by Pamela Lu is up at Drunken Boat.

“Light without Heat is, at once, a collection that is relentlessly engaged with the possibilities of form and language, while also deeply invested in matters of universal importance: of love, of purpose, of life, of death. As such, even those readers who are not typically interested in innovative and experimental fiction will likely find much of interest in Mr. Kirkpatrick’s marvelous debut.”

Robert Kloss reviewed Light without Heat at Necessary Fiction!

I’ll be reading from Light without Heat this week in Pennsylvania and DC:

Wednesday, April 18th
Red Weather Reading Series
111 Chambers Bldg. @ 7:35 on the PSU University Park campus

Friday, April 20th
Johns Hopkins Alumni Reading
6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m (I believe the reading will start around 7, after some wine/cheese time)
Johns Hopkins DC Center
1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW

The Craft of Verse: The Norton Lectures, 1967-68 (Borges) at UbuWeb Sound.

Gertrude Stein reading Matisse and other stuff at UbuWeb Sound.

William Blake Archive.

Some live Captain Beefheart on the Youtube.

Pere Ubu from Urgh! A Music War, also on the Youtube. Also, Klaus Nomi from the same film.

And, here’s an article about a gas station in Montreal designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Happy belated birthday!

A few books I’ve recently read and would recommend to other readers:

From the Observatory by Julio Cortazar

Motes by Craig Dworkin

Unheard Music by Craig Dworkin (PDF)

Core Samples from the World by Forest Gander

Ambient Parking Lot by Pamela Lu

The Goodbye Town by Timothy O’Keefe

Looking Around by Witold Rybczynski

Makeshift Metropolis by Witold Rybczynski

Dust: The Archive and Cultural History by Carolyn Steadman

The Voice of the River by Melanie Rae Thon

Driven to Abstraction by Rosmarie Waldrop

The Fast by Hannah Weiner

A Writer’s Diary by Virginia Woolf

I’ll be reading at AWP on Thursday, March 1 at 7:00 as part of the FC2 reading with Alexandra Chasin, Brian Kiteley, Michael Martone, Lance Olsen, Vanessa Place, David Porush, Matt Roberson, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Melanie Rae Thon, Steve Tomasula, and Lewis Warsh. Details here.

I’m also putting together readings for Washington, DC and State College, PA for late spring sometime.

More info on my book, as well as links to pre-order.

A few items…

I have a new story in Unsaid 6, which is available for pre-order. Unsaid’s a great journal, and this issue has a ton of great writers (see the link for list) in it.

I’m presenting at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 on February 25.

I’ll be giving a brief reading with fellow FC2 writers at AWP in Chicago on Thursday, March 1, at 7:00 PM at Curtis Hall, which is on the 10th floor of the Fine Arts Building (410 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605).

I’m reading in Salt Lake City, UT on April 5 at the King’s English Bookshop with poets Rebecca Lindenberg and Lillian Bertram, both of whom have new books coming out this spring. Details to come…

AND, I have short paragraph on what I’m currently reading at Drunken Boat

Had a fine time at &NOW: Tomorrow Land Forever where I read with fellow FC2 authors and presented A Moment Ago. Will attempt to describe the highlights tomorrow, including three bags of Jackson Mac Low’s hair.