Book of Jokes: video preview 3

[imomus]

It's been quite a while since we last had a reading from The Book of Jokes, so here's the third. This is Chapter 29, read by the author (with a little help from a robot). One of the book's two narrators, Sebastian Skeleton, is telling a colour therapist about an early, formative experience at Highdown Fair.

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The book is now finished (the writing part, that is) and will be released first of all in French in the fall. A second non-English publisher has committed to publish it in another European language. We're currently in the process of looking for a small and adventurous imprint to put the book -- written in English, after all -- out in the Anglosphere. You can check the first and second video readings of the book here and here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

out of all the spheres out there, which one's your favorite? Anglo? Franco? Urdo?

[(Anonymous)]

Blogo, obv.

Small and adventurous

[(Anonymous)]

Have you heard of the Dalkey Archive Press, in Illinois, USA?

http://books.dalkeyarchive.com/book

[(Anonymous)]

Should no English language release be forth-coming, you should release it as an audio book read by the robot.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

You can tell the robot has Shakespearian training, can't you?

[reggie-c-king.livejournal.com]

Were you using the Lord Olivier setting?

(And that was my self above; I forgot to sign in)

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to keep the software secret for now -- the license restricts certain uses.

Re: Small and adventurous

[imomus.livejournal.com]

"we place a heavy emphasis upon fiction that belongs to the experimental tradition of Sterne, Joyce, Rabelais, Flann O'Brien, Beckett, Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes"

Sounds right up my street, actually!

[(Anonymous)]

The robot sounds like Henry Gibson if he were a careful practitioner of Received Pronunciation. I would love to know this software when you deem fit. I have quite tired of Agnes's tone.

Also, if you read your first Denton Welch in the '80s most likely it was a Dalkey Archive edition.

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

[turkishb.livejournal.com]

animals held accountable

i love it hah

[(Anonymous)]

Ha, this might finally be the place to ask, thanks to you embedding this video - what's the song playing from the earphones at ~0:20 called?

-r

lololol serious business

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

That was very soothing, I don´t think I was able to understand a single sentence except the ones that were lists of colours. That is just as it should be.

thought you might appreciate

[turkishb.livejournal.com]

Re: Small and adventurous

[mssr-rabelais.livejournal.com]

O RLY?

[(Anonymous)]

You don't need a publisher for your blog, why need one for your book?
http://www.lulu.com/uk

[bradleysands.livejournal.com]

Maybe one of the publishers who are involved in the bizarro lit movement would be interested in publishing it?

You can go here for more info about it: http://www.bizarrocentral.com/

One of them published my novel and I'm in contact with all the editors. You can email me if you have any questions: bradleysands@comcast.net