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MAJOR FICTION
Luke Strahota: Look, I thought I explained my job to you. It’s true, I don’t make any money but I still work. Alright? This is what I do. Take it or leave it.
Mike Daily: It was Jonathan Baumbach, I believe, who said a novel is sometimes, perhaps at some level always, an act of aggression toward the world at large.
high drama in fabulous Toledo the bird is gone: a manifesto mosaic man saw stolen stories mourning Crazy Horse in the middle of nowhere holy smoke! soul resin the death of the novel and other stories hearsay! the cares of the day straight razor nature studies the broad back of the angel spectator revelation countdown statements 1! statements 2!
F/32 shootout with father an illuminated history of the future northwest passage between the flags
holy smoke!
to whom it may concern
girl imagined by chance
mermaids for Attila
music for a broken piano moving parts the talking room long talking bad conditions blues the Kafka chronicles why I don’t write like Franz Kafka Dahlia’s iris the end of free love coming close rope dances the Ethiopian exhibition
Napoleon’s mare
Borges’ Travel,
Hemingway’s Garage:
secret histories
babble
American made comatose kids degenerative prose modern romances heroes and villains everyday psychokillers: a history for girls punk blood 1-2-3-4 I smell Esther Williams damned right! encores for a dilettante Eve’s longing: the infinite possibilities in all things
in the box called pleasure
Mabel in her twenties
my father more or less
Valentino’s hair
Leonardo’s horse d-tours aviary slag disability meningitis emergency exit a spell for the fulfillment of desire the collected short fiction of Marianne Hauser chick lit 1! chick lit 2!
angry nights in heaven everything is fine close your eyes and think of Dublin: a portrait of a girl public works Aunt Rachel’s fur remembering to say ‘mouth’ or ‘face’ chez Charlotte and Emily 1998.6 double or nothing trouble the water from the district file…four roses in three acts…Latino heretics…transit! city in love!
the doggy bag dirtmouth straight outta Compton temporary sanity not a chance trigger dance the last man standing matinee the lost scrapbook crash-landing last fall! the Aztec love god last fall! art does (not!) exist last fall! false positive sexual blood the fast red road a plainsong the blue guide to Indiana Michael Martone?
the second story man
reflex and bone structure
searching for survivors
Maya
Griever: an American [monkey] king in China find him! little sisters of the apocalypse memory wax fat people blood of mugwump heretical song[s] the endless short story former virgin when things get back to Normal sex for the millennium S&M forgetfulness liberty’s excess life of death dictionary of modern anguish the wilderness common wilderness ∅ null set museum elements distorture Agnes & Sally Althea the Winnebago mysteries & other stories
Fiction Collective (FC2) founded in 1974. Alternative press. "It was Robert Coover, I believe, who said in the babble of American publishing, FC2 is one of the few coherent voices." QUOTE! "Make serious novels and [short] story collections available." UNQUOTE! QUOTE! "Keep them in print permanently." UNQUOTE! It was Ronald Sukenick, I believe, who said that. Seventies. Eighties. Nineties. Two-thousands. Seventies. Eighties. Nineties. Two-thousands. Fiction Collective (FC2) founded in 1974. Alternative press. "Don’t forget Black Ice Books."
the alphabet man animal acts the noctambulists new noir! What begins with bird reruns the book of Lazarus real to reel the complete tales of Ketzia Gold Hogg anarcho-Hindu broadway melody of 1999 the blond box gone Avant Pop: fiction for a daydream nation three blondes and death plane geometry and other affairs of the heart re>la>vir a history of the imagination
things in place!
twiddledum twaddledum
Mexico trilogy
wakenight emporium
take it or leave it faithful Rebecca the charnel-imp is it sexual harassment yet? the body parts shop Uncle Ovid’s exercise book the mind crime of August Saint the hermetic whore in the slipstream: an FC2 reader the beginning of the East fifth season amateur people the wavering knife seven wives five days of bleeding the great taste of straight people mole’s pity the garden in which I walk 98.6 girl beside him sewing shut my eyes the secret table separate hours my amputations!
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MAJOR FICTION (LIVE AT DISJECTA)
Mike Daily: "Look, I thought I explained my job to you. It’s true, I don’t make any money but I still work. Alright? This is what I do. Take it or leave it. And it was Jonathan Baumbach, I believe, who said a novel is sometimes, perhaps at some level always, an act of aggression toward the world at large."
high drama in fabulous Toledo the bird is gone: a manifesto mosaic man saw stolen stories mourning Crazy Horse in the middle of nowhere holy smoke! soul resin the death of the novel and other stories hearsay! the cares of the day straight razor nature studies the broad back of the angel spectator revelation countdown statements 1! statements 2!
F/32 shootout with father an illuminated history of the future northwest passage between the flags northwest edge: the end of reality to whom it may concern…girl imagined by chance…mermaids for Attila…music for a broken piano moving parts the talking room long talking bad conditions blues the Kafka chronicles why I don’t write like Franz Kafka Dahlia’s iris the end of free love coming close rope dances the Ethiopian exhibition Napoleon’s mare Borges’ Travel, Hemingway’s Garage: secret histories
babble
babble
babble
babble
American made comatose kids degenerative prose modern romances heroes and villains everyday psychokillers: a history for girls punk blood 1-2-3-4
Maya
Maya
Maya
Maya
Griever: an American king in China find him! little sisters of the apocalypse memory wax fat people blood of mugwump heretical songs the endless short story
Fiction Collective (FC2) founded in 1974
the life and times of major fiction
the life and times of major fiction
the life and times of major fiction
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“Mike Daily and Co. have produced Major Fiction. It’s a great (and long) track that mentions every title put out by FC2 (and its predecessor, Fiction Collective). Since it’s endorsed by FC2, and even Raymond Federman, you simply must check it out.”
—Fade Theory
credits
released June 20, 2006
Cover Design by Matthew Revert
DAILY, MOSCOVICH & STRAHOTA
Mike Daily (lyrics-collage of all Fiction Collective, FC2 & Black Ice book titles up to October 5, 2005, vocals)
David Noel Moscovich (keyboard, hand-held digital recorder, samples, distortion, toy steering wheel)
Luke Strahota (banter at the beginning, Boss DR 660 drum machine, drum kit)
Mia (the diva)
Recorded by Chutz Ponderosa at The Enginehouse in Portland, Oregon, on October 5, 2005.
Mastered by Antreo Pukay at Tell Tale Recording in Portland, Oregon.
LYRICS
MAJOR FICTION
Luke Strahota: Look, I thought I explained my job to you. It’s true, I don’t make any money but I still work. Alright? This is what I do. Take it or leave it.
Mike Daily: It was Jonathan Baumbach, I believe, who said a novel is sometimes, perhaps at some level always, an act of aggression toward the world at large.
high drama in fabulous Toledo the bird is gone: a manifesto mosaic man saw stolen stories mourning Crazy Horse in the middle of nowhere holy smoke! soul resin the death of the novel and other stories hearsay! the cares of the day straight razor nature studies the broad back of the angel spectator revelation countdown statements 1! statements 2!
F/32 shootout with father an illuminated history of the future northwest passage between the flags
holy smoke!
to whom it may concern
girl imagined by chance
mermaids for Attila
music for a broken piano moving parts the talking room long talking bad conditions blues the Kafka chronicles why I don’t write like Franz Kafka Dahlia’s iris the end of free love coming close rope dances the Ethiopian exhibition
Napoleon’s mare
Borges’ Travel,
Hemingway’s Garage:
secret histories
babble
American made comatose kids degenerative prose modern romances heroes and villains everyday psychokillers: a history for girls punk blood 1-2-3-4 I smell Esther Williams damned right! encores for a dilettante Eve’s longing: the infinite possibilities in all things
in the box called pleasure
Mabel in her twenties
my father more or less
Valentino’s hair
Leonardo’s horse d-tours aviary slag disability meningitis emergency exit a spell for the fulfillment of desire the collected short fiction of Marianne Hauser chick lit 1! chick lit 2!
angry nights in heaven everything is fine close your eyes and think of Dublin: a portrait of a girl public works Aunt Rachel’s fur remembering to say ‘mouth’ or ‘face’ chez Charlotte and Emily 1998.6 double or nothing trouble the water from the district file…four roses in three acts…Latino heretics…transit! city in love!
the doggy bag dirtmouth straight outta Compton temporary sanity not a chance trigger dance the last man standing matinee the lost scrapbook crash-landing last fall! the Aztec love god last fall! art does (not!) exist last fall! false positive sexual blood the fast red road a plainsong the blue guide to Indiana Michael Martone?
the second story man
reflex and bone structure
searching for survivors
Maya
Griever: an American [monkey] king in China find him! little sisters of the apocalypse memory wax fat people blood of mugwump heretical song[s] the endless short story former virgin when things get back to Normal sex for the millennium S&M forgetfulness liberty’s excess life of death dictionary of modern anguish the wilderness common wilderness ∅ null set museum elements distorture Agnes & Sally Althea the Winnebago mysteries & other stories
Fiction Collective (FC2) founded in 1974. Alternative press. "It was Robert Coover, I believe, who said in the babble of American publishing, FC2 is one of the few coherent voices." QUOTE! "Make serious novels and [short] story collections available." UNQUOTE! QUOTE! "Keep them in print permanently." UNQUOTE! It was Ronald Sukenick, I believe, who said that. Seventies. Eighties. Nineties. Two-thousands. Seventies. Eighties. Nineties. Two-thousands. Fiction Collective (FC2) founded in 1974. Alternative press. "Don’t forget Black Ice Books."
the alphabet man animal acts the noctambulists new noir! What begins with bird reruns the book of Lazarus real to reel the complete tales of Ketzia Gold Hogg anarcho-Hindu broadway melody of 1999 the blond box gone Avant Pop: fiction for a daydream nation three blondes and death plane geometry and other affairs of the heart re>la>vir a history of the imagination
things in place!
twiddledum twaddledum
Mexico trilogy
wakenight emporium
take it or leave it faithful Rebecca the charnel-imp is it sexual harassment yet? the body parts shop Uncle Ovid’s exercise book the mind crime of August Saint the hermetic whore in the slipstream: an FC2 reader the beginning of the East fifth season amateur people the wavering knife seven wives five days of bleeding the great taste of straight people mole’s pity the garden in which I walk 98.6 girl beside him sewing shut my eyes the secret table separate hours my amputations!
UP
the life and times of major fiction
the life and times of major fiction
the life and times of major fiction
the life and times of major fiction
the life and times of major fiction
the life and times of major fiction
the life and times of major fiction
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