I know. That was the most tortured play on words I might ever have mangled. But I don’t care, because what follows it is cool: I got name-dropped on The Literary Underground‘s internet radio program The Unknown Show with Bud Smith. Hell, I got more than name-dropped: sunnyoutside press editor David McNamara and Bud SmithContinue reading “Radio hyped the literature star”
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New review of Box Cutters
This morning comes with coffee, a banana, a little NPR… and a wonderful review of Box Cutters, over at The Small Press Book Review, by Alex DeBonis. The words undo me. The stories in Box Cutters, Samuel Snoek-Brown’s flash fiction collection, operate on the principle that what’s included suggests what’s left out, with certain pieces resonatingContinue reading “New review of Box Cutters“
Book shopping for the holidays
Rather unintentionally, this holiday weekend has been quite a book-shopping extravaganza here in the Snoek-Brown household. It all started on the night before Thanksgiving, when Kevin Sampsell — Portland author, publisher, and man in charge of the small press section at Powell’s Books — posted on Facebook that my chapbook, Box Cutters, had hit the shelves at Powell’s.Continue reading “Book shopping for the holidays”
Literature ripped open with a razor blade
You know what, gang? Box Cutters is HERE! And yes, that’s a Stanley box cutter, like the one on the cover, I’m using to rip open the box. When the mail came today, I walked two blocks down to my local hardware store to buy one just for the occasion.
Box Cutters: RELEASE DAY! (excerpt #6)
For the six days leading up to the official release of my chapbook, Box Cutters (sunnyoutside press), I’ve been posting the first sentence or two of each story in the chapbook, one each day, as a kind of teaser for the book. And today is RELEASE DAY! So here is excerpt #6, and if you like somethingContinue reading “Box Cutters: RELEASE DAY! (excerpt #6)”
Box Cutters: excerpt #5
For the six days leading up to the official release of my chapbook, Box Cutters (sunnyoutside press), I’m posting the first sentence or two of each story in the chapbook, one each day, as a kind of teaser for the book. Today is excerpt #5! The book releases tomorrow! But you don’t have to wait until NovemberContinue reading “Box Cutters: excerpt #5”
Box Cutters: excerpt #4
For the six days leading up to the official release of my chapbook, Box Cutters (sunnyoutside press), I’m posting the first sentence or two of each story in the chapbook, one each day, as a kind of teaser for the book. Today is excerpt #4! But you don’t have to wait until November 12 to order yourContinue reading “Box Cutters: excerpt #4”
Box Cutters: excerpt #3
For the six days leading up to the official release of my chapbook, Box Cutters (sunnyoutside press), I’m posting the first sentence or two of each story in the chapbook, one each day, as a kind of teaser for the book. Today is excerpt #3! But you don’t have to wait until November 12 to order yourContinue reading “Box Cutters: excerpt #3”
Box Cutters: excerpt #2
For the six days leading up to the official release of my chapbook, Box Cutters (sunnyoutside press), I’m posting the first sentence or two of each story in the chapbook, one each day, as a kind of teaser for the book. Today is excerpt #2! But you don’t have to wait until November 12 to order yourContinue reading “Box Cutters: excerpt #2”
Box Cutters: excerpt #1
As of today, it is six days until the official release of my chapbook, Box Cutters, from sunnyoutside press. And the chapbook contains six stories. So, for the next six days, I’m going to post the first sentence or two of each story, one each day, as a kind of teaser for the book. ButContinue reading “Box Cutters: excerpt #1”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 