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Fan Interference: Best Seller?

Atomic Books is one of the best book stores in the country. Based in Baltimore, they traffic in the periphery, the finest flotsam and jetsam from beyond the mainstream.

 

And I'm not just saying that because Fan Interference made their 2013 best sellers list.

 

- Mike Faloon

 

 

Upstate Mini-Tour

Go Metric & Zisk editor Mike Faloon is heading upstate for a mini-tour. He’ll spend Friday visiting area high school classes. Friday night is a reading with four other fiction writers at Cracker Factory (Geneva, NY). Saturday afternoon is the release party/reading for Fan Interference, the best of Zisk collection. This takes place at the Onondaga Free Library (Syracuse, NY).

 

“15 Minutes of Fame – 5 Fabulous Fiction Phenomena”

Friday, October 25

8pm

35 Lehigh St. / The Cracker Factory

Geneva, NY

Free and open to the public

w/Vinita Prabhakar, Kathryn Cowles, Melanie Conroy-Goldman, Geoffrey Babbit

 

“Fan Interference” release party / reading

Saturday, October 26

1pm

Onondaga Free Library

4840 West Senaca Turnpike

Syracuse, NY

Free and open to the public

w/Kevin Dunn, Mark Hughson

Fan Interference: An Update on the Upcoming Zisk Anthology

By Mike Faloon

This weekend we started sending out packages to people who contributed to the Zisk Kickstarter. Brian Cogan brought copies of his Punk Rock Encyclopedia. I brought copies of my story collection (The Hanging Gardens of Split Rock). Steve Reynolds made sure we actually signed them and supplied food, beverages, and the latest Figgs disc, 1000 People Grinning.

Zisk Update: Josh Wilker to write Fan Interference introduction

Josh Wilker has agreed to write the introduction for the forthcoming Fan Interference. This is amazing news.

Josh is such a good writer he could write a truly compelling book about The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. Yes, that's the second Bad News Bears movie.

In fact, he did write such a book. It's part of Soft Skull's Deep Focus series.

Josh also a book and website called Cardboard Gods, aka "Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated."

Support the Zisk Anthology on Kickstarter

Mike Faloon and Steve Reynolds would like to present Fan Interference: A Collection of Baseball Rants and Reflections from the pages of Zisk zine.

This anthology, fourteen years in the making, is filled with some of the funniest and most thought-provoking fan reflections on America's Pastime.

Your contribution will help them publish this anthology, as well as pay our writers for the words they've already written. We are extemely grateful for your time and support. Play ball!

• “For those who love baseball for its charm, history and eccentricities...For the true fans who populate the upper deck.”  – Chicago Tribune 

• “A truly electric, and all too rare, jolt to the synapses.” – Deborah Sprague, Variety

• “A welcome reminder of how fun baseball is, how it can be an odd or ribald or unexpected or downright hilarious companion on a summer afternoon.” – Jason Fry, Faith and Fear in Flushing  

• “Zisk is the anti-baseball baseball zine.” – David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto 

Zisk #21 — Now Available

Zisk is Go Metric's sibling publication. Zisk is a baseball zine. The tone is similar to Go Metric's (and so are some of the contributors). To quote one of our readers, "It's baseball writing for people who hate baseball writing."

Highlights from this issue include:

• Rev. Norb's "Summer As a Ballpark Announcer"
• Jake Austen's Tour of Chicago Baseball Statues
• Charlie Vascellero's "The King and I"
• Brian Cogan's "Rusty Staub: Heroism from Left to Right Field"

Perfect reading for World Series season.

You can order it from Razorcake and Quimbys or Atomic Books.

Go Metric/Zisk at the Brooklyn Book Festival!

The Brooklyn Book Festival is this Sunday from 10-6. How many other events offer Tony Danza and Joyce Carol Oates?

I'll be running the Gorsky Press table. Sean Carswell, Gorsky's head honcho, has sent along a full array of Gorsky titles. I'll bring along some Go Metrics and the new Zisk (#21), too.

— Mike Faloon

Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010)

Zisk Call for Submissions

This just in from Zisk , our sister publication (it's baseball zine)...

Hey Zisk writers, As the trading deadline looms tomorrow, we got to thinking about our own deadline. That is, the deadline for submissions for Zisk issue # 17. That deadline for articles/illustrations/deep thoughts is September 19th. Please note that this is a very strict deadline this issue, as we will not be accepting anything after that date. Steve will be doing the layout on the 20th before he goes on vacation, and we'll be getting together as soon as he gets back to copy the issue.

Now onto the fun part: besides looking for your own ideas for articles, we have one we'd like everyone to contribute some brief words to. With both of New York's stadiums closing this year, we want to compile people's memories on their last time at their favorite team's stadium. So instead of just our memories of Shea, we'd like to have people describe their last trip to old Comiskey, Fulton County Stadium, the Astrodome, etc. We think it would be a great centerpiece to issue #17. It doesn't matter how long or short your thoughts are--just write them down and send it either one of us: Mike - [email protected] Steve - [email protected] Thanks, and we look forward to your contributions.

Mike & Steve
Zisk Magazine