviary Slag Disability Meningitis Emergency Exit A Spell for the Fulfillment Of Desire The Collected Short Fiction of Marianne Hauser Chick-Lit 1 Chick-Lit 2 Angry Nights In Heaven Everything Is Fine Close Your Eyes and Think of Dublin: Portrait of a Girl Public Works Aunt Rachel’s Fur Remembering To Say ‘Mouth’ or ‘Face’ Chez Charlotte and Emily 1998.6 Double or Nothing Trouble the Water
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From the District File…
Four Roses in Three Acts…
Latino Heretics…
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transiT! City in Love The Doggy Bag Dirtmouth Straight Outta Compton Temporary Sanity Not a Chance Trigger Dance The Last Man Standing Matinee The Lost Scrapbook Crash-Landing Last Fall The Aztec Love God Last Fall Art Does (Not!) Exist! Last Fall False Positive Sexual Blood The Fast Red Road – A Plainsong The Blue Guide to Indiana Michael Martone
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The Second Story Man…
Reflex and Bone Structure…
Searching for Survivors…
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Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya
Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya
Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya Maya
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Griever: An American [Monkey] King In China Find Him! Little Sisters Of the Apocalypse Memory Wax Fat People Blood of Mugwump Heretical Songs The Endless Short Story Former Virgin When Things Get Back To Normal Sex for the Millennium S&M Forgetfulness Liberty’s Excess Life of Death Dictionary of Modern Anguish The Wilderness Common Wilderness Ø Null Set Museum Elements Distorture Agnes & Sally Althea The Winnebago Mysteries & Other Stories
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Fiction Collective (FC2)
founded in 1974
alternative press
It was Robert Coover, I believe,
who said in the babble of
American publishing, FC2 is
one of the few coherent voices
QUOTE make serious novels
and story collections available UNQUOTE
QUOTE keep them in print
permanently UNQUOTE
It was Ronald Sukenick,
I believe, who said that
seventies...
eighties...
nineties...
two thousands...
seventies...
eighties...
nineties...
two thousands...
Fiction Collective (FC2)
founded in 1974
alternative press
"don't forget Black Ice Books"
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The Alphabet Man Animal Acts The Noctambulists New Noir What Begins with Bird Reruns The Book of Lazarus Real to Reel The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold Hogg Anarcho-Hindu Broadway Melody of 1999 The Blond Box Gone Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation Three Blondes and Death Plane Geometry and Other Affairs Of the Heart RE>LA>VIR A History of the Imagination Things in Place
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Twiddledum Twaddledum…
Mexico Trilogy…
Wakenight Emporium…
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Take It or Leave It Faithful Rebecca The Charnel-Imp Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? The Bodyparts Shop Uncle Ovid’s Exercise Book The Mind Crime of August Saint The Hermetic Whore In the Slipstream: An FC2 Reader The Beginning of The East Fifth Season Amateur People The Wavering Knife Seven Wives Five Days of Bleeding The Great Taste Of Straight People Mole’s Pity The Garden in Which I Walk 98.6 Girl Beside Him Sewing Shut My Eyes My Amputations The Secret Table Separate Hours
My Amputations
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The Life and Times of Major Fiction
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--Mike Daily
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