i feel the same way.

thanks, ben

When Ben Tanzer changes your book's shelf life, he doesn't [redacted] around. Thanks, Ben, for the rich review and positive energy all around.

And the man is selling (at least) two of his own books this year, with orders already possible for this April release.

OK. In no particular order (so let's make it alphabetical), a list of my favorite novelists with whom I've crossed Ultimate paths:

Abeer Hoque
David Hollander
Kate Ledger
Ben Tanzer

Well, truth be told, I've only read slight sections from their books, but intend to improve upon that. Once in a while, I get a strange vision that it would be possible to jog and then run and then play Ultimate again. Hmmm. I ought to go get some ice cream and think this over.

long weekend

Friday evening, Ron Rash burned bright at The Bengal Tiger's first reading in the spring series, and it went well enough that we will have at least three more readings (look for details soon), including my own on March 1 (a Tuesday, 7 p.m.). We then saw and heard Ron read again at City Lights in Sylva, NC the following Sunday, as in yesterday, a bright, beautiful day at that.

And so, I'm motivated and in the mood to read from Fight for Your Long Day. In front of an audience, no less. I'm fairly certain I'll have details soon for my spring reading plans. If you want to book me for an event (in a way that doesn't involve electrocution by wet kindle or slamming an unabridged dictionary over my head), please do not hesitate to e-mail, f-book, or t-weet although telepathy remains my e-best mode of communication of course. It looks like I'll be in the mid-Atlantic from March 20 to 27 and the Clemson region (within a couple hours of Asheville, Atlanta, Charlotte, etc.) for the rest of Feb through April.

And now I'm here, too, squatting on Old Man Bezos's land.

Slog Through Your Tuesday!

sample betrayal

A nice chunk of The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity is now available for your viewing pleasure:

http://www.smashwords.com/extreader/read/40939/1/the-betrayal-of-times-of-peace-and-prosperity

It just might take you where you want to go.

Gone Dog Press

Gone Dog Press, a publisher of "awesome e-books," delivers The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity on Superbowl Sunday. This longish story, or shortish novella, has something for everyone--from fatty meat frying in the wok to inadvertent touches that can end a life. It's of a genre that could be termed "college commencement angst" although I'm having trouble thinking of a story or novel that would compare.

The book will be available at http://www.amazon.com/ as well as http://www.smashwords.com/, and eventually it should be compatible with all kinds of electronic book reading devices. At smashwords, you'll be able to read it right off the screen or download it as a printable pdf. Or so I'm told by the e-authorities from the land on book.

So you should be able to download a copy for a buck forty-nine or so. . . graduation angst at bargain-basement pricing!

Happy reading.

Peace.

Cyrus at the Inky

Cyrus Duffleman breaks through doors and accesses the hometown newspapers--online and off:

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20110130_PhillyDeals__Should_college_teaching_be_a_full-time_job_.html

Thank you, Joseph N. DiStefano, for your article(s) in the Business section of The Philadelphia Inquirer and http://www.philly.com/.

URL links for Fight for Your Long Day

In theory, a book isn't alive unless it's snuggled comfortably in the reading bin in the bathroom at Oprah's or any sitting President's, so to speak, but here is an imperfect list of URL links to news or mouthings about Fight for Your Long Day:

http://chronicle.com/article/Considering-Adjunct-Misery/138085/?cid=vem

https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/journal/2022/1/10/fight-for-your-long-loud-laughs

Fight For Your Long Day, by Alex Kudera (review) – W.D. Clarke’s Blog

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-domino/working-poor-professor_b_4994393.html

http://articles.philly.com/2011-01-30/business/27091272_1_adjunct-college-teaching-college-students

http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2011/JF/br/br3.htm

http://southeastreview.org/2011/01/review-fight-for-your-long-day.html

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/21/kudera

http://chronicle.com/article/Novel-Academic-Novels/127748/

http://contemporaryhorizon.blogspot.com/2010/12/american-perspectivesperspective.html

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/892931

http://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/dec_10.htm#Fiction (no separate page possible, not much here)

http://www.neworldreview.com/vol_5No_36/kudera.php

with reprint at American Studies, Kansas:

http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/82789100/fight-your-long-day

and Adjunct Justice tumblr:

http://adjunctjustice.tumblr.com/post/41900677804/book-review-of-alex-kuderas-fight-for-your-long-day

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/radical_teacher/v093/93.gaboury.html

with reprint at Chicago COCAL:

http://www.chicagococal.org/downloads/Radical-Teacher-review-of-FFYLD.pdf

Project MUSE - <i>Fight for Your Long Day</i> by Alex Kudera (review) (jhu.edu)

interviews:

https://chroniclevitae.com/news/256-q-a-the-novelist-who-chronicles-life-as-an-adjunct

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creating-in-flow/201201/darkly-funny-debut-novel-exposes-adjunct-abuse

http://features.clemson.edu/creative-services/faculty/2011/english-lecturer-book-explores-the-plight-of-the-adjunct-professor/

http://wewhoareabouttodie.com/2011/09/27/we-who-are-about-to-breed-alex-kudera/

http://atticusbooksonline.com/one-of-a-kind-a-foreword-interview-with-alex-kudera/

http://chronicle.com/blogs/onhiring/chatting-with-alex-kudera-on-adjuncts/28902

http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2010/11/01/the-life-of-adjuncts-an-interview-with-novelist-alex-kudera/

http://atticusbooksonline.com/interview-with-the-author-of-fight-for-your-long-day/

http://smartsandculture.com/blog/2010/october/alex-kudera

http://smartsandculture.com/blog/2010/october/alex-kudera-2

http://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2011/08/bloggernovelist-relationship-with-alex.html

http://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2011/08/bloggernovelist-relationship-with-alex_08.html

nathan holic's graphic-novel interpretation at atticus review:

http://atticusreview.org/a-comic-adaptation-of-fight-for-your-long-day-episode-1/

http://atticusreview.org/fight-for-your-long-day-a-comic-adaptation-episode-2/

http://atticusreview.org/fight-for-your-long-day-a-comic-adaptation-episode-3/

http://atticusreview.org/fight-for-your-long-day-a-comic-series-adaptation/

http://atticusreview.org/still-fighting-for-your-long-ass-day/

video:

http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/reruns/watch/108019

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fah_s1XHswo

excerpt:

http://atticusbooksonline.com/blog/2011/05/16/fight-for-your-ippy-gold/

http://atticusbooksonline.com/books/2010-releases/fight-for-your-long-day/excerpt/

blogs:

https://plumbblogdotnet.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/review-of-alex-kuderas-fight-for-your-long-day-by-lavinia-ludlow/

http://epatrick909.blogspot.com/2014/04/book-review-fight-for-your-long-day-by.html

http://migrantintellectual.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/dodging-a-seventy-five-cent-toll/

http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2012/01/08/fight-for-your-long-day-by-alex-kudera/

http://www.clemson.edu/caah/faculty-staff/this-month-in-caah.html

http://smallpressreviews.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/fight-for-your-long-day/#comments

http://bentanzer.blogspot.com/2011/02/this-book-will-change-your-life-fight.html

http://www.stevehimmer.com/notes/3464/fight-for-your-long-day

http://lavelleporter.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/teacher/

http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-fight-for-your-long-day.html

http://www.authorexposure.com/2011/03/book-review-fight-for-your-long-day-by.html

http://karenslibraryblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/guest-review-alex-kudera-reviewed-by.html

http://lumpenprofessoriat.blogspot.com/2010/09/fight-for-your-long-day.html

http://freedomfromthings.com/post/2458438021/book-review-fight-for-your-long-day-by-alex-kudera

http://thenewfacultymajority.blogspot.com/2011/01/academe-reviews-alex-kuderas-adjunct.html

http://www.thenewdorkreviewofbooks.com/2011/08/fight-for-your-long-day-adjunct-hell.html

http://davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com/2011/08/soup-and-salad-noir-at-bar-waterproof.html (see no. 8)

http://booksarebetterthanboys.tumblr.com/post/1037690240/currently-reading-i-dont-know-why-im-doing

http://adjunctularnoodling.blogspot.com/2014/05/novels-by-and-for-adjuncts.html

customer reviews:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8612461-fight-for-your-long-day

http://www.amazon.com/Fight-Your-Long-Day-Novel/dp/0984510508/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282962542&sr=1-1

http://www.shelfari.com/books/17696955/Fight-for-Your-Long-Day---A-Novel/reviews

I'll keep adding links as they appear.

Fight for Your Long Day!

Thank you for taking a look.

Best,
Alex Kudera

Duffleman Does Academe

And so begins Isaac Sweeney, writing for Academe, the journal of the AAUP, in his review of Fight for Your Long Day:

"I laughed at parts of Fight for Your Long Day, a new novel by Alex Kudera. At other parts of the novel, I felt inspired. But most of all, Fight for Your Long Day made me sad. Part of my sadness came because Kudera writes elegantly and has created an insightful, tragic, sometimes comic protagonist (I dare not call him a hero) named Cyrus Duffleman, whom the narrator calls “Duffy.” He reminds me of Hamlet—a bit of an introverted whiner, but the kind you love to hear whine. I’m sad when Duffleman is sad. I’m even sadder when he has bits of hope, like when there’s the prospect of an affair with an attractive student, because I know it won’t work out for him. As with any other effective tragic character, there’s something satisfying in watching his tragedy unfold."

Thanks, Isaac.

Cyrus Duffleman is a fictional character. The real tragedies in America concern people like Isaac Sweeney--good teachers and hard workers who risk the worst consequences if they try to defend themselves.

Follow this link for the full review: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2011/JF/br/br3.htm

And check out Isaac's short fiction here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/35484

or here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/36908

Southeast Review

So if I'm so "extremely talented and driven" why do I feel so fat and ineffectual most days? And, yeah, while we're here, prone to lethargy, paranoia, pessimism, angst, and, well, we'll do a whole blog on hypochondria another day, and add an exclusive interview with my daughter, who decided this evening that her first novel would be about her parents. Well, what she really decided was that she wanted to hear the same children's book nine times on a snow day. Thank you, Charles Dodd White, for your fine review of Fight for Your Long Day.

tanzer top tens

When Ben Tanzer top tens it, he doesn't mess around:

http://bentanzer.blogspot.com/2010/12/tbwcyl-inc-2010-top-ten-lists-are.html

Moving on, here's a great list designed to pump you up to pay cash for hardcovers in 2011:

http://www.themillions.com/2011/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2011-book-preview.html

I'd bet even money I don't read any of them in 2011, but it still warms my heart to know that some lunatic from New York was insane enough to publish fiction at price points above the $20 feeds two at Chili's (http://www.chilis.com/EN/Pages/home.aspx).